Horse Armour Did Nothing Wrong

[GamerCat_]

I've come to the realization that post counts have become inadequate on the Codex thanks to GamerCat_ .

The post count needs to be replaced with a letter count~

How about a novel thought contribution count?

 

[Morenatsu.]

If you want to play Zenless Zone Zero you can. You don't have to buy catcop and wolfbutler, you can just take who you get. And even if you do buy them, will you have spent as much as what a new western AAA costs at release?

I don't really see who is fucked here. Someone who likes Chinese JRPG aesthetics but got radicalised by white people youtube into a principled stance against MICROTRANSACTIONS?

I got my wolfbutler for free. Did you pay?

 

[GamerCat_]

If you want to play Zenless Zone Zero you can. You don't have to buy catcop and wolfbutler, you can just take who you get. And even if you do buy them, will you have spent as much as what a new western AAA costs at release?

I don't really see who is fucked here. Someone who likes Chinese JRPG aesthetics but got radicalised by white people youtube into a principled stance against MICROTRANSACTIONS?

I got my wolfbutler for free. Did you pay?

I still haven't made hard-drive space for this game. As it stands I'm just collecting images of the male cast. As you said, filesize really is the great obstacle here.

 

[Morenatsu.]

If you want to play Zenless Zone Zero you can. You don't have to buy catcop and wolfbutler, you can just take who you get. And even if you do buy them, will you have spent as much as what a new western AAA costs at release?

I don't really see who is fucked here. Someone who likes Chinese JRPG aesthetics but got radicalised by white people youtube into a principled stance against MICROTRANSACTIONS?

I got my wolfbutler for free. Did you pay?

I still haven't made hard-drive space for this game. As it stands I'm just collecting images of the male cast. As you said, filesize really is the great obstacle here.

Lmao noob

 

[PrK]

Kinophiles pay for blurays.

Cinephiles pay for festival tickets and maybe blurays by kino lorber, arrow, criterion etc where you get the whole film and a whole lotta extras as well like alternative endings, director interviews and commentaries etc, the exact opposite in fact of a game with microtransactions.

I don't really see who is fucked here. Someone who likes Chinese JRPG aesthetics but got radicalised by white people youtube into a principled stance against MICROTRANSACTIONS?

Exactly that one. The poor soul who likes Chinese JRPG aesthetics who now can't enjoy a game not designed to exploit his affinity for the genre by making him spend his hard earned shekels on stuff that should be part of the game.
The "you don't have to buy it/ it's only cosmetic" meme that consoomers so often spout is the single biggest win by the psychologists those corporations employ just to find the optimal way to make you pay for shit that you really, really shouldn't.

The late single player self contained linear AAA western productions WERE NOT MAKING MONEY AND COST A FUCKING FORTUNE. Having to do well to merely break even on a 100 million dollar+ investment is suicidal business.

And you may have noticed, many western AAA releases have been bombing lately. It's still suicidal. The few still being made feel like weird leveraged projects. Maybe Neil Druckmann has access to some Epstein blackmail material and that's why he's able to force the production of The Last of Us in Space starring Gook-Spigger Hybrid. I can name so many big games that died and took god knows how many careers and businesses down with them. Forspoken, Immortals of Aveum, Unknown 9: Awakening. Have you heard of these goddamn things? They cost something approaching 9 figures to make each. That's what a lower end AAA single player production costs. An industry entirely made up of self contained, unique premise justified works is what I would want of course. But right now, this AAA bleeding edge of unconscious consumer expectations, the market split along so many irrational and poorly quantified lines, this model is working for NOBODY right now.

What specific gaslighting are you talking about?

That exact gaslighting you are exhibiting right now: the belief that this is a binary choice between humongously excessive amounts of money spent on literal slop, and microtransactions, gaas, f2p gacha cancer, subscriptions etc. As if the majority of video game history didn’t happen. As if EA, Squenix, Ubisoft etc don't have the ability to use their vast resources to hire competent teams to make good games with a properly thought out budget and make a profit. You have taken their retardation and unholy greed as natural laws of the industry. Get fucking serious.