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[–] 106 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You criticize society, yet you participate in it!

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ain't payin no $80 for no game

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Man, there better be a ton more content than the original to command that price. The first was a decent game, but it felt pretty boring to me, and it's wild that they could use a whole solar system as the setting and it feel so small.

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  • [+] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    "Capitalism subsumes all critique"

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    tbh a 20$ game isn’t any less capitalist

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I will not be buying any game for $80. lmao

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Being aware of the irony is free. How you respond is completely up to you.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I just looked it up, and I'm surprised to say that Spider-Man 2 (just released on PC back in February I believe) is still only $60. I mean, sure it's over a year old from it's original PS5 release, but the fact they're not asking $80 for it is kinda nice.

    And Oblivion Remastered is "only" $50.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    $50 today is equivalent to about $28.50 19 years ago. So it's effectively half price lmao

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I meant it's "'only' $50" because it's an entire overhaul of the original game, rebuilt from the ground up. Similar to how Skyblivion is gonna be.

    Like, that's a damn good price for one of the best RPGs ever made, with the amount of work that went into it this time around too. I'm not complaining about paying that for such a great game.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Clair Obscur (a gorgeous, new game) is 50 bucks. I rest my case.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I mean sure, plenty of new games can still look great and be relatively affordable. Nowhere in my comments did I say otherwise, or even imply it.

    I really feel like people are jumping on these comments because I dared to say a couple recent games aren't selling at $80.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The PS5 version was actually ported to PC a full year before the official PC release by a bunch of Brazilians. In many ways with was even better than the official release. Only downside is that it didn't have ray tracing. But if you don't care about that then it was worth playing.

    Of course this has nothing to do with your point, just saying.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    it's free on usenet. just saying.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    will have 3 hours of content like the first one.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Microsoft sets the price and they whant you to subscribe to gamepass so they can lock you in and eventually shitefy it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    isthereanydeal.com

    freetokeep.gg

    One of my favorite games is trying to get the best price on a game I want. My backlog is a few years long at this point, so I don't need to buy any new games. But if I can find one I want for 90% off or more, I usually buy it anyways.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Developers need to eat and pay rent.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So the developers of $20 games are homeless?

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Once again I have to remind people that inflation exists. Game prices go up just like everything else and the last few years have seen insane inflation rates and game prices haven't really climbed since the 90s. $60 in 2019 would be worth $75 today. $60 in 1996 would be worth $122.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i love how inflation is just always magically a reason for companies to charge arbitrarily large sums for their products, how the hell do you people think people are supposed to afford things?

    seriously, if everything just constantly increases in cost, how precisely do you envision the economy functioning?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Long story short:

    • Keynes wrote a fairy tale about inflation raising wages and shortening the work week
    • Richard Nixon started inflation as we know it
    • Economists worldwide fell into line
    • Shockingly, wages didn't go up, the work week didn't shorten, and we now have record-breaking inequality (due to the Cantillon effect).

    To this day, people who paid to "learn" the fairy tale insist that inflation is good.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree with you but it's so hard to talk about. Most major publishers are leeches who artificially drive up price and force developers to release unfinished games....yet at the same time, the cost of development has gone up. Indie games are proof that you don't NEED fancy graphics with mocapped actors to make a good game but it's irrelevant when there's bigger demand for "cinematic experience" and that stuff ain't cheap.

    But because I used to pay $30 for a game in the 90s, I think games should be $30 forever.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    When I was in elementary school my dad introduced me to the concept of inflation using the "candy bar index". Candy bars were 50¢ when I was a kid. They were, like, 25¢ when he was a kid. Nowadays they're $1.25.

    I still want/expect them to be 50¢.

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