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i rememba when those dang good games were $50 without all that nickel and dimin'
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Apr 30, 2023 16:52
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Can't wait to read how much less than $0 PNC will pay for the twisted wreckage of FRC after factoring in gov't support/guarantees/hand waiving. Also can't wait to see if the consortion of big banks that deposited billions will have any kind of deposit haircut in this shotgun wedding scenario. I mean lmao either way, but probably safe to assume capital will somehow make it out of this unscathed.
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Apr 30, 2023 16:57
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When they made games $60 in 2006 that would be equivalent to $91 now. Good thing wages have gone up and they aren't stuffed full of microtransactions and frivolous gachas.
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Apr 30, 2023 16:58
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Video games have been 60 dollars forever it's almost nostalgic. Video games were 60 until thankfully the indie and digital distribution revolution happened. Now only the bad games are 60 and the good ones are 20 or less.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:00
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Apr 30, 2023 17:02
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Orvin posted:It’s almost like Valve figured out that many massive discounts throughout the year on digital goods drive a huge increase in sales numbers. Maybe Sony should look into that. It doesn't help the major studios that there are enough independent game makers that you can find a shitload of games in the $10-$30 price point that have shitloads of re-playability that are also updated for free for sometimes years after the fact so much that you can get multiple full play throughs that feel new from a single game. The last AAA full price game i was dumb enough to buy didn't come with 90% of the DLC "Seasons" poo poo, i finished it in a single day and never touched it again.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:05
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Rectal Death Adept posted:It doesn't help the major studios that there are enough independent game makers that you can find a shitload of games in the $10-$30 price point that have shitloads of re-playability that are also updated for free for sometimes years after the fact so much that you can get multiple full play throughs that feel new from a single game. IMO if your AAA game can't offer me a better experience beyond streaming it for free then why would i want to buy it
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Apr 30, 2023 17:12
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that said counting down the days until BotW2 snarf snarf im the piggie its me
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Apr 30, 2023 17:27
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FizFashizzle posted:that said counting down the days until BotW2 
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Apr 30, 2023 17:33
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what I’ve been doing is buying games on Amazon, beating and then returning them get all my money back sticking it to the man in the process
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Apr 30, 2023 17:34
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https://twitter.com/HalSinger/status/1652307431400013825
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Apr 30, 2023 17:40
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/DeekeTweak/status/1652167292640276480?t=7-9lH1aBgUyw_-tD0Dx1dQ&s=19 Spaced God posted:$70 is just like the bare bones game. If you want the full experience you need to drop like $120 on the super deluxe edition that contains the actual contents of the game This is why indie is probably the way to go in modern gaming. Few if any indie developers pull this sort of poo poo on people.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:52
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This is why indie is probably the way to go in modern gaming. Few if any indie developers pull this sort of poo poo on people. eh. the problem with indie games is that most of them never leave early access, either because the dev gets burned out, or because they decide to bail after making a decent chunk of change
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Apr 30, 2023 17:54
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$70 is insanely cheap when you consider how much time people put into these games. gamers just love to loving bitch and whine about everything becaus they are small children
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Apr 30, 2023 17:54
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:eh. the problem with indie games is that most of them never leave early access,... because they decide to bail after making a decent chunk of change There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:56
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actionjackson posted:$70 is insanely cheap when you consider how much time people put into these games. gamers just love to loving bitch and whine about everything becaus they are small children i dont know why we are supposed to consider how much time people put into something because whether something is worth X dollars is a matter of how much value it offers to the buyer
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Apr 30, 2023 17:58
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I love paying 70 dollars for my next 20 year old GamePro engine cut and paste adventure excreted from Bethesda's money-hole.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:59
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I would have paid $70 for Elden Ring
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Apr 30, 2023 18:00
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actionjackson posted:$70 is insanely cheap when you consider how much time people put into these games. gamers just love to loving bitch and whine about everything becaus they are small children Every Call of Duty costs a billion dollars to make and has 10,000 person years of effort put into it, yet they suck. Factorio is made by a handful of nerds in Prague and kicks rear end, and also costs half as much to buy a copy.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:03
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actionjackson posted:$70 is insanely cheap when you consider how much time people put into these games. gamers just love to loving bitch and whine about everything becaus they are small children why should you have to pay more to some bad company cause you play the game for 100 hours? you're not getting expensive hardware cartridges or thick manuals. the games are buggy and fixed well after release if ever. it's not like the higher price is helping the hardworking gamecrafters.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:08
