That seems like trying to take on Mike Tyson by exposing your chin and letting him hit it as many times as he wants.

Real my-face-to-your-foot-style shit

I feel like games are in this deeply weird place admittedly where they’re like, media/art to be engaged with but they’re at luxury prices in ways that a lot of other forms of art presently aren’t

I feel like they’re a step below like. broadway or something at this point.

This is how i feel every time i see posts on socmed of people attacking other people who bought a switch 2 or whatever
Like people forget that you don’t HAVE to buy these things, yeah it sucks they’ve reached the prices they have but like...

RandomProphet: This is actually a very apt analogy because much like Broadway theatre, as long as you don’t need to have the newest and coolest thing...eventually there’ll be a community theatre version of it you can afford to go to (indie game or deep sale)

you know what. you're right

If you're buying a video game that will provide 60+ hours of entertainment, I feel like $80 isn't a terrible bang for your buck.

Am I being absurd?

People pay $20 to watch a two-hour movie in the theater, these days. I think that's a much more exorbitant charge for what you're getting.

yeah i don't disagree there.

i guess you do kind of get into boots theory

where it's a lot easier to scrounge up 20 bucks every so often to watch a movie than 80 bucks to buy a video game

in one go

it's also microsoft, so, yknow

they love their money

I doubt the folk at obsidian really have a say in the final price