I quite simply cannot afford $80 for a video game.

>>713915831 (OP)
Have you considered seeking employment to remedy your present financial strife? If not, perhaps it is time for you to find a different hobby. Gaming is now a rich man's hobby.

as if you need to play mario kart staight line world

I remember it used to be "I'm not paying 70 dollars for a video game" just a few years ago and now the standard is becoming $80 with there being talk of GTA VI being beyond that. What the hell happened?

If only there would be an alternative... Hmmm... If only...

>>713915831 (OP)
Become a polyworker

>>713915831 (OP)
get a job dumb frogcuck

>>713916331
Eventually it'll be "I'm not paying 100 dollars for a video game"
Gaymers are weak-willed and submissive creatures.

>>713915831 (OP)
Blame Drumpf's tariffs

>>713915831 (OP)
Where do you live? Cause if its anywhere in the first world thats tough titties anon

>>713915831 (OP)
At least you're honest about it instead of pretending like inflation isn't real, the cost of modern game development hasn't skyrocketed, and the price of games has been stagnant for around 30 years now.

>>713916369
Why would I risk damning my eternal soul by committing petty theft? I plan on going to heaven.

>>713915831 (OP)
So be it.

>>713916581
It ain't thieving if the thing that you're taking is infinite.

>>713916492
gulp it up faggot

>>713916067
I do wonder how long til people crack the switch 2 or find some way to trigger a fake verification for the games

Why don't you guys just earn more money? I could comfortably afford to buy 20 $80 games per month and still would have enough money left over to pay all my other expenses.

>>713915831 (OP)
>cannot afford $80 for a video game
Video games are a luxury. If $80 is a lot for you then it is guaranteed you have more fundamental financial priorities to focus on.

tl;dr stop being poor

>>713915831 (OP)
Yet you can afford a 10$ breakfast, 15$ lunch, and 22$ dinner almost every work day?

>>713915831 (OP)
I want 300 dollar games.
I'm serious. I will happily pay 300 dollars for a game that's worth it.
Let me explain.
Average Joe doesn't give a shit about how shitty a game is because Average Joe doesn't know the difference between a good game and a shit one, he has ideas, but for the most part, he doesn't care. I know I'm right, because idiots buy Madden and Call of Duty every year, even though they're pretty much the same game with maybe shinier graphics.
The reason why they don't care, is because they don't pay 300 dollars for them. 80 dollars really isn't that much money, especially for something that you'll get hours worth of entertainment out of, but 300 dollars? That shit better be good.
I know what you're thinking "But anon, they'll just make the same game, nothing will change!" WRONG! 300 dollars is a lot of money for a game, and when Average Joe sees that price tag, he's going to say "Shit that's a lot of money! This BETTER be worth it!" and if it's not, they're not going to buy it again the next year.
If that's the case, one of two things will happen. 1) Better games will be made to warrant that price tag, or 2) the industry collapses, and the indie market fills the power vacuum.
I know, a lot of indie games suck, but there's some really good ones out there, more importantly they have new ideas, ideas that need to flourish.
So yeah, 300 dollar games, let's do it.

>>713916986
i need money to survive, not games to survive
and i like my free time, don't need more jobs

>>713915967
What job pays $80 an hour?

>>713915831 (OP)
Wait for a sale.

>>713915831 (OP)
I can, but I won't pay.

>>713916986
>just earn more money bro its easy

>>713915831 (OP)
When I bought Cyberpunk full-price I promised myself not to spend more than 30 bucks on any game, ever. It's worked out so far. "Old" games are better

>>713915831 (OP)
I can, but there's no instance where I would ever pay it.

>>713917102
>essential nutrients are comparable to a fucking video game

>>713915831 (OP)
I can afford $160 per video game but that's an insane waste of money that is better used to improve my life so to hell with greedy console devs and their locked down garbage when Steam and literal steam sale exists right now.

>>713917426
this is a nintendo game so by that point I'll be dead

>>713916331
>What the hell happened?
Nintendo happened. They charged $70 for TotK and everyone bought it. Then they charged $80 for MKW and everyone bought it. Now every company thinks they have Nintendo brand loyalty and can charge Nintendo prices. I'm really surprised Sony didn't try charging $80 for Death Stranding 2.

>>713915831 (OP)
I've never paid more than 20 euros for a video game

>not make over $100 an hour
>2025
NGMI

>>713916581
Do people really believe that copying 1s and 0s constitutes theft? If so, then why aren't these same people decrying interest rates on loans?

How many games do you play in a year? if its just 20 and you pay full price that already $1600 well over a thousand almost closer to 2000 at that point.

