It's wild how much gamers suck dick, and run to defend their multimillion-dollar bing bing wahoo industry. Not including memory cards was scummy and lame. Had I twitter at the time i'd be mad posting about it online then too. PS2 was literally the only console to 'need' multitap, and it was stupid and lame. I'll complain about it all day long every day.
They are not my friends; they aren't doing me favors or helping me out by selling me a product. They are businessmen, who just want to overcharge as much as they can, and it's idiots like you enabling them to do so. I want to be charged a fair price, not fucked in the ass overcharged thank you, games are in many ways literally cheaper than ever to develop for, this isn't the 90s anymore. For indie developers you can literally use engines for free, for AAA you can now just use those same engines instead of spending huge resources of time, and money developing them in house, and then having to spend more time and money training your employees to use your proprietary engines. You know have industry standards, and easy to use engines and interfaces. You have free assets, you can outsource your assets, or even your programmers. Industry standardization has immensely helped cut game development costs. And even just the prices of PCs that are used to develop have dropped immensely compared to the insane stuff they had to use in the 90s. The userbase has expanded far more than in the 90s too, more buyers literally mean you don't have to sell it at such aggressive prices to turn profit, and then with lower prices you can potentially get far more sales too. And then there are whole new revenue streams that didn't exist in the 90s, microtransactions, macrotransactions, dlcs, limited editions, deluxe editions, season passes, battle passes, time subscriptions. Now you can literally give a game away for free and still make money off of it.
So yeah, I'll complain all day, that I want to be charged fair prices on games. I get it, they have to make money too, but I don't want to be railed in the ass overpaying either, because kids like you run to defend the corporation, and tell them how 'it's okay, please charge me $200 more, because really when you divide the money I paid, by the time I played it really it's a good deal" and "well umm actually it was expensive in the 90s so i should pay more now too" Like are you retarded? Genuinely? Or you an investor pretending to be a gamer to gaslight people or something? Why do you want to pay more? Where do you even draw the line, or are you such a blind sheep there is no line, and you will hand over your money until you literally can't afford it anymore?
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