he's right you know.

>explain to me the reasoning behind such a price hike.
it's been explained in the thread already, so it's clear you don't want to understand, but the fact is that games have stayed at the same price point since the 90s. less, even, I remember genesis games that were 80 bucks. meanwhile literally everything else costs more and the dollar is worth less.
like, are you fricking moronic? does basic math elude you? fricking poorgays I swear.
by the way, everyone can tell you can't afford games at 70 because nobody who can throws a tantrum about it. nobody likes paying more but we're not moronic and we can spare an extra ten bucks so we don't b***h and moan like you're doing.

oh is that when prices werent really standardized? because my entire life from the ps1 on the standard was 50$ which is why there was such outcry when they attempted to move the standard to 60$. they even used to release the same game on consoles for 60 and 50 for pc because they wouldn't take it at first. now the standard is 70, plus dlc, plus battlepass, season pass, in game cosmetics at 25 a piece, lootboxes, in game currencies etc etc etc.kys

they think calling people poorgays lights up some Black person desire to be new money moronic with spending with no budget. don't let it work on you, they're just dishonest piece of shit homosexuals. nothing to write home about

I didn't say shit about your "allocated discretionary spending" you fricking sheltered homosexual, I said calling people poorgays is a common shill tactic to try and get people to spend money on a game clearly asking more than its worth. but keep simply doing it over and over again you one note pussy

>feel less bad when tyrone rolls you for your duckets

I have no clue what the frick you're babbling about
to be clear, this is not an invitation to explain it

>people who have money just like dunking on people who failed in life and are clearly bitter about it. it's fun, it's for sport, there's no deeper motivation. if you had money you'd get it.
post bank account homosexual I literally don't believe you have money

why would I give a frick what you believe? you go ahead and cope however you need to and I'll enjoy living a comfortable lifestyle

absolutely nobody mentioned trannies but here you are frothing at the mouth about imagined troons. rent-free.
get a frickin life my god. start with a job. a real one, not jockeying a register at some bullshit drive-thru

nobody mentioned zoomers either. again, rent-free.
I'm in my mid-thirties, and you should be glad of that. if someone a decade younger than me were out-earning me and laughing at my handwringing over an extra ten bucks for a video game I believe I'd have to kill myself. you probably lack the spine to do that, but it would do a number on you mentally regardless.

imagine getting this triggered by how other people choose to use language. Your life is probably wildly pathetic. I can't imagine this level of bitterness and cynicism developing in a person who has their shit together to even the most mild degree

I get it, you make shit up to cope with your pathetic life

I'll let you have the win, you clearly need it more than I ever will lmao

enjoy it anon, I know it's the highlight of your week 🙂

its OK anon. I'm just glad I was able to supply you with a rare moment of joy. enjoy your internet win, anon, I know it means so much to you 🙂

>next time you get stolen from, the level of sympathy will fall as you have shown yourself to be a dumb c**t wasting resources for the sake if it anyway.
Shame if they pull out the guillotine.

Did i give the impression I do anything based on your level of desirability?

>can't detect the difference between typos and bad english
You're not even close to intelligent enough to make that accusation.

The sentence structure is fine if you follow the context. You don't and lack the cognitive flexibility to understand anything outside your own projection. You're a moron who is offended you aren't talked down to. Which makes you doubly moronic.

>its pretty clear I'm talking down to you.
Did you think that happened before or after you acted the fool?
>Above you in any way
Ignoring for the moment my ego wanting me to agree just because it vexes you and you sound sorely in need of that, I know nothing about you, how could i make that claim based on any fact apart from that which you've revealed?
>half the linguist I think I am
It speaks more to your projection that you thought it entered into my mind until you brought it up.
Put it this way, I've nothing to prove to you, nothing to gain should i "prove it to you", no way to even figure out if I've indeed proved it to you.. so what's my motivation here?
This pedestrian shit about linguistics is your party, I'm just indulging you because I've nothing better to do.

