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SoftestSapphic, do gaming w Don't hate the player
@SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world avatar

will have 3 hours of content like the first one.

Elevator7009, (edited ) do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #19

Thanks again for your positive, takes-effort contributions to Lemmy! Especially with the nerve damage, I’d probably have just flat-out not posted at all if it were me. I do not know much about nerve damage but I hope things turn out well for you.

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks! It’s more…probably the mental toll than anything, coming to terms with this nonsense happening to me!

It’s just…alternating - most of the time it is quite numb to touch, like my nerve endings there register nothing at all. Then (typically night time) it feels like burning, a little like a hot knife? So I felt pretty sad, tbh. Still something to come to terms with. Hopefully with some care and effort it can be maybe mitigated, I doubt totally reversed…but again I won’t know for around 6 months! Shitty!

Elevator7009,

All I can say is that for the bad things in my life, I haven’t come to terms with them at all. I still consider them shitty and bad, even if I have found silver linings. I am not one of those “I am so glad X disaster happened to me because of Y positive outcome it led to” types, I’d rather not have had X happen at all, though of course I say that as someone who has not had such a big silver lining come of my negatives in life. The mental pain fades with time. (Can’t speak to physical, thankfully, let us hope it stays that way, but that also means my advice might not be quite as applicable to you.) I do not and will not feel obligated to come to terms with these things or accept them (I accept them in the sense that they are events that happened in reality and I acknowledge reality as what it is, but not in the sense of being okay with it), it just happens to be that time means they take up less headspace and I do not dwell on them—a pretty similar end result to what I think most people who “come to terms” get. All this is to say: mourn, grieve, don’t feel obligated to act happy for others, and the “come to terms, get over it/see something positive” path will not always work for everyone and you can move on with life without taking that path.

net00, (edited ) do gaming w Don't hate the player

The regional pricing of this game is also garbage. I see on steamdb that a few third world countries (where I live) got prices similar or higher than the US for this game.

I’m not buying that shit until it’s more than 60% off. Like for instance the alters has sane regional pricing. Most poor countries get a hefty discount from the US price…

psx_crab,

Lmao china is only 55usd while europe is a whopping 92usd. I hope it flop.

teft, do gaming w Don't hate the player
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

Once again I have to remind people that inflation exists. Game prices go up just like everything else and the last few years have seen insane inflation rates and game prices haven’t really climbed since the 90s. $60 in 2019 would be worth $75 today. $60 in 1996 would be worth $122.

FerretyFever0,

Inflation rises, but wages do not. We'll pay more when we have the money, and the workers are paid fairly.

glimse,

I agree with you but it’s so hard to talk about. Most major publishers are leeches who artificially drive up price and force developers to release unfinished games…yet at the same time, the cost of development has gone up. Indie games are proof that you don’t NEED fancy graphics with mocapped actors to make a good game but it’s irrelevant when there’s bigger demand for “cinematic experience” and that stuff ain’t cheap.

But because I used to pay $30 for a game in the 90s, I think games should be $30 forever.

grysbok,
@grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

When I was in elementary school my dad introduced me to the concept of inflation using the “candy bar index”. Candy bars were 50¢ when I was a kid. They were, like, 25¢ when he was a kid. Nowadays they’re $1.25.

I still want/expect them to be 50¢.

Prunebutt,

Why do publishers increase the price of games, though? It’s not like the price of the rare components to make games increased.

NotForYourStereo,

Once again I have to remind particular morons that inflation is a convenient excuse for execs to never take a pay cut, only ever exorbitant raises and bonuses.

dangling_cat,

And 4k TV gets cheaper. What’s your point?

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

i love how inflation is just always magically a reason for companies to charge arbitrarily large sums for their products, how the hell do you people think people are supposed to afford things?

seriously, if everything just constantly increases in cost, how precisely do you envision the economy functioning?

explodicle,
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works avatar

Long story short:

  • Keynes wrote a fairy tale about inflation raising wages and shortening the work week
  • Richard Nixon started inflation as we know it
  • Economists worldwide fell into line
  • Shockingly, wages didn’t go up, the work week didn’t shorten, and we now have record-breaking inequality (due to the Cantillon effect).

