Close call

Why would you buy the exact same game 11 times?
- I like how him lying in bed is just him opening the door but flipped lol
  Edit: this was meant to be an independent comment, not a reply, but I guess it kind of fits in with both him and his games being a copy
  
  good eye
  
  Not only that, the drawing of her in the first and last panels are the same with a few changes, and the guy is the same in all three panels he is in, just with an extra arm drawn in the final one.
  
  The original has her lying in bed and him leaving. This is also why she steals his scarf.
- Number go up
- if this meme is from 2022 he could've bargain-binned all of them for like a dollar each, but apparently he couldn't afford FIFA '20..
- people want to pay their 60$ for a roster update
- nervously hides his Fromsoft games
- In reality? He plays online and matchmaking requires it.
  In fantasy holier than thou reddit and Lemmy world? Counter: Why buy Fallout New Vegas when it's all just bullshit story and the same wasteland as 3?
  
  It's set thousands of miles away...
- Yeah the only reason I can think of that doesn't make him lame is if he plays it on an export level

She stole his scarf.
- Serves him right. Fifa playing asshole.
  /s
- She’s also wearing his pants in the 2nd panel. Has his face in the 4th.
  
  girlboss
- Based

Lmao
My friend and I were just talking about how you need to proceed with caution with guys who play only FIFA or NBA4K. We call them male "candy crush" games.
Edit: I'm loving the updates. Add Madden and NHL to the list!
- My ex bought FIFA/NBA every year as it came out like clock work. Set the game to the easiest possible settings, but complained about rubber banding and reset the quarter when he lost.
  The one time I got him to do laundry, he threw away half of our socks. He didn’t want to find pairs. My fancy dress socks, my novelty socks - all in the trash when I get home from work.
  Liking certain video games isn’t itself a red flag, it’s that mindless, video games as avoidance/wish fulfillment that’s concerning.
  
  You touch my merino wool socks we are fighting!!!
  Boils my blood someone would just toss socks away like that...
  
  Man, and I think I'm pathetic because I don't meal prep 2 weeks in advance and have my house sparkling clean and tidy all the time...
- The NHL games are like crack cocaine for Canadians.
  
  Sorry, but the only sports games I play are racing games. So not all Canadians.
- It's honesty pretty bleak to see companies like Electronic Arts and Activision consistently top the sales charts by releasing the same game every year.
  Said this before on Reddit in the past, but there are lots of consumers who have no taste in video games whatsoever. They don't give a shit about anything but FIFA/Madden, Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto, and that is the reason why we have predatory shit like Ultimate Team and Shark Cards in $70 AAA titles.
  
  it honestly just looks like addiction to me, it's like people who drink the same miserable burnt coffee every morning just to vaguely function, and see no issue whatsoever with this habit and in fact continue to praise coffee for being so great and tasty.
- We used to joke about people saying "I'm a gamer" when they meant Farmville, but if you just have each year's FIFA and CoD games then you're just as bad.
- Can't forget Madden
  
  Ah yes. There is another.
- what about minecraft and factorio?
  
  Perfectly fine and usually chill 👍🏾
  
  Minecraft Java and Factorio don't have micro transactions (Minecraft Bedrock does though)
- Back then when being a gamer was akin to being a Poindexter who gets shoved into lockers and had their lunch money stolen, I was pretty adamant that "Gamers are gamers!"
  But now that extroverts watch marvel movies, gorgeous model types own gaming systems, and gaming is no longer a hidden secret for basement dwellers and elevated to "normal behavior", I've changed course.
  Not to say a FIFA bro won't end up playing Elden Ring. But chances are very slim.

She stole his scarf?!
- When you get older, you will also quickly realize that Hoodies aren't safe either...
  
  I'm very familliar. Nor are sunglasses, hats, boxer briefs, band shirts, ad nauseum.

Why does the guy have so many copies of the same game?
- Sports fan brain

I talked to someone working at a game store (gamemania in the Netherlands). The stores also buy and sell second hand games. I commented on the amount of fifa games on the shelves and they told me the storage in the back just has massive stacks of every fifa game of the last 10 years or so. Apparently they will literally buy every functioning game you want to sell them.
The chain is also close to bankruptcy, probably not related. But it's a shame because I really do like walking through them and looking through the games they have. They actually have xbox360, wii and ps3 games on shelves.
- The UK's largest game store was just called Game, and these days you're lucky if they've got actual games in stock. It's mostly funko pops and other game related tat. The stores mostly seem located in the back of sports shops.
  Physical games are in big trouble.
  
  Oh yeah they have a bunch of merch but luckily not too many funko stuff. I got some mugs from there.
  It's sad news though, can't do digital second hand games or borrow one from a friend.
  
  Game and Gamestop went bankrupt many years ago here.
  Physical games are absolutely declining but you can still buy them in regular electronic stores or online. Those options are and have always been cheaper than dedicated game stores anyways.
  
  CEX seems to be doing alright though
- In Portugal we have a couple of these stores but I really don't understand how they stay alive. I went there once with a sealed 60 euro, recent, game for a console I didn't down. They offered me 15 euros and were selling used copies for 55 euros. Why on earth would I buy or sell for those prices?
  We used to have GAME stores everywhere and they occasionally had really nice deals. I loves those stores, it's a shame they went bankrupt.
  
