The Slippery Slope of Modern Gaming Industry Trends
This meme uses a frustrated reaction image to highlight the perceived incremental normalization of anti-consumer practices in the video game industry. The text lists a series of escalating industry changes, starting with rising base game prices and moving toward monthly subscription models and the phasing out of physical media. By framing these shifts as a sequence of "it's only" justifications, the post critiques how gamers are gradually conditioned to accept higher costs and reduced ownership over their digital libraries. It reflects a growing sentiment of fatigue among players regarding the current direction of AAA gaming monetization and distribution.
i remember when buying a game meant actually owning the whole thing, feels like we just keep settling for less and less
facts, total corporate greed 💀
eventually we will just be paying to watch the download bar move.
i really miss the feeling of collecting physical copies, but i hope we can all find ways to keep supporting the smaller devs who still care about the players.
Inflation arguments are just corporate cope because games today are unfinished products that require day-one patches just to boot. The real issue is that we are paying more for less polish than we
1. Show me where these 150 dollar games are. 2. Who pays for a subscription? If you do - you are retarded and a part of the problem. 3. What disk will hold hundreds of gb of data? What will you do with the disk when you can't apply patches to it and it becomes obsolete? 4. Bonus,
If you look at games prices from the late 90s and now, they haven't really gone up when you consider inflation
All mainstream companies can die. Especially AAA.
Acyually just found out a 2002 german magazine, woth ps2 xbox og and gamecube consoles and games, regular prices were 64euros, 69 and 74 euros per game. Acorrding to inflation calculator today would have been almost 125euros per game... yeah, imagine paying the console and paying
Torrent bitches
Stop baying triply a slop Go fo aa or undie Let triple a collapse
I still remember "Dude games are only increasing to 60"
This only affects the ones paying for that bullshit!! Plenty of indie games to choose from - not to mention the Hundreds of Thousands of older games that are very cheap now.
"It's just horse armor, it's not like you have to buy it" was the first domino. It's as if the industry has become a competition to see who can be the most anticonsumer
Well... Don't buy them. Play old games or buy games with heavy discounts. It's a peaceful and cheap life.