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Bombshell: People who make less money spend less money.
why would i buy civ 7 when i have civ 4 in my steam library from 15 years ago?
And Epic gave me Civ 6 for free! Also love Tekken but I'm happy with Tekken 7 especially since it was $6.
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I won't be buying 7 until they remove the civ reset mechanic. It is what it is, I have 3-6 to keep me company.
I have not paid any attention to what's in 7. What's the civ reset mechanic now?
Just looked it up aaaand......huh.....I don't think I hate it
Basically there's an 'age' reset which resets everyone's tech level back to the beginning because now there's new age tech and the old tech is obsolete; tech progress resets. If you lagged behind during an age, you're now back to a level playing field. Apparently one of the intents was that some civs that had early game advantage can now carry that advantage with them until the end (in some manner; I'm not sure how exactly it works).
Although it is admittedly more of a crutch for low-skilled players (like myself) that doesn't have anything to offer high-skilled players.
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Even my boomer dad, with hundreds of hours in Civ 5 & 6, skipped 7 cause like "why would I pay $70 for this?"
We are being priced out of everything. This is just the change from 2024 to 2025 btw.
Beauty industry coming out ahead. That's a recession indicator
Gotta look pretty for your sugar daddy I guess
You see it in the global south too. A lot of emphasis on physical appearance spent with money people barely have.
Interesting. Can you tell me more or link me up?
I read about in in 2008, or at least its being recession resistant. Googling it today seems to confirm the latter,although it's been faltering (just apparently a bit less with gen Zers)
My grandpa always said cosmetics were a wise investment because people will never not care about their appearance. He lived through the Depression and WWII. The women around him were always finding ways to "put on their war paint," as he put it.
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Only spend!
I'm not fucking paying $70 for a video game
I never have, but I might consider it if the game was actually great. The money to hours played ratio is off the chart for a lot of great games - I mean fuck, if Skyrim was charged proportionally to how much playtime I've gotten out of it I should've paid $600. The problem is that most games are shite moneygrabs.
I may not have any women in my life, but I know Fit Girl will never betray me.
Fit Girl is genuinely performing a public service. Not only are shitty games being given offline accesss, she's compressing them for optimal archiving
The world is a better place of FitGirl's efforts
What is a repack
Just compressing the game files. They come as an installer you run. Sometimes they'll come bundled with other goodies/mods/etc. A lot of her repacks also have language packs/4k textures as optional extras.
So the actual cracking/security breaking of the software was already done (fitgirl doesn't crack software herself or at least that's not what she's offering), what Fitgirl does is that she compresses the cracked game down and reduces the file size so that it's cheaper to transfer over the network and store on people's machines. The savings can be upwards of dozens of GBs which translates into money and resources saved.
and resources saved.
the extra compute compressing and decompressing might not make up for the transfers but it would be really hard to figure out your electricity delta, her electricity delta, the infrastructure, etc compared to the direct metering of data caps.
Unpack a box full of gifts spaced apart loosely for presentation purposes, and then tetris them into a smaller box and ship that instead
Edit: Oh, I just got it -- they teach you that in school huh?
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too busy at the mall smoking
Probably wasting it all on pogs
Gen Z might be playing more video games than the previous cohorts. But because money triumphs eternal over everything, the population of a group doesn't matter all that matters is how many dollars they represent. Also, lol, lmao, etc. at companies trying to bump games over the old $60 price point to $70 or $80 as if any of them were worth $60 to begin with.
Poland fact: in late 90's game publishing industry in Poland was actually very good, we had a lot of localisation being made and they were much cheaper than in the US/western Europe.
There was also piracy.
They told us it would get better when we end piracy.
We basically ended piracy.
As reward we got regional prices liquidation, a lot less Polish versions and basically no dubbing anymore.
Moral from the story is: piracy is good. Also never believe publishers.
common Poland L
Thank you, according to ages old Polish tradition of gas-giant-core-pressure condensated copium, we count this as win 😤
Shutting piracy down ??
lol
L country
“What if we made everything into a status symbol?”
“What’s wrong poors, don’t you like stuff? Yeah, I turned it into a luxury exclusively for the rich, but why aren’t you spending money you don’t even have?”
Can we start placing the blame on the rich? Why aren’t the people with money spending money?
Why aren’t the people with money spending money?
Because they are already fat, happy and living a life of constant luxury filled with exciting distractions. You can only have so many servants in your third mansion or on your second private jet before they start getting in the way. So they invest most of their money instead of spending it, thereby making even more money by extracting our labor.
why do you think the number of young people who prefers online games more than single player. because the shits free usually.
Pretty sure major gaming company execs are killing the gaming industry.
Maybe the capitalists of the "gaming industry" shouldn't of let online gambling be a monetization factor, which flooded the market with low quality video games that were endlessly exploitative.
Can't afford new hardware or a new game? simply play the ones you already have for longer by replacing and changing everything about it! any game can be roblox if you spend a decade modding it 
I remember when I was a kid I had a heck of a time playing Jedi Knight with mods to the brim; I had mods that changed my weapons to James Bond's weapons, mods that gave me ninja gear, mods that gave me full levels with in-game cinematics (that the creators voiced because why put in this much effort and stop at VA work?), mods that gave me brand new levels including a famous multiplayer level designed to look like a school, etc etc
Mods back when I was a kid was absolutely awesome; sadly tons of games today just can't be modded (or if they can, people just aren't bothering). I STILL prefer the original 90's doom with mods over the new self important doom ('rip and tear', 'rip and tear'; yeah right, give me a break; your boss fights are literal minigames; the cyberdemon fight is just flappy bird).
yeah games don't automatically drop with good modding support, you have to get lucky with developers taking the time or some mad group taking it apart, and some games won't even reach their peak for decades-->total war attila is about to get it's first total conversion mod, game came out in 2015, they made a map editor from scratch for it. Morrowind isn't even at it's peak yet and modders have already remade the game engine lol.
the secret sauce is unironically organization, games with dedicated teams that formed and stuck together for specific projects steadily push horizons, where games that might be moddable but have independent-minded scenes can burn for a while but go dead after talent leaves and knowledge isn't institutionalized
The best video game, Kerbal Space Program, released originally in 2011.
The sequel was literally a scam.
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or play dust2 for the 722602057854030th time and still have more fun than most new games would be
I know I sure as hell couldn’t afford the kind of money they want for a switch 2 and the games. And I’m much older than gen z lol
Is this (I haven't read the article) only accounting for AAA games, or does it account for all games including indie titles? Cause I've bought more games today than I ever did when I was a kid (anecdotal evidence obviously), just certainly not AAA titles.
They obviously didn't add enough NFTs
~~millenials~~ gen z are killing....
Lmao fuck you Nintendo, I am playing zelda totk for free and it runs much better than on your console haha. Cope and seethe loser. People's Republic of pirate g*mers will rule for eons
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