Can't use the word "buy" if you can't actually buy the thing.
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Didn’t they spend 2 billion?
I’m not even sticking up for this but yall are insane.
This is why everything sucks. You expect everything for nothing then wonder why your games nickle and dime you for dlc and your food is nasty and your clothes are all plastic.
As a professional artist I’ll tell ya it seems like a poor man’s hobby to make games, write novels, or make music. So you have people that make this shit for the love of the game or a lot of cash and nothing really in between.
I expect it for nothing because the sellers expect it for everything. Just trying to find the perfect balance in between. There is nothing wrong with a healthy profit but it shouldn't feel like rape. It has to work for both sides.
My wife, who's an accountant, never really played video games growing up. When we got married, she liked to hang out on the couch while I played various Zelda titles (I think WindWaker HD was the first one she got really into with me, and she'd become a second set of eyes). She was the one who helped me understand how a video game is maybe the most value for one's money of all the entertainment options. For a long time, games were still around $50 (which was even the price when I was a kid) and she was kind of blown away at the notion that you could pay $50 for something and have like 80+ hours of enjoyment when going to a movie was like the same price for only two hours and going to a play was often even more expensive. An album is still pretty great deal-wise because you can get years of enjoyment out of that. But in terms of a story-telling medium, a video game is still an amazing value for what you get (even at $80).
My problem with what is going on with this game and Sony in general is the idea that they want me to pay $80 for something that, due to DRM, I'm not actually owning. If they want me to pay that kind of money for something that I feel like I have actual ownership of, with a reasonable expectation that I can play it for years to come (like I can with my SNES and Saturn and whatnot), then I'm still happy to pay $80 for it. But I am not given that assurance. I thought Tears of the Kingdom was worth the price (and still do). But I have the card on my shelf and so long as I have a Switch I can play it.