Looter Shooters, Extraction Shooters, Hero Shooters, even Battle Royales are starting to become an overpopulated set of genres, some would even say a fad in gaming.

Everything from Fortnite, Apex Legends, Destiny, The Division, Warframe, Escape From Tarkov, Hunt: Showdown, Rainbow Six: Siege, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II’s DMZ, to Overwatch.
Only a short time has passed since ill fated hero shooters Concord and XDefiant were shut down. Yet already we have Arc Raiders, Marathon, and many more are lined up to launch this year.

With every game asking gamers for ALL of their time, continuous financial investment whether it is DLC, battle passes, season passes, loot boxes, cosmetics, or other over priced features, players are feeling the pressure. Some studios are greedy, some content is meant to support the developers and keep the lights on at the studio. It’s difficult to spend millions or hundreds of millions on a single game, only to offer it for $60, $40, or entirely free and hope to make money from expansions and cosmetics.

The economy is in a difficult transition, a large majority of gamers are working class. We’re not millionaires and billionaires with time and money to spend. Any moment we have to relax after a hard day of work or school is precious. There’s no time to spend on games with enormous, never ending content funnels. Some people prefer games with a good story, a definitive ending, a chance to move on and play other games. Others might prefer a never ending experience, to dive into a world and explore it with friends indefinitely.