💰 Grifter "Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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Games are luxuries, they are inherently valueless commodities except for what the customer derives from them. Like jewelry, or high dining, or art. The value of a game is entirely arbitrary, and decided upon by the consumer. With games, the value of a game at purchase is the perceived quality of the game by the customer.

Some people are willing to pay more or less for a luxury good. $60 is the customary price point for games, and what the majority of customers expect.

When video game prices rise, customers see it as an increase in the price of an item, without a commensurate increase in the value proposition. Games, especially AAA games have essentially reached their limit where the cost-value analysis from the perspective of both the producer and the consumer is not breaking even, which is what drives the increase in monetization and value extraction in dark patterns. AAA is too expensive to produce, and becoming too expensive to buy.

Smaller indie games avoid this to some extent by generally being smaller in scale, but are also produced much more infrequently due to lack of resources. Mid-cap games, like that of Capcom, From Software, and to an extent Nintendo, were able to maintain a level of success because of the production of games meeting an expectation of quality on a generally cheap basis. From Soft for example re-uses the same models, rigs, and shares engine code and design principles between all of their modern projects, essentially acting as an assembly line for quality games.

Nintendo, with the move to higher priced goods, is moving away from their previous brand position serving the family demographic to one that is serving a higher luxury/elite demographic. This demographics shift will probably kill the console industry in the long run, as we watched this pattern play out before with Xbox and Sony shifting to an elite luxury demo and failing because of it.

Tl;dr: The Switch 2 is as if McDonalds started serving high dining.
 
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Can you go one fucking post without deploying the Hindu cope defense force: Sar we da Real Arrannyanns. I'm trying not to go fully sperg in Null's house as I only troll and really sperg where it's needed. Your religion is Shit, your Culture is Shit, your Skin is shit, you fucking eat shit. Nothing you post will suddenly turn everyone into 60's fucking boomer's who drink your shity ways and as a result became the most selfish generation in history which is adjacent to absolute state of India. If you were so Aryan why can't you do Aryan shit in India? You're Asian Niggers who worship the Rapist versions of Scythian, Persian and Hellenistic "gods". There have been no Ancient war Chariots found in southern India, Don't give us that Northern India cope as they were Persian and Afghani. This matters because the Historicity of the Iliad vs Mahabharata. You have no city like Troy or no war Chariots, Sorry Asian niggers, all your yoggie bullshit is just rebranded Zoroastrian and Pythagoras Idea's/concepts pushed east because Alexanders' conquest. Now tell everyone about that time Indra got 1000 vagines for being a typical Hindu Rapist
Sorry Framers, My Jeet trolling tourettes took over. It's a result of knowing the reality of their "culture". And I won't reply to your cope: I (we've) heard it all. All your bullshit breaks down to chasing and raping fare skinned vaggine. Fuck India, Fuck Hindus, go eat shit to cope.

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I think the increase in game and console prices while also the decrease in quality and ballooning file sizes are going to make triple A games increasingly unpopular and unfeasible. I'm hoping that smaller indie teams and developers who can make profits much easier than someone like a Ubisoft that has to get 500 million dollars just to break even on development costs can token over more and more of the market.

I at this point don't play triple A games and I haven't for awhile. The last one was probably Elden Ring

Also speaking of Gamer nonsense, Gamer supps the YouTuber drink powder company is facing threats of boycott and YouTubers letting their contracts lapse because a Vtuber has been saying based things and not loving tranny's. Kirsche or something. Either way the worst sorts of faggots are trying to push the company to distance themselves from her so she doesn't make money.
 
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Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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Lowering the price of your games would increase the number of people who would buy those games leading to a greater cultural impact and potentially a higher profit down the road. Over charging on games because you have a monopoly on the property is the pursuit of short term profits and will hurt the company in the long run.

Oh wait, you asked for the gaymer answer, not an economic one.

I'm not buying any more consoles because the games are just too expensive for me to justify doing so. The games they put out just aren't worth $90. I have a PC I built a decade ago that still works just fine so yoho yoho for the foreseeable future.
 
There's two things that are amazing about the games thing to me. One is how much money a dev like Ubisoft can spend on a game and come out with mediocre garbage that doesn't even look all that amazing. Especially when you compare their budget to indie devs who seem to come up with similar visuals and much better content for a fraction of the price. It really makes me wonder if major devs are just stealing money from the company by paying fake 3d artists or something.

