Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I’ve seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It’s always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it’s been a thing.
Even more dumb is that sales are stupidly frequent so why even bother trying to pay $70 anyways besides FOMO.
I think the issue with the price thing is that it’s more the rule rather than the exception. Back then maybe you got a super deluxe for 70, now 70 just gets you the base game.
In any event: the Apple Vision Pro is one. Apple puts out a VR headset that essentially does what any 800 dollar headset does for much more money and everyone loses their shit saying how revolutionary it is. It’s not.
I’ve tried the vision pro and the quality is definitely impressive even compared to other headsets, but the quest three does colour passthrough well enough that unless you have zero interest in games and money is no object, it makes no sense to buy the vision pro.
Yeah, the market is flooded with cheap VR headsets with eye and hand tracking! Stupid Apple! /s
Trans people.
Trans people have existed forever and conservatives are trying to pretend it’s a new thing.
Where I live, this still applies to lesbians and gay men. I am not joking.
And I’m in a country where an overwhelming majority of the population, both old and new, is so conservative that it’s basically religious nationalism at this point. I’ve said the name of that country so many times that I’m getting bored of it now, but it’s basically Morocco.
The first patient to receive a sex reassignment surgery fought in the battle of the bulge.
Did they fight against the bulge, or for it?
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“Battle of the Bulge” ironically sounds like a great name for a battle around Trans rights.
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The other day I learned about this chap who lived in the 19th century stealing married women https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Allent_(trans_man)
Teens acting like teens.
There are writings dating back to ancient Greece of people complaining about young people and how stupid/lazy/whatever they are compared to the previous generations.
Maybe we can drop that one already.
Teenagers are just filled with hormones and poor decision-making skills. They’re big balls of attitude and it still seems to astound people when they want to be argumentative.
Most things Apple does
I still remember when they added the pull down notification drawer, it was all over tech review sites like it was the next big thing. Android phones had the same feature for 2 years before Apple introduced it.
Why do people act like it’s righteous to suck off game companies? They won’t send you a copy for defending their honor online, that’s some mall ninja shit.
I am sure some are bootlickers but we now know that game companies pay social media companies to atro turf …
So half the time that idiot ain’t a person, just an npc doing his job.
With a little skill they are pretty easy to spot.
Crime. Since people hear about it more often they think there is more crime, but in actually overall crime has gone down. There was more crime before 24 hour news not less. You just are hearing about crimes that in the past wouldn’t have made the news.
“Wokeness”
- Yellow news
- The struggle of the intellectual minority.
- The fundamental struggle of autonomy against tyranny and those that steal it away.
What’s yellow news?
Sensationalist journalism. This manifests as clickbait headlines, agenda pieces, and other such tactics.
The propaganda regime we live under.
The first computer game I ever bought was Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord for $80 in 1982. The new version is $35 on Steam and wishlisted because I’m a cheap bastard now.
Daaaammmnnnn, I played Wizardry 8 back in the day and that game was fantastic. Never played any of the earlier ones though.
Sex. Everything you’re doing (unless you’re using some type of new technology or device) had been done for thousands of years.
There’s an entire civilization in pre European contact Americas that only depicted anal sex in all their artwork.
Billionaires. We have a wild discrepancy in wealth distribution, but there have always been pharos and kings and tsars, along with accompanying nobles, minor royalty, etc.
And it’s easy to argue that those rulers had far more power. Elon Musk can’t order my head removed.
And they controlled vast amounts of land, where thousands or millions of people lived.
To be fair, there are a lot more $5 games nowadays that provide hours of good quality content.
There were plenty older games that charged full price and are shit aswell. And there was less selection…
I vividly remember purchasing Final Fantasy 3 in the early 90 for $69.95. It was the first video game I purchased with my own money and it was like a years worth of allowance.
$70 for video games back in the 90s? What world did you come from?
I was paying $5 for video games back then.
It definitely was a thing if you bought them new. http://i.imgur.com/zf92o.jpg
…The fucking console only cost $100. If that ad is the default, that’s fucking insane.
No console went for $100 new when it first came out. Those were the prices long after the economy of scale made it a profitable gamble to sell the hardware at a loss to drive game sales and make up the difference and then some.
I remember Super Nintendo games at ~$60-$70 at first release. They quickly came down in price to ~$40-$50 after a month or two.
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That’s the second generation of Genesis/Megadrive, so at that point they were probably selling it as a loss leader having minimised production costs.
The real money is in the games, so you make the console cheap and create more customers for the games.
Consoles were usually $300 new. I remember spending $600 on a 3DO.
Looks like that ad came out in 1996 based on the games featured (a lot of sports games release the year prior to the date of the title). By then the Sega Genesis was already 7 years old and was fairly obsolete by then, as the Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, and Nintendo 64 had been released. That’s why it was only going for $100 then.
Yep, I paid £65 for Street Fighter 2 on the Megadrive, back in the early 90s. A huge amount of money then, but worth it given how much I played it.
No you weren’t.
Yes, actually I was. New games on a single floppy disk. $5 each.
If you were buying “new” games on floppy disks for $5 in the 90’s, what, pray tell, where those games? Prance of Parma? Semper Maria?
Ken’s Labyrinth, Mystic Towers, a single level of Epic Pinball…
Yeah they were cheap, but affordable for a young teenager…
Most new games were $40-50 IIRC. A few high demand would be more.
There was a day before games came on a CD. You remember the good old floppy disk? Yeah, Walmart had brand new games that fit on a single floppy disk for $5.
I remember buying ganes for my PCJr at $50 a pop in the mid-80’s lol. Sega cartridges were next.
Oh yeah, I know there were plenty of bigger, better, more expensive games pretty much all along. Still, I loved that $5 section at Walmart, I’d buy a new game almost every week when I was around 13 years old.
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…That’s because maybe you got them used or something? Like, name me one retail store back then selling games for $5 just out of the blue. I won’t wait because you wouldn’t come up with anything.
You are mixing used markets with retail prices here. Just stop embarrassing yourself.
Walmart homie. Brand new games.
I’m referring to smaller games that came on a single floppy disk. Remember those?
I’m a little out of the loop on this one, so this might be a dumb question. For $70 do you get the game, or just most of it? Do certain features cost more? Does it require a online subscription?
