>Borderlands 4 $98Why are games so bloody expensive in Australia
should've been born a human you silly kangaroo
crikey!
>>724931068Used to be because they had to be shipped here.Now it's just because Australians are used to overpaying for everything else.
Our dollars are worth less than US ones you knowThat said buying AAA on launch is for suckers no matter where you live
>>724931068cause we are a poor country.
>>724931068There are a few games I would be fine paying 98 dinkums for but not a fucking borderlands game.I remember N64 games used to cost over 100 back in the day too. If anything game inflation isn't so bad in Aus because it was fucked from the start.
Melbourne...
>>724931068Why would you want to play that dogshit?
do ozzys play anything other than looter shooters, rust and mil-sims?
>>724931068WOOOOOOOOOOOWa whole 3 extra dollars
>>724931068Bloody drongo doesn't know about fanatical and greenmangaming.
>>724931365Every person in this photo is a chinkDo like the skyscraper that looks like its clipping into itself
>>724931365what and ugly city
Brissy
>>724931454Ozzy online gaming is so dire that you are happier when you get south east asians on your teams.All the low skill floor games are full of retarded stoned/methed bogans and all the high skill floor games are dead or full of petty narcissistic game throwers.
>>724931606Compared to what?
>Thinly veiled /soc/ thread full of le Aussie lingo not even pretending to be about video gamesIt's pathetic how Australians literally beg for acknowledgement and relevance everywhere they go
Why does Melbourne cause so much seethe and anger
>>724931856Everybody loves us except Israel. Stay salty
>>724931789my home city of Budapest, Hungary
>>724931068just done play borderlands you normie cuntproblem solved
>>724932012It's definitely an ugly ass city compared to almost any city in Yurop. t. Melbourne man
>>724932012That isn't a very representative picture of Melbourne, just 1 old notable building in it.Also euro cities had hundreds of more years to build up, and in a period where building aesthetics hadn't been ruined by post modernism yet. Melb bats above average when compared to that category of cities since we at least kept some of the nice old by australian standards buildings.Better looking city than most similarly populated american cities at the very least.Videogames
>>724932242Post the most kino buildings in Australia
>>724931858the greens
Sydney...
>>724931858It's Australia's San Francisco.
>>724931068>Why are games so bloody expensive in Australiaour government doesn't want us to have a competitive economy so our dollar is worth shit
>>724931124I guess you could say he went... down under
>>724932315Don't remind me.
>>724931124I bet this retard went and saved skippy, despite kangroos now being pests due to deforestration by the white man.
>>724932460How would you even do that without losing your genitals? Roos can swim anyway and we eat them too.
>>724931365why are there so many bollards?
>>724932290The Royal Exhibition Building is pretty nice, but an obvious answer. Thing is our oldest stuff isn't even that old so it doesn't really compare to the old euro cities.We were actually going to tear this building down and the fookin Queen of England had to step in and tell us to stop being retarded.
>>724932710we had an incident years ago when someone went on a rampage and rammed people.
>>724931610god i want to fuck bluey
>>724932220It seemed more kino when it was a comfy port city, back when it was full of mostly Europeans. Now it has became some soulless economic hub with millions of chinks, jeets and arabs imported and cheaply built glass towers everywhere.
>>724932460>deforestration by the white manthis is top tier bait.
The valley..
>>724932768>It seemed more kino when it was a comfy port cityQRD on Melbourne history?
>>724931858africans and muslims everywhere, knife crime out of control, female judges constantly letting violent criminals free with a slap on the wrist, left wing, full of lefticucks. gee, i dunno. most of my friends are samoan and cook islanders, we all vote One Nation.
>>724932402Jealous of the greatest city on Earth and the monument to AVSTRALIAN superiority
>>724932290the 1995 power rangers movie was filmed in sydney so there are a bunch of buildings in ittheres the queen victoria building
>>724931068>another gay nigger aussie thread for them to self-fellate on
>>724932836It was founded by Batman screwing over the natives. Then got big during the gold rush
>>724932874
>>724931068>if you are a fan, you'll make it happen-Randy "fuck you, poorfags" Pitchford
>>724932987don't care
>>724932328nah that's sydney
>>724932798Not pictured, the 20 drugged up grotesque homeless fuckers just around the corner begging for $5 for "coffee"
>>724931858Melbourne is actually a nice cityt.Sydneysider
What's it like living in Fortitude Valley?
