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This is an interesting question, why it took cooperative gaming so long to become popular. I remember looking into cooperative games about 20 years ago, and they were rare. The whole genre was generally regarded as a boring activity that parents forced on their kids for ideological reasons. Now many of the most popular games are cooperative. What happened? Did society change?

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I think the main points are that

-it's much harder to design a good cooperative game as opposed to a good competitive game

- there are much more games designed today

- it's much easier to build a good coop game and more people are trying these days because there is a precedent that it can be done

Hot take : fully cooperatives board games are either bad wargames or bad role playing games. But good social activities neither less and good introductions to the genre. And yes, it's totally ok to only play theses.

They are, I think still 'rares' today because game wise they are less intense and deep, so people really into gaming will prefer other games. But they are still a lot less rare than 40 years ago because there are more positively presented in culture and common and it's a lot more easy to convince people to join a board game night, especially if tell them they can avoid human competition and role playing.

Coop games of good quality are still very rare. Me and my wife "ate" most of ehat is available. We don't play fpses, that excluded a good chunk

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