In the UK we have superior internet to those in the US, im on a 100mb connection, its affordable and games have always run fine, even a few years back when the connection wasnt upgraded to 100mb and was slower i still never had any problems. Sounds like you need either a better internet service provider, or move countries lol.
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Or maybe $60 (or euro) isn't that big of a deal to many people. Going to a movie with my wife costs over $40 with refreshments for a 2 hour movie. There is more value in a game I am going to get dozens of hours on whether the community thinks it's worth it or not. As for your buggy and broken complaints, The Witcher 3 won GOTY on how many sites? It's not just consumers, it's the media as well. I mean we had one outlet telling us that if the bugs were fixed in Fallout 4 it would ruin the game. (Wired)
No, that argument doesn't hold any water. On average, the casual gamer or person for that matter cant afford to waste $60, or £40. Thats a lot of money and if you are the sort of person who thinks it isn't you are either A: Rich or B: Stupid and don't understand the value of money.
When you only have enough to buy one or two games every couple of months it becomes a big deal when you dont get your monies worth, but thats besides the point anyways.
Also, where the hell are you going to see movies? In the UK where everything is more expensive i can go to the movies with my wife and it doesnt even come close to that much, and if you are buying snacks and drinks at the cinema then you are also doing that wrong too.
I'm not rich, but $60 has little to no effect on my finances as a whole. I think you are underestimating how much the average person makes in a year. The average household income in the U.S. is over $50,000. And that's just the average. Are you telling me those people can't "afford to waste" $60? As for the movies, 2 tickets usually comes to over $20 unless we go in the middle of the day. And I must have a large popcorn while watching a movies. I also refuse to share my beverage so I make my wife get her own. The concessions come to about $20 as well. That is unless we go to the theater that sells booze. Then all bets are off. My wife and I have an entertainment budget more or less and we stay well within our means. If $20, $40 or $60 meant as much as you are insinuating, I wouldn't be playing video games or building gaming PC's. I would be either back in school or working 2 jobs.
A little more on topic, video games used to cost well over $60 over 20 years ago. A $60 game in 1994 would cost almost $100 today. Game production and marketing budgets have gone WAY up while the price has stayed very low. How is this sustainable and why are publishers and studios made out to be the bad guy for trying to make money? Why do you think there are fewer games today than there were generations ago? Why do you think there are fewer exclusives? Why have so many studios shut down? Why is every game chasing the success of COD and GTA? Why do you think console generations last longer? Companies are trying to do more with less and this community does nothing but bitch about "value." The price of EVERYTHING has gone up in the past 2 decades. But this community expects to pay the same price or even less than they did 20 years ago. And production values have gone through the roof the past few generations. I don't understand how people think this is feasible. And now we have voice actors striking and unionizing, studios are being sued over tattoo art in sports games etc.....
So, by your logic, if you go into a store and buy a toaster for full price and get it home expecting it to work as described by the manufacturer or seller only to find out it only slightly warms up the bread and doesn't actually toast it, its not the manufacturer's fault but somehow that of the consumer base, and you have no right to complain? That makes a lot of sense!!
Oh and don't give me the whole "oooh the poor developer has to spend so much money to make games now" sob story that apologists always try to fall back on, that's bullshit. Yes they cost more to make now but video games are the biggest entertainment medium on the planet, bigger than movies tv and music so there's a bigger market place for the product, thus bigger profits, unlike in the 80's and 90's when video games were still considered "niche".
Seriously that argument lost any credence when GTA5 made over 1billion in less than a week. Publishers and developers are making small fortunes off of pretty much every release, even those games that don't do all that well still bring in massive profits despite what the greedy bastards might say. Just because a fat cat boss expected the game to bring in 1 billion (whatever currency you wish to use) in profits but only brought in 500 mil that isn't a loss by any stretch of the imagination, especially if it only cost around 60 to 80 mil to make and market!
Hell just look at that travesty known as Destiny. 400 Million dollars to make and market, they still made a huge profit and that was before they released the over priced DLC (which was just content cut from the base game at the last minute to price gauge the audience some more at a later date).
This isn't the argument anyway. As consumer when you pay premium prices for something you expect and are entitled to a premium product in return, and in this case Capcom, a mega publisher with huge financial backing (not some poor indie developer working out of his basement on a shoestring budget) are expecting fans to pay full price for a game with less features than its last generation counterpart, and this keeps happening time and time again and its unacceptable and if we don't "whine" about it, publishers will think this is an ok thing to do and keep trying to rip people off and that cant be/shouldn't be allowed to happen.
And just because your the type of person who doesn't miss $60 and has low standards for what he gets in terms of value for money, doesn't mean everyone else can afford to be that way.
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