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Even at 25% off, a $70 game is still a ripoff (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Unpopular truth, but $70 is still underpricing a game if you consider it hadn't gone up with inflation since ancient times. Still a ripoff, but so are box office tickets to a blockbuster movie or an expensive dinner at a fancy restaurant. I just don't partake.

Really, if you wanna get angry, get angry at gacha games taking advantage of gambling addictions and fooling a generation of gamers into thinking it's ok to pay $300+ dollars to a live service that offers worse value than anything sold only once. Oooof

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"Weather should be decent this weekend, we should grill or something."

"Sure, what do you want me to make?"

"How bout you smork a rack alam?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Shit, they're about to go face!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

How much is GTA6 going to cost?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Even at 25% off, a $70 game is still a ripoff.

Which is why you only buy games at 90+% off or through game bundles. Unless the developer proves the game is worth the money through all the positive things the community has to say about it.

Chances are good that your backlog is large enough that you can just wait for newer games to be priced reasonably, even if you're buying games at sensible discounts.

Especially for single player games there is no real reason to play a game on release, other than the hype cycle. You might even be better served waiting a while and not be punished by issues that are patched after release.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Whoa black Betty

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Smork Alam! 🎶🎵

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

it's actually one of the best smoke alarms in the industry

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Coach Z gets these custom ordered from a guy that types with boxing gloves on.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can count the list of AAA publishers I trust enough to spend money on their games on one hand.

AAA games are basically the worst segment of gaming right now. There is just so much incredible content in indie gaming right now the idea of even paying attention to big companies like EA and Ubisoft is laughable to me.

Down with corporate gaming, long live the indie developer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is a middle ground too, though, AA titles and such. And indies produced by major players. Like, I adore Risk of Rain 2 but chuckle that Gearbox, Borderlands devs, helped produce the game and took over development in '22. You see this a lot lately with the A-list "indie" games out there.

Better believe the big names have noticed, they want a piece of that low budget high profit market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh absolutely! Just like how in cinema a lot of the best content lives in-between the big blockbusters and tiny indie films with "big boutique" studios such as A24, a lot of the best gaming content is being made by big boutique studios and/or by smaller divisions of bigger studios. I'm an art house cinema kind of guy, and those preferences extend to gaming as well

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I didn't even know you could find Snork Alarms anymore. But I wonder if this is a case where this device is designed for a non-english speaking area where these are the correct spellings for snork and alarm or if this is just a case of mistranslation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Smork ALAM

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Is a company is able to discount their games by 90% just because, they aren't worth ever looking at. The more a's they use, the worse the game.