>buy my first manga>$30 for 400~ pages>finish it in an hour>it's part 1 of 10>meanwhile a videogame is $80 for 30-40hrDo you ever feel disdain for other hobbies? What a waste of money.
>>732201221Just buyfaggotry in general. I switched to grabbing shit free on nyaa and reading it on my kindle.
>>732201221you can read mangas online for free
>>732201221Video games have the best price to fun ratio out of any media out there.
>excited to play a game>buy it, play it, have fun>excited to play a game>pirate it>suddenly have zero desire to play itwhy am I like this
>>732201310>has never bought a C++ textbook
>30 fucking dollaridoosI have never bought manga that is over 1000円
>>732201221just read it again 30 times, its basically what you do in a video game anyway
>>732201393You place no value on something that cost you nothing. With a purchase, you have now spent money and feel you need to get your money's worth.
>>732201221>burgers pay 30$ american dollarydoos for mangarorrmao
All my manga is in Italian since it takes me like 50x longer to read. I didn't even know Italian beforehand. Get on my level.
>>732201221I'd rather not buy things where the creator dies before finishing their work, Books and manga have a high chance you get rugpulled and cucked because the creator died.
>>732201393my main issue is that i download one and never end up even opening it because im too busy having fun with modded minecraft, terraria, monster hunter, or some multiplayer game with e friends
>>732201393Post-purchase justification. Your mind was coping to justify the expense and convince yourself that it was worthwhile whether or not it actually was that good.Pirating is free of such bias. It is the true litmus test to prove whether a game was genuine, pure fun.
>>732202196Just proves my power level is higher than yours.
>>732201393I enjoyed terraria so much that I purchased it after playing nearly 72 hours for free. I still put hundreds more hours into the game afterwards
>>732201951
I don't like anything that costs money.
what mango did you get anon?
>>732201221>602 anime and 100 manga titles completed according to MAL>$0 paidwow it's just like with vidya (minus the sour grapes with denuvo)
>>732201221Do those tiny little manga volumes really cost that much? Thats how much I paid for the first run of animal man and comic books are way bigger
>>732201221Well one is art and text in mostly black and white, the other is an interactive game with audio assets as well as motion video.
>>732201221>he bought into the manga omnibus
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>>732201310That would be TTRPGs.My table splits the bill on rulebooks so we only pay a fraction of the full price and /tg/ blows vidya out of the water because it's both cheaper AND more entertaining. You can play the same system for literal decades and many grognards are still playing with ancient rulebooks.I only play vidya while waiting for the next TTRPG or wargame sesh.You do need IRL friends though to get the most out of them.
>>732202465Why is anime so expensive?
>>732202672>entirety of that arc on Bluray is less than the cost of one volumeMay as well just get the better and still cheaper product.
>>732201393Because now you have skin in the game, pun not intended.
vidya has always been pro consumer, even at the point where it might be too pro consumer to some. The "1 dollar for every hour of entertainment" doesn't really exist with any other entertainment media outside buying TV season sets. people pay with their time instead of thinking of paying with money.
>meanwhile on /lit/400 pages would take me about 10 hours but I'm also taking notes throughout.
>$30 for a book>literally grows on treeskekw
>>732203658>>732203363>reddit spacinggo back
>>732202867Same as vidya, marketing budget
>>732201221I fucking hate reading physical manga. I'd much rather read it on my tablet. Not only is it free instead of vastly overpriced rubbish but it has proper lighting and less errors
>>732201221This is why I always pirate non-vidya mediaThe value to price ratio video games offers is so much betterI bought Arkham Knight for just $5 and i have already put 100+ hours into, and I'm still not close to finishing all the content the game has>>732201393It's because when you buy a game, you feel obligated to play it to see if the money you spent has gone to waste or not.This isn't always the case for me. I got so many physical games a while ago that i don't know when to get around, but have been finishing tons of emulated games recently
>>732206552>bought VVVVVV for $1.49>Steam playtime is 700 hoursyeah, nothing beats vidya
>>732201951That's smart, actually. Build skills while enjoying a hobby.
>>732201221I made the mistake of getting into competitive Magic...Don't plan on ever going pro, and I don't have an interest in playing the meta. But I've stupidly paid for more than I should to make fun decks that at least won't get bodied immediately and on alternative arts because I really like the art.
>>732206961I haven't played since 2012 or so, whenever Scars of Mirrodin rotated out. It used to be a $200 netdeck would steamroll FNM and an event top8 could be either sub-$100 (RDW) or in the $250-350 range, is it about the same now?
Manga is free. Games are free. Skill issue.
>>732207582Some of us aren’t brown.
>>732202672>didnt start with part 1
>literature and art>vs open world/cutscenes/walking slop Modern games wouldn’t be worth it even if they were free.
Do not under any circumstances buy physical manga unless you are importing the actual, unlocalized pages purely for scanning purposes. I repeat, DO NOT support Japanese publishing companies until they fix their shit and stop overcharging for something that is EASIER to pirate than it is to buy OFFICIALLY. If you don't buy books or conics from your own region why the FUCK would you waste money on manga?
>>732206724wtf dude, i have 80 minutes in it because i beat it once
3 > 4 > 2 > 1Only partway through 5 and I'm not a fan.
I never paid more than 10€ for a manga volume. Sounds like a third world (America) problem.
>>732210975You never pay for anything, Pablo
>>732201221I've never understood why movies are so expensive. They're the most one-and-done of all entertainment mediums, and often the shortest. What's the point?
>>732201951Still here? Read the official volumes of Bleach and Soul Eater.
>>732202867>expensiveBruv, we used to have to pay $25 just for three or maybe four episodes on a VHS. Now you get a whole season for under $40.
>>732212414I can get the whole series of a western show for under a hundred.
>>732201221Where the fuck are you buying your manga that it costed you $30 fucking dollars?
>>732201221Read manga for free online and if you love something enough you’ll probably want to get physicals. I only own a few sets like 20th Century Boys, Monster, Bakuman and Shaman King
>>732213218Viz really likes charging extra for Jojo’s and Fist of the North Star so they come packaged in these overpriced, low quality hardcovers.Point of reference, volume releases in Japan are 450 yen, less than 4 US Dollars, and have better print quality on finer paper. Yes, I have directly compared the same series in both formats just to check.