>>724932290The cathedral in Bendigo is one of the last (or might be the last?) gothic cathedrals built in the world, finished in the 70s. It's amazing in person, my picture doesn't do it justice.
>>724933820People live in the valley?
>>724931858I know two seperate people in my life who have lost a son and grandson to random African gang violence
American in Australia. Australia is just an extension of the USA these days.>No culture of their own >Only thing to do at night is go to night clubs, drugs, sports, break into cars, and get tattoos >Population is globohomo mystery meat>Cities are dominated by the same USA conglomerates and megacorporations>US TV shows, movies, music dominates the local culture>Entire population under 40 has been raised on US internet and US culture>In many cases the youth use American English more than Australian English>Brisbane only has hotels, rooftop bars and drugs in the valley>Gold Coast homeless and number of people living below the poverty line>Sydney only has malls and the Opera House, Bridge and Sydney Harbour>Melbourne only has homeless everywhere in the CBD, the cocaine culture and St Kilda beach>Australian cities generally consist of a small center, referred to as the CBD (Central Business District), surrounded by an increasingly endless sprawl of suburbs>Regional towns only have ice and meth>Uni is full of Chinese and Indians >Car industry is gone>No industries. Everything is outsourced and imported>The inability to merge, give way, general courtesy on the road is disgusting>Aussies love gambling, Melbourne cup, Australian online pokies>paying 15-20 bucks for a pint of beer means it's too expensive to have a night out>a lot of restaurants in the BD have jacked up their prices recently — some by as much as 30%. When I asked a few owners why, they all said the same thing: rent hikes>Brisbane and Gold Coast women are the most shallow superficial materialistic gold digging women
>>724932730I've gotta be there tomorrow for my uni exam. Feels good.
>>724934217>I know two seperate people in my life who have lost a son and grandson to random African gang violenceIs Melbourne really that bloody bad nowadays
>>724931068Because your currency is worth less.
Why did Brits hate Aussies?The empire didn't give a fuck about you. If you were alive during those days, you would have been sacrificed in a retarded war by British commanders who thought your life meant less because you were a colonial. Australians who worked in or visited the UK for decades were looked down upon because they came from "the colonies".
>>724934341>Is Melbourne really that bloody bad nowadaysThe kicker is neither of them are actually from Melbourne, we're all from the country, so it doesn't even take regular exposure for the risk to catch up with you.I've also had a knife pulled on me at Cranbourne if you count that as Melbourne too
>>724934259>The inability to merge, give way, general courtesy on the road is disgustingI live in the Melbourne burbs and if anything the exact opposite happens more often. I often get fucking retards trying to give me right of way when they clearly have it. I drive a lot for my job too. There are some assholes out there, but they are rarer.
>>724931124why is there a row of missiles in the water?
>>724935068to be ready for chinacleverly disguised as pier bollards
>>724931365Why did Melbfags stop saying their city is better all of a sudden?
Soon
>>724934259>>No culture of their ownDefine culture
>>724931068it's a brown shithole
>>724937141Based tasmaniaEven china doesnt want them
>>724931068Monopoly money50usd = 100aud
>>724937256Aren't all holes that shit comes from brown?
>>724932460okay rameesh
>>724937141post a higher quality version
>>724937141was this the same wolf warrior diplomat who fucks ladyboys?
>>724931124One of these dunces banged into the side of my car the other night when I was driving homeWoulda plowed right into it if I hadn't ducked to the side a bit to try and avoid it
>>724934259bro im about to fly over there dont do this to megotta be better than bongistan
>>724937578Yeah its not that bad, at least not yet.Defs better than the shit going on in bongistan
>>724931124I care more about that single roo than I do every jeet, chink, and abo put together.