>>713917563
How could it be hard? I'm a huge retard and essentially a loser in every respect and still managed to make decent money.

>>713917758
nintendo wasn't the first company to charge $70 for a game retard

>>713917167
This sounds like something that would not happen in the free market. It will happen in 15yEARS with inflation though and it will be your average tranny slop game

>>713917820
how does that make any sense at all?

I can't afford fucking groceries. I spend literally $15 on games every month, if that. Last game I bought at full price was AC6 for $60, and I played the shit out of it. How the fuck would any reasonable person expect someone in similar circumstances to shell out 80 bucks for fucking 10 hours of fun? It just confirms the fact that publishers are all insane and retarded.

And before "muh economy" or "muh inflation" is used as a justification, literally compare either of those to real wages and you would understand, if you weren't so insane or retarded, that is.

>>713915831 (OP)
I can, but I simply refuse to pay more than $59.99 for a game release. Since the jews raised the prices to $70. I stopped buying games altogether. The vast majority of the pieces of shit coming out are worth 39.99 max, some not even that. Very, very few games were worth $59.99. No game is worth more than $59.99. And fuck Nintendo for applying the jewery to their games too. I was going to buy the Switch 2 and DK Bananza, but no longer, since the games will be $70 and even $80. Emulation it is, another gen. Fuck this industry, can't wait for it to crash.

>>713917903
>I'm a huge retard and essentially a loser in every respect
Glad we got that established.

there isn't a single videogame on God's green earth worth $80

>>713917167
Look stuff like kickstarter and dlc already exist and even before that we had arcades where better games just got more plays if you had engaging enough gameplay you could make infinite money because no one would get tired of the game. People still just bought / played for crap games most of the time. Really good hardcore niche games still generated less revenue from all these models.

>>713916369
That's when you realize that the slop coming out these days isn't even worth pirating so, imagine paying for it lmao

>>713918194
Project M EX Remix

>>713918014
>>713917820

usury is an actual sin anon
making a replica of something without stealing the actual contents is not a sin and is not in the bible. jesus pirated food and wine

>>713916331
Faggots with zero self control happened. For me it still is and always will be "I'm not paying 70 dollars". Shit, I hope Sony raises them to $100 on the PS6 just to test the cucks' limits.

>>713918080
E33 proved you can do it with a small team. And french men don't make as much if I'm correct. So yea its time all studios hunkered down and trimmed the fat.

>>713918349
>these people are concerned about piracy wait till they learn politicians are just raping people
is this your point?

>>713918194
Super smash bris melee would have been worth 80, but its an exception

>>713915831 (OP)
for less then the price of 1 vidya I can own 1 share of SPLG which will be worth 3x its current price when I sell it at retirement

i simply cannot give up the chance at investing in the future

>>713918367
$60 is still insane. Maybe not like "unaffordable" to most people (though I think it is) but think about what the hell else you could even do with that money. And you're gonna buy a fucking video game? Like a single one? I'd say $40 is the limit that any reasonable person would pay.

>>713918094
Okay but we've established that it's so easy a retard can earn decent money, so why is no one else seemingly able to?

>>713918609
I look like that after I do that and feel like that

>>713915831 (OP)
Do you have no savings?

juan ob dese dais u vill sei dat 80 dolores por un video jugeo is beri beri bad hokay??

>>713918486
Religiousfags focus on small, inconsequential things like digital piracy

>>713918670
maybe because you're a dumb retarded faggot who has no knowledge of the world and can't make logical connections either

>>713917794
Cool must be nice living in the czech republic the rest of the world has problems

>>713917942
Pushback diminished once Shittendo made it okay to charge $70.

>>713918786
No one outside of 4chan cares about piracy. Maybe lawyers and corporations but not regular people. Bet your pastor hasn't even heard of it.

>>713918621
Fair, but I didn't mind paying 59.99 for PlayStation games when that piece of shit still had exclusives.
For third party games though, I agree with you. $40 max, and the vast majority isn't even worth that. Not to mention all the battle pass and mtx jewery they have going on.

>>713918921
because tears of the kingdom actually was worth $70

>>713917638
a plate of beans is only a couple cents anon

>>713917421
The Military

>>713919041
No game is.

>>713916972
not interested till someone makes an emulator
no I will not buy another shitty box just to do something my other five year old box can already do

>>713919112
israel doesn't pay that much, c'mon now.

>>713915831 (OP)
Learn to pirate you lazy fuck

>>713918957
Mutahar is against piracy

>friend complains about the cost of living
>know for a fact that he spends $600/month combined on weed and beer
i just assume everyone who complains about the price of things is as dumb as him

>>713919112
>risk your life to play a fucking video game
ahahahaha do americans really?

