im not saying i like it, nor am in favor of it. just pointing out that gaming is a business beholden to all the ugliness of late stage capitalism.

inflation. its less the skins are expensive and more that games have not risen in prices relative to everything else in the world so this is how companies keep up.

So where the fuck are devs compensations then? The lay offs?

Also your math is bullshit. A 80 dollar game that would cost 181 today also sold to a tiny fraction of the audience games have today.

My company refuses to let me hire anyone in at anything other than the base pay for position under me without getting…

This is such a corporate apologist argument. “VIDEOGAMES WERE 60-70 IN THE 90S, THEY’RE UNDERPRICED NOW!!!” a HUGE part of that 60-70 in the 90s was for the actual physical cartridge that that game came on, manufacturing those things was a huge cost that went down quite a bit with the advent of disc-based games, and…

As a dev, let me just say big L-O-L at “inflation” being the reason. It’s corporate greed, period. You think those profits go back to the devs?

“So rising prices of gaming primarily goes to increased development costs.”

Just false. Maybe take a look at how many layoffs there have been this year.

It has nothing to do with inflation. Not all game are selling skins at that price, not all games have realised there fanbase has whales that are willing to buy them for that price. Also they still sell cheaper skins, it’s greed simple as, greed knowing that people will buy them that’s why they aim for nostalgia or big…

This. The fact that some parenting failures might have been involved does not change the fact that these are extremely predatory practices using specifically engineered means to maximize financial gains at the expense of well-being of people, some of which are particularly prone to such self-destructive behaviors. I…

I really hope it’s not Shepard in any form.

I’d be okay in Andromeda as long as it’s within a better game. 

No anti-competitive practices...

Hopefully Epic sticks around. I’ve only used the store a few times but I use it like an actual STORE—go in, buy your shit, get out—not a weird, “hanging out at Walmart” that kids use with the Steam Store.

I hope they stick around. I worry about the dark days after Gabe leaves Valve. His leadership has been super consumer 1st. A money hungry CEO could ruin Steam in no time.

And in the case of games like this? Just go watch porn guys. It's so much easier. 

Taliban an “Islamic political and military organization”.

It means Hamas set up shop in schools, hospitals, and churches for protection. It means they fire rockets from within places with civilians.

So how do you know it happened?

So when Israel has settlers surrounding all of their military outposts near the world’s largest open air prison, that’s not using human shields?

Oh, so Israel can kill whoever it wants to so long as “it’s not their mission”. Who cares if Israel “accidentally” kills thousands? Because Israeli officials claim that Hamas “deliberately” targets civilians. And we should just believe them.

Please explain to me how Hamas are terrorists for killing civilians but the IDF aren’t. Because the IDF has already killed literally thousands of civilians in their bombing of Gaza. Why aren’t they terrorists, too?

People in these comments are so worried if Hamas earned the Terrorist Organization name yet, while nobody dares call the Terrorist State of Israel by its full name. If we’re going by the count of bombings, hostage taking, torture, mass shootings, global propaganda production, or any other metric, the terrorist state…