>>724932710its a busy street next to one of the busiest train stations
>>724937578>gotta be better than bongistanIt will be, unless you're going to Sydney or Melbourne
WE'RE GOIN TO FUCKIN BENDIGO TO GET ME GREEN CUBE
>>724937354mine is pink
>>724937421That's pretty much every major city on the planet now. Shits fucked.
>>724937004because they left to live in queensland and are eternally seething because everyone up there hates them
>>724931068How do I get PR as an EU expat with no college degree and no career? I can't do partner Visa because I'm a huge autist.
>>724937759>>724938235
>>724931068Isnt minimum wage like $20 an hour there lmao
>>724931068Get rekt m8 kek
I got offered a PhD in Brisbane. I thought it would be cool to live in straya for a bit but damn you guys surely hate your PhD students. First of all the stipend is abysmal. It's literally a joke. In euros it's like 1600€ per month and it's not even enough to afford an apparent - you have to share room with jeets. This is utterly unacceptable.Then when looking for some rooms I realized that every landlord is some very greedy thirdworlder ass or some boomer. No normal people just selling rent, only some Ms. Zheng Zhu writing you a list of what you shouldn't do when you pay for a shitty room more money that you would spend on a two room apartment in central Europe.And the final deal-breaker was the way I was treated when applying. Apparently only women and turdwordlers get preferential threatment. They got some special stipend and shit like that. Are you guys retarded? A stipend of another 800€ per month just because you don't have a dick? And after seeing this I should just accept the offer knowing I'm some second rate despite coming from prestigious uni in Europe? You damn kangaroos should be sucking my balls try
>>724938773Been like this for decades Only barely surviving here as a neet because I own my place with my fat titty momIf it wasn't for busty Aussie girls I'd have left a long time ago
>>724938625if you got money you could marry me no homo, aussy that could use the cash
>>724938773Yes Australia hates nerds. Australia is also the land of tall poppy syndrome.It is a bit better than it used to be in that regard even though its still shit
>>724939013Australia is a shithole with nice weather It's been horrible here since 2019 and got bad around 2012
>>724938908How much money are we talking aboot?
>Moving to melbourne from TownsvilleI'm fucked aren't I? It's the only place that I could get a job.
>>724931068Isn't 1 aussie dollar like 25 eurocents?
>>724935015If Dashcams Australia has taught me anything, it is that even if it is rare you gotta look out for dipshits, especially Ford Rangers with P plates.
>>724939287thats cool, I've moved from Melbourne to Townsville
>>724932987>no troons or naked dudes in dog masksLooks a lot more wholesome than the amerimutt fag parades.
>>724939275you got enough to let me leach off you and be a neet? 32 and got a huge backlog i want to get down before i die
>>724931068The last game I bought was nuclear option. It wasn't that expensive.The last game I played was a TTW modpack on FNV/FO3, which were games I bought over a decade ago. I have extracted hundreds of hours of value from those two games and continue to do so.If you waste money on normslop, especially overpriced normslop, you have no right to complain about games being bloody expensive.
>”I get to live in the most beautiful country with the highest QoL on earth, why do I have to also pay slightly more for video games”I was sick twice this year so I don’t get to see my family for Christmas.
>>724931068physical stores forced game publishers to have price parity and publishers were happy to do so because it means more money on digital sales
>>724939784>Highest QoL>Dropped from most livable to Most unaffordable cities in the world in just 5 yearslollmaovideo game prices are going up faster than wages
>>724932798Based brisfag (literal fag in this case)
>>724934259You’re not wrong. Seeing new Starbucks locations open up after their initial failure years ago is proof enough that we’re just becoming an extension of the US.
>want to buy a house>look at sales history of some addresses>sold for $80k 20 years ago ($150k adjusting for inflation)>same property now costs $650k after it’s been subdivided This is fucked
>>724940071You guys love to shit on the US but then line up for miles when someone ships in stale Crumbl cookies to resell.Butterboy in Manly has better cookies than crumbl any day
>>724940071Who are the fucks that drink that shit to begin with? Every person I interact with on a regular always talk shit about it while going to their local cafe.At least Taco Bell never got their claws in.
