Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: The Video Game Industry of 2015. *makes an expansive, all encompassing gesture in a generally upward direction toward the above post*
As the current top-most comment (sorted by "Best") on the PC Gamer article says, "If you buy one of those, you deserve a slap in the face." Yeah, I agree. Also, if you buy one of those, you deserve to have your money literally (also using the word appropriately) flushed down a toilet, because that is essentially what you're figuratively doing anyway. Oh yeah, there's also going to be a season pass with "3 major updates" selling for 30 bucks. Price of the game is 60. So to get the full game experience you're putting down 90 bucks minimum. (assuming you're buying new mind you.) And that 90 bucks won't be buying you access to the 300+ perks. You'll have to forfeit a healthy lifestyle or open your wallet to get those. Meh, for me to get the full game experience, I'll only be putting down at most $5-$10 or so in a few years, after the game inevitably releases a "complete" edition (or whatever frou frou term for it that they end up actually using, like "Game of the Year" or whatever) where all of that shit is included (as it should have been from the beginning, naturally), and then that "complete" edition gets an inevitable general price cut down to $30 or less all inclusive, and then that inevitable general price cut on the "complete" edition gets inevitably slashed again by an at least 75% off sale on Steam.[1] If it never does reach such a point, of course, then I simply won't be buying it, period. This, obviously, is assuming that I ever deign to buy the shit in the first place, which isn't at all a given. If anything, it's more of an anti-given that I'll ever be getting it, even if it does reach that point.
But then, I guess that technically wouldn't count as buying "new," would it. Hell, these days, to paraphrase that guy from above about people deserving a slap in the face, I'd say that if you buy any game anymore within 6 months to a year or however long from launch, while it still sits at such ridiculously over-inflated prices for chopped up pieces, then you also deserve a slap in the face. No, you're not "supporting the industry" when you do this shit. You're not being some sort of goddamn hero coming to the rescue when you pay full release date MSRP for a video game, I don't give a fuck how you try to justify it to yourself. What you're actually supporting is egregious greed when you fall for that shit. And, hell, if anything, I hold ever so slightly more respect for those who just say fuck it and straight up admit that they don't give a shit and just want to play the game now now now, compared to the holier-than-thou assholes who claim to be "supporting the industry" or whatever. Yeah, that last bit there was me going off on a bit of a tangent, but anyway... yeah... don't buy overpriced video games at launch, boys and girls.
[Jesus Hawkman Christ, LiveJournal. Okay, I'll split it into two comments, due to your asinine arbitrary limit of 4300 characters. God damn.]
As the current top-most comment (sorted by "Best") on the PC Gamer article says, "If you buy one of those, you deserve a slap in the face." Yeah, I agree. Also, if you buy one of those, you deserve to have your money literally (also using the word appropriately) flushed down a toilet, because that is essentially what you're figuratively doing anyway.
Oh yeah, there's also going to be a season pass with "3 major updates" selling for 30 bucks. Price of the game is 60. So to get the full game experience you're putting down 90 bucks minimum. (assuming you're buying new mind you.) And that 90 bucks won't be buying you access to the 300+ perks. You'll have to forfeit a healthy lifestyle or open your wallet to get those.
Meh, for me to get the full game experience, I'll only be putting down at most $5-$10 or so in a few years, after the game inevitably releases a "complete" edition (or whatever frou frou term for it that they end up actually using, like "Game of the Year" or whatever) where all of that shit is included (as it should have been from the beginning, naturally), and then that "complete" edition gets an inevitable general price cut down to $30 or less all inclusive, and then that inevitable general price cut on the "complete" edition gets inevitably slashed again by an at least 75% off sale on Steam.[1] If it never does reach such a point, of course, then I simply won't be buying it, period. This, obviously, is assuming that I ever deign to buy the shit in the first place, which isn't at all a given. If anything, it's more of an anti-given that I'll ever be getting it, even if it does reach that point.
But then, I guess that technically wouldn't count as buying "new," would it. Hell, these days, to paraphrase that guy from above about people deserving a slap in the face, I'd say that if you buy any game anymore within 6 months to a year or however long from launch, while it still sits at such ridiculously over-inflated prices for chopped up pieces, then you also deserve a slap in the face. No, you're not "supporting the industry" when you do this shit. You're not being some sort of goddamn hero coming to the rescue when you pay full release date MSRP for a video game, I don't give a fuck how you try to justify it to yourself. What you're actually supporting is egregious greed when you fall for that shit. And, hell, if anything, I hold ever so slightly more respect for those who just say fuck it and straight up admit that they don't give a shit and just want to play the game now now now, compared to the holier-than-thou assholes who claim to be "supporting the industry" or whatever. Yeah, that last bit there was me going off on a bit of a tangent, but anyway... yeah... don't buy overpriced video games at launch, boys and girls.
[Jesus Hawkman Christ, LiveJournal. Okay, I'll split it into two comments, due to your asinine arbitrary limit of 4300 characters. God damn.]
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