That’s a good approach too. I’ll try that one out as well.

From a personal perspective. Those have such a low investment requirement for the basic gaming loop.

Over the course of the day there will be small unavoidable breaks, 5-15 minutes long during which there isn’t much to do. Cant really boot up a PC for more serious gaming session with such a small time even if I’m near a PC at that time, usually not.

But there’s always a smartphone within reach. So this sort of random town building games are perfect to kill few minutes, pretty much same as killing some time doomscrolling or watching some YT videos.

“Hope is just a first step on a road to disappointment”

After one price hike after another for almost a decade soon, roughly since 2017. There is no point to hope anymore, there will either be some new issues or manufactures have just gotten used to the high prices and will not lower those significantly. Even if they do start to bring down prices and AI shit ends, everyone will run to upgrade their rigs and scalpers will take full advantage of it. This is new reality.

Better to just find a new hobby.

Yes, they were already justified 4 years ago.