• .Donuts
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    45 hours ago

    What a world we live in, where cheaper games are seen as less quality because the theory of capitalism has conditioned us to believe higher quality = higher price.

  • @eddanja
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    14 hours ago

    I’m so excited for this game.

  • @HeyJoe
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    815 hours ago

    New franchise needs to build a following first. The lower price point will get more people to try it. I’m sold already, but there’s a ton of people who have no idea what this game is still and won’t until it releases. I hope it’s as good as it looks, and I hope it succeeds and leads to more.

      • Troy
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        1218 hours ago

        If it’s a game I’m going to get hundreds, or sometimes thousands of hours from, then I’ll pay more. If you look at price per hour spent on entertainment, it’s hard to compare. However, you often have to wade through a bunch of shitty overpriced games to find those gems.

        Okay, back to EU4 now ;)

        • Omega
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          1016 hours ago

          I’m kind of in a different boat with this. I’m paying for quality, not quantity. Especially since I don’t have as much free time as I did 20 years ago.

          So if I can play through a phenomenal story within a couple months over a 20 hour game (which usually takes me 30 hours) at the height of the hype when people are still talking about it, I love it. Give me efficient storytelling.

          In fact, if it’s something longer, it kind makes me rethink it whether I want to pay full price. Why rush?

          • @[email protected]
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            314 hours ago

            I am the same. Game could take 60 hours to complete, and 50 of them are dogshit. Then it’s not a fun game. It’s all about the overall quality of the entire experience.

            I would gladly pay $100 for Subnautica 2 if they could pull off another amazing adventure. Would do the same for another Larian studio game.

      • @RightHandOfIkaros
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        17 hours ago

        I will only do this for games I know I will like, from studios I want to support.

        I literally will wait until a sale ends to buy a game made by Yoko Taro or FromSoftware at full price.

      • @[email protected]
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        018 hours ago

        Sits back in porch chair, Back in my day you could get a fully complete console game wið online multiplayer and all ð bells and whistles, for just ÞIRTY DOLLARS

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          hell yeah, þorn and eð user in the wild!

          alþough I stand by the opinion þat þe voiced-voicless distinction between þorn and eð is someþing superimposed onto English later on, as eð and þorn were used interchangeably for a time and it was more a question of time period raþer þan voicedness

          • @[email protected]
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            128 minutes ago

            I mean ð distinction is well and truly ðere now, so a spelling reform ðat tries to reinstate a spelling convention from a period when it wasn’t is really just slapping a coat of paint on the same kinds of historical spelling issues ðat English still has.

            To me bringing ðem back isn’t a matter of restoring old spelling, it’s a matter of using what once was to make something ðat works for the here and now.

      • @Katana314
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        56 hours ago

        To me, $70 is a reasonable price based on what bread costs now, but the minimum wage needs to like, triple.

        The focus on freemium games and whales may even be driven by America’s wealth gap.

      • HEXN3T
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        816 hours ago

        🙏There🙏is🙏no🙏inflation🙏only🙏price🙏gouging🙏

        • @[email protected]
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          411 hours ago

          Moderate Inflation (around the 2% target) is necessary for the current economical system to function. It incentivizes people to either invest or spend their money instead of sitting on it.

        • @Fuckfuckmyfuckingass
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          015 hours ago

          Seems to me like they’ve just upped the price $10 with each successive generation of consoles.

          • @SpacetimeMachine
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            Games have been around 60 dollars for over 30 years now. Not sure what you’re on about. If they had gone up 10 bucks with each console generation they would be like 150 at this point.