MyDarkestTimeline01 @ MyDarkestTimeline01 @ani.social

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I don't even care what it's about. I enjoy hearing about multinational companies losing lawsuits.

No one with sense is saying that they wouldn't want to increase prices. The debate is whether or not the publishers who are pushing for higher cost of games realize that the higher it goes the less sales they're actually going to make. Because again it doesn't matter if the consumer knows why the cost has gone up or not. It's a matter of whether or not the cost is going to seem justifiable for the customer. And that's the rub everyone keeps saying that oh games should cost more game should cost more. The problem with that statement is after a certain price point games are no longer going to be a hobby purchase. They're no longer going to be that impulse buy that they've survived on. They're going to be that thing where you end up waiting for it to go below $25 or for it to be a runaway smash hit that everyone is telling you is a great game. And that isn't even to say that good games are always going to cost more money look at Balatro, look at schedule 1, look at Repo. These are games that were made on shoestring budgets that players enjoyed. The problem with ballooning costs isn't that games are getting bank breakingly expensive to make. It's that risk averse publishers and investors are chasing trends that players have moved on from and they no longer are made up of people who actually play games.

I have to disagree with you on the pricing point. Just because people "understand" that pricing for games has been behind other entertainment doesn't mean they are willing to stomach that increase. Most people buy video games as an impulse buy from their discretionary funds after bills have been paid. At the price point they are at currently it has stopped being impulse buys. This has led to so.many of the AAA failures of the past two console gens(current and last). When a brand new game costs $60(and gaining) and a weeks worth of groceries cost $100 you don't think in terms of "will this game be fun" but instead "will this game be worth a weeks worth of groceries. And while this isn't a problem for indies who are currently eating the lunch of the AAA pubs right in front of their faces, it will crater those legacy studios.

Ha! Soon as my funding comes in.

That's a well done merger. While I'm not a fan of the SD styles, that's still good work you've done.

Honestly I'm just glad to have a raunchy comedy again that actually shows bodies.

For sure. Netflix makes content. That's what they're good at. Not making quality TV or stories. But they are the current kings of making "that show you put on in the background while you do something else".

That's been my litmus test for a lot of stuff lately is Netflix or Disney in the driver's seat? Then I'll pass.

Well, I don't have a desk job and I'm on console. So while I can sympathize, I'm not really able to offer advice.

I loved that song in highschool.

I'm bouncing around several games right now. New season of CoD, Space Marine 2, Balatro, Monster Train, and STALKER 2.

I also started Valkyria Chronicles 4 recently and have been enjoying that as well.

Why does that title sound like Heather's bitter coworker wrote it?

I was about to say nothing says I wanna be a dictator quite like having the military celebrate your birthday with a parade

I'm enjoying it from the first episode.

I liked it.

You're too kind, and I appreciate it. It was a fun build. I had turned my nose up at the Mater Grade models due to their reputation for being difficult. I thought they were needlessly so just for the sake of being a "filter" for the hobby. But, this build really changed my mind. There are a lot of small parts and it is a difficult build but the level of detail and recreation was amazing.

Thanks man!

IBO is my favorite of the Gundam series.

I got it waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back at like 19-20 so about 20 years ago. And I've been meaning to change keyboards as well. Need something for these ham hands I have.