>>713919132
in order for autists to make an emulator, other autists have to jailbreak the console.

>>713916570
it'd be one thing if the employees were making more money but they're not, it's all going to execs and middle men

>>713919112
maybe in switzerland

>>713919163
There is no piracy for the switch 2.

>>713919227
Come on bro, it's just like Call of Duty! You get to fly drones with xbox controllers and save Isr- uh, America!

>>713919202
>medications necessary to cope with the modern world is a dumb purchase

>>713919202
>this nigger doesn't have any vices
>this nigger doesn't think people should have disposable income for things like entertainment
I mean yeah 600 a month for weed and beer is pretty retarded but that doesn't mean that you can then say because your friend is bad with money that we should all be charged more for a product.

>>713919231
Do you really? I didn't think that was necessary for things like nes and snes. Although I don't know if those things can even be "jailbroken"

>>713918554
maybe pal

>>713919386
>>713919458
Die fucking drug addict scum

>>713915831 (OP)
I can afford them many times over, but that doesn't somehow make them a good deal.

>>713915967
>t. no job

>>713916331
>with there being talk of GTA VI being beyond that
Most modern AAA games already exceed $80 with what is essentially mandatory dlc. How much was the elden ring dlc? And thats like a /v/core game.

>>713917102
That seems expensive. Most of my food comes from a once a month trip to Sam's club. Usually $250 to $300. May make an occasional $60 local grocery store trip in between.

>>713919641
Bro everyone drinks. and weed is like the new normal. barely even a drug anyway.

>>713915831 (OP)
I haven't paid for a video games in like a decade

>>713915967
I'm not only employed but I out earn the vast majority of my peers and still don't pay for video games. Only retards waste money on gaming.

>>713919801
>Bro everyone drinks.
I'm 31 and have never had alcohol

>>713919738
If you cook at home you pay with time so its not like you'll really winning unless your job doesn't allow you to work extra hours.

>>713919828
>not employed
>earn more than the vast majority of my peers
doubt. unless you're some onlyfans bitch or maybe you're making AIslop for a relatively popular channel. so what is it that you do? care to elucidate how you can earn so much? just wondering, is all.
>>713919889
you should give it a try, it's pretty good.

>>713919892
If your job allows you to work extra hours then those hours should instead be spent getting a better, salaried job instead of working for an hourly wage

>>713919889
You also never had sex either so it's not much to brag about

>>713919889
>Uh oh no you're TECHNICALLY INCORRECT you see how I just debunked your point and falsified your model? Guess you'd better concede.

>>713919889
thats even worse than being a virgin
are a u fucking monk or something?

>>713919889
I'm 43 and only was ever buzzed a few times. Never been drunk. Pro tip: the liver is the key to longevity, don't abuse it!

>>713920004
I'm not sure I'd really say its better if more doesn't equal more pay
aside from the social prestige

>>713915831 (OP)
Ok. I am beginning to believe some of you are not memeing and need to here this. Have you considered enlisting in the armed forces? Not only are you paid well and have decent accommodations during your time, but when you decide it's time to move on you'll will still have access to the VA and GI Bill for further education and job opportunities. It's 1 of the best deals you can get right now whether you have no skills or prior experience or need a change of pace from private sector work.
Most cities in the US have well staffed recruitment offices who will be happy to answer you're questions until you're ready to pull the Trigger haha.

>>713916972
2-3 years

>>713916369
but I want to play stellar blade :(

>>713920102
Congrats you'll die at 90 instead of 80

/v/irgin trying to one-up each others over who has the lesser shitty life. this is even more pathetic than the essex threads

>>713920064
No just don't have any friends and drinking alone doesn't seem fun

>>713915831 (OP)
i can but it's a waste of money because i'm unlikely to finish or enjoy the game

>>713915831 (OP)
same but in my case it's because im brazilian

>>713919889
>he never got hammered at a college party
>his company doesn't offer complimentary drinks at corporate parties
>his friends never offer him a beer
Shit man even if you never want to pay a cent for alcohol, it's incredibly easy to get some to give it a try at least one point in your life.

>>713920147
I don't like fps. Too pedestrian.

>>713920147
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znfZnSRcaeY

>>713920180
>when it comes to pc I'll get it!
>when theres a crack I'll get it!

>>713915831 (OP)
redditfrog spam

>>713920290
nta but never went to college, never worked for a corporation, no friend ever offered me a drink even though I'm pretty sure they do

I wanted to buy new digimon story game but fuck me if i'm paying 80$ (70€) for it.
I'll just wait for a sale down the line.