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actionjackson posted:$70 is insanely cheap when you consider how much time people put into these games. gamers just love to loving bitch and whine about everything becaus they are small children If you're pricing things based purely on how much they cost to make it should cost one hundred dollars to see a modern american film but for some reason that hasn't happened
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Apr 30, 2023 18:15
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Bar Ran Dun posted:assumption: that the complex system of an ecosystem which changes by evolution is analogous to the complex system of human economy and that it over time also changes by evolution. Bar Ran Dun posted:and I’m probably right zodium looking at the long term historical outcomes of both bourgeoisie and socialist revolutions. i'm very sorry bar, but i think i still don't really understand what you're getting at. how is a mass extinction event equivalent to a violent revolution? what does violent revolution have to do with what I said? what makes you think my view implies that the problem of controls and stability would be erased after a revolution? i'm genuinely not trying to be obtuse and, as always, i'm very interested to understand your thoughts, but I feel like we're talking past each other here.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:18
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I miss handhelds and their 40$ games. DS/3DS/PSP/Vita owned.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:23
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the bitcoin of weed posted:If you're pricing things based purely on how much they cost to make it should cost one hundred dollars to see a modern american film but for some reason that hasn't happened i'm just pointing out that games are cheaper than ever when you adjust for inflation. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/the-return-of-the-70-video-game-has-been-a-long-time-coming/
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Apr 30, 2023 18:26
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actionjackson posted:i'm just pointing out that games are cheaper than ever when you adjust for inflation. Now adjust wages to inflation
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Apr 30, 2023 18:27
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Spaced God posted:Now adjust wages to inflation of course they are so what video games aren't an item you need to live like food or shelter. they are entertainment.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:36
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My wife wants to "upgrade" to a gas stove lmao
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Apr 30, 2023 18:38
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Mr Hootington posted:My wife wants to "upgrade" to a gas stove lmao Time to upgrade your wife to an intelligent model.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:39
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Mr Hootington posted:My wife wants to "upgrade" to a gas stove lmao she's right
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Apr 30, 2023 18:43
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Mr Hootington posted:My wife wants to "upgrade" to a gas stove lmao hell yes let's do this discourse again
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Apr 30, 2023 18:44
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full support to hoot's wife
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Apr 30, 2023 18:49
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Apr 30, 2023 18:51
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:eh. the problem with indie games is that most of them never leave early access, either because the dev gets burned out, or because they decide to bail after making a decent chunk of change Oh no, the dev bailed after I only got 95+ hours of fun/updates out of it! My $20! THE INHUMANITY! WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CONSUMER!?
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Apr 30, 2023 18:56
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Twerk from Home posted:Every Call of Duty costs a billion dollars to make and has 10,000 person years of effort put into it, yet they suck. Factorio has also been updated so many times that it is essentially an entirely different game than originally launched, beyond being a supply chain and train building sim.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:57
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tristeham posted:full support to hoot's wife gas stove ftw
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Apr 30, 2023 18:57
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Paradoxish posted:I am not at all surprised that screaming about the inflation-adjusted cost of video games is not sufficient to overcome people's gut reaction that $70 is too much loving money to spend on a single video game. you'd have to be exceptionally stupid to not understand games are a last-place luxury good for the vast majority of the population, and $50 was already pushing what they considered reasonable in "good times". poo poo up the economy, jack the price up to $70 because... well because gently caress you that's why it's not like labor costs went up and there's no physical inputs into a videogame. lol. lmao. do it sony, take it to 99.99 because profits are down
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Apr 30, 2023 18:59
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No gas stove in my house. Electric only
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Apr 30, 2023 19:00
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:hell yes let's do this discourse again gas is an upgrade if you have a landlord special with those shitass electric coils but you probably dont have a landlord special if you're in a situation where you could consider upgrading it
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Apr 30, 2023 19:01
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 stoveElectrics ftw
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Apr 30, 2023 19:02
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Raskolnikov38 posted:gas is an upgrade if you have a landlord special with those shitass electric coils glasstops (non-induction) are cool until your pots get ever so slightly dented then they suck rear end because it turns out air sucks at transferring thermal energy lol. that's probably most people's problem with them, they take 20 minutes to boil water because they're nearly perfectly insulated from the cookware. even a cheap set of new pots works wonders at making everything cook so much faster. i'd buy a new one but lol, lmao everything has a chip in it now and it takes 15 minutes to boot up the hampster-powered tablet touchscreen to turn on the stove or gently caress around with pairing your phone to it every time you cook. this is apparently called "progress".
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Apr 30, 2023 19:07
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