The other one is how sticky game prices are. Theyve been in the $50-60 range since the 90s and that was waaaay more money back then.

Also, who the fuck wants a switch 2 anyway? The switch 1 had like 10 games that couldn't be better experienced on PC.
 
Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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Because the cost of manufacturing games was far higher during that era because of cartridges. CD and DVD games dramatically reduced the manufacturing cost for video games. Now that we have digital distribution, there effectively is no manufacturing cost for video games. Coupled with how many full priced games have microtransactions, games should cost less than they did back then.
 
Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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The publicized reason for high prices on games back in the day was the production of cartridges, CDs, shipping, basically a return on all the physical investment.
Once games went digital, the prices did not lower and in fact went up over time. Now Switch 2 games are at least partially digital with the cartridges holding the instance of the license you purchased to access the game(hence the ability to temporarily[up to 4 days] loan the license to a friend or share the game with a family member), so on top of guaranteeing that you do not own the game you now pay more for access.
 
waffle said:
There's two things that are amazing about the games thing to me. One is how much money a dev like Ubisoft can spend on a game and come out with mediocre garbage that doesn't even look all that amazing.
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Because when there's so much money and so many people involved, they want to be as safe and risk-averse as possible; while also leaving plenty of chances to monetize.
 
waffle said:
There's two things that are amazing about the games thing to me. One is how much money a dev like Ubisoft can spend on a game and come out with mediocre garbage that doesn't even look all that amazing. Especially when you compare their budget to indie devs who seem to come up with similar visuals and much better content for a fraction of the price. It really makes me wonder if major devs are just stealing money from the company by paying fake 3d artists or something.
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I wonder how much the same argument as for "why is mod content so high quality for free when the paid DLC from the real developers sucks" applies here: The indie dev can implement features and assets on a whim, on their own time, and leave it at that with no further oversight needed. Or even if there is "further oversight" it's more indie devs in a discord chat instead of some AAA corpo-committee.

If you have devs tirelessly working to implement features that get immediately shot down by higher ups and scrapped, you still paid everyone as full-time employees for all of that.
 
@Null A last minute V-tuber segment submission if it's not too late:

> Shondo (paedophile) gets demasked
> 'Oh no, my Oshi!'
> Fanbase sends their finest
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Post in thread 'Ellie Lois Marcus / fallenshadow / Shondo / syadouu / shadowxeclipse / killudesu / IRresolute / @fallenshadow_YT'

>...and instantly gets demasked
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Post in thread 'Ellie Lois Marcus / fallenshadow / Shondo / syadouu / shadowxeclipse / killudesu / IRresolute / @fallenshadow_YT'

Jihad hamster is my Oshi.
 
Kulee Baba said:
This video came up on my feed and I thought of Null and Rusty Cage…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YBW-RAp_hZYWhite Women enjoyers, how do we recover from this?
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By continuing to love them and not lay with any whore just because she spreads her legs.
Yandex Captcha Solver said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zrVpTbIFTiMAs always Elissa Clips delivers
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I noped the hell outta there once Bullshit Barnes deigned to quote scripture in a vain attempt to go after people lobbing criticism at Crackets. Barnes, you ignorant and illiterate fucking retard. No where in the Bible does it say "be careful what stones you throw lest the uh uh you know don't po- point out the little problem in somebody else's eye if you got a big stick out of your own". That's not even close to the TWO stories from the New Testament that you're combining into one shitty and inappropriate metaphor. The throwing of stones is from John 8. A bunch of Pharisees and educated guys were gonna kill a woman they said was an adulterer. Jesus writes something in dirt, we're never told what it is, looks at all the guys, says "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first", and all the would be killers all leave. It is assumed that whatever Jesus wrote was about them and equal or greater sins that they themselves committed. The stick in the eye is from Mathew 7:3-5.

3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

The widest accepted interpretation of this is that you cannot help someone with their problem if you are suffering worse than they are. Both are grossly inappropriate to use to defend Nick because HE FUCKING FLAUNTS IT PROUDLY. I have also not whored my wife out to a fucking local fucking podcaster nor have I left any drugs that I take recreationally out so that my young child ingests it. I can cast that damned stone, Bobby, and I can judge Nick and his whore wife's actions.

I want people to remember Viva and Barnes's role in all of this. I want this to be the albatross that forever hangs off their necks.
 
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