And what is everyone going to do to pass time when they suddenly can't afford gaming?
Who tf pays for digital media when torrents exist?I haven't paid for software since 2002
>>538238667more street takeovers ;)
actually they aren't much higher than when N64 games came out
>>538238667>Why are video games suddenly so expensive?Video games are the new romantic relationship. Sex cost money. Payup TIMMY!
>>538238667>suddenly
>>538238667the elites want you to get a job
>>538238667gaming is the cheapest, most inflation-resistant hobby in existence next to running its about time gamers start paying up
>>538238667games are more expensive to produce and far less profitable because they suck assthis means they will be more expensive
>>538238846the elites are no longer elites. Elitism requires a top down at least oligopolistic epsitemic authority; elitism cant exist in anarchy, no control over perception. Wealt becomes a target, not a badge
>>538238667>Why are video games suddenly so expensive?
>>538238667board games are the way
>>538238667They don't want you to have a job, no romantic life, and no free-time hobbies, in order to have an easier time enlisting you, if they consider you an undesirable.
>>538238667>AI techbro takeover>Tariffs>Iran Warit's pretty simple really
>>538238667gaming was just something i did when i got bored of reading books, so i will be just reading books when gaming is only for (((billionaires))) and (((protected classes)))
>>538238667>over $1k>cheapest bargain bin single channel ddr5 stick easily beaten by average last gen ddr4 ram stickslmfao
>>538238667retro gamingmodded skyrim is the future of gaming.
>>538238667>can't afford gaming?OpenTTD is completely free, Battle Brothers and HighFleet are competitively priced
>>538238846Lol no, elites want you replaced and without a job. They want you in the fent tent on the sidewalk.
>>538238959it would be so funny if the first successful attempt was by some angry gamer
>>538238667the only games worth playing are all sub 40 bucks. Most are less than 20. Many are free
>>538238740do a netstat -a and post results.
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>>538238667womennot even kidding - every single thing that women get involved in gets commodified to shit because they’re too stupid to build a PClook at the gym scene, you could do any exercise in a shitty pair of shorts and shirtless with shit-tier gear or a kettlebell and that was fine, women got into it and suddenly all this useless garbage floods the market. pre-workout goo, gym shark trash, post workout goo, another powder, some selfies, etcthey ruin everything by just being women and the jews want to milk every cent they can from these newly minted “independent” women
>>538238667what the absolute fuck are you talking about? video games are cheaper than EVERthe overall quality of the content has gone down though
>>538238925>>538239102deliver my burrito and ill tip you a buck or two, otherwise im importing someone to do it
>>538238811>>Why are video games suddenly so expensive?>Video games are the new romantic relationship. Sex cost money. Payup TIMMY!I want to make a video game called walking. Other players are walking and you can talk too them.
>>538239127microsoft, cloudflare, google, local
>>538238667Unironically, all the negative video game pursuits and sentiment is being driven in order to 1) Keep normies from shopping at GameStop to 2) Lower their share (GME) price because those shorts from 2014 to 2021 (and still to this day) have not closed their positions. In fact, they have added to their shorts>The way short interest has since been hidden is by rolling them into swaps, which the CFTC has so conveniently hidden since 2021 due to “lack of public interest”>Bankruptcies of shorts so far include Archegos, Melvin Capital, and Credit Suisse>UBS currently holds to giant pile of dogshit swaps, since the Swiss government basically gave them a $100B lifeline and forced the take over>This all began in 2020 with the TSLA short squeeze, in which Citadel squeezed BlackRock to the tune of ~$50B. Now what does a fund do when they get squeezed? They squeeze back
>>538239221You already imported them. No one will be upset when some Haitian nigger puts rat poison in your food over a $1 tip. Bon apetit.
>>538239221How did that work out over the last 10 years?Ah right, infinite parrallel societies, open defiance of laws, states, norms, deficit and debt exploding, challenges of the monopoly on violence, margins falling, participation rate cratering, factually anarchy
>>538238875This. Zoomies have no idea how many hours they would have had to have worked to buy anything gaming related before the early 2000s. You spent your entire life in a time of plenty and never knew it.
>WHY IS THIS GAMING PC NOT PRICED LIKE A CONSOLE (budget gaming PC) ?????
