It is absolutely inflation - over 20 years of it. The core $60 price point for games has been in place since the X360 era, yet the cost of developing them and the expectations of gamers (including robust post-launch content) has increased exponentially in that time, as has the number of titles competing for player…

I misunderstood the headline as the game never having once been purchased by anyone after being on steam for 7 years, and increasing the price anyway. Then was very confused how a game that no one has ever bought could be described as a popular game.

Devs either need to make new games to sell and stop supporting old ones or they have to sell add-ons to old games to continue to make money so the devs can continue to be supported/employed.

Yes. Most of this intel actually old information that every military in the world already knew. It’s just considered confidential due to regulation on how military equipment should be treated.

Regarding source; Some of the people on the War Thunder forums having these arguments are individuals in positions that give them clearance to the information they are arguing about (maintenance crew for the battle tanks, etc).

Yeah, that’s not the greatest comparison. There is some superficial similarity in that the city “governments” are very much ruthless totalitarians but the endgame of the Fireflies isn’t just dropping them, it’s trying to rebuild society as it were which is impossible.

Literally everything you said could have applied to leaded gasoline or asbestos insulation.

Galaxy is pretty slow if you have large libraries across multiple storefronts. I own thousands of games and every time I boot up Galaxy, it takes minutes just to update my library. It’s faster to simply load up each individual storefront.

The Law of Unintended Consequences is almost as hard and fast as the Laws of Thermodynamics.

Yes, Chef.

Elden Ring made me realize my gaming tastes have changed. Maybe it’s because I’m not 20 anymore, I don’t know.

Yeah I’m in the latter group.

I mean then don’t market it as Mozzarella then? they could literally call it “cheese sticks” and there would be no issue.

You mean, the report that was focused on how terrible it was that WotC wasn’t catering to the secondary market, didn’t realize that search results for “Pokemon” wouldn’t be constrained to just the card game, and in a long report on MTG didn’t say a single word about Arena?

because copyright should not exist at all

As a sensible counter point to this: IP definitely needs to be restructured and reimagined for a modern era, and that would GREATLY dilute copyright and what it means to be a holder, but of course copyright should exist in some form. Anything else is socialist fantasy. A nice one! But fantasy, nonetheless.

As someone who tried playing the game years ago for free and was completely overwhelmed, someone who read through FAQs of which mods to download and still found the game incomprehensible but briefly entertaining, even I would argue that this game is probably worth $30 -- for someone who isn’t me. I can see the…

I agree with all these except peppermint bark, which is delicious. Chocolate orange also need to be way higher on the list, possibly at the top.

Depends who you ask. Some people saw a middling platformer with somewhat dated graphics and lack of style. Others saw a sacred blood oath severed as the developer personally killed their dog in front of them.

Just because they print a new black lotus it doesn’t make it an original black lotus and shouldn’t devalue anything