>>724939784Cost of living is fucked. Renting a room is almost as expensive as the cost of renting an entire house. A million no longer gets a mansion, now normal suburbia houses are around 700k with competitive offers reaching 800k. You used to be able to buy an ok house for around 400-500k. Grocery prices are fucked, as an example, the per kg price of apples have doubled. All this in a decade. Everyone I talk to, especially couples who want to buy their first home, take on faustian mortgages or are forced to live in rentals. The reserve bank JUST refused to lower interest rates. We are fucked.
>>724931124>tried to double jumpkek
>>724940212I don’t know but when the one near me opened it was packed. Genuinely disgusted me.
>>724934259>>>/g/107100784crossposting /g/ay
>>724940378People say this but never mention the proliferation of bubble tea.
>>724931365I prefer Sydney.>>724931610Never been.
>>724931606Melbourne mogs whatever shithole you come from
>>724940235I don't know how we are going to survive economically, everything is fucking masked by Real Estate and mining, but what happens when that all dries up? We used to have a strong as fuck manufacturing sector.
>>724939352Like 60 so it's pretty much a normal 60€ game
Any Radelaide ITT
>>724940557I don't care what anybody says, Adelaide banning political lobbying is fucking based
>>724940235Same shit is happening everywhere. At least you guys got healthcare and mandated leave before your government fucked the housing market.
>>724940557Yeah
>>724940484trvththink it's time for a flat white and some late night gaming...
>>724932872>one nationhahaahha
>>724931858where I live rn is in that picturehaven't lived here that long but its kind of w/e, before I moved here I thought the grid layout was a reasonable idea, but jfc does it mean there are so many traffic lights and needing to wait all the time. basically never drive now though which is a plus.Pretty much none of my interests really benefit from being in the city vs where I used to live which was far less urban. I guess I can play card games more often, as there are basically events running every day, but it isn't as if more people come to individual tournaments since they run so often. If I didn't get paid a boatload to move here for work I would never come, I had considered moving to a major city before, but after it nah definitely was not a good idea.
>>724934259Yeah but at least we arent a third world shithole like the US.
>>724940557please don't mention my city online, don't defile it
>>724940212there is a taco bell near me and I go to this local burger place right next door to it, the only people I ever see in the taco bell are the weirdest people, genuinely don't understand why. none of my friends have any interest in itthe amount of alt girls I am doing something with and go to stop for burgers on the way back and then they say we should go there next time is kind of also absurd to me. but I guess they are weird to so its par for the course.
>>724941098There was one near me but it got mogged so hard by GYG and Zambreros that they left.
>>724941165Theres a GYG being built near me atm. Is it any good?
>>724941237I've found it varies based on individual store, the one near me does the stuff nicely.
>>724940672>got healthcareMedicare is about to fucking implode in the next decade or so. >>724940524Probably figure out line doesn't need to always go up, an economy just needs to exist in order to facilitate purpose and excellence, maintain needed national infrastructure/capabilities, and the provision of services and goods beyond basic needs to a good level of comfort. Or at least I feel like that's all an economy needs to do.
>>724941165yeah there are like 5 gyg near me.I also don't go to them because I cook a disgusting amount of mexican cuisine at home so I never really want it when I am eating out or getting take out, but its at least decent and the point stands.i've never been to zambreros but googling to see if there one near me to scope it out says there are 4 within about a 15min walk from my place, which is actually shocking that I never noticed them.
Australia would be the greatest country on earth if we weren't run by corrupt dickheads and mining corporations.
>>724932979How did it go to become a far left leaning city?
I feel like 25% of this country's employment and cash flow comes from the NDIS at this point. And they don't fund vidya.
>>724940831ieep laughing cuck, islanders and whites are essentially privying ourselves against you.
>>724941339I agree, but our corruption is still lesser than that of most other places at least.That fat slag gina rinehart can't die soon enough though. Absolutely disgusting human on every level
>>724941606I voted for the greens though
>>724941661Are you missing a chromosome?
>>724941793No I have a bonus one.
>>724941793greens at least have morals, fucked up ones, but still. the libnats are just grifting or pro grifting. it's not menzies' day anymore.