>>538239127This nigga believes in "viruses" lol
>>538239385>LAST_ACK
>>538238667Why r u gay, brokie?
>>538239385>desktop blah blahName your fucking computer!
>>538238667AI made the price of RAM go through the roof. And corporations being greedy.
*mic drop*
>>538241007Is there a hotline we can call to ask them to kindly stop?
>>538238667Because all hardware capacity is going to AI datacenters. These tech faggots are trying to build themselves a little god.
>>538238740Who the fuck torrents when ddl exists?
>>538239099You will get priced out of hardware
>>538240939happy?>>538241156habit
>>538241156>paying to pirate or otherwise suffering with sub 1Mb/s lol
>>538239336Try this.
>>538238667Jews
>>538241174those games run on decade old hardware
>>538238667>laughs in OG doom
>>538239386I was all for resurrecting GameStop as a franchise until the changed the terms on my extended coverage for an Xbox controller AFTER a had paid for it.
>>538241156>ddlIt's kind of funny that it has swung back this way. Before torrenting blew up ddl was the way you did it, then it faded into obscurity. Now it's apparently back? I prefer torrents though, you can leech/seed at your own leisure, whereas ddl in almost all cases require the download running from start to finish, any interruption potentially requiring a restarting the download.Man I remember having 20 download windows running at once back in 1999. Fucking absurd really
>>538238667>Why are video games suddenly so expensive?AI>what is everyone going to do to pass time when they suddenly can't afford gaming?Also AI
>>538238811>timmyWhy do shitskin always project in such crass and blatantly obvious ways. It's shitskin and women that slops up that bullshit. Real men play CS:S and yell nigger into the mic
I have a 10 year old 1080ti. It's all you need. Modern games are ass.
>>538238667Its not the wests money is just at third world status
>>538241636>10 seriesThat's too long in the tooth.
Back to card games and board games.
>>538241636My old gaming rig in storage has the same card. And I agree. But then again it is deliberately made obsolete, due to UE5 deliberately sacrificing efficiency for being "easy to use for retards" and raytracing.The 1080ti is perhaps one of the finest cards ever made, ten years old and still solid, if you don't touch newer triple (g)A(y)s.
>>538241389>decade old hardwareAll hardware fails over time.
>>538238667>expensiveare you guys legit fucking retarded. games are free.
>>538242271zoomers can't torrent
>>538238667I know how to get games without paying for them so I'm fine. My hardware has issues running some of the bigger games but it's not an issue since I don't have the time anyway to always be playing video games. No harm, no foul. Also the amount of games that became freeware or abandonware is pretty decent, so again I'm not in a rush to buy games.
ai data centers
>>538242409Zoomers cant even use computers, they dont even own computers.
>>538238811>>538239336Can I lick your ass? You're soooooo hot....But anyway, think about it, if we aren't all busy dulling our brains and being kept happy and docile, then we're more likely to get really angry. Really angry people are more likely to sign up and go to war for Isr- I mean the US. The US govt seems to hate gamers, so if they can't game anymore and they'll go get blown up, win win!
>>538238667The target audiance shifted from whites and Japs to browns who will reliably overpay.
>>538238667Expensive?Naw.
>>538239221When people have nothing left to lose, they can be as evil as they want. I would shove my dick in your burrito and wipe my ass with the tortilla.
>>538242492hehe that meme is deadthe centers planned are not yet even all build and meta as X are already cannibalizing themselves trying to sell "compute" where no demand is
>>538238667Did you miss the memo? Everything is now insufferably expensive.
>>538243081I wond3r how many people are already doing this, would never trust any sort of food delivery, in fact with that parasite going around I dont trust any food prepared by others anymore
>>538238667for the coming war they need young men to stop playing games and watching pornhence the porn id checks and the increased cost of gaming
>>538243314Every time you go to Taco bell, they are digging up their ass before they make your food. Every restaurant, im telling you. You are tasting their salty ball sweat. You are better off making it yourself brah. I'll tell you what, i'll give you a video of what they are doing. I'm serious. Don't be like that other guy, he's eating cum and shit every day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNfciDzZTNM
>>538238667>suddenlyPhone games.No, seriously. Somehow they found idiots that would pay money for garbage and decided that the people that didn't participate in that shit should get it too.
