So this is fascinating because you’ve only been able to find examples from 1995 and 1996, not earlier.

So turns out Eman Esfandi is great as Ezra. That scene where he tries to negotiate, classic Ezra. No notes.

I’d cry them a fucking river if not for the fact that every year these companies are boasting of record breaking profits to their shareholders while axing half of their staff after a game launch.

Fuel Affects how far you can go in a Single String of jumps without having to Stop. Generally its not a Big deal but Heres an Example. I Hijacked a BAD Eclipse ship and due to an oopsey i was wanted in Free Star Space. but the ship had such low fuel i couldnt get to a place i could clear the bounty without having to…

I still don't understand why they even mention fuel since it autorefills. Of your going to take out the mechanic, might as well take out all mention of that system, unless it was too late when they changed it

This has been my impression with a lot of the game’s systems; I feel like a lot of them weren’t coming together to make the game fun so they just dialed it all back. Things like fuel, environments, etc all feel like they were intended to be a lot more meaningful than they really are. The game frequently feels…

Yes Inflation. But wage growth hasn’t been keeping up either so therefore money isn’t there to pay higher costs for shareholders

Ah that ol’ lying two-faced nugget: “Game dev is 100x more expensive now”.
Yeah, but that isn’t actually a reason, since you’re also selling 100-1000x as many copies as you did on Famicom.

Please, this is all deflective PR buzzspeak. The real reason game budgets keep ballooning is because investors keep expecting bigger and better returns and the entire economic system has been incentivised to deliver them. Other factors like tech costs and inflation have a much smaller footprint comparatively.

Ya naw dog. Unless your going to be pumping out BG3 quality titles, nah. AAA games are dieing because they already cost an arm and a leg more than smaller indie titles without offering much more in terms of quality. Not only are you paying the premium for them but their littered with further monetization, asking you…

The equation isn’t “costs out, price in” and anyone who tries to pretend it is is simply LYING to you. They have projections for how much these things will sell at different price points and the reason they aren’t doing stuff like “Call of Duty costs $200 this year” is because it would then sell way (WAY) fewer copies…

Okay, then they can raise prices.

Players can wait for the games they want to play to drop in price after sellers decide they don’t want a surplus of software filling their warehouses- even Nintendo published titles are going on decent discounts in their first year from online stores (Zelda: TotK was $47 new this last…

If you look at the games industry as a whole (indie + AA + AAA), it’s more profitable than ever before. There are far more ways to monetize games and the cost of actually developing games relative to scope is a lot cheaper too. Multiplatform development, for example, is much more efficient now and therefore much…

Going to repeat again, while the cost of development is indeed much higher, so are their profits.

On the contrary — it’s not that games prices are too low, it’s that executive pay bloat is too high. And Mr Capcom president, there’s an ‘easy’ fix...fire your stupid ***, especially after throwing out such an idiotic take on a situation *YOU* had a hand in creating in the first place.

You are just old. I’m 45, and being real, there are vastly more good games now than there were at any earlier time in my life.

I’d listen to this guy if his company started releasing games that could actually be considered complete Day 1.

At the length RE games are (especially RE3 Remake) lol no, I don’t think so, Capcom guy. I’ll continue to wait for the big sales.

Capcom President Says ‘Game Prices Are Too Low’

This dude can fuck off. If more price increases happen in the near future, I’ll just wait even longer until they’re on sale for a price I’m willing to pay, or I can pick up a solid used copy.