For as long as I can remember I have been playing video games. I am not sure what age I was, but my earliest memory playing videos games is playing Mario Cart and 007 on the Nintendo 64 at my grandparents with my aunt. This sparked my love for video games that I have today. In recent years I have bought each new console that has came out, along with a PC to play games on. Therefore, I am in the fifth stage, continuation. I believe I have been there for several years.
For my age group I would say I was an early adopter because I feel like others had not started playing video games until they got older. However, including the general population I was probably in the early majority. There were many others older than me that had been playing them for much longer because they had been out for some time before they were introduced to me.
Crypto currencies have recently become a huge thing. I have looked into them, but I have yet to get involved with them. They have sparked my interest, I just do not fully understand some things about them yet. For people around my age you could say I might be in the late majority because they are already incredibly popular. I am curious to see where these currencies go in the future.
Crypto is basically like the stock market as far as consistency goes. I wish that wasn’t the case because then it would be a legitimately good alternative to the dollar and on top of that you can mine it with computer hardware. I’ve been mining for a month or two just because the heat it gives off lowers my heating costs. In other words, the electricity I would normally use to heat my place gets used to mine bitcoin. It’s like free money at that point.
Video games have become their own cryptocurrency in a way. Speaking as a lifelong collector, I’ve recently been amazed by how expensive they can get. Even common games like Paper Mario are selling for about $100! It’s a silly investment, but at least there’s a clear intrinsic value. I’ve made literally thousands by buying and selling over the years.
I am a little bit of a collector myself. However, with older games or accessories I tend to buy them when they are on sale. When it comes to the new games I buy everything I can get my hands on…
I have looked into the expensive games, just have never pulled the trigger on one.
I feel games these days have less intricate stories (and by and large, interactivity) is on the grounds that the crowd has changed. Games used to be generally shut to certain crowds as those crowds weren’t considered as imaginable clients. With that, many games were intended for an interest group, and RPG’s would in general do as such, to a tabletop-playing crowd.