[a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / vg / vm / vmg / vr / vrpg / vst / w / wg] [i / ic] [r9k / s4s / vip] [cm / hm / lgbt / y] [3 / aco / adv / an / bant / biz / cgl / ck / co / diy / fa / fit / gd / hc / his / int / jp / lit / mlp / mu / n / news / out / po / pol / pw / qst / sci / soc / sp / tg / toy / trv / tv / vp / vt / wsg / wsr / x / xs] [Settings] [Search] [Mobile] [Home]
Board
Settings Mobile Home
/v/ - Video Games


Thread archived.
You cannot reply anymore.


[Advertise on 4chan]


File: 1756907813338.png (512 KB, 598x780)
512 KB
512 KB PNG
>wokies upset silksong is only $20
so these woke indie devs now want to create a cartel to fix prices?
>>
Purposefully underselling your game to destroy the market deserves criticism. Most of these devs can afford to live in LA as it is.
>>
>>719821978
Twitter screen cap
>>
>>719821978
Indie games should be more expensive, you have zero excuse as you have steam sales.
>>
>>719821978
If a digital game is over 15 then I am either going to wait on a sale or pirate.
>>
>>719821978
their buge, their choice
>>
>raise the price and actually profit
Psycho Patrol R has sold a fraction of what Cruelty Squad at its fucking ridiculous price of $40. Cruelty Squad at $20 has 20K reviews and PPR has 2K at $40.
What a joke.
>>
They should unionize
>>
maybe they should make their games good?
>>
>>719821978
>sell thing for cheap
>more people buy thing because it's cheap
>six years of hype don't hurt, either
I wonder what drives people to ignore the simple, intuitive truths of economics...
>>
>trannypeteia dev reposted
>>
>make a shit game, sells for 80
>make a good game, sells for 40

