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.
If $70 got you the full game, I wouldn't even be as opposed to it, but it's always $70 for the standard edition and oh, also, there's $200+ worth of DLC and microtransactions to buy, as well. Back in the 90s, you got everything for that price.
Were games $70 in the 90s? I feel like they were like $40. $60 at the most.
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?
heyo
"Battle of the Bulge" ironically sounds like a great name for a battle around Trans rights.
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.
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.
What's yellow news?
Sensationalist journalism. This manifests as clickbait headlines, agenda pieces, and other such tactics.
What? Just because you found 1 game at 70 dollars back in the 90s doesn't mean that it's a fair price for games?
Even now with tons of inflation since 1990 it's a ridiculous price and reserved only for top tier games that everyone wants to buy, like Baldurs Gate.
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.
"Wokeness"
People have less spendable money on average than 20 years ago and there are more games and more unfinished or broken games, that are sold for a higher price. Games instead should get cheaper, as people have less money to spend. Your assumption that games used to be more expensive is therefore flawed.
That said, AI generated images, aka fake images and nudes of celebrities etc, are seen as new now. But we could do that with image editing software for decades, just the speed changed. Now everyone acts like as we require new laws, but they are already in place. AI video generation might be a bit more tricky, as one used to not be able to do that without a lot of time and money, but still, it's nothing new and laws are in place. We won't be able to stop this technological advancement and we even harm people by that. If only rich corporates dictate the AI environment, we destroy possible startups, harm citizens and also give evil actors more power, because the later doesn't care about laws, while the average Joe's privacy and other rights are getting more and more restricted.
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.
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?
Idk where you bought your games from but up until the last few years the standard was $60 for a new game. Anything more was a special edition of the game.
The only time I've paid more than $60 for a new game was if I bought a special edition.
$70 cartridges have been around since the SNES days.
$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.
Consoles were usually $300 new. I remember spending $600 on a 3DO.
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.
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.
Sure, for $5 you could get some old games from the bargain table, but some people like to play them when they're new.
One of my favorite memories is my mum taking me and my brother to a toy shop that sold games after we finished the school year and getting second hand games. Every year my mum did this for us and we'd usually get like 2 for the price of 1. We didn't have a lot of money so new games were only got on Xmas.
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