>>713920275
don't they have regional pricing there?

>>713919889
Good Alcohol sucks.Shit taste shit effects,poison,calories,etc
Everyone itt coping

>>713920589
it's something of an acquired taste amigo.

>>713920317
kek this is so accurate literally all of them have some bitch back home who just cheats on them usually a landwhale as well

>>713920589
>shit effects
you must not have gained the charisma

>>713920226
that's a long fucking time though?

>>713920404
i will pay full price for it if they patch out denuvo.

>>713920317
I like how it's the Mark Wahlberg line that's the final straw.

>>713920719
as an old man

>>713920719
nothing past 70 counts anymore. arguably 65 is the cut off, but it depends on how in shape you are. what's 10 years in a geriatric home worth to you?

>>713920772
Sure.

>>713920807
so? do you think all old people just want to die early? unless they are dealing with chronic pain of course.

>>713920791
No idea why hollywood accepts this guy in spite of what he did. Entourage is kino as fuck though I should rewatch that.

>>713920565
yeah and it's still 1/3 the minimum wage

>>713920226
>>713920807
Remember reading a story of a 60 year old man working in a nursing home. He liked the work, but he laughed because he was there helping patients younger than him. There is a large difference between aging well and aging poorly. Important to remember. My 90 year old mother gardens, her deceased 70 year old husband liked tv and he suffered before he went.

>>713920961
what would you even be doing at that time that would be so valuable?
>inb4 playing videogames
also due to mental time dilatation I forget what its called it won't even feel like that long

>>713920180
I don't know what's the issue, if the game has denuvo then simply buy $1 account and play it offline.
Empress is not coming back and games are going to have denuvo for a long time if not forever like it is the case with ubisoft game.

>>713916581
I don't think there's a single frogposter in heaven. Call it prejudice, it just seems right to me.

>>713921026
in america its 1/10

>>713920850
you won't believe this when you actually start approaching old age. my dad is 62 and he is just fine and can do anything a regular person can do and likes spending time with his grand kids and traveling. I'm sure he has no plans to just die in 3 years because living after that supposedly is worthless because he's not 20 anymore.

I can't enlist in the army because I have shit eye sight and fibromyalgia. My dead end job will have to do.

>>713921198
lucky you

>>713921250
move to america, they let anyone in here

I'm of the mindset that companies should be paying consumers for their time.
There's too many options these days, you want ME to pay YOU for your shitty game?
Come back with a better offer.

>>713921250
thats even worse bozozillian

>>713921323
i'm not a jeet though I don't qualify
only the smelliest dumbest browniest niggers with the shitties of skins can get in

>>713919889
based, stay sober king

>>713921346
That probably will happen. They're already talking about the attention economy. Plus money is infinite where as time in terms of human life is not.
Btw what is that game? million aurthor arcana blood? It looks like it.

>>713921367
literally just get a job or enroll in a university

>>713921489
pretty sure it's blade stranger

>>713915831 (OP)
I can afford a 90 euro game, I simply won't purchase one out of sheer morals.

>>713921593
Oh yea missed out on that one. Looked like one of the best official crossovers I've ever seen though. Chances there are still players at all?

>>713921489
Blade Strangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAJHOYRmVwI&t=252

>>713916581
based

>>713921705
i've literally never even seen it played at anime fg tournaments
maybe MAYBE one of the arcades in japan has a scene for it but good luck with that.

>>713916067
Why people so reductive towards this game? Honestly who really gives a shit its the first new mario kart in like a decade and the open world is a completely new feel.

I like when the green frog man says funny sentences

>>713921847
damn fuck
>>713921783
kinda surprised this isn't a mod its just her design

>>713921902
the green frog man likes it when you read his funny sentences.

>>713921902
where was the funny?

>>713915831 (OP)
afford? I refuse

>>713917167
They charge 300 for special editions of bad games already. Companies dont need to make a good game to charge that much. Just throw in an art book and a statue.

>>713922036
It's funny because the frog is attached to it, you wouldn't get it

>>713922036
It's funny because green frog man says it. It's about the delivery. You wouldn't understand it, it's called comedy.

>>713922245
Thats not really the same since figures already go for $300. Honestly kinda hate they call those things complete editions anyway. Would rather the collectors edition is just all content produced for the game past and future.

>>713915831 (OP)
Adjusted for inflation, this is now $50

>>713922309
>>713922381
oh well I guess you have to be pretty smart to get it thats probably my problem

>>713922452
50 dollars is at least somewhat reasonably
for a new game that is making used like 25 after a year yea I could live with that

>>713922452
all games are free if you have a PC

>>713922452
games were $50 new during 6th gen

>>713922810
*laughs in stellar blade*

>>713915831 (OP)
I can afford it, but why would I pay $80 to QA test a third of a game?