To this day, people who paid to “learn” the fairy tale insist that inflation is good.

Zahille7, do gaming w Don't hate the player

I just looked it up, and I’m surprised to say that Spider-Man 2 (just released on PC back in February I believe) is still only $60. I mean, sure it’s over a year old from it’s original PS5 release, but the fact they’re not asking $80 for it is kinda nice.

And Oblivion Remastered is “only” $50.

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

$50 today is equivalent to about $28.50 19 years ago. So it’s effectively half price lmao

Zahille7,

I meant it’s “‘only’ $50” because it’s an entire overhaul of the original game, rebuilt from the ground up. Similar to how Skyblivion is gonna be.

Like, that’s a damn good price for one of the best RPGs ever made, with the amount of work that went into it this time around too. I’m not complaining about paying that for such a great game.

Prunebutt, (edited )

Clair Obscur (a gorgeous, new game) is 50 bucks. I rest my case.

Zahille7,

I mean sure, plenty of new games can still look great and be relatively affordable. Nowhere in my comments did I say otherwise, or even imply it.

I really feel like people are jumping on these comments because I dared to say a couple recent games aren’t selling at $80.

jjjalljs, (edited )

Oblivion? One of the best RPGs ever made? This is a joke, right? It’s not even the best Bethesda game.

edit: fixing autocorrect mistakes

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

I had to let the point slide, never argue matters of taste with people who eat shit

ViatorOmnium,

Except wages didn't increase that much, and price changes drive inflation, not the other way around.

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Feels like we’re dancing around the topic of purchasing power collapse so it might as well be said - this is a bread and circuses issue at heart.

Psythik,

The PS5 version was actually ported to PC a full year before the official PC release by a bunch of Brazilians. In many ways with was even better than the official release. Only downside is that it didn’t have ray tracing. But if you don’t care about that then it was worth playing.

Of course this has nothing to do with your point, just saying.

Stillwater, do gaming w Don't hate the player

You criticize society, yet you participate in it!

explodicle,
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works avatar

We’re basically forced to buy this game.

aeronmelon,

Curious.

unhrpetby,
klobuerschtler, do games w What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality

Elex 1 and Elex 2

TheAlbatross, do gaming w Don't hate the player

Ain’t payin no $80 for no game

Venator,

Just wait 5 years until it goes on sale for $20

steamdb.info/app/578650/

missphant,
@missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Or $0

gg.deals/game/the-outer-worlds/-historywww.pcgamesn.com/…/free-before-avowed

Venator,

That’s a bit more of a rare occurrence: I wouldn’t count on it happening for OW2 as well.

BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

It was even free at some point

Psythik,

To be fair, I wouldn’t pay $1 for no game. If I’m paying money—no matter the amount—I expect to actually get a game.

p_kanarinac, do games w The magic of remembering—and talking about—video games
@p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.com avatar

Do you find it difficult to enjoy everything alone or just games? I don’t really get the sharing thing.

Honytawk, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

I don’t let other people influence my tastes.

I make my own opinions

NONE_dc,
@NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t mean that other people have changed your opinion, but quite the opposite: a game that you think is good and you didn’t know that other people hated it.

duchess,

You might be the first human to actually do that.

Darkenfolk,

It’s more likely that you are just not aware of the influence others have on you. Which is fine, a lot of that stuff is subconscious.

Krudler,

So you are both a liar and semi-literate.

reksas, do games w What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality

Anything ubisoft makes. Or generally most things big companies make to cater biggest possible amount of people.

bob_lemon,

I disagree. Some of them are actually bad.

reksas,

yes, but medium is the absolute best they can manage

BuboScandiacus, (edited ) do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood and cyberpunk 2077 (PC) not too long after release

chameleon, do games w What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality
@chameleon@fedia.io avatar

Dual nominations for Paper Mario: Sticker Star & Paper Mario: Color Splash. The only thing I really remember about them is that I played them and they left me without any feelings about them whatsoever.

drmoose, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

Most games that dont scale into 100+ hours. I never reach that point anyway.

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