MyDarkestTimeline01
@MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 3 days ago:
Cult of the Lamb.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 4 days ago:
I’ve said this elsewhere before but video games are a commodity and an impulse buy. Very few people view the next video game as an essential purchase for themselves. So sure people can have them and haha about how much the cost of developing a video game has gone up till they’re blue in the face but that is not going to change how the consumer will feel at the register buying the game. If the person at the register does not feel that the price is justified they’re not going to pay it they’re going to wait for a sale, borrow it from a friend if they can get access to physical media, or pirate it.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 5 days ago:
I’ve said this elsewhere before but video games are a commodity and an impulse buy. Very few people view the next video game as an essential purchase for themselves. So sure people can have them and haha about how much the cost of developing a video game has gone up till they’re blue in the face but that is not going to change how the consumer will feel at the register buying the game. If the person at the register does not feel that the price is justified they’re not going to pay it they’re going to wait for a sale, borrow it from a friend if they can get access to physical media, or pirate it.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 - Rockstar Games 6 days ago:
They did. And now they’ll do it again. So, look forward to more delays and a few releases coming early.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 1 week ago:
Don’t be pedantic you know what they meant.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 1 week ago:
On the one hand it sucks that a writer lost their job. And it’ll never not suck. On the other hand I love when Apex Legends looks bad. I lost Titanfall 3 for that?
- Comment on EA SPORTS™ WRC - Development Update: We are pausing development plans on future rally titles. 1 week ago:
On the one hand I don’t want devs to lose their jobs(or anyone really) but there’s a part of me that’s enjoying watching EA have to eat its hands to survive.
- Comment on ARC Raiders Is the Most ‘It’s Fine’ Game We’ve Played in a While - IGN 1 week ago:
It’s been my experience that 100% of extraction shooters would be made better or hold on to an audience longer if they had a PvP-less mode.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 27th 1 week ago:
Just finished the Front Mission 1 remake and started the Front Mission 2 remake. Found out why it wasn’t as popular. Playing a bit of Space Marine 2, CoD, Warframe when the mood takes me. I also played some more Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, which is like a spiritual sequel to Jet Set Radio Future.
- Comment on Anon needs medical attention 2 weeks ago:
Probably mostly because fat.
- Comment on Why Are Gamers UPSET With The Switch 2?! - The Act Man 3 weeks ago:
No one with sense is saying that they wouldn’t want to increase prices. The debate is whether or not the publishers who are pushing for higher cost of games realize that the higher it goes the less sales they’re actually going to make. Because again it doesn’t matter if the consumer knows why the cost has gone up or not. It’s a matter of whether or not the cost is going to seem justifiable for the customer. And that’s the rub everyone keeps saying that oh games should cost more game should cost more. The problem with that statement is after a certain price point games are no longer going to be a hobby purchase. They’re no longer going to be that impulse buy that they’ve survived on. They’re going to be that thing where you end up waiting for it to go below $25 or for it to be a runaway smash hit that everyone is telling you is a great game. And that isn’t even to say that good games are always going to cost more money look at Balatro, look at schedule 1, look at Repo. These are games that were made on shoestring budgets that players enjoyed. The problem with ballooning costs isn’t that games are getting bank breakingly expensive to make. It’s that risk averse publishers and investors are chasing trends that players have moved on from and they no longer are made up of people who actually play games.
- Comment on Why Are Gamers UPSET With The Switch 2?! - The Act Man 3 weeks ago:
I have to disagree with you on the pricing point. Just because people “understand” that pricing for games has been behind other entertainment doesn’t mean they are willing to stomach that increase. Most people buy video games as an impulse buy from their discretionary funds after bills have been paid. At the price point they are at currently it has stopped being impulse buys. This has led to so.many of the AAA failures of the past two console gens(current and last). When a brand new game costs $60(and gaining) and a weeks worth of groceries cost $100 you don’t think in terms of “will this game be fun” but instead "will this game be worth a weeks worth of groceries. And while this isn’t a problem for indies who are currently eating the lunch of the AAA pubs right in front of their faces, it will crater those legacy studios.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 3 weeks ago:
Well, I don’t have a desk job and I’m on console. So while I can sympathize, I’m not really able to offer advice.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 6th 4 weeks ago:
I’m bouncing around several games right now. New season of CoD, Space Marine 2, Balatro, Monster Train, and STALKER 2.
I also started Valkyria Chronicles 4 recently and have been enjoying that as well.