>>538238667I have a backlog of hundreds of games across P.C. and multiple consoles. Old games are better anyway. Actual good games these days are like finding a diamond in the rough with how much slop gets collectively shit out anymore.And this is the same for all media. Whether its comics, music, film, televison, pro-wrestling, anime, manga, etc. I often find more joy going back to content I either missed or wasn't alive for than current releases.
>>538238667>afford gamingHuh?Gaming affordability lasts as long as your parts physically do, and I've got a 30 year stockpile of hardware that can run the stuff my family plays.Average retro gamer needs a single solar panel to be set for life.
>>538243445The useful (white) goyim have stopped breeding. Politicians always grab at the low hanging fruit first.
>>538238667uncompressed 100MB 4k grass textures crippling performance and memory.So now everyone is forced to buy more cookie cutter chips that they make for pennies and sell for thousands of dollars using sweatshop kids.Even the hardcore gamers with the most overpriced top of the line systems who think they know it all, truly have no idea how badly they're getting robbed.Whenever you tell them it's usually some variation of this"They are a company they have to make money, good for them"or "You can't afford a new 10 thousand dollar system every year, poorfag!"Brainwashed lemmings that couldn't stop buying their shit even if they wanted to.
>>538243458Yeah i dont eat out, havent in many years. Once the brown and black populations increased I no longer trusted it. I really hate how everything became low trust shit
Because the PC part cartels decided to fuck over everyone who made them rich in favor of a bunch of boomvestors who promise to make them even MORE rich.They're soulless psychopaths, simple as.
>>538243703I don't trust anything unless its doordashed. Too many weirdos out there tryna kill me.
>>538238667Go back to old games. There's enough to last you for the rest of your life.
>>538243760Thats the lowest trust shit imo, would never do it.
Game publishers are copying the same strategy the fastfood and car industry did in recent years.-Double the price-40% stops buying-The remaining 60% pays double-Fewer buyers, more profitWhen the gap between rich and poor becomes vulgar in a K-shaped economy this is common business sense. Businesses chase the money, poorfags cant buy videogames, or cars, or a a big mac, so double the price of it all and increase revenue from rich people who still buy.
>>538243875pretty much yes new titles are slop anyway and theres a backlog of good games that would last you multiple lifetimes. No need to upgrade pc either. Could argue poorfags who cant afford new prices are lucky, they dont have to see the new slop
>>538244203There's always the FOMOsexuals after the current Flavor of the month.
It's fortuitous that most gamers have been building a massive catalog of great games over the past 2 decades or so worth of steam salesMany of us have tons of great games to work through without paying 80 for a game that then wants 60$ for an expansion, and 30$ every 3 months on a battlepass for some retarded cosmeticsno thank you to thatThis entire industry full of DEI hires, trannies and women deserves to collapse, and it's looking like it will.
>>538239004Catan is like $70 now
>>538239385You done goofed, Im already backtracing your ip. The consequence will never be the same
>>538241063Buy an ad Andrew
I bought my RX9070XT before the troubles and now I'll get to see steamies buying scalped steam machines just so they can suck gaben end to endAnd I pirate all my games
>>538239099Every time I come across a huge TV I play OpenTTD on it
>>538242048Go doom somewhere elseA lot of good shit can be played on raspberry pis
>>538238667humiliation ritual>you should be reading your bible
I have a shitty laptop with 2,4ghz*8 a 1650 and 24gb RAM and for me I learned to love Nvidia GeForce now.I save money for a real rig but for now it's perfect. I play mostly singleplayer so some lag is no problem. I love it.I can play games with a 3000€ PC far away and it works.
>>538238667Really OP? You cant figure that out on your own?Why are conservatives so retarded?
>>538238667Why is the steam machine a black cube?
>>538248404Because it's american.BBCBig black cube
>>538238667Most expensive consoles every released came out in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. You're retarded.
>>538248801
>>538238667video games are not the expensive part, its the hardware thats gotten both more powerful and more expensive due to RAM shortage because of AIniggersyou know this tho, idk why you posted this thread
>>538248503Kek. Very clever, Hans.