>thinking implying is the same as quoting
It obviously bothered you enough to get mad about. You turned it into this whole thing.
Don't worry anon, I'll be here with you every step until you figure out how to cope

Sort of proving my point there.

I think it's funny when you attempt to paint a ridiculous image in order to obfuscate the fact you're intimidated by simple words. Because that's all it was. But you for some reason, have turned them into a challenge to you and assumed that i gave an entire frick about trying to intimidate you like you even register as that important to me and that this is anything other than just a courtesy response.

>I'm not intimidated
>STOP TRYING TO SOUND SO SMART WAAAH
Okay champ.
>obfuscate
You literally have access to Google. Learn a word maybe?

>commonly known word
>apparently uncommon to use
Do you hear yourself, seriously? Is just a fricking word. The only person attaching any significance, intellectually or otherwise, is you. My only mistake was not using babbie words so it didn't fluster you. And why did i do that? Not assuming you're an idiot. But thanks for clearing that up for me.

>intentional misspelling a word to emphasise the infant nature of it.
Babbie want a bottle? Mean internet words make you angwy? Aww.

>babby
couldn't even spell that right

>warhammer 40gay fan
Explains everything

Lol you haven't posted your balance. Why do broke homies larp as rich people and get so sour? There's nothing wrong with being broke, but being a dumb bastard who spends his $23/hr impulsively, like yourself, is shameful. You have amde an embarrassment of yourself ITT. The rope awaits you, Troon.

screenshot checking account balance, crop out details in microsoft paint, win argument completely. never seems to happen though

I guess if I were actually a poorgay larping as someone with money, this would sting, but honestly it's pretty funny. sort of like a moronic puppy banging its head against a sliding glass door two or three times in a row

Mommy money dont count, troony
Keep eating your cheetos while your fat mother pay all your bills, rich people dont brag

>in no way required to buy
In other words, don't complain when these gay companies cut up and make our games objectively worse in an attempt to manipulate us and to nickel and dime us to death?

you're moronic, movie tickets and home video absolutely have risen in price since the 90s

>why is it that they do this?
it's not a scheme for analytics, price discrimination is like the oldest fricking thing ever
if you're some impoverished indian driving a shitheap taxi for a living and a bald white tourist gets in you're gonna charge him 10x what you charge another indian because you know he's got the money, and he'll be fine with it because it's still 100x cheaper than what he'd have paid back home

the same general concept can apply to any business, and a big way it's done these days (apart from selling argentinians everything for 50 cents) is to lower the price sporadically. the guys who wouldn't buy it at $60 might very well buy it later at $30, getting you money from them you don't otherwise get, and the people who were willing to pay $60 are gonna buy it day one so they can play it without having to wait several months for it to go on sale

If you're making 23 an hour you're making something like 3 grand a month after taxes. you are certainly fricking not saving a grand or two with a mortgage and plenty of discretionary spending on luxuries like vidya and dining out you fricking moron.

maybe he's got more than one household income?

>explain to me the reasoning behind such a price hike.
it's been explained in the thread already, so it's clear you don't want to understand, but the fact is that games have stayed at the same price point since the 90s. less, even, I remember genesis games that were 80 bucks. meanwhile literally everything else costs more and the dollar is worth less.
like, are you fricking moronic? does basic math elude you? fricking poorgays I swear.
by the way, everyone can tell you can't afford games at 70 because nobody who can throws a tantrum about it. nobody likes paying more but we're not moronic and we can spare an extra ten bucks so we don't b***h and moan like you're doing.

> games have stayed at the same price point since the 90s
and? this fact alone is justification for a price hike? are you moronic? this isn't the basis for an argument, this is just some fact that potentially could be used to make an argument but I guess you're too lazy or inept to do that. ok, I understand.
>nobody likes paying more
that in and of itself is enough that you and I, as consumers, should be on the same page, then.
>we can spare an extra ten bucks so we don't b***h and moan like you're doing
whether you can spare the extra 10 or not, it's still not really justified beyond, "everything else is more expensive, so why shouldn't vidya be?" while conveniently ignoring the fact that DLC, microtransactions and other revenue streams already supplement sales more than enough to cover costs and keep any given game on a drip feed of cash for long after its release.

