 video games actually come at three price points these days: $20-30 β a video game that costs $20 or $30 $60-70 β $60 to $150, depending on how many missing pieces there are $0 β you will be relentlessly punished until you give them at least $500 29 comments
@glencoe  @saddestrobots @glencoe also like with #PSN+ in the past you can lilely only play it with an acti e subscription. @saddestrobots yeah free to play is especially annoying because it's not like you can pay a reasonable price for full functionality it's going to be way more than you would spend on a normal game @Leonor @saddestrobots listen the fitgirl empress drama is childs play compared to the shit ive seen the past two years of being Online also I can pavlov myself by thinking about empress everytime I think about booting up Anno 1800 (a game with a "youve been playing for 16 hours please we knew people would need this" audio recording ask me how I know) @saddestrobots "You played for 8 hours! You should check on your family." for some reason I love games that tell me to go home and be a family (i made this post out of monumental sympathy for people who can't really afford to get the $20 games on the reg, so they play a $0 game and just put up with the relentless punishment it inflicts on them for not having $500. that one friend who's like "good news! i found some heroin on the side of the road today, and sold it to buy hats for my waifus.") @saddestrobots somehow "I lost it all buying hats for my waifus" is just as silly sounding as "I lost it all betting on the ponies" for something equally as devastating  i posted this on bluesky and people are trying to Correct Me now did you know that Stardew Valley is $15? that's less than $20!  @saddestrobots classic nerd behavior, not seeing a joke as a joke even if it's true @saddestrobots I will say though, you brought this upon yourself by posting on bluesky @saddestrobots Aggressive nerds responding to you with "Um akshually" on mastodon dot com; Vile, contemptible, should be banished from your sight immediately Those same nerds on Bluesky: Deserved, a penance for your sins, your cross to bear, may god have mercy on your soul  @saddestrobots@jorts.horse there is the occasional $0 that's just a little toy someone made that's actually one of the best games you've ever played @saddestrobots it's very telling that since the transition to a $70 price point all of the big name bangers recently have been mid-budget or indie titles costing at most a little over half that. Lethal Company, Palworld, Helldivers 2, Manor Lords now. Folks don't want to spend $70 on a video game
@saddestrobots@jorts.horse   $1-5 - a game that has way too much content for the price and makes you feel kinda sorry for the devs when you see that you spend 400h in it. @saddestrobots |
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@saddestrobots yeah as soon as I see it's free to play I know it's going to be a wire mother level unethical gambling psych-experiment and nope out.