Not so much defense, more like "uhh, yeah, things cost money, inflation exists, welcome to the real world", and I can't disagree honestly. People gotta use an inflation calculator on old games.
This meme does have real "too late, I drew you as the soy cuck and myself as the chad!" energy.
They no longer have to make and ship cartridges to distribute them. They just let you download said game. The margins are insanely large. Add in they not longer subsidize consoles and release a new one every few years... yea. also the technology isn't improving that much as we have reached a pretty big limit on screen size etc. No more big innovation to make graphics look perfect- it is just art style now and most of the games reuse what works.
I really want to see what "margin" you are specifically thinking of.
AAA game dev is one of the highest risk industries in the world. Games generate losses constantly. 2023 and 24 saw about 50'000 layoffs across the industry. With 1500 more in 2025.
One of the biggest game publishers in the world is on the brink of shuttering.
So please, be specific. What margins?
Edit: Go figure, the person I responded to mentioned nothing about "margins" and instead claimed "We have better tools, AI and Unreal Engine so games are easy and cheap to make now". What a fucking moron.
Yknow how you get games to stop generating losses? Stop making crappy games. This isnāt anywhere near a good supporting reason for making the games more expensive. This is like McDonaldās tripling the price of a Big Mac because the filet o fish isnāt selling well. Stupid.
You are active in subreddits for Lost Ark, Borderlands 3, Supervive, Diablo 4 and Palworld, all of which I think are shit, but you obviously believe are good.
So tell me what constitutes a game being objectively "not crappy"
Sales. If it sells. It works. Itās a āgoodā game, monetarily. You donāt bleed money when games sell. Lmao. This isnāt subjective. People make lazy crap or crap thatās obviously meant to send a message more than being a good game and it hemorrhages money.
Also active is a MASSIVE stretch. I havenāt participated in most of those subreddits for ages. Throwing Palworld in with that list just makes you look more like the bloke in the meme.
Hifi Rush won Game of the Year and sold poorly. It has awards for quality, but your metric means it's objectively bad.
Among Us sold nothing for years until it blew up in popularity and sold millions. So the game was objectively shit and then objectively good with zero changes?
Final Fantasy 16 sold millions, but didn't meet sales goals, ultimately losing money, while Balatro sold 1 million, far exceeding sales goals
A game always launches with 0 sales, so it is objectively bad until people buy it then it's objectively good.
There are so many ways that your statement is fucking stupid, and despite all the ways I can drive it home, it seems like it will never sink in for you.
Youād be making a compelling argument if the point was establishing some hard and fast objective metric for what a good game is or not. However back to the original point, it is ludicrous to justify raising prices to pay for creating games that fail. Regardless of how much you want to argue about a small portion of the overall issue at hand. Iād love to hear your explanation for how it remotely justifies raising prices in general because other stuff sells poorly. I suppose the price of the Honda crv should also skyrocket because accord hybrids struggle to sell and that would be okay too right?
Youāre right, Iām not going to acknowledge your diving as deep as you can into this small point about a semantics based argument because I see that it distracts from the lack of logic inherent with your original justification that I challenged. Additionally I see your usage of low brow insults and mockery and call that out as your own awareness of the weakness of your statements.
You replied to me to say "games will stop generating losses if developers make good games"
You're not getting insulted because I'm unsure how inbred that statement objectively is. You're getting insulted because I'm annoyed at losing 5 minutes of my life spoon feeding a troglodyte basic common reasoning. Ultimately, if you were a dog, you'd get put down by your owner for being that fucking brain dead.
Lmao. Not like your time has any value, friend. Thanks for the laugh though.
PS youāre still ignoring the meat of my statement that Iāve brought up as comparison twice now and referenced multiple times. Anyone who isnāt an actual projecting idiot would see what youāre doing here.
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u/Findict_52 1d ago
Not so much defense, more like "uhh, yeah, things cost money, inflation exists, welcome to the real world", and I can't disagree honestly. People gotta use an inflation calculator on old games.
This meme does have real "too late, I drew you as the soy cuck and myself as the chad!" energy.