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Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail

Xiaolin

@Applejackson75 This is just flat wrong. Games industry has absolutely NOT ignored inflation and is making far FAR more money than it ever has. With scummier and scummier practices. Every part of gaming has become more expensive. Dunno why you're trying to hold water for the rich fuchs taking your money.

Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail

Xiaolin

@Flaming_Kaiser What is your point? Nearly all of their first party releases still had "Deluxe" AND "Ultimate" editions that had content locked behind them. Even if you ignore that, your argument is what exactly? "Well Sony doesn't do MT and DLC so the price hike in the WHOLE REST OF THE INDUSTRY doesn't matter"? That dont make sense bruh.

Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail

Xiaolin

@David187 you clearly have lived under a rock the past 20 years. Videogames have absolutely NOT stayed at the same price since the 80s. $60 gets you the base game. Want the "complete" package? Well be prepared to cough up TWICE that much, cause that's exactly what it costs to buy a full game now. So called Deluxe editions, complete editions, platinum editions all cost upwards of $100 or more and often this still isn't the complete game. These also often launch buggy and broken. So no we aren't paying the same, we are paying more for LESS.

Re: PS5 Microphone Records Your Voice When You Get a Trophy

Xiaolin

OMG the number of panicky privacy divas in these comments. No one and I mean NO ONE wants audio of your chip munching beer drinking self. This feature is clearly just for the consumer and youtubers to post/laugh at. Your PS5 is NOT "spying on you". You aren't that important, Broseph. Jeez, you'd think you didn't have a damn cellphone.

Re: 505 Games Attempts to Explain Control's PS5 Upgrade Scandal

Xiaolin

Look I get the optics on this and it feels kinda ***** but it's not like Remedy and 505 are some big dogs with infinite resources and/or stupidly overpaid CEOs. They may just not have the money/resources to develop a PS5 version for both SKUs. Granted it would be BETTER, but this is a lot of hate for a relatively well behaved company.

Re: Random: PS5 to Get 24-Karat Gold Makeover for the Uber-Rich

Xiaolin

@thefirst One might say that arguments for eugenics and class warfare are also disgusting and abhorrent.

Hopefully it ends with you educating yourself on why your arguments are so terrible and have led to so many genocides and attempted genocides.

Also there is a difference between purchasing a "extravagance" and using your extreme wealth to buy something that's purpose is solely to flaunt that wealth at others. ESPECIALLY during a global crisis.

Re: Ghost of Tsushima's Shockingly Short Load Times Were Originally Even Quicker

Xiaolin

@Rob_230 Fan speed isn't a developer issue, it's a hardware one. Sony did a very bad job with the thermal paste in the PS4 and it causes it to overheat which will drive the fan speed up.

I have the new pro version which doesn't have that issue and even when I'm rapidly changing the time of day in photo mode you can barely hear the fan at all.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@Neft Dude you think movies regularly cost more than $245 Million dollars?? AAA Games have LONG cost MORE than most movies do.

4k assets are already a thing.

Games DO cost too much to make. But that's not OUR fault or problem that is a CHOICE the industry has made. This decision was made to "justify" the insane salaries and compensation that the CEOs get. "Well we spent a couple hundred mil on this game so of course we have to give me $30 million in bonuses, but yes definitely fire most of the people who actually made that game." - Bobby Kotick probably.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@amyjojj7405 The difference is that the money we are paying now isn't going to the people who created these games, who are often quite over worked, it is largely going to a handful of ridiculously over paid CEOs. What makes you think that a $10 price hike in the base price will be the only place they do that? They are already so greedy it's destructive. They don't care about us or even the industry as a whole. They will burn everything down around them to make another dollar and not give a *****.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@Powerpellet Ah yes the ever present defender of the rich. You guys always forget that it's NEVER gonna be you, they always break the LAW to get where they are, they abuse their employees, they don't pay their taxes, and they are using addiction tactics to make not only more money than they need but so much money it's causing problems for the WHOLE industry. So yeah sure you keep trying to hold their water and see where it gets you.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@neon-xxiv Understood. But even at $60 USD I buy VERY rarely. There are sales so often and so highly discounted that I buy maybe 3 new games a year out of upwards of 30-40 total games. Though I will admit I've already hit that this year with FF VIIR, NIOH 2, and now GoT.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@Severian This does not match the facts. Yes the BASE price for a game is the same as it was for the FULL game years ago. Microtransaction, loot boxes, season passes, collectors edition and more have all driven the price of games WAY up.

The answer isn't inflation, it's greed. No CEO of a gaming co or publisher in the 80s was a BILLIONAIRE. We have several now.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@Neft There isn't another answer besides greed tho.

These games are expensive to make. Fact. What's more expensive? Far FAR more expensive? The pay of most of the publisher CEOs. The ENTIRE profits from a game is often not enough to pay the BONUS for Bobby "Satan" Kotick or Android Wilson. These companies do not exist to make games. They exist to make ONE person so rich they can't ever spend even half the money they have.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@SZRT_CIC_Ice PC games are sold cheaper because they don't have the console mark up. Console manufacturers charge more than Steam or any other PC platform.

PC still gets loot boxes and microtransactions tho. Why? Cause Bobby and Andrew need another 30 mil to go with their Billions.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@zedd117 Unfortunately it won't. Greed rules these companies. They will charge more upfront and continue to sell microtransactions and loot boxes and everything else they can think of to pay for those millions and millions of dollars that those greedy ***** in charge "must" be paid.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@neon-xxiv I have known a friend from the 360 era in the UK and he NEVER paid as much as I or anyone else I knew in the states for new games. I know that the standard pricing is higher but it is MUCH easier to find new games at reduced price there.

Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?

Xiaolin

@Nakatomi_Uk THIS.

I completely understand inflation and that games dev has risen in cost significantly in the past 40 years, but games would be A metric ***** ton cheaper if these major Publishers CEOs weren't effing BILLIONAIRES. These guys are so rich they could NOT GET PAID FOR A YEAR and they wouldn't even notice! Literally!

Games industry is littered with the greediest POS slimeballs imaginable. They over work their employees, underpay them, then fire them so they can then receive yet another fat bonus they can NEVER SPEND.

CAPITALISM SUCKS. It ruins everything good.

Re: Seems Sony Will Pay You to Hack PS4, PSN and Report Security Flaws

Xiaolin

@Kienda Then count yourself lucky. I have a slim and a pro and they both do it and these are just my current consoles. I've had a launch PS4 and an 1st gen pro and they also did those things. I am most definitely not alone. I have friends that have complained about these and other issues. If you check the comments others have too.

Re: Seems Sony Will Pay You to Hack PS4, PSN and Report Security Flaws

Xiaolin

This is dumb. You don't need to hack anything to find consistent ongoing problems with PSN. All you need is a PS4 and some self loathing.

Talking with your friends just like you always do? Boom just got kicked from your own party chat. What's that, the store crashed? Again? Well you must have a PlayStation! Want to check the trophies on a game you just played? Nope. Dashboard is borked. Only game it will let you have details on is 3 over from the game you want.

See? Easy! No hats needed.

Re: 4K Footage of PS5 Games Will Follow 1080p, 30 Frames-Per-Second Reveal Event

Xiaolin

@Grindagger Agreed, this "LIVE" event is primarily for generating hype not not because it serves a purpose for it to be so. Most of it is already pre-recorded anyway. Even "live gameplay" won't have any impact without the ability to examine the hardware being used. With the remote nature of this reveal they could be using anything and we have no way of knowing different.

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