I never said the CEOs are saints. They’re just not worse than they were 15 years ago. At least for devs/publishers that don’t put micro transactions in full price games.

I don’t own a Nintendo console older than a Wii and I don’t plan on changing that.

I also don’t plan on playing games that try to make me pay for it tenfold by enticing me to buy various in-game currencies.

Touché. But that’s a different problem. They don’t even need to raise the base price though, many of them are free to play anyways. And those that both have microtransactions and are full price should be avoided anyways.

The do have an opportunity now. People will complain but they won’t stop buying games.

Exactly.

Doesn’t change that $60 in 2010 are almost $90 today. Devs/publishers aren’t any more greedy than they were 15 years ago.

Not solely. If you paid $60 for a game in 2010, that‘d be almost $88 today, simply due to inflation. It’s a wonder the prices haven’t skyrocketed any sooner.

Not that I want that, I‘d prefer games being affordable but it was kinda inevitable considering the way the economy is going…

Also, I‘d personally rather pay $90 once than have a cheap game with a shitload of micro transactions. Of course, developers/publishers that ask $90 for a game and still include a bunch of micro transactions can fuck right of.

On the one hand, with rising inflation and skyrocketing development costs, I can totally understand why game prices are getting dangerously close to the triple digits. Games rn are cheaper that they ever were yeet yet development is not.

However, that’s still a lot of money and I really wouldn’t wanna pay that.

Well, for my boss it’s partially virtue signaling for opinionated customers and tesla just isn’t what they’d like to see anymore…

It’s bullshit but it’s business, I suppose. In the past, customers have complained because colleagues arrived in a car from a higher status competitor brand.

Can you really get rid of it by now? Who’d buy it? Most people can’t just throw away a car, even if it’s associated with a fascist.

Talked about that with my boss recently. He drives a Tesla (has been for a few years) and he says, while he’d like to replace it with something less controversial (besides his personal opinions, also because some of our customers are large German car manufacturers and they do have strong opinions) but, he says, there’s no comparable electric car in a comparable price range (of what you’d get for a 3 or 4 year old model Y) and business isn’t doing so well that he could afford sinking money into something that drives as well and as far on a charge, so for now he’ll have to keep his Tesla and an eye open for a good deal on something better.

So I’d say, if you bought a Tesla within the last year or so, you should’ve known better. If you bought one some time before and want to get rid of it, it’s not always that easy, if you actually need a good car to replace it with.

You forget the unfortunate mentality people have regarding the sick.

Well, the rapist part is arguable. He did vote for rape in marriage being legal after all. But yes, I infinitely prefer him over the AfD, but he’s definitely far from my first choice.

Eh, Fritze is just slightly better…

Nah, I thought that quote from the film summarized it quite well…

Politically: it‘s evil because it’s new and was first used for the covid vaccine.