Back in 2014, I wrote a blog entry (on yet another one of my many, many blogs) about why I was retreating from PC gaming back into one of my first gaming hobbies: board gaming. Flashforward eight years, and the reasons why are as germaine today as they were back then. Video games are not in a good place right now. The problems of 2014 still linger, but now with the added complications of COVID disrupting workplaces and a war - war! - in Europe adding to the chaos. As ever, the indie game developer scene has best rolled with the punches while the bigger studios have floundered to one degree or another. Be that as it may, now is not a good time to be into video games. It is, however, a great time to be into board games because this hobby continues to thrive even if pricing is starting to get out of hand.
