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I never rejected anything, maybe try reading again and this time not just seeing what you want. And what was successful before doesn’t mean it will be successful today. People just don’t understand context or nuance. That’s you dog.

Welcome to .ml, you’ll get the jokes now.

Yeah, it wasn’t one guy on Reddit lol. Why haven’t you started the revolution?

And y’all wonder why people rag on .ml.

That doesn’t even make sense…

Jesus what a mess of a sentence. You really tried to hamfist that one in there.

How does one go about building their own government/economic system?

Hell ya, I would, too, 100%. Imagine actually owning a game with all of the content on a disk you can share and resell.

I agree with you, though; there is no incentive for companies to do this; they would make less money and have less control over the content. They can’t stand that.

They also don’t have to print games to discs and ship them around the world anymore.

They also don’t have to develop their own engines. Some dude with little to no experience can make a functional game in a few days now. Not to mention functions in UE5 like LOD control do a lot of the work that devs had to handle.

They also have Moore’s Law on their side: The average laptop can now develop what required a $10,000 workstation in 2000.

They also now pack games with microtransactions to make even more money.

They also now sell DLC for games to make more money.

They also now re-release games, which takes a fraction of the effort and still charge a disproportionate price.

Games, objectively, should be cheaper. This is just the hunger for more and more.

And they have infinitely less funding and marketing. They don’t have the overhead but they don’t have the benefits of that overhead either and will succeed.

This is really about late stage capitalism and chasing infinite growth. Every year profits must go up X percentage. There is never enough. So they have to find ways to make it to up, cutting wages and increasing prices is the obvious way.

Yes, and I think this is how it should be looked at. It is a hyper focused and tailored search engine. It can provide info, but the “doing” not as well.

I like to think I’m smarter than at least most gorillas, and I would lose a fight to a bear in the woods. The bear is a car with claws and thick hide trying to kill you. It’s faster and stronger than you. It also flights and kills to survive and eat often, gorillas do not.

I man that’s a lot of assumptions. In that case, throw some cubs in there and the bear would fight to the death.

Cool and how many games are there on the system? With no backwards compatibility for these expensive games? How many shooters are popular on switch? Or is it that they lock down their IP and it’s marketed strongly towards children and cashing in on nostalgia.

But sure, nuance doesn’t matter. Nintendo is clearly the best system with the best games. I wonder how gaming PCs are even selling anymore, no one even should be playing on anything else it’s so obviously good. Jesus…

You can try to rationalize it all you want, bottom line is people don’t have money to buy $80 games these days. Those people aren’t going to the movies either.

I bought a rug that I’ve gotten years of value out of, should it have been thousands of dollars then? The idea that time used is how you measure value is flawed.

Edit: look what popped up on my feed, so looks like it’s not just me

https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/former-blizzard-boss-says-hard-090054442.html

The force streamers and people who cover Nintendo to pay them, because word of mouth isn’t enough. They need money.

They have and continue to directly or aid in the effort to patten basic game mechanics.

They refuse to participate in cross play functionality often.

They kill fan projects because fuck you for liking our games and bringing more attention to them I guess.

They lock games away forever, not rereleasing and killing mods aggressively. Actively killing gaming history.

A company doesn’t have to be my friend. But when they are actively attacking people who express love for their product you eventually stop loving the product.

Don’t forget, you see way less Nintendo gaming videos and streamers. Because they are greedy and want a cut of what is made. They’re not happy with the good word of mouth, they NEED to get paid.

Also look at this shit with PalWorld. Working to retroactively patten very basic game mechanics because a franchise that refused to evolve got beat by the new kids.