>>724941793Tasmania fucked up so bad that it has a Liberal/Teal/Greens minority government right now, so he may be.
>>724941573Unions mostly. The eureka stockade happened in Victoria during the gold rush which started the australian union movement and Labor party. The eureka stockade was about gold diggers being way overcharged for mining licenses and shit, and the diggers revolted for a night. Diggers got slapped by the local military but the government caved on the totalitarian bullshit and the diggers won the moral victory. Melbourne is the closest major city and it mostly lived on there.I know Americans will react badly to the word unions, but ours were setup and integrated into the political system in a much much more sensible way than in the US, so they actually get some things done sometimes and arent entirely controlled opposition. They also were never as big a hotbed for corruption and crime like in the US. Also far left is not really a fair description. The Labor party is centrist as fuck compared to the democrats in the US and they are the most dominant party in the state.
>>724941914nah, the unions were alright. they weren't middle class, and the greens are THE middle class party. they feud with labor and the unions.
>>724940557Yeah. When are we meeting up?
I dunno what to say anymore. Australia is fucked, these '''white''' zoomers seem to hate australian culture and want it replaced by American and Chinese influencer shit. There's a war coming.
>>724941979Go to bed and stop smoking pot
>>724931124spoiler that shit!
>>724941869>greens at least have moralshow many bridges have you bought? because i've got some magic beans to sell
>>724942161hear this, i'm not listening to a guy who mentions unions in his explanation of smellbum having greens in batman
>>724942256>>724941869Yeah the greens are the biggest hypocrites in the game. They would skin every koala alive if it won them a few more seats.
>>724931068Don't you guys have $25 min wage?
>>724942305you mean the greens the politicians, or the greens the voter base?every federal politician would do crime for a seat
>>724942260Melbourne literally voted out the greens leader last election. Melbourne has turned on them hard because of all their retarded policy cockblocking that made no sense if you were to believe their party line.
>>724942354Polis. Green voters are either retarded students, or wealthy boomers looking to virtue signal. Either way they are grossly mis/uninformed about the party they vote for
>>724942401you sure that's not just immigrants changing the demographics?
>>724942702I'm not entirely ruling out that influence, but Adam Bandt's seat in Melbourne was predicted to be the greens safest seat in the federal election, and they got turned on really hard.Victoria is a labor state, and the greens had been fucking with labor super hard leading up to to that election. And that was on policies that on paper the greens voter base would be in favour of too.There was was redrawing of district lines for the seat of Melbourne compared to last election too so that likely had more influence then straight up demographic change.Also Peter Dutton did such a very bad job campaigning for the Libs that it actually triggered many people to vote labor simply to keep him from becomming pm, which drew votes away from the greens too.
>>724942330thats not usd and everything is inflated over hear 90% of your pay will go to rent
Every new game is $110 now. I remember when I used to get new games for $80. I can’t justify buying any of them. I just wait for sales. I hate inflation. Everything keeps getting more and more expensive and my salary has barely budged. My fucking CTP insurance just doubled for no fucking reason recently. Just give me a break already.
UBI when?
>>724937421Isn’t this a bit disingenuous? Every major city has immigrants and they tend to congregate into their own communities. If I took a camera to Harris Park you would think all of Sydney is just Indians. If I took it to Burwood you would think it’s just Chinese. If it took it to Granville you would think it’s just muslims. Manly is dominated by white Brits.
>>724943321In your wildest dreams.
Australian men are chads yet they do nothing with their lives. Do you even get laid or are you competing with other chads so only the chadliest of chads get the Asian poon?
>>724943023good survey of reasons
>>724943724idiot generalist
>>724943563none of those groups except the white brits should be here
>>724943563>Every major city has immigrants and they tend to congregate into their own communities.This is a sydney problem first and foremost. It does happen in melbourne, but to a lesser extent. Look at the census data and you'll find that Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, are less ghettoized. Probably the geography of sydney.
Could be worse, imagine being a kiwihaha
>>724940687indeed indeed(gotta have some sloppa first tho)
>>724944685Anything of worth NZ makes gets siphoned to AUS and anything of worth AUS makes is siphoned the the US.Australia should honestly just annex NZ and save on paperwork. Kiwis probably would actually want this soon if their country keeps going like this
That'll be 130 AUD for DK Bananza, bossman.
