Cocodapuf
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- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 day ago:
And that’s all totally true. Though there is a way around that trap… Don’t buy the dlc!
That’s my secret, I treat the base price as the only price, and if the game doesn’t stand on its own without dlc, it’s a bad game. And I will 100% say that out loud, I’ll give it a bad review, I’ll avoid buying it in the first place. If a game needs pricey dlc to be worth playing, it isn’t worth playing at all.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 day ago:
This may sound crazy, but hear me out… $70 might just be relatively cheap right now, when considering historic prices and inflation.
So about 20 years ago, I used to work at a game shop and at that time all new AAA console games were all $50 and I believe the switch to $60 happened just shortly after I left.
That said, a quick web search says that there’s been 65% inflation since 2005. $50 x 1.65 = $99
So at least when compared to other products, $50 to $70 is not a huge price jump.
Now all that said, this does not account for the added cost of micro transactions and paid dlc which didn’t really exist in 2005. So the actual lifetime cost of a top pricing tier game may actually be higher than $70. Honestly, I have more of a problem with that than with the higher base cost, hidden costs are deceptive.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
Guybrush has it right.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 week ago:
That’s a very good analogy. Yeah, this is stupid. What’s even dumber than the concept itself, is freaking out over it and selling stocks. This technology should not intimidate anyone, it’s impressive by some metrics, but it’s not in any way effective at creating a video game.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 3 weeks ago:
And it won’t work nearly as well as most people would think.
Well that’s wrong, because I would think this wouldn’t work at all.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 weeks ago:
You know, I recall playing this at a friend’s house decades ago and being totally, utterly, stuck on the first level for like… many hours.
So yeah, you may be right about that.
Was there like, a maze in that level? I think I remember a maze that ultimately led to a smaller area of open water, where you were just like “well fuckin’ now what?”
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna have my kid add No AI used" to his lemonade stand sign. He’ll probably double his profits.
(so probably like $4).
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 4 weeks ago:
Reality TV. Reality TV never changes…
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 4 weeks ago:
Yeah… this seems pretty on brand really.
Actually, out arms really well themed, a needed up reality show is exactly the kind of thing you might find in a vault. The thing to remember though, is that Vault-Tec is supposed to be satirical… Bethesda should not become Vault-Tec because that would be unethical… Right Bethesda… Right?
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 weeks ago:
Ok sure, but how much of the game will actually be generated by dolphins?
This will probably be just another example of HUMAN appropriation when plenty of dolphin developers are struggling to even find work in this industry. Maybe when dolphins are literally the subject matter of the game we could consider inclusivity in its development?
#dolphin_life #PhinsInGaming #NotMyEcco
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
When you’re watching a dramatic cutscene, but then someone needs your attention, so you hit esc… which skips the cutscenes instead of pausing?! What the actual fuck? The button that pauses the game in every other context now (surprise!) skips the cutscene? Why would you do that?!
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 1 month ago:
If you like his taste you should totally listen to his podcast, triple click.
It’s basically the only way I find out about new games. And it’s honestly super insightful.
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 1 month ago:
You had multiple AI subscriptions…
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 1 month ago:
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact could be written more simply as Hunter^2 : Nen x Impact
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 1 month ago:
We should boycott them
How? They aren’t selling to us anymore, remember. They’re ramping down their consumer products because the AI specific products are more lucrative. Hell, not buying their consumer products just proves that point. We’re behind fucked at this point.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 2 months ago:
If you like building things, I’ve been playing the hell out of “Mars First Logistics”.
Basically, you build custom mars rovers to move increasingly ridiculous shipments across the red planet. And the whole game has the visual style of a ImageLego instruction manual.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 months ago:
If you’re not talking about the headline, what “situation” are you talking about?
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 months ago:
Dice - mirrors edge, battlefield
Popcap - tons of mobile games
Respawn - Alex legends, Titanfall (ex call of duty developers)
Codemasters - lots of racing games
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 months ago:
93 was my jam.
But yeah, I’d play that.
- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 2 months ago:
Right, because you smelled bait… which wasn’t actually there.
- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 2 months ago:
You might be too easy to bait.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
I’m up-voting as hard as I can…
- Comment on Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam 2 months ago:
I bought it a while back on a friend’s recommendation. I should actually play it again solo, but at the time, I totally hated it; I just couldn’t connect with it. It was way too dark, hard to see what was even going on. And I couldn’t care less about the character I was playing or the gameplay mechanics. To me, it was just a fantasy reimagining of left4dead, but kind of sloppy, and with unintuitive level design.
I might be being unfair, it’s been a long time since I played it.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
Hey, if I’ve offended you, I do apologize for that, it truly wasn’t my goal. But I do strongly disagree (which is allowed).
And I think it’s pretty obvious that microtransactions could never, ever, possibly be more lucrative for Valve than selling games. It’s just a numbers thing. I mean, dlc can sometimes make more money than game sales for some titles, that’s a fact. But Valve has what, a dozen games that they could potentially sell dlc for? That’s a pretty hard limit. Whereas they also make money on every title sold in the store, and there are currently over 10,000 titles available from the steam store. That’s just like, a lot more than a dozen…
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
Um, no?
I guess this must be surprising to hear, but it’s just easier to sell content of actual value than bullshit. Yeah… some people will buy bullshit, and yeah, one can take advantage of those people, but having actual products is still a better business model.
But hey, if you’ve got these things all figured out, totally start your own game studio/global digital distribution system. Go make bank on microtransaction garbage.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
I mean, they get a sizable cut from the majority of games sold on PC. I think that’s their business model.
I hear you about loot boxes and skins and stuff. It’s just, that has to be a small part of their total profit.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 months ago:
Having played Minecraft and No Man’s Sky, I can say that no world is necessarily too big, because infinite is not too big.
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 3 months ago:
Hah! Well played.
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 3 months ago:
Wow, terraria looks really different in that screenshot, must have been a huge update…
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 3 months ago:
Yeah!
New favorite character, Scilla and the sirens
