Their games should be free at this point
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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I'm so glad I haven't bought an EA game since Battlefield 1942.
I’m not at all defending advertisements because, like every single person on earth, I hate them. However, the constant complaint that ~games are expensive~ is more and more becoming absolutely out of touch. Considering how complex modern games are from a software standpoint, they are fucking cheap as hell. $60 for (generally speaking) 40+ hours of entertainment is a goddamn bargain, not to mention they’ve mostly been priced the same for the better part of two decades. Y’all realize actual people make these things right? People who need to be paid for the work they do? Of all the absolute shit that happens behind the scenes and in plain daylight in the gaming industry, I think we can find better things to bitch about than the price of games.
What about DLCs? And micro-transactions? And lack of optimisations? Base games these days are more like beta versions of what used to be provided in the past... It kinda feels like shrinkflation, price is the same but you get a lot less, both in quality and quantity.
I think we can find better things to bitch about than the price of games.
I'm sure you're right about that. But this topic isn't about games being too expensive. It's about ads being forced on people with no compensation. (Many people don't want ads under any circumstances, while some people say they would accept ads if they get financially compensated.)
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