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That looks like fun. Let's make a few predictions of things that will most likely be outdated in 2032, in no particular order :

-Faxes

-The notion of privacy when I leave my house

-Escape games as we know them

-Offline dating

-Not having some sort of drone /robot inside one's home

-100% Solo video games

-Not eating bugs

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> Not eating bugs

I've been reading cutesy articles about this for 25+ years, and the obvious response is just, why aren't you simply eating lentils or beans for protein? Cattle farming may be an ecological disaster, but conventional plant agriculture is about as good as it realistically gets.

-Faxes: Japan won't let them die

-The notion of privacy when I leave my house: that's already lost

-100% Solo video games: indies won't let them die

I think even if we heavily narrow the prediction to AAA games only (ignoring not only the indies, but all the mid-tier studios like Larian or Obsidian as well), it won't be anywhere near true. We're already pretty deep into the era of the "live service" business model, and it's big but it's not all-consuming.

Look at everything Nintendo for starters, look at the Total War games, all the focused narrative action-adventure games. None of this is going in a direction which will exclude offline solo play.

If the prediction is just EA and Ubisoft and maybe Activision, yeah ok, that's a little more realistic.

Agreed, it definitely feels like we are already past "peak multiplayer-only" AAA games phase, and trend line corrected itself and now is looking stable. There's is less evidence now that single player games are going away compared to 10 years ago.

>Offline dating

What's that?

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