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>>538238667Are they?I don't play games anymore because I'm not twelve.I know that games in the '80s and '90s were like $40-$70. If you adjust those prices for inflation, it's crazy. It really drives home how the average working-class family during the Reagan to Clinton admins still had enough money to blow tons of money on games for their kids.Like I said, I don't play games anymore, but as I understand it most games were still around $60, at least a few years ago.And don't gamers these days play fewer games but log 50+ hours into each?Seems like a bargain.You guys have been having it easy.You were overdue for a price hike.You can, however, just save yourselves a lot of money by not being gamers anymore, or just play cheap retro games.
>>538238667I play Star Trek Online, it's free and pretty fun.I have done this for over a decade, and don't really like any other games as much as this one. Keep coming back to it.
>>538241471>Man I remember having 20 download windows running at once back in 1999. Fucking absurd reallyI remember it taking half hour to download a single MP3. The past sucked.
>>538248404Electronics are typically black or white but mostly black. They wanted a cube because GaMeCube -> GaBeCube
>>538238667i got sick of gaming day in das out so i started playing guitarthen i got a gf and now i dont really have the time for videogames anymorethere are many better things to do than gaming op even though it is a fun past time
Turns out free market capitalism was never actually tried.But trust me bro capitalism works.
>>538238740Lmao, yeah dude i haven't paid for a movie in like 4 years!
Power Wash Simulator ftw
>>538241063So he's obsessed with being an alpha because he has no being an alpha in real life? Checks out. I always thought his self-consciousness-oriented flexes were pretty funny, but at the end of the day drop him on a desert island with 100 other people and this egotistic manlet is not coming out the alpha. He is a problem a real leader takes care of pretty early on.
>>538238667The problem isn't the price. Modern gaming sucks, and if you've been playing for at least two decades, there's nothing new to play. The only thing that has changed is the graphics, but the FPS games released today are the same as the ones released 30 years ago. You just get bored of playing the same thing over and over again.The only thing that would make me go back to gaming is if the AI was so good that you felt like you were talking to a real person. Imagine that in a game like Skyrim. The AI makes its own decisions and creates its own narrative. That would be interesting.
>>538238667Because a big theatrical Taiwan blockade is coming. Screencap it you demented poofters
>>538239386Damn jews really are jewish
>>538238667I have a PC that is of good spec, so I'm not worried unless something breaks, but I was thinking about selling it and buying a saltwater fish tank and maybe an RC plane or boat or something fun like a Vespa.
Define suddenly expensive
>>538250724>The only thing that has changed is the graphicsnot truethe gameplay is worse with less tight, watered down design to create the illusion you're getting more for your money (only works if you're a casual subhuman)
A new corsair one is EXTREMELY affordable and i just got edf6 on sale for like 50% off, try having a job maybe?
>>538250795I wanna buy a high powered telescope and start mapping out the sky myself instead of trusting jews
>>538239004I tried bolt action, played as the good guys of course, was pretty comfy
>>538250996That's a good idea.
>>538242738>Really angry people are more likely to sign up and go to war for Isr- I mean the US.STFU you absolute retard. I fucking hate summer newfags
>>538238667Why are video games expensive. I have NO idea what you're talking about? I remember Super Mario 3 on the NES being $50 in 1990 money. That was expensive. Games today are cheaper.
>>538249480>GaBeCubeOhhh okay. That makes sense then.
>>538238740Graphics hardware that's become more expensive because of AI and RAM price fixing isn't something you can pirate. It still might become unaffordable to play the games you want, even if you don't pay for them, because of the hardware needed to run them
>>538251114I've been noticing super weird shit in the sky lately too and lots of bizarre moons, seems like it would be really worth it although I know fuck all about telescopes Chatgpt helps a ton. Good luck with you potential tank/rc car I'd triple check the tank though apparently it's like a huge pain in the ass to maintain
>>538238667Its not so bad.
>>538239099Price of games might be going up, but that isn't the real issue. Price of hardware has sky rocketed thanks to the stupidity going on with AI data centers. Steam box was supposed to be 700€ console like pc, they had to cut back RAM and SSD and it still costs well over 1k.
