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You won't like hearing this, but video games must become more expensive. When I was little, my dad got me a PlayStation 2 for christmas, but without any games. My mum was very generous and took me out to pick two games for it. They were 60€ each. Nowadays you would call those full-price games. But now, 20 years later, a full-price game is still about 60€. If you correct that for inflation, it should really be 86€ now. And that's not even covering the fact that games have massively increased in visual fidelity, which is much more expensive to produce. If you don't want games to be littered with microtransactions or ads, then you have to accept that a regular video game must be at least 90€. (98 USD, 77 GBP, 149 AUD, 134 CAD) #Gaming #GameDev #GameDevelopment #Steam #Inflation #Economy #PlayStation
Can't wait to buy the next installment of insert sports game here/call of duty for 100 USD base, 200 for the dlc, maybe even 300 for the ultimate deluxe extreme version.
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.
My 10 year old computer runs Hades and Baba Is You just fine. There is literally no reason for me to "upgrade"
The only reason I want to upgrade my 8+ year old rig is so I can play rimworld and factorio with an absurd amount of mods without crashing or 40m loading times. But I can't afford it so I just suffer them
my primary video gaming over the last 3 years has been driving around and making crappy little movies with GTA online which is ~10 years old and farting around in Terraria. lately i've been on the fence about either getting BotW for my switch or waiting a little longer on that and instead getting SNES/arcade emulator situation streamlined with some bluetooth controllers for when my nephew visits during xmas so we can play shit like Bomberman for SNES or maybe some co-op beat em ups.