>>724932290sydney mogs yet again
>>724945152https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSryPGMb-tQ
>>724941979>greensare parasitic retardsevery member should be exiled as a traitor.
>>724931495retard
>>724932987i want to fuck the rainbow serpent
>>724937141>all the whites go to tassy
>>724931068My australian co-worker said that if you are good at any form of art then you need to leave australia asap to achieve any form of success. How true is this? And if so, why?
>>724946590It's pretty true. America is just a far bigger market for most arts and arts programs and funding boards are notoriously shit here.Music scene is fucked because every pub is just full of poker machines instead of live music so it's very hard to break into as a touring musician, even worse now after covid.America poaches any real film talent we have, and the vast majority of our tv is absolute slop anyway.
>>724931068US/UK/AUS bro here. I don't understand it either. Like I get WHY it used to be like that way back when, even up to the early late 2000s. Aus is out of the way of/path of most shipping lanes. Adding the country to your list of shit increases costs, etc etc (the amount can be debated but that is irrelevant).In twenty twenty fucking five, there is no excuse. Australia has a not insignificant population and shit can be manufactured locally, but again that is also irrelevant. It makes no fucking sense to me that DIGITAL GOODS STILL COST SO FUCKING MUCH and internet costs an arm an a leg, like even worse in some cases than American internet.
>>724945152Sydney U fucking mogs hard.
>HURR FUCK SYDNEY>HURR FUCK MELBOURNE>ARARARARA>Meanwhile, in cozy Perth
>>724948579in 2010-2015ish the AUD was more than the USD, like 85cents for 1 USD at some points (so if you wanted to buy something that was 100 USD it would cost you 85 AUD), this was after it was quite the opposite for many years at around 90 USD for 1 AUD.Before this period, when the AUD was lower, it was STILL cheaper for me to buy games from the UK and get them shipped here than it was to buy locally, who cares if I spend $60-70 AUD and like $5-10 shipping when buying the game locally is like $90-100 AUD. When the AUD got stronger and stronger game prices dropped a little bit, but buying a game for $80-90 when the equivalent price should be $45-50 was insane, it was WAY cheaper to just buy shit and get it shipped.It at least makes sense why games cost how much they do with the AUD being weaker, it isn't that different, but for over 20 years ending a few years ago games were anywhere from 40-110% more expensive and there was no reason to buy games domestically. Steam was hilarious because it often had no regional pricing set depending on the developer, so a game would end up in stores at like $90 on PS3/4 and be on steam for like $40 for PC. Even PC hardware had huge markups but no where near as bad as games and you had a lot more opportunity to shop around than such fixed pricing stores had for games.Interestingly enough Australia has a significantly higher percentage of people who games than the US, but having less than 1/11th of the population is a significant number to overcome.
>>724949280>Perthi would agree before it got hit with a gvke(gentrified nuke)
>>724948657we need more buildings like thisdeport 2 million browns so we dont have a housing crisis anymorethen put those tradies to use building REAL buildings.in this styleno more modern steel and glass slop.
>>724949280>AmericanI should like Perth, but I really don't. Every time I'm there I want to leave. I'd just rather be in NSW or Queensland
our government doesn't care if you're homeless, unless you're a brown or black. then they are obligated to pretend to care. waltz sing matilda!
Normal jobs in australia is like 100k, isnt it? $100 for a game isnt much at all.
>>724949674>waltz singretard
>>724931124piece o'piss!
>>724949770okay nigger.
>>724949742>Normal jobs in australia is like 100ktry 60kso just under 40k usd.but wages havent actually risen(same as everywhere else) so 60k was great... 15 years ago.(60k in 2010 is almost 90k today)so the median earner FEELS as if they take home 20-30k less per year.(i think my retard math is correct but idk)which is where the "cost of living crisis" comes from
>>724932290i like the ps2 building
>>724952336True blue aussie hero. Those bouncing rats needed to be reminded who is boss
>>724951953source?
>>724952673568 collins street melbourne
