BC obviously stands for Before Cookies...

For Awkward Zombie I would recommend Before Croissants, to compliment After Donuts

Got some bad news for you if you didn’t install them already. They removed them from the Ready to Install list on the Xbox One. They are literally coming up with new ways to be total dickheads. There is thankfully a work around to get them by searching someone that owns the game and clicking through social, but…

I’m not going to get into a whole thing about what you own with “Digital titles” and Doom 1 and 2 aren’t really a hill to die on, but honestly it’s a pretty fucking dick move by Bethesda to remove the games from people’s Ready to Install list on the Xbox One through 360 BC. They seem dead set on making as many dick…

Right? Here I am hyped for trophies for one of the best games of all time, then they pull this shit. Sorry, no money. I can go without trophies and just play the version still on my PC.

You know, I was actually gonna buy 1 & 2 for quick, cheap nostalgia.

But with this shit I’ll pass. No shortage of nostalgia on the switch.

You can still sue, but whether it will yield a judgement against Nintendo is open to debate. Class action suits around defective products (that don’t cause physical injury) can be based along the “diminished value” theory — meaning that what you bought is worth less because of defect. However (1), Nintendo is taking…

I think getting free joy-con repairs is probably going to be of greater benefit to most consumers than waiting out for any class-action suit payout.

In the same position that you had? Your career sounds like it is doing fine, but that doesn’t make you any good at statistics. Wage and salary only increases based on retention value. This is why lower income industries have seen stagnant wages for a very long time now.

Expecting to find a scholar in systems of government on a website about videogames and videogame culture is pretty smart.

Yeah because everyone in these comment threads have recently read this and is a well versed scholar and aren’t just spouting memes they read on r/latestagecapitalism. And as history clearly shows communism has it’s own issues. It’s almost like there’s no perfect system (!!). Again my point is the issues in the article…

So why champion a transition to an $80 standard?

I disagree.

Post-release DLC is actually very beneficial for developers. Back in those days that you are talking about, it was exceedingly common for studios to have massive layoffs as soon as development wrapped up and the product launched. If you weren’t on the QA and bug fix teams, you were polishing your resume.

I think the $60 price has nothing to do with the video game industry and far more to do with the US economy as a whole. Wages in the US have stagnated for decades and disposable income has never been less. Video games have to sell for $60 if they raise their price they will sell far fewer copies when the games launch…

I dunno, this is all just word of mouth but the number of people who I see just waiting for GotY editions with all DLC is pretty large, especially when it comes to single player titles. WE might be willing to pay 10 bucks more as hardcore fans of video games, but I don’t know how many of the other people are.

I’m with you. If vanilla Assassin’s Creed Odyssey had half the content I don’t think anyone would complain. After a certain point putting in all those teensy tiny extra missions and contracts isn’t any different from games artificially increasing the need to grind in the bad old days.

Heck, I’d pay $100 for Fallout 5 or Elder Scrolls 6, if they were getting decent reviews. I really think Bethesda is one that is most likely to be able to pull this off. They are still mostly about single player, although they are getting away from that. (As an aside, if they had to do something different, I wish they…

As somebody who doesn’t have the time to play lots of these endlessly sprawling open-world epics (read: an average adult), I’d much rather get smaller games at a $60 (or lower) pricepoint than the alternative.

Yeah I think that would need to be part of the deal for the foreseeable future. Sizable expansions can be extra but no micros and no little chickenshit horse armor deals.

A game that can charge whatever it wants and still sell 10 million. Once one does it successfully, ALL will do it henceforth. And that’s cool with me. These massive, 20-80 hour games have gotten so affordable that I tend to buy too many and never give them the time they deserve. Let’s adjust.