the_dunk_tank

i have ultra broke friends that will scrape and scrounge to upgrade video cards so they can play really pretty looking games at launch and they're always trying to get me to upgrade my shit so i can be part of the spectacle. we're all well into our 40s now and playing some new game on the highest settings just doesn't improve my quality of life the way that it did when i was in my early 20s. if i'm gonna drop some hundos on something now, it's gonna be like shelving or tools to make my life easier. there are so many enjoyable games that are run like a dream on a 5+ year old video card.

trying to stay on top of all the latest is rich people shit and it's wild to me how many not-rich people get sucked onto the treadmill.

Cool, still gonna steal em.

Makes sense to me, Fortnite is so good because of the shocking and embarrassing amount I've spent on it

Don't worry, if I don't like hearing it I'll simply choose not to listen to you. And if I don't like paying whatever the prize should be I'll simply not do that either.

More games are sold now than twenty years ago, more DLCs are sold now than twenty years ago, advancement in computer technology has made production overhead cheaper, most games are sold digitally which makes production costs even cheaper, programmers are not unionized and constantly overworked, and people will not buy baseline games approaching 100 dollars

This is a really good point since videogames are a niche interest with high original development costs.

Not like companies are charging $70 for the same shit every year and you don't even get a physical copy of it anymore.

What irks me is that the people who are willing to pay higher prices for commodities with weak rationales / illogical arguments are sometimes the same ones who think it's OK for people to starve to death because they're poor and would never dream of permitting health care to be universal because it means higher income tax. Lots of "little people" are perfectly content remaining "little" and giving their money away to the "big boys" who already have the big money.

LOL, LIMEWIRE

Wouldn't that just drive people to pirate more?

Given that games are like the ultimate luxury product, I really couldn't care less if the treat-addicted gamer piggies have to pay more. What I do care about is developers being compensated fairly for their work.

My hope is that it would allow Independent developers to actually sell their products at a fair price, since there seems to be the implicit expectation that they can't cost more than $20, despite often being better than comparable AAA products.

Not to mention that the market is much smaller for Indie games so they end up suffering twice.

My only point of reference is growing up with the Wii in the early 2010s, games were like $50 at most and now basically all the major titles on the Switch are $60, despite the Switch not really being a huge upgrade tech wise (at least compared to like the PS3 vs PS5, always played Skyrim at my friend's house and the graphics were nothing compared to games like Elden Ring)