They could release a game that just literally flips you the bird

The last triple A I bought was on a big sale because it’s long past its release date. Mostly ignoring modern ones, the only one I have wanted was BG3 which I am fully happy playing the many years waiting game for because I have so many other games to play first. c/patientgamers

Sorry you are being downvoted for your honest opinion. I’d understand if you had some nasty sentiment about people who find $80 too expensive in there, but you have no ill will or dim views of anyone expressed here… I’d like Lemmy to be a nice place and part of that includes not downvoting views that are unpopular but also not cruel towards anyone. Especially when the popular view is “I’m mad!” Dismissing everyone’s anger without trying to understand why they’re angry or where they are coming from isn’t the move, but this person isn’t doing that. The only “crime” they committed is not sharing in the anger themselves. And in a world full of algorithms pushing outrage, where lots of people on Lemmy came here to flee that very trend, I’d like non-anger to not be disapproved of.

I am honestly curious if them not jumping on the hatewagon and being personally okay with this is being interpreted as them saying “because I’m fine with $80 everyone else has to be too” or whatever. I want to know where the downvoters are coming from. Is it just simple “do not like their take! Downvote!”? Is it “since they are okay with this, they must be well-off and thus an out-of-touch bad person who deserves disapproval for being richer than me?” Is it some honest belief that this person is inadvertently advancing a harmful view to be complacent against ever-increasing prices and companies squeezing average people harder and harder?

I am not fine with the $80 increase, I just also see what seems to be an innocent take getting disapproval and I honestly want to know what they did wrong. Both so I can know for the future so I do not do it myself, and so if they didn’t actually do anything wrong there is something on record speaking up for “hey leave them alone.”

I could argue the Ace Attorney series was that for me (played on Nintendo DS, am not purchasing the remakes), something along the lines of playing less than 50 hours for $60 and felt I got my money’s worth anyways. (Okay, the individual price of each game in the series was not $60, but adding them up altogether… I don’t remember their price or my exact playtime, it is entirely possible average playtime is longer and I just totally misremembered—didn’t exactly have playtime stats on the Nintendo DS—but you get the point. Costs more $ per hour of play compared to other games with more replayability.)

You could also argue I got lots more hours of enjoyment from it than those 50 hours of playtime though, because I also spent so many more hours reading free fanfiction and looking at free fanart and reading fan discussions online… I finally stopped hurling myself down the Ace Attorney rabbit hole maybe 2 years ago.

There have to be gamers who are consistent in this—there probably is that potential hypocrisy in some people (at least, “hypocrisy” from the outside, we’re not sure of their actual reasons) but there are also probably people who are consistent in their behavior. I can tell you I’ve never rented a movie ;)

Ugh. If you are suggesting it it’s probably a good idea. Just a bit frustrated that two community promo things exist, especially since in my experience this is its smaller cousin that usually just sees duplicates from [email protected]. The only benefit I can think of is that if Beehaw is still defederated from lemmy.world because of its size they can see [email protected] too. Will be posting there soon…