The sad truth is that a lot of gamers have an annoying sense of purity that they’re kind of gaming is the only acceptable kind of gaming.
It’s annoying and reductive.
I was told that games like animal crossing, mobile games, and sims aren’t “Real games” and when I asked what a real came was he said “Datk souls” so like the only real games in existence apparently are the ones made by a single studio and exclude things like shooters, stealth, and slice of life.
Which is frankly absurd.
@BlastBunny I know, it's been 20 years for me in MMO'S doing everything from the very top of content, to the most "casual©®™" of things you can.
If the whole stew isn't your thing with these kinds of games and you just pick out the only things you like, it's best you look elsewhere.
Gamer absolutism, just can never die it seems.