How do you respond to this without sounding poor?
How do you respond to this without sounding poor?
No.
it's ok to be poor
Why would I care about not sounding poor? Just give me my free shit or fuck off.
I'm fairly wealthy but if some dude tried selling me a bottle of water for $12 while standing next to a water fountain I'd get annoyed simply out of principle.
Nintendo is perhaps the worst company to see raise prices because they are ruthless when it comes to lowering prices. Most other companies will start at the standard price and then you'll see it lowered massively in the coming months or years on some sale or something.
Meanwhile Nintendo games that have been out for nearly a decade are still ~$60 because Nintendo is stubborn and refuses to lower their prices. Look at the current price of Super Mario Odyssey. Look at the price of Donkey Kong Returns which is a game from 15 years ago yet it's still priced at ~$60.
Now imagine that in an age where Gabe and Valve are making a bunch of sales where they go "hey you know this great game from several years ago? well fuck it we're selling it for like 2 bucks now".
I'm fairly wealthy but if some dude tried selling me a bottle of water for $12 while standing next to a water fountain I'd get annoyed simply out of principle.
Lol this. I don't understand why this board is full of fags who think that not wanting to waste money or actually wanting a good deal for a low price means you're poor. Being wasteful with money is a trait of children, poorfags, retards and women.
I don't want to pay
You don't understand anon, I'm rich. I can afford to be scammed at 10,000% mark up. No I will not wire you $1000 to prove my wealth.
Oh fuck Freddy is that you?
I don't pirate because I'm poor, I pirate because I want free shit
Based underage Senran pirater.
<heavy's voice> NO!
It's not enough to get rich, you need to be smart to stay rich.
Look at all the rappers who go viral over one random one-hit song. They think they're hot shit, and then spend all their money on something stupid like a Winnie the Pooh diamond encrusted necklace. They could have invested their money into an actual business that would have returned money on their investment but instead they bought some stupid useless jewelry because they have zero ability to think into the future and think the money will be coming in infinitely.
i pirated it anyway lol :)
Valve doesn't set the prices you fucking retard. All they do is create a consumer event, a sale. They do not dictate how publishers price them.
Sales are controlled by publishers, not Valve, game publishers opt-in to things like the Spring Sale and whatever and choose how deep the discount is. Heck, you can sell your game for $9999 on there if you wanted, Valve doesn't give a fuck, if your game doesn't sell, that just means you lost out on your $100 deposit.
If Valve could force people into selling their shit for cheap, more people would've migrated to EGS/GOG, because it'd suck ass if you're waiting for Christmas profits to roll in only for GabeN to hop in and make your game 90% off and now you have to cancel all Christmas bonuses and possibly look at selling your company off.
It also means that if Valve ever got into a big fight with another game company, they'd be able to do something like putting a 100% discount on that company's game indefinitely as a big FUCK YOU, and do it legally.
exsneed btfo
Good response. Poor people should be spending their time trying to not be poor.
think about the heckin deverinos who bill 40 hour work weeks while only working 5 hours from home and spending 45 hours a week screaming on Twitter/Reddit to pay devs while living off government grants
no.
How do you think I got rich? Simple, don't spend money on frivolous shit like games.
Doesn't change the fact that Valve created an ecosystem where publishers are pressured to put low prices on their games to compete with other games.
You really think if EA or Activision had the only game sales markets around that they would be selling their games for 3 dollars? Of course not. But Nintendo never bought into the Steam market so they can still put their games out for $60 - $70 - $80 bucks because they have a monopoly on Nintendo games. Nintendo almost never lowers it's prices meanwhile I can go on Steam, Xbox, or even PSN and the prices for older games tend to go down with time. Meanwhile Nintendo go "fuck you we know it's a 15 year old game but it's the same price $60 pay up".
What should I pirate, lads?
Publishers only lower prices if they feel they'll gain enough sales to make up for the lowered pricing, you can't force publishers to eat less-efficient income, they're allergic to it
If anything, we know Valve probably gets kinda itchy about low low sales these days anyway, since they used to do those coupon things that people abused to get a bunch of games for basically nothing, and because one of the ways the legal key resellers function is to mass-buy games when they go on deep sale, and when that happens it visibly damages future sales of said game because there's just a big backlog of keys out there that cost 80% less and end up getting bought out by a gazillion Brazilians.
I wanna say the coupon stacking probably got them in actual legal trouble at least once and that's why they suddenly stopped doing heavy sales with tons of coupons.
As for Nintendo, I think they're just too deep in that "stone-faced Japanese pride" mindset. Either that or they're just cunts. I'm leaning towards the latter considering they're the ones pioneering $90 games and will probably singlehandedly get the whole industry to rise to $100 games.
All the nickel-and-diming they're doing on top of the game cost doesn't help either, like a $50 camera with no mic, or selling their demo-tutorial game thing for $10 instead of just making it free.
For fuck's sake, the new Joy-cons still aren't hall effect sticks, like, nigga, you can get actual HE Chinesium controllers for $20 with HE sticks that last longer than Joy-con sticks do, what the fuck.
Switch games.
I think Valve's also just become very hands off with sales now besides setting up the theme and stuff. Flash sales and coupons needs cooperation with publishers and developers, and there's just too many people on the store now. Even if Valve would want to set up an automated system for these and eat the cost themselves, there would be many publishers that wouldn't agree with Steam devaluing their games, which makes sense because there are customers who watch prices and if Steam were to put a game on sale for 80% off suddenly when the publisher only wants to go as low as 30% then that's getting in the way of their business. You still get stingy publishers on Steam itself like Activision and several Japanese games that refuse to do low sales or ignore regional pricing too. Not that I'm saying Valve isn't very happy to not give coupons and flash sales anymore though. They'd still want to profit after all. Epic Games Store still does coupons and stuff but that's because they're still pretty hands on with the store with their constant free games and promotions.
It’s obviously not the case in your scenario but fun fact rappers buying big chains and shit used to actually be a prudent investment. Gangster rappers getting arrested can have all their money confiscated but legally speaking not their possessions. To protect their drug money they’d buy jewelry, get arrested, get released, then pawn the jewelry back for near original price.
If a game isn't worth your money it's not worth your time either
Oh boo hoo poor publishers have to compete with each other for the customer's money.
Pirating games makes you less poor. So I'd just say I will pirate the game, even if I actually won't.
Being poor 100 years ago meant not having food or electricity
Being poor today means not being able to afford every luxury possible
poor people should use the time theyd be spending playing videogames on trying to stop being poor
I'll pay for the eventual remaster
*Heavy's voice* NO!
updooted brave redditors :)
<Heavy's Voice> NO!
Will i own the game?
If anything devs are getting off pretty cheap by their games getting pirated if I think about how many titles owe me money for wasting my time.
Post your ps5 game collection.