>this fact alone is justification for a price hike?
yes, you fricking moron, because again: the dollar is worth less than it was back then.
you are too moronic for me to even consider wasting my time on another (You). enjoy poverty. die slow.

>no shit, idiot. what's your point?
wow, you're actually too moronic to be having this conversation
no wonder you're a failure with no money

tell you what, cashapp me 70 bucks and I'll go away
oh wait

tell you what, cashapp me 70 and I'll kill myself
oh wait

>explain why it's justified
>don't say "because the exact justification" because that's not good enough
you possess neither the critical thinking skills nor the intellectual honesty to be worth talking to

it's not justified

Not really, no.

>Real median household income was $70,784 in 2021
70,784 / 52 = 1361.2307
i.e. you need to hit 1360 net a week to make that, which means your gross will be higher, somewhere like 1500 gross to absorb the losses by deductions.
23.hr x 40 = 920 gross; 920 x 52 = 47,840 before deductions. so yeah that's not really higher than the median income, unless you're using other numbers that say otherwise, but I got that statistic from here: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-276.html

alright alright my bad no need to get pissy.

since you can barely afford the cost of living independently on it?

Pre-rona a shitty loaf of bread was less than a dollar. Someone on minimum wage could buy more loafs of bread an hour a few years ago than anon making $23 an hour.

it literally has for some items

Factory works are too easy, just press a button for move a Kuka's robot arm and that robot create whatever shit in the CNC. You get money by babysitting the robot, but people are mad because they cant smoke drugs and babysitting in the same turn.

They just buy whatever processed garbage you can find at the supermarket or shitty fast food. American families aren't going out to dinner regularly for $90 a pop

No, most families only eat crap from fast food places, the idea of "the average joe only eat freshly prepared food" is obsolete

I work in a warehouse that offers 100k positions for maintenance mechanics.
Lower end machine operators make only slightly less.
401k is 25% match.

This is all with no college education.
And pretty much ever warehouse in the area offers the same wages.
If you live in bumfrick nowhere then move to a place with jobs.

Put in the effort and you will be rewarded.

nevermind i forgot it was the boomer poster and he's making shit up

>25% 401k match
>for being a machinist
>100k for maintenance mechanics
I don't believe you. you're a god damn liar. that isn't a real 100k position, you just do dirty math to get that so it's 'technically' true and you an advertise it to dopes who're otherwise unaware of your fudging of the math. on top of that, your golden boy examples who you love to trot out to potential hires represent the top 5% of people in that role making near to those projected numbers. you're disingenuous and you know it.

Are you moronic? Supermarkets sell heavily processed food and I literally said they eat at fast food places. Do you think taking the average american family is spending $90 every day to eat at mcdonalds?

I asked for you to show a specific example, not show the bullshit in their legal terms you dumbass

Ok if they've done it and it happens then you should be able to easily find an example of somebody posting that it happened to them, right?

Where? Not seeing anything after extensive googling.

what do you think FAQ means

Frick you?

he's just trolling there's 100s of examples online either wants it spoon fed or he's moronic/trolling

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/55x1me/learnt_my_lesson_with_cdkeyscom_dont_buy_from_them/
https://forum.gameflip.com/t/help-needed-with-cd-key-being-revoked-after-purchase-and-confirmation/39959
https://www.destructoid.com/fraudulent-elder-scrolls-online-steam-keys-revoked/
https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-revokes-7050-stolen-sniper-elite-3-codes
https://techraptor.net/gaming/guides/steamwatch-steam-key-revoking-system-is-problem

I buy from them too, but stuffing your head in the dirt and saying keys never get revoked is moronic.