Now guess who'll make a profit.
>>
But why are conservatives too retarded to make videogames?
>>
>>719821978
Kek i'll always be amazed at how entitled people are regarding what is functionally a per-product gig economy
>companies should be forced to play fair and forsake marketing advantages
>retards, browns and women are owed job positions in the industry too
>wtf why all the layoffs and bankrupt companies????
>>
>>719824214
FnaF and Minecraft sold more than 20 of your favorite libshit franchises combined?
>>
>>719824214
Too busy breeding and having other more productive hobbies instead of shiteogaymes
>>
>>719821978
NYPA tell someone who cares normalturd
>>
Did retarded lefty devs forget that Silksong was a Kickstarter goal for the original Hollow Knight fundraiser? They’re selling it for cheap because in theory the whole game (i.e. including the expansion) was already paid for.
>>
>>719821978
$20 is still too expensive, indie games shouldn't cost more than $15
>>
>>719821978
all socialism/communism/fascism is about cartels and fixing prices. that's the entire economic model. that's literally what unions are.
>>
>>719824214
Having the drive and intelligence to actually accomplish the task of learning how to make and finish video games usually prevents you for being dumb enough to be conservative.
>>
>>719824372
>Too busy breeding
lol the only countries breeding at replacement levels are 3rd world countries
>>
File: image.jpg (1.3 MB, 2048x2048)
1.3 MB
1.3 MB JPG
>entitled asshole wants more money
time to boycott another wokie's game
>>
You can raise the price, do it, why don't you? Oh because no one will buy your game at release and wait for a sale because that's what everyone does when you try and charge more than $20 for a metroidvania or indie, it's a $20 genre and you cannot escape that
>>
>>719823502
It's simply asking too much
>>
How about I pay nothing motherfucker
>>
>>719825426
Who are deeply conservative funny enough.
>>
>>719821978
We had this thread yesterday
>>
>>719825426
You should look at the birthrate by voting habits in furst world.
>>
>>719821978
Wokies would just encouraging piracy if their games weren't so shit that people would actually want to pirate them.
>>
>>719821978
Can't even read the name of whatever that pretentious shit on the left is
>>
>>719823340
Psycho Patrol R is also still in early access.
>>
File: 1728127456456648.jpg (551 KB, 640x480)
551 KB
551 KB JPG
>>719822145
Purposefully underselling the game to destroy the market deserves praise. I want urbanite scum devs to suffer and be homeless. Pic unrelated.
>>
>>719821978
Hollow Knight was $15
>>
>>719826818
least spiteful communist
>>
>>719827034
I'm not a communist, I'm a Cronyist. I believe that people I like should have money and power and people that I don't like should sit and spin. I don't like people from big cities, big cities in general, even medium sized cities and their inhabitants make me sick and I believe that none of them have the ability to think in creative ways anymore - as such the games made by people who have never experienced the world outside of those great and terrible concrete jungles all suck and look the same. We need the indie market to get flooded with games full of ideas conjured by mountain man autists who have never seen a black person in their lives. I will also specify that this disdain isn't inherently political, it is upstream of their politics - the noise and hustle and bustle of their urban environments does horrible things to the psyche and that is exhibited in everything they make.
>>
>>719828159
>A human being actually typed all of this
Grim
>>
>>719824372
Yet you stay on the video game board, curious.
>>
>>719828312
hit a nerve
>>
>>719821978
>nooooo you should pay 45 dollars for my 5 hour side-scrolling pixel slop
Fuck all indie devs.
>>
>>719828632
Kinda? But at least you admit you come here for political recruitment and shitflining.
>>
>>719825326
>usually prevents you for being dumb enough
Bravo saar
>>
>>719822145
>he thinks they're doing this to deliberately crash the market
take your fucking meds, tranny
>>
File: 1752950806496933.jpg (206 KB, 840x962)
206 KB
206 KB JPG
>solo devs are destroying the industry
>low prices are destroying the industry
Why are indies like this now? Are freeware and autism projects destroying the market too?
>>
>>719821978
>le wokies are upset indieslop is priced like indieslop!
You're not gaslighting me into buying your indieslop
>>
File: 1755532670399274.jpg (58 KB, 992x933)
58 KB
58 KB JPG
>>719821978
as a gamedev from /agdg/ i have to say that i hate gamers, you're all disgusting low IQ bandwagoning normaltroon pieces of shit, do you know how much work goes into making a game? THEN we get fleeced by steam (30% btw) THEN we get fleeced by VAT, THEN we get fleeced by publishers if we have any, THEN we get fleeced by taxes, when we sell a game we dont even see a third of what you pay
of course you disgusting veddit gamerpigs have no empathy so go ahead laugh at us indie gamedevs while gaben makes billions shitting up the pc market, you deserve AAA slop, you deserve gambleslop, you deserve MTX, you deserve enshitification, you deserve black rock
TGD
>>
>>719832201
>VAT
L m a o
>>
>>719832201
>seething over steam as if they're the only ones with the 30% cut when it actually goes lower the more successful your game is.
you deserve to be poor ,we owe you nothing.
>>
just put the fries in the bag bro
>>
File: 1744791491541397.png (2 KB, 289x20)
2 KB
2 KB PNG
Opinion discarded lmoa
>>
File: 1756465827071034.jpg (213 KB, 1737x587)
213 KB
213 KB JPG
>>719832419
keep bootlicking the billionaires making money from our hardwork, commie gamerpig
>>
>>719832201
Not reading all that, make better games if you want money.
>>
File: 1755899244345806.png (1.01 MB, 940x1008)
1.01 MB
1.01 MB PNG
>>719832992
you wouldnt play "better games" you would play whatever slop your favorite streamer told you to or astroturfed garbage
lets be real honest here the average gamer plays dogshit games, look at the monthly steam top 20
>>
>>719832201
>itch.io
ouch
>>
>>719832693
Valve is genuinely more pro-consumer
>>
>>719832508
/ourguy/ thougheverbeit
>>
>>719833131
no? they invented lootboxes
they made you forget that retail games dropped in price permanently
they literally hire jewish psychiatrists to make you buy more shit you do not need, etc
shut the fuck up retarded gamerpig, they're fucking you in the ass and you're clapping
>>
>>719833091
Games are subjective, what you find good other may find bad and vice versa
>>
>>719823340
>Psycho patrol R
Dev himself fucking hate it. Just read all his shizo-posting in updates section.
>>
>>719833370
this is the kind of logic that leads to believe that men can become women
>>
>>719832201
>Nothing about a game, all about money
Back in a fucking days, devs make flash-games for free just because they wanted to say something with them, not for few bucks.
>>
>>719833525
>anon can't stop thinking about trannies
that's on you
games are subjective, that's fact
>>
File: 1726090631579492.jpg (90 KB, 1375x774)
90 KB
90 KB JPG
>>719833808
standards then were much lower, you could make a game in a few weekends and the sponsorship for sitelocked flash games was quite good
i made more money with my flash games then than 2 games on steam post taxes and getting fleeced lol, even my youtube animations made more than highly time consuming games
>>719833912
moral relativism is retarded, some games are slop and they get pushed by streamers or astroturfed campaigns, welcome to the real world
>>
Advice for devs: If you want people to play your game, keep the price low. Vampire Survivors would never be as profitable as it is if the game costed $20
>>
>>719835164
thats not a game thats a skinnerbox tough
some of us are making ludokino
>>
>>719833265
Remember that from the leaked court case with Epic games that Sweeney wanted to hire paid influencers to interrupt Steams positive word of mouth.
Remember that there are actual paid third worlders who spam here on /v/ to talk negatively about steam.
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/subject/Torchlight%202%20free/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/subject/Ark%20free/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/WSy_ouMSe8D9vnJxSM7clA/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/gFXi1kdjGSuMYwfOZi4VUw%3D%3D/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/text/steam%20drones%20are%20honestly%20pathetic%20at%20this%20point/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/text/Steam%20so%20far%20has%20only%20countered%20with/type/op/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/subject/game%20store%20battle/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/subject/annual%20survey%20valve/type/op/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/subject/earn%20their%2030/type/op/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/subject/world%20war%20z%20pricing/
>>
Food, rent, gas and general cost of living is becoming more and more expensive each passing day.

