I’m from a third world country. I still buy games as often as I can, but I also get that these price hikes are stretching people thin. A $70 game is like a third of our monthly minimum wage, it’s a huge chunk of money that people need to live, and most companies don’t bother to adjust it proportionally to our financial situation, even though there is no reason not to do so when it comes to digital media.
That’s just it. First off, I rarely am interested in Capcom games, think the last one I bought was in maybe 2016? (RE7). So this person you are responding to really is going off the handle over a nothing burger, I assure you.
But you’ve hit on an important point, that’s important to discuss. These price hikes are disproportionate to the growth of household earnings, and more importantly, digital media was supposed to drive costs down, and not up for the end consumer. We don’t actually own these games, we more or less lease them. There’s nothing physical anymore. Which is a problem. Not that I don’t like the ease of digital purchases, it’s the fact that at any moment I can be stripped of access to the product. Which makes it a lease or rental, not full ownership. Yet they keep wanting to drive the costs up up up, in light of that fact. It’s getting to be gross behaviour. The products are declining in quality, the costs keep going up, actual ownership of the end product comes into question, and the profits keep going to a smaller and smaller circle of people, some of whom are among the most vile of people alive today.
That person just said in another comment that they have the money. Before you even get to piracy, there’s also the option of purchasing and playing the games that you feel are priced fairly, because that incentivizes more of that to be made at those prices, and those games typically need your money more anyway. As for adjusting prices for different territories, I’m no expert on it, but I understand it might be related to people in stronger economies buying games from cheaper regions with something as simple as a VPN to get a game for a fraction of the price, which at any kind of scale means that that game needs to sell substantially more copies to break even.
Some companies still manage to offer regional prices. It’s more of a matter of poor implementation or even plain indifference. The latter especially when the platform offers that option but the publisher maintains the prices high.
Eh, I won’t speak for that person’s habits but for me piracy was not the last possible resort but rather the entry point that allowed me to develop enough interest that I do buy them today.
And when today the “free” options peddle gambling to children, I cannot take the moral argument seriously even for a second. I would much sooner have people pirate than develop gambling addictions, the publishers be damned.
People also deserve to be paid better but I don’t see that happening. Maybe your revolt could be better aimed than getting all huffy about poor people playing games rather than staring at a wall.
No one deserves to be paid wild money to be able to spend it on luxury items like video game consoles and every game that gets released.
You’re just justifying stealing in the same way people justify looting as “people are starving and stealing to feed their family” while they’re stealing luxury handbags and iPhones.
Just because you can’t afford something it doesn’t give you the right to steal it.
“No one deserves to be paid wild money to spend it on luxury items” but people must pay for them. Huh. Sounds like you don’t think anyone should have games.
Or whatever. Frankly I couldn’t care less what sort of moralizing melodrama you throw at me, it just make it sound like you never had real problems, that something so insignificant gets you worked up.
I could talk about the differences between piracy and stealing, I could talk about the immorality in the gaming industry and the job market, but I doubt you’ll listen so I’ll say this instead: People will still keep pirating because they can and if that bothers you, that’s your problem.
Poverty is also a fact of life. Not everyone can afford every price increase.
Capcom hasn’t even raised prices yet, and this person just swore an oath of piracy rather than waiting for a sale or something.
Maybe they’ve already been buying on sales.
I’m from a third world country. I still buy games as often as I can, but I also get that these price hikes are stretching people thin. A $70 game is like a third of our monthly minimum wage, it’s a huge chunk of money that people need to live, and most companies don’t bother to adjust it proportionally to our financial situation, even though there is no reason not to do so when it comes to digital media.
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That’s just it. First off, I rarely am interested in Capcom games, think the last one I bought was in maybe 2016? (RE7). So this person you are responding to really is going off the handle over a nothing burger, I assure you.
But you’ve hit on an important point, that’s important to discuss. These price hikes are disproportionate to the growth of household earnings, and more importantly, digital media was supposed to drive costs down, and not up for the end consumer. We don’t actually own these games, we more or less lease them. There’s nothing physical anymore. Which is a problem. Not that I don’t like the ease of digital purchases, it’s the fact that at any moment I can be stripped of access to the product. Which makes it a lease or rental, not full ownership. Yet they keep wanting to drive the costs up up up, in light of that fact. It’s getting to be gross behaviour. The products are declining in quality, the costs keep going up, actual ownership of the end product comes into question, and the profits keep going to a smaller and smaller circle of people, some of whom are among the most vile of people alive today.
Enough is enough.
That person just said in another comment that they have the money. Before you even get to piracy, there’s also the option of purchasing and playing the games that you feel are priced fairly, because that incentivizes more of that to be made at those prices, and those games typically need your money more anyway. As for adjusting prices for different territories, I’m no expert on it, but I understand it might be related to people in stronger economies buying games from cheaper regions with something as simple as a VPN to get a game for a fraction of the price, which at any kind of scale means that that game needs to sell substantially more copies to break even.
Some companies still manage to offer regional prices. It’s more of a matter of poor implementation or even plain indifference. The latter especially when the platform offers that option but the publisher maintains the prices high.
Eh, I won’t speak for that person’s habits but for me piracy was not the last possible resort but rather the entry point that allowed me to develop enough interest that I do buy them today.
And when today the “free” options peddle gambling to children, I cannot take the moral argument seriously even for a second. I would much sooner have people pirate than develop gambling addictions, the publishers be damned.
Not everyone deserves to own and play every game that gets released either. Being poor isn’t an excuse to steal.
People also deserve to be paid better but I don’t see that happening. Maybe your revolt could be better aimed than getting all huffy about poor people playing games rather than staring at a wall.
No one deserves to be paid wild money to be able to spend it on luxury items like video game consoles and every game that gets released.
You’re just justifying stealing in the same way people justify looting as “people are starving and stealing to feed their family” while they’re stealing luxury handbags and iPhones.
Just because you can’t afford something it doesn’t give you the right to steal it.
“No one deserves to be paid wild money to spend it on luxury items” but people must pay for them. Huh. Sounds like you don’t think anyone should have games.
Or whatever. Frankly I couldn’t care less what sort of moralizing melodrama you throw at me, it just make it sound like you never had real problems, that something so insignificant gets you worked up.
I could talk about the differences between piracy and stealing, I could talk about the immorality in the gaming industry and the job market, but I doubt you’ll listen so I’ll say this instead: People will still keep pirating because they can and if that bothers you, that’s your problem.
Yes, people that want a luxury item should pay for it 😂. Gaming isn’t an essential human right. You’re not owed every videogame you want.
Also it’s pretty clear that I’m not the one getting worked up here lol.
And here you are arguing still. Totally chill, sure. You even said lol and such
So no one can take a few seconds to reply to posts without being upset? Interesting take on forums.