former playstation exec should take a long walk off a short pier
Going up to $70 after 15+ years of $60? Fine, whatever, annoying because imo the economics of the video game industry mean games should cost less money in absolute terms but it’s fine. I’m not gonna whine about it.
$80 less than 5 years after that? Ridiculous. $90 after less than 5 years like Nintendo is trying to do is fucking insanity.
Deadass the last time I bought a $60 game full price was like… Dark Souls III nearly 10 years ago (:aware:)? Even the few times I’ve bought AAA games on release since then I’ve always got something like a 5-10% discount on Fanatical or similar stores
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I see they didn’t learn from “people should get a second job to afford a PS3”.
five-hundred ninety nine US dollars I got a Best Buy credit card to buy one, and then simply never paid the bill.
i steal $80 games
They are definitely a steal. If your game is 70 or 80 dollars I’m stealing it
Read this in Rodney dangerfield’s voice.
“No respect for me at all”
millionaire says thing that is easily affordable to them is a good deal, news at 11
I can’t hear youuuu!
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All the games I play are a steal
Oh ho oh ho a pirates life for me ☠️ 🏴☠️
Uhhh hello? Based department? You’re gonna wanna check out this comrade
The one Playstation game I want right now is $50 but no physical copies are available, and the three games on the horizon are the sorts of things that I can wait to buy used.
Any games for other systems are either competitively-priced on Steam or easy to emulate because they’re distributed by a shitty company that I don’t mind pirating.
I’m not paying $80 for a game.
I know some people get really upset at the idea of pirating indies but even $20 feels like a lot of money to spend on a video game I’m not sure if I’ll like and play all the way through. 80? Forget about it.
i don’t really understand the moralizing about pirating indie games. like, piracy is not stealing. i was not going to buy it. i am more likely to buy a game after pirating it bc i realized i liked it.
I’m pretty sure its small business brainworms
ah yea that makes sense
especially since this argument is usually used for indie games that did quite well or had high budgets. i dont think the creator of stardew valley is gonna miss my $10 that much.
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it’s small business cult shit
if i didn’t pirate whatever i wasn’t going to pay for it either, there’s too much other stuff to do for free
Every game should have a demo, even just to check if the game runs well or not in your pc/deck.
if you have a pot of money set aside you can use steam’s 2-hour refund thing for this, even if you’re just gonna pirate it afterwards
I wonder if that’s had a hand in devs not bothering to make separate demos
It’s a steal alright: the game publishers are stealing from the gamers. The gamers!
I guess I’ll carefully choose to not spend my money on your garbage lol
