Imagine a newgame+ but the only thing different is an NPC shoves a tablet in your face and tells you “it’s just gonna ask you a few questions.”

joker-gaming

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah, whenever fast food places and stuff have a tip option, i ask the staff if they’re actually getting there tips. I don’t trust digital tips at alllllllllllll!

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    This is literally what merch is for. Cool shit that people can buy and look at and show off and support the developers even more, except you get something tangible for your money instead of just throwing it into the void.

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      just like with bands. although with bands usually it’s the best way for them to make any money at all because everything else is so nickled and dimed (make sure to buy band merch directly from the band if possible!)

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    Could they stop trying to wring money out of people for thirty god damn seconds?

    If tipping is such a good business model, let people pay what they want for a game. Indie developers do it all the time.

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    so-true Better give this good ol’ Bethesdarino fella an extra $20! I’m sure this will support all the people who made the game and definitely weren’t laid off the moment it came out!

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    I love how in addition to this unhinged shit, he slides the implication that $70 is the price of a game, you know. $70. The price it’s always been. The correct price of a game. Why, every single game has costed $70 since time immemorial. I remember heading down to the video store and paying $70 for a revocable temporary license for an Atari game (subject to activation server uptime) back in the 80s! Who doesn’t?

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      Actually ai think atari games were more than that adjusted for inflation. The real issue is that games are cheaper than ever but they refuse to actually make them well. Like, fi they scoped and planned their projects reasonably they could make AAA games just as good for cheaper without anyone knowing or caring. Instead we get extra high rez assets and crunch.

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    I will never pay for software with DRM, my parents taught me this, but as a young kid I mailed 5$ with no return address to Black Isle or Obsidian or someone. Bypassed the publisher but who knows what happened to it.

    you-want-my-treasure

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    You know you can just give money to people, you’re a CEO. Just make a call to some intern you have a get it done. You don’t need add a button to our screen, you could send a check, send it via bank transfer or something. Hell that way you could even determine who would get the money, not some shareholders who had little to no input.

    Thats what so disingenuous about this, its so transparent that he doesnt want to give anyone any money, he wants other people to send him money. It would be used as a way to extort fans into donating in hopes to a sequel. It would remove even more of labour from the equation to the consumer, even dlc has people working on it. This is empty. Simply sending money into the void.

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    adding a tip for each quest line in wow, and watching how le epic storyline creators eat shit, while some toilet cleaning quest gets all the tips