Lfrith

@Lfrith@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I play those games for free with friends, but spend zero money on them preferring to spend that money on games that aren’t live service.

  That’s the difference I’m noticing in money spent not on why people play them.

  I see no added value in cosmetics and these games tend to give away cosmetics too and enough points to redeem battle pass for free, so you aren’t stuck on default outfit if you dont spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Pokemon games come out often.

  I think that’s the big difference. In a single console generation like the PS3 you had Naughty Dog put out Uncharted 1, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, and Last of Us 1.

  For the PS4 they put out Last of Us 2, Uncharted 4, and Uncharted Lost Legacy.

  And for PS5 nothing.

  I think that’s the difference. Games aren’t released as by individual studios as often anymore. The ones that stay part of the public eye frequently release games like Call of Duty or have a live service model like GTA V that has people keep playing like it is Fortnite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also interesting they spend their money on cosmetics over buying games. Meanwhile, I’ve bought no cosmetics for f2p games I play like The Finals, and instead spend that money on buying single player and coop games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I buy complete editions. My trick is I just visit isthereanydeals and see what the sales price is and buy games when it is cheap. I don’t consider retail price the real price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it is. That site and isthereanydeals is what people should visit before buying any game. Retail price is meaningless. Sales price is what people should be paying and the sites do an excellent job of showing price of games across different stores and sales trends.

  You don’t have to pay retail price if you do a little research before clicking buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Retail price doesn’t even matter anyways. It’s more a placeholder to make sales seem more impressive with X% off to make people feel they are getting a bargain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad companies seek exponential profit due to line having to go up, so pricing games higher wouldn’t lead to killing off microtransactions even if priced at $200.

  Companies don’t hit a point where they go this is enough money. They became companies because their mentality is this isn’t enough, and its only the a mount consumers are willing to pay that keeps price from inflating more like companies want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies get away with nothing but a small fine that is far less than the money they make from breaking privacy laws, ans you are still naive enough to trust things handed over to them is actually private when there is zero transparency on what is going on with their app to perform an independent audit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck convincing the masses to follow your line of thinking.

  There is no we. People like us aren’t the majority of the population. The only control we have is either opt in or opt out of what other people are doing.

  We are being dragged along by their decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironic to argue that trying to stop AI is a waste of energy given how much energy is wasted to use AI. Could have used better phrasing in your quest to get people to stop being negative towards AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We always got piracy to fall back on of they pull that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just keep hearing claims, but nothing actually definitive when it comes to sources. Do you have any actual evidence that price is not supposed to be lower, because I don’t see clear language stating that in the steam key documentation.

  And then when it comes to real world price tracking it doesn’t fit with the claims that devs aren’t allowed to sell steam keys cheaper.

  So please someone anyone provide acfual evidence, and not a comment with no source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their approach feels like how lot of companies are currently focusing on AI to market to investors and AI data centers directly, and ignoring what consumers want assuming their opinions are of little relevance. Like how Microsoft doesn’t care if people dont want copilot, and keeps talking up the corporate side with the assumption that they know people will use Microsoft no matter what.

  Which is much like Epic with them focusing more on giving money to publishers to lock up titles in the past like Final Fantasy 7 Remake from Square Enix over concerning themselves with the demographic of people buying the product.

  Its not a consumer focused business model, because the idea of consumers not buying it is impossible to comprehend. Their headlines never seem to be around how its better for the consumer and the benefits to using them over the competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That itself is false too with a quick look at isthereanydeals showing lot of steam games being sold cheaper outside of the steam store.

  Even the Steam key guidelines don’t explicitly state that steam keys can’t be sold cheaper.

  It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

  partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

  Key word being comparable which is why if you are a user of isthereanydeals or /r/gamedeals you’ve likely gotten most of your steam games from outside the official Steam store.

  I think some people just assume Steam sales must be the cheapest and don’t look beyond it.

  I am puzzled why people believe Steam keys can’t be sold outside Steam unless they never looked outside the Steam store.

  This is one example of a game that isnt too old.

  isthereanydeal.com/game/silent-hill-f/info/

  Historical low is $31.49 from Fanatical and Steam low is $41.99

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best example is Ubisoft and EA when they took their games off Steam and Epic wasn’t around but didn’t sell their games any cheaper despite 0% cut. Or Final Fantasy 7 Remake released as an Epic exclusive, but was priced at $70.