CDKeys absolutely is not reliable, they've repeatedly been caught selling keys bought with stolen credit cards

Nope, I'm asking you to find a specific example of what they threaten through their FAQ. I've legitimately tried to find someone posting about a game they've had revoked through steam due to it being from a third party website and I can't

lol sure

I promise I'm not BSing, I'm going out of my way to look. Closest I've found was this and it ended up being a mistake on Bethesdas part and the guy got the game back https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/ym0v8s/steam_removed_my_old_game_that_was_purchased_not/

Whatever moron. Enjoy spending your $70
I just beat Armored Core 6 on steam, guess how much that cost me? $46
Too bad you're a pussy or you'd save some money

You can't understand much of anything it seems

How does it feel knowing without a shadow of a doubt the world would be a better place if your parents had aborted you

you're poor and brown and smell like curry and BO and you know it

I'm afraid I don't know any of that, ma'am.

>always make this argument till they get caught embezzling, underpaying workers, or giving jobs to their friends, or cheating on their taxes, and then it's always "problem? xD" "is just economics bro"
Frick you, you're just projecting your own scummy behaviour on others because you're justifying your shitty power trip. People like you deserve the guillotines pre-emptively.

>our
Heh. You're the useful fodder. They aren't protecting you, moron. You're the one they're going to feed to the guillotines hoping that satisfies the anger.

You sound like a leftist

>I sound like someone who isn't moronic
Your posts show otherwise.

>police are just more useful idiots like you sent to die so the strife doesn't reach the leeches who are the architect of that.

>implying
See

Good luck with that. The police are on our side, and they're militarized, so I don't expect you'll have much success with the guillotine

Hes got a private army. The boy is untouchable to the unwashed masses.

Oh nooo Benchod is seething lol

apparently, it means sisterfricker in some brown middle eastern language. I had to look it up, so you're most likely talking to a pajeet who as we speak is shitting in the street and shitposting in this thread

sounds about right

>This graph is bullshit.
>the reality is everyone is getting richer
lol

>what is real income
Go outside.

Like I said, you don't understand much of anything.

>Yes, there was jobs
There's jobs for everyone today. There's more job vacancies than there are unemployed people. No, they're not all high paying low effort white collar work but someone has to shovel the shit.
>and wives for everyone
If you had a job you'd probably find it a lot easier to get a wife.
>People could actually aford a home
This is the one thing I can actually get behind. The governments have completely fricked the housing market for a lot of the western world. Kind of like how they're now fricking up the food market post covid.

People were generally much happier and not diagnosed with 50 mental illnesses and pumped with big pharma (another fricking branch of bog corp that needs to burn, no I'll never play into the psyop of "TAKE UR |MEDSz"

>The low and middle class incomes have not declined. They've gone up.
Not really, no.

>you're a butter jealous loser
Most intelligent pedocon

How much did your parent's house cost?

Was pretty flat from the entire era where video games were a thing. The huge decline happened in the 60s and 70s, not really the 80s and 90s and certainly not in the last couple of decades.

In other words, not an actual child website

He's not wrong when you factor in assets like property. The problem is that those millionaires as a group kicked the rungs out from under them getting where they are, making it progressively harder for anyone else to do the same.

>less than 10% of the adult U.S. population are "millionaires" (has a net worth of over $1 million including the value of all there assets illiquid)
The fact that you think this is some kind of counter to anything posted ITT is fricking hilarious.

You're not being honest.

We are literally telling you companies are getting away with paying you less than they used to you moron.

>Your parent's generation weren't spending the majority of their life in one company.
Most of them changed jobs once or twice at best. Do you get off on getting yelled at and proven wrong or some shit

>If they don't offer more then find another skillset that is more sought after.
>It just sounds like you want to make excuses for being lazy and not trying at all.

>literally "just start your own company if you don't like it"
The absolute state of boomercons

I wish I had answers for you, all I know for certain is the numbers. 8 semesters of parent plus in my Mom's name, 8 semesters in my name. I've logged into her account, it's genuinely 150k and change. People around me keep trying to say that she fricked me and used it outside of my schooling but I don't think that's even possible. The only upcharge I had in 4 years of college was housing and that couldn't have equaled more than 20k over 4 years.

Kek, no, b***h works 2 jobs to fund a facade upper-class life. Boat and nice car. She lives in a really small town so that highschool status shit still matters.