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“We should improve gaming somewhat”
“Just don’t buy the game!”
Here’s the thing, there are already vendors doing largely what. Indies generally:
- cost less
- release in a playable state
- take risks on new ideas
- don’t have microtransactions
But people usually talk about big AAA games in these complaints. Buy indies and we’ll end up with more variety.
I buy mostly indies now, usually on gog or itch too.
But sometimes on steam if it’s multiplayer.
Well, yeah.
Vote with your wallet. I improved gaming by not buying a Switch 2.
That’s sort of how it works though isn’t it? If games at $80 are too much then less people will buy, profits will drop and publishers will either lower prices, or vanish and get replaced by ones that lower prices.
Capitalism deals with industry being owned privately.
If you want to complain about Microsoft being a publicly-traded, private-sector company rather than a worker cooperative or part of the government or whatever, okay, at least I can see where you’re coming from.
But a socialist economy is perfectly compatible with having high prices.
Microsoft doesn’t expect anyone to pay $80. They expect people to sub to Game Pass instead.
Well, for starters, games are going to get more expensive.
That is their prerogative. Mine is not buying overpriced games.
I’m sure if it was up to the developers and creative minds behind the game this would have never been an issue. Sure, things like inflation have made the process of making games more expensive, but it’s not like the extra money is going to actually go back to the developers. I’m so sick of this “games are more expensive to make” bullshit while they treat their employees like garbage and make them work ungodly hours. Micro$oft makes more money in one day than most of us or any of the developers will ever see in our entire lifetimes yet they need to lecture us on why we need to give them more money.
To be clear, I hold no grudge against the actual developers of this game. The first one was pretty decent and I’m sure this next one will be relatively good as well. But remember that we are talking about the company that forced Arkane to make Redfall when they had no desire to make it, and after it failed fired everyone at Arkane Austin and closed the studio. This isn’t about making their money back to cover the cost of development, it’s about making as much profit as possible with the least amount of effort possible.
Games continue to get cheaper to make as middleware improves and advancing hardware lessens the need for optimisation. If companies choose to spend more on games despite this then that’s their problem.
Of course you can - if an adequate share of that money goes to the devs, the only issue is the money that doesn’t go to the devs. And they very likely don’t have much control over that money
Play that years down the line. The first one was OK but I paid like $15 for it with the expansion. Obsidian hasn’t had a clear jump in quality since the MS purchase. Possibly even signs of writing regression with Avowed so can’t imagine much hype for this game
I’m not going to bother reading the article, because you can both be anti-capitalist and participate in the system as it exists today. The developers can’t pay rent with good vibes.
Also the developers don’t set the price
A healthy way to look at things, but also the guaranteed way to maintain the status quo. It’s funny how that works.
They can take action in other ways, including publishing anticapitalist messages in their game.
“Capitalism is when pay money for things. I am very smart.”
Jesus Christ, I am begging people to actually learn what capitalism is before writing takes likes this.
These days its increasingly ‘capitalism is when you pay money for the chance to have a thing’
I mean, that’s literally what it is?
Chance as in gambling, so often you don’t even get what you pay for even with ‘reputable’ brands. This is particularly bad with appliances.
