Why is everything an intentional cash grab these days?

Everything is a fuckin scam. Bethesda games, Nintendo consoles, social media sites..

The switch2 is class, a clear improvement. Nintendo's issue is believing they have a monopoly on gaming or something and having shit prices for their games

>>81746059 (OP)
>Bethesda games
this one makes me so fuckin mad. my favorite franchises were fallout and elder scrolls, its fuckin over

because people are retarded faggots giving them money

600 euro Mario Kart machine

>>81746143
>this one makes me so fuckin mad. my favorite franchises were fallout and elder scrolls, its fuckin over

I have a zoomer nephew and he doesnt remember how Bethesda used to be synonymous with quality
He laughs at Bethesda and laughed at me when I said Elder Scrolls and Fallout used to be good

>>81746432
bethesda arguably hasnt released a good game since 2011

>>81746589
I was going to say fallout 4 is good, but i forgot i play it with a zillion mods that make it enjoyable rather than the vanilla game itself

>>81746606
FO4 was a step down from FO3 + New Vegas, sadly.

I will remind them about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

>>81746662
In my post-NV experience, 3 is only enjoyable in TTW

>>81746059 (OP)
$112.31
That's how much Ocarina of Time sold for when it first came out, when adjusted for inflation. And since inflation numbers are manipulated, it's really more like a $140.
Continuing on, Super Mario 64 after the inflation numbers, $120. Might as well call that $150 because of the aforementioned government manipulation of numbers to make themselves seem more competent. Mario Kart sold for $120 adjusted for inflation, and GoldenEye was a $70 game which is $150 adjusted for inflation! You all have your heads up your ass and you're emotional pieces of fucking shit. You guys should be paying somewhere around 150 to $200 for your piece of shit games that you like to jerk off to so much. I swear anybody that plays warcraft, skyrim, and any of those other loser geek nerd bullshit games, is a piece of fucking shit and doesn't deserve to live here. You deserve to live in India

>>81746698
Wow I didnt know this was a real thing, I've been thinking about this for a long time now.
Discord is next. I can already SMELL how Discord will go down the shitter in the next 2 years.

>>81746790
This argument was adressed in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2upqEuFxZQ
The prices arent comparable. Digital entertainment has become more commonplace and as such less valuable than in the past. We got billions of games and you can use AI to poop out a game in minutes. They should be getting cheaper, not more expensive.
Besides, the common man has less money than ever before. Housing prices have increased so much that people can barely buy food. They simply wont pay 150 bucks for a game.

>>81746790
Every braindead tendie consoomer will shout
>"m-muh inflation"
The value of a game is mostly speculative, especially now since they are making the deliberate shift to digital games.
Before they:
>cost more to produce physical cartridges
>Import/ shipping costs
>required higher profit margins per games since games weren't as mainstream.
>new technology(are apple vision pros worth $3500)
I have to emphasize this last one because before factory farming, meat was for the wealthy, and by this linear inflation logic it would probably be over $100 a pound for cut of beef.
You can't just say "if number go up, tHeN wHy nOt gAmE?!"
Games can be transferred in seconds through a zip file, it's cost to replicate and distribute is virtually zero making it much less scarce, and the quality is arguably not worth what they're charging for which is the bare minimum and convenience.

>>81746059 (OP)
It all started durring COVID and I have theories why.
>Employers pocketed employees hazzard pay money
>Employers threatened employees jobs over an ineffective treatment mandate
>Employers did not apologize when coarse was reversed
>Employers implimented DEI over non replicatable studies for cheap loan money
>Employers hires retards to fill positions they had no business filling
>Employers fired top performers over vax, or DEI opposition, or other retarded shit.
>Then they attempted mass firing and using AI to do work only to have AI not being as good as they promised.
>Then they over estimated how much demand was out there for their products and how much of a guaranteed base was gonna purchase
>Then on top of all this they are pushing absurd TOS forced arbitration dog shit that shoves blanket liability and other crazy shit in there and customers noped the fuck out.
>Don't get me started on companies spending problem on everything except what customers want. Great example is AMC took their influx of capital and created stupid shit like subscription services for concessions and $80 popcorn coozies.
And instead of being humbled, admitting they made lots of mistakes, offering fair wages and benefits, and going back to doing things the right way.... they blamed customers and pretend they didn't do any of that and have no reason to apologize and customers should apologize to them.

So let them die.
Don't let them get bailouts.
And if it gets too horrible expect a rise in Luigi Mangioni incidents.