If you want to you CAN play these games skilfully and competitively, there is a mountain of difference between your average joe CoD/CSS player and someone with actual skill in the game, this has always been the case with every multiplayer game, all that has changes is the number of people playing them and the accessibility of the games as a result, this means you get more "bad" or "casual" players than you do skilled ones who take the games seriously. The same can be said for literature, with more people reading you get more easy to read dross like Twilight than Lord of the Rings, however hardcore fantasy or Sci-Fi is still being made, you don't have to change your tastes as a result. Same goes for film and music.
The majority will always have more created for them but outliers will always exist, there are still twitch based/slower paced FPS games out there with people playing them, you just have to remember than you are a minority, and realistically always were in a way.
I really dislike the elitism and the utter bile spewed by some towards the change in the way games are made and played, it serves no purpose and just makes you sound bitter. The more people playing games means more and better games, if you want to play the games from your day you still can because they still exist, but expecting developers to pander to a tiny demographic is ridiculous.
Why can't people just live and let live? Play the games YOU want to play the way YOU want to play them, nothing is stopping you, spitting bile at those whose opinions differ to yours doesn't help anybody and just serves to distance yourselves from both the larger gaming demographics as well as the developers of the games they play. I want as many people to be playing as many games as possible because I love gaming and want more people to enjoy it, gaming has the ability to become something as normal as listening to music of watching films, but for that to truly happen people really need to get over themselves and allow it to change as it needs to.
The majority will always have more created for them but outliers will always exist, there are still twitch based/slower paced FPS games out there with people playing them, you just have to remember than you are a minority, and realistically always were in a way.
I really dislike the elitism and the utter bile spewed by some towards the change in the way games are made and played, it serves no purpose and just makes you sound bitter. The more people playing games means more and better games, if you want to play the games from your day you still can because they still exist, but expecting developers to pander to a tiny demographic is ridiculous.
Why can't people just live and let live? Play the games YOU want to play the way YOU want to play them, nothing is stopping you, spitting bile at those whose opinions differ to yours doesn't help anybody and just serves to distance yourselves from both the larger gaming demographics as well as the developers of the games they play. I want as many people to be playing as many games as possible because I love gaming and want more people to enjoy it, gaming has the ability to become something as normal as listening to music of watching films, but for that to truly happen people really need to get over themselves and allow it to change as it needs to.
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The only way to know is to regularly play with and against other 'pros'.