Thank you team cherry for not being greedy capitalist assholes.
>>
File: 1725635071093851.jpg (298 KB, 1528x1080)
298 KB
298 KB JPG
>>719821978
>drag industry prices down
based
>>
>>719821978
It's a one retard makes a tweet and we act like it's a popular opinion thread. KYS faggot OP
>>
>>719821978
This tweet has less than a hundred views. You're creating drama where none exists.
>>
>>719835892
steam has done some shitty things lately, they are not your friend, no corporation is
>>
>>719824329
Notchtard became a rightoid after Minecraft was done
>>
File: crueltysquad.png (588 KB, 1244x732)
588 KB
588 KB PNG
>>719821978
>raise your price and actually profit

what's this fool talkin about? Cruelty Dev's been a millionaire already, he's just doin it for the game lookin how much he can squeeze
But for real, that nigga fucked himself.

Comparatively speaking.
He still made another 1.5 million.


also there's a shit ton of games that profit at a high price as well as at a low price

Fuckin friendslop basically only works at a low price of 10 bucks or less.
For niche games like Dominion 5 you can crank that price up and still pull in cash. That nigga's a millionaire too by the way.
>>
>>719832201
They have Steam Cloud

Next
>>
>>719833091
joseph and hannah were fuckin retards for stealth dropping their game into EA, like come on nigga, use your fuckin brain - people still dont know this game even exists.
>>
Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
>>
>>719821978
Indie devs have forgotten that making video games is a hobby to be done in nights and weekends while you work an real job. If your game can also sell at the end, great, but the fun should be the process of making the game and the enjoyment you get out of people playing and liking it, not the potential monetary gain.
>>
>>719830508
They want to shovel out their own shit while forcing good developers to be just large enough to get their hooks (read women and browns) in.
You could already see this in Zoe Quinn days when the only way for indie to get coverage was to be part of the clique
>>
>>719839051
There seems to be an influx of idiots flooding the scene thinking that they’re entitled to being the next Toby Fox or some shit.
You would think someone willing to quit their job and put all of their eggs in the indie dev basket would be at least a little knowledgeable about the market they are getting into.
>>
>>719839213
>You would think someone willing to quit their job and put all of their eggs in the indie dev basket would be at least a little knowledgeable about the market they are getting into.
Exactly. There are enough free games, not even factoring in piracy and emulators, that you could feasibly go your entire life never paying for a video game and still playing good games. The video game market is beyond super-saturated. If you expect me to toss you a few bucks for your game it has to at least be good or novel, otherwise I'm just going to stick to the many, many games I already own or can play for free.
>>
>>719821978
>peripeteia reposted
>>
>>719833484
This retard hates everything, especially the fans, he's also left leaning
>>
>>719839474
Yeah, 2 shitty barely functional games with muh vibes vs 2 fun games with devs who know their stuff
>>
>>719833484
He is the average finn. Makes 10 million € dollars off his games, still lives in a 30m^2 flat, eats oatmeal twice a day and complains how his thousands of fans "don't get what he was trying to say"



[Advertise on 4chan]

Delete Post: [File Only] Style:
[Disable Mobile View / Use Desktop Site]

[Enable Mobile View / Use Mobile Site]

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective parties. Images uploaded are the responsibility of the Poster. Comments are owned by the Poster.