Hey game developers!

I'm really mad at the modern gaming scene. I just want my games to have multiplayer support, a long playthrough time, lots of replay value, and graphics so good you could mistaken it for irl video footage. And I want it to cost $60 because that's what they costed 15 years ago when I was a kid, and I want the console to cost less than an Acer netbook from the thrift store. And I want it to have no DLC or microtransactions, and also let me share it with friends and don't get mad if I pirate it anyway. ): I love your games and they're the light of my life <3 but if you don't give me them basically for free, you're a greedy piece of corpo shit ripping me off.

Love,
The average American gamer

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Reject · 31-35, M

Aren’t video games the most expensive entertainment media ever? I mean producing them costs so much money it’s insane. More than any movie.

BlueVeins · 26-30

@Reject That and movies! But video games are still more total work, right? Movies are expensive because you need to hire big-name actors. Video games are expensive because they require every creative medium in the world + great coding, and the coding needs to work well with the art. Honestly it's a wonder anyone manages to make good video games.

Reject · 31-35, M

@BlueVeins Video games take longer for sure and having to pay the many people working on it over several years is just one of many money intensive factors. The development costs of AAA video games have been on par or even exceeding those of blockbuster movies. It’s kind of miracle that we make them at all. While I don’t mind the higher prices, there are still practices that are scummy of course like how micro transactions have been implemented before and how we don’t really own video games anymore. We kind of just rent them now.

BlueVeins · 26-30

@Reject I do really hate the microtransactions.