  For a discount on a new game? I while ago I bought a ps4 for a friend and just got a bunch of second hand games from that store. All common ones but I saved a bunch of money that way.
  
  I guess all of these stores will be gone before too long as these days a large portion of the new consoles don’t have a disc drive at all.
- Gamemania still exists? I always enjoyed browsing through the games there, nowadays all my games are digital so I don't have a reason to visit a physical store anymore
  
  Well for now they do. They sell a bunch of merch too.
- It was the same at the GameStop I worked at. They had a couple copies of Fifas, Red Dead 2, really common games downstairs on the store floor. In the storage room in the back they kept preorders, new games and more copies of games that were present on the store floor. And upstairs a mini "warehouse" where they'd keep the rest.
  They literally had stacks upon stacks upon stacks of these really common games. Like all the current Fifas, Red Deads, Far Crys etc etc. It was always baffling to see how many copies of a given game can exist in one singular store. They'd also stop buying these games at some point because they worth next to nothing. They'd be losing money buying them from the customers
- It's been years and years since I set foot in a Game Stop (US equivalent of the store you mentioned) but they would also "buy" any functional game you brought in. However, you would be lucky to get more than for $1 in store credit towards another used game for anything other than a new release.
  
  Gamestop was in europe as well, until quit a couple years ago. They had impressive collections of used sports games that nobody wanted.

If he at least ALSO had some other, non-sports games, then she might have let it slide. But only FIFA is a definite red flag.

I thought she was drugged in the first panel
- I thought it was 'loss'

Dude was missing FIFA 98 RTWC in his collection

I thought I saw "FIFA eleventeen" on one of the spines and felt proud I spotted an easter egg. Looked again,saw it was my poor vision. Damn.
- I can't read the stuff anyways. The image is too deep fried
  
  FIFA 19(second from top) was the one I thought was an extra. The deep frying was the reason I thought it was another joke tho.

Why is she removing pants in panel 2 that she isn't wearing in panel 1?
- Because it was photoshopped from the original
  
  This is like a Far Side comic in that I'm sure it's actually funny, but I have no idea why.

this is loss
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I do not get it, everywhere in the world football is like a religion, whenever one is not playing in school or the neighborhood one was playing online with friends. Granted FIFA became shit over the years and people over hyper it, but most people grow out of it, get jobs, etc... It is only natural to find scumbags in popular instances. This meme could have any massive online game and still make sense then.
- Well, any game that basically releases the same game with changed rosters every year with only minor improvements, or COD would work too
  
  And it worse than that, since the player base naturally moves to the new release, so players of previous seasons have a harder time finding opponents.
  The whole series of games is designed to make you buy a new one every year

All of you in this thread need to look up "FIFA scripted games".
- No
  
  Fair

People who buy a game console just to play nothing but the same sports titles year after year are the absolute worst. I'll never understand why they're like this.
- I also hate people who find thing they like to do and enjoy it year after year. Unbelievable.
  
  How dare they
- They have friends and enjoy playing this game with them.
  
  But how can you play the same game over and over and not get bored?
  Is firing up a single neuron really enough for them?
- Think of them like blood plasma. They cover the cost of console development so that the rest of us can play real games.
- How are they the absolute worst? What have they done to you?
  
  It doesn't bother you when other people do stupid, wasteful things? Buying a $500 console just to play the same $70+ game every year with no changes or improvements over last year's version (other than a pointless roster update), is stupid and wasteful.

I'm guessing there was no FIFA 20 because of Covid?
- Covid didnt shut down any of the big EA titles

Damn, never seen a lemmy thread this weird before. People need to grow up and shed those game insecurities, let people enjoy their hobbies.
- I don't even play any of the games being mentioned, but I'm with you. The commenters here are getting so gatekeepy about, essentially, how other people use their favorite toys. This is fucking entertainment we're talking about here. Is it really so inconceivable that many people just like those games? There's a whole world of people beyond yourselves guys.
  
  They get upset about it because it's a trend in the industry that a lot of people hate. That particular series is a great example where the next game not only adds nothing but even generally takes stuff away from the previous title, but it keeps selling so it's kind of becoming a trend in the industry for most series to just keep releasing the same garbage over and over.
  So it's less about enjoying a sports game that they are upset about, and more upset about encouraging the behavior of extremely low effort recycled releases constantly

Whereas, seeing Kick & Run == life-partner material.

panel 3 is useless, he was clearly wasted and fell asleep.

OMFG that's so fucking funny

Yuk

Did the creator of this meme really feel the need to swap the genders just because of the "all gamers are male" stereotype…
- Yes. Next question
  
  Why are you okay with that? It reinforces the stereotype and well… makes it harder for women to start gaming and be treated as normal.
- I think you've generalized a bit too much. The gender-swapped format was not created for this exact meme, it's just a jovial commentary on male stereotypes women find unappealing. In this case, the joke isn't that she saw a stack of random games, they're all FIFA -- did you maybe not notice that? The annoying male FIFA player is a pretty well-established meme at this point.
- please cry more
  
  lmao. I didn't cry, I literally forgot about this meme already. If there's something I find irritating / weird, I'll call it out, but that doesn't mean it affects me personally xD
- Have you even seen the original? I've only seen edits that were jpged to hell and all of them have a budge on the sweater wearer.
  Also, it's Fifa. I know women play video games, but I've only ever seen Dudebros play Fifa.