>>713922853
last good generation of video games coincidentally

>>713922874
yes I'm aware of denuvo. that's the exact reason why I didn't buy that game. denuvo isn't no different than downloading malicious Spyware

>>713915831 (OP)
I can, I just won't.

>>713922965
Luckily nintendo games don't need QA

>>713923065
Oh, I’m too old for those.

>>713923065
>he doesn't know about Super Mario Club

>>713923065
underrated post

>>713923159
meant for this
>>713923063

>>713923224
copium

>>713922486
Now this a funny in my book

>>713919297
Really? Wow I might just join!

>>713923901
modern call of duty though

>>713916369
Can't pirate switch 2 games

>>713915831 (OP)
I can but I don't like having a steam icon in the tray so I just pirate.

>>713926186
Yet

>>713916581
if you steal from a thief is it still a sin?

>>713917167
That was basically the Neo Geo in the 90's. It didn't kill the market or anything but unless you were rich odds are you never even considered buying them. It just ends up being a niche product for a very limited audience kinda like high end sports cars like Ferraris and Lamborghinis

>>713915831 (OP)
get a job

>>713916067
>uuuh straight line mario kart is...LE BAD because uh...a youtuber told me so!
kys

>>713915967
maybe he should seek mommies credit card

>>713917724
Don't their games regularly hit 30% off on Holidays? It's not steam sales but its hardly nothing, especially since most other modern games barely go on sale anymore either.

>>713915967
>Only the rich can play fun murder simulators
>Peasants can no longer get their aggressions out so they become violent

I hope this is the future. I want dead rich people across the globe.

A Zelda game should cost $50 max.

What a waste of money.

>>713929186
The number of thieves stays the same.

>>713930684
so if steal from multiple thieves.. i'm morally right?

>>713930749
Only if you also kill them, otherwise the number of thieves increases.

>>713915831 (OP)
stupid, dumb, poor frognigger scum

>>713930786
robbery murder is a good thing, got it.

>>713930236
Best part is that is a Switch 1 cart in that box

>>713916067
Looking obsessed there. There are other games worth $80 or more. A lot of premium deluxe editions with up to $100 for 2 to 5-days of early access yet nobody seems to complain about that.

>>713929738
/v/ says the same thing

>>713929819
30% of $80 is really high yes you're right

>>713930895
I think he wants a homicide suicide

>>713931128
at least you're getting extras in those cases

Uh huh. Do tell

>>713919892
The time spent cooking (fulfilling time, might i add) is still less than the time + gas money spent driving to pick up incredibly overpriced "fast" sloppa (not including the time spent waiting for your "fast" sloppa). If you cared about "wasting" time cooking, you might as well start buying and consuming 5oylent, which is far quicker and healthier than "fast" food sloppa.

>>713932524
>he doesn’t eat organic sandwiches

>>713915831 (OP)
80$ is nothing to me.

>>713932448
well you see...I'm really poor...

>>713935502
Send some my way.

>>713918194
There's games where you can dump over 1000 hours into. If you don't think that's worth at least $80 then I don't know what to tell you other than you being a spoiled brat.

>>713919112
more like $8 an hour

>>713937323
if you read a book twice, do you go back to the book store and pay them a second time?

>>713915831 (OP)
It's nothing to me as well, but it just so happen that all the shit I like are pixel base, older rpgs, turn base strategy games or some indie stuff, and for fuck sake we can pirate and emulate a shit ton of games anyways, why pay for something shit when you can go play earthbound or shinning force 2 for the tenth time for free? not like you can even pay for mother 3 to begin with here.

>>713919828
broke nigger
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>>713919654
I have a job. $80 is a maybe a week's worth of groceries. If I'm paying $1000 a month on rent (you're lucky if you pay this), $400 on utilities and $500 on groceries while making $2000 a month that leaves me with literal pocket change by the end of the month. And it's not like I can just go to college at my age and get a degree that may or may not pay off the outstanding student debt I'll have accrued.

>>713937323
are they good though?

>>713937657
the fuck am I reading? efls can read this shit?

>>713937905
that cat dresses like a slut

>>713915831 (OP)
Sell your body.
To me.

>>713932524
Restaurants are walk able where I live. I'm pretty sure all restaurants have precooked food to some degree otherwise they wouldn't be able to make it that fast. Like 10 minutes.

>>713939239
stop being gay

>>713940718
>Restaurants are walk able where I live.
muh walkable city