  It is weird. Every other product people know that companies want to charge as much as the market will take to maximize profits. Most noticeable examples being GPU prices over the years and now ram and storage.

  But, gamers for some reason think companies want to price things lower as though game companies are so noble they escape the greed of capitalism to seek out exponential profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic approach is the typical venture capitalist run company approach of running at loss then once they get market share start jacking up the prices.

  Can’t really trust a company until they are actually profitable with a functioning sustainable business model. We’ve seen it time and time again where even Facebook launched without ads and look at it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do not allow steam keys (free to generate steam licenses of games) to be sold cheaper anywhere else for less than the game is sold for on steam.

  That itself is false too with a quick lool at isthereanydeals showing lot of steam games being sold cheaper outside of the steam store.

  Even the Steam key guidelines don’t explicitly state that steam keys can’t be sold cheaper.

  It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

  partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

  Key word being comparable which si why if you are a user of isthereanydeals or /r/gamedeals you’ve likely gotten most of your steam games from outside the official Steam store.

  I think some people just assume Steam sales must be the cheapest and don’t look beyond it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on GOG. I’d rather have ms paint quality doodles done in less than a minute than AI gen art if you guys aren’t willing to pay graphic designers.

  I think lot of people are over their initial awe of generated content, and associate it with cheap and low quality these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HBO Developing Game of Thrones Sequel Starring Arya Stark Now Jon Snow Spinoff Is Scrapped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After Season 8 I don’t find myself nostalgic to see a continuation of the Game of Thrones characters.

  I did House of the Dragon a chance because it was so far removed timeline wise from ASOIAF. Season 1 was great, but Season 2 was disappointing so other then special effects, costumes, and music I don’t have much trust in sustained writing quality when it comes to HBO and the asoiaf IP. Which is the most important part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Releasing things without announcement is the route those who actually want to put out their work not for some portfolio showcase but playable for the community do.

  One example being Link’s Awakening DX HD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t farm clown awards for steam points here. I don’t think you get points from awards anymore from steam either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a Switch because of handheld gaming and then I stopped using my Switch because I got a Deck, and my library became playable on it without having to rebuy them. And I can get cheaper games, bundles, and giveaways than on Nintendo to play on my Deck or PC. And if ARM support for steam frame makes its way to Android then I’ll be able to play those same Steam games on my phone too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How relevant is inflation when cost of living has gotten so inflated that the idea of home ownership went the way of renting. So if anything in today’s money eating costs can hurt the wallet even more with how essentials are eating up more disposable income.

  People bring up inflation as though salaries have kept up like NBA salaries have kept up due to their strong union. But, for every day people salaries have stagnated in relation to cost of property, rent, utilities, and food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Are You Guys Handling This?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think money is better spent on Humble Choice since you can buy months that interest you and skip those that don’t, and the games stay in your library. I prefer to spend money to be able to keep games than pay to rent newer ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Are You Guys Handling This?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloud gaming is financially rewarding to end goal of turning hardware ownership into a rental service, so I’m staying away from that.

  I think the way forward is to just be fine with older hardware and getting less demanding newer titles. There’s those who only game on a Steam Deck, and been happy with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do enough people even like the added latency of cloud gaming? And is that going to be tolerated for popular games like COD, Fortnite, or Valorant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever since Sony and Nintendo switched to paid online that has no longer been the con it used to be for me. Back for the PS3 I didn’t jailbreak it since online was free, but for the switch and ps4 I didn’t hesitate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR is an absolute game changer for racing games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried flying games? I’d imagine that would feel really cool in VR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux has had a great year, but there are two reasons I can't tear myself away from Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who cares what work makes you use though when they provide the hardware and nothing on it is private anyways regardless of the OS that is being used on it?

  Work and private devices are different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah when AI first came out creative differences aside it seemed harmless. But, now people are noticing what the hell why is ram, gpu, ssd prices skyrocketing? And then seeing headlines of companies halting selling to consumers are companies buying up stock.

  Now people are now seeing what was free to use coming at a price. And its made worse by people seeing something that interests them seeing they might need to upgrade see themselves priced out then get the added salt in the wound of AI assisted being marketed.