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Badvertising - Dark Jaguar - 10th May 2024
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/ea-is-looking-at-adding-in-game-ads-in-aaa-games-well-be-very-thoughtful-as-we-move-into-that-says-ceo
EA is going to implement "thoughtful" ads in their games. The way they're talking about it like it'll be a new thing, it sounds like this is going to be a far cry from the billboards in modern cityscapes that games already do. It sounds like gameplay will be interrupted by advertising. And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
I'll just not buy games that do this. I'm not compromising on this, at all. One game stuck a full game interrupting ad inside back in retro days, and it was done as a joke:
Of course, the Tom's Hardware article got this right from the horse's mouth, so they can't say anything bad about it or risk losing access.
RE: Badvertising - Weltall - 10th May 2024
(10th May 2024, 11:17 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
$70, when Tendo City was still new, had the buying power of about $38, which was less than any AAA game of the time would have ever sold for, at launch.
RE: Badvertising - Dark Jaguar - 12th May 2024
(10th May 2024, 1:44 PM)Weltall Wrote:(10th May 2024, 11:17 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
$70, when Tendo City was still new, had the buying power of about $38, which was less than any AAA game of the time would have ever sold for, at launch.
How much are more expensive movies being sold for? How much did whatever the definition of AAA games sell for back then? Is my Tendocity rewards copy of Kirby 64 one that's that expensive?
I bought FF7 for $40. As for what "inflation" is, keep in mind the recent year or so of inflation is artificially generated by raw greed and doesn't represent the natural flow of inflation. It skews the results a little.
RE: Badvertising - Weltall - 13th May 2024
(12th May 2024, 9:36 PM)Dark Jaguar Wrote:(10th May 2024, 1:44 PM)Weltall Wrote:(10th May 2024, 11:17 AM)Dark Jaguar Wrote: And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
$70, when Tendo City was still new, had the buying power of about $38, which was less than any AAA game of the time would have ever sold for, at launch.
How much are more expensive movies being sold for? How much did whatever the definition of AAA games sell for back then? Is my Tendocity rewards copy of Kirby 64 one that's that expensive?
I bought FF7 for $40. As for what "inflation" is, keep in mind the recent year or so of inflation is artificially generated by raw greed and doesn't represent the natural flow of inflation. It skews the results a little.
$40 today would have adjusted to about a $20 price tag in 1997, so you paid the present-day equivalent of $80 for FF7.
I've tracked inflation throughout my adult life, and I understand how it works. It has been an ongoing process, forever, and none of the present-day hype about the subject fazes me. Thanks to my line of work, I know first-hand that it's very much overblown. Prices have remained static on many items, for many years, as the dollar has gradually inflated over that same stretch of time.
Inflation is not just that the vague and abstract value of that money has decreased. In straight terms, you were being paid a LOT fewer dollars per hour, or per annum, for whatever job you would have been doing then. If you earned that money through working, you would have had to work more hours to earn $40 in 1997, than you would to earn it today. Except, N64 games, back then, cost much more than $40. Some titles were $80+. Imagine a console whose new release titles normally had a sticker price of more than $140. SNES games, when those were being made newly, often retailed beyond $60. Chrono Trigger was $70. Imagine a game costing $150 today, and it becomes a smash hit and beloved classic.
Video games have literally never, ever been cheaper. Even Atari and Intellivision games ran far beyond today's prices when you factor inflation! When you go even further and account for how those older games required a tiny fraction of the investment and manpower to produce, it's simply ridiculous that anyone is complaining about $70 brand new video games in 2024. Unless you are one of those people who hates how enshittified games have become, and how so many rely on microtransactions and things of that nature. Would you do away with all that, in exchange for paying almost $200 per title? I'm not saying that's a binary choice, but would you take it, if it was?
To answer your question about movies, the prices of DVD new releases, of big budget Hollywood movies, was about $20 in the early 2000s, when DVD was peak and I was personally doing that job every day. And, as far as I can tell, this price point has remained rather static over the years. Which, as we have established, means that the actual price of new DVDs has steadily decreased at pace with inflation. Which is rather impressive, considering how our movie viewing habits have so radically transformed since those halcyon days of my early adulthood.
At the end of the day, I could have written this same post in 2018, and I would have had to adjust some numbers, but the overall gist would remain intact. Wages have gone way up in the last few years, as well.