SEGA selling NG+ as DLC for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

I know Destiny 2 has smt like that (colors or smt). Maybe that?

I don't personally consider them meaningless in every context, I just think that was the point the game, and its creators, was trying to make. I find value in achievements that extend playtime through fun challenges, etc.

I don't get to spend a lot on games in general.... So when I do spend a little more on a game, I take a lot of pride in that. I also feel achievements tell a story that chronicles your journey in gaming, for when you feel existential like you're gonna die soon while still hold on to your last bit of innocence and freedom by sticking to a long-beloved hobby. So it really irks me to see ten people on my friendslist buy the same game with no intention to play it, use SAM to unlock all achievements in five minutes which wouild take me how many hours, put in a review 'for the memes' with 30 minutes of playtime so they can get upvoted to top reviews, I even had a guy stripmine all my free games to use SAM to unlock all the achievements so everytime I would click a game on my library there's some fool that just cheated all the achievements and it takes the life and the willpower out of me to play those games, essentially spoiling and undermining all my feelings and efforts in my gaming.

Its enough to know there are 'always enough customers at least' to support evil gaming practices because people have too much money than sense, even if the 90% who doesnt have the money gets affected by that, even more so when you are personally and directly affected. The economy is designed to function even if 90% of the global population does not participate. Gaming companies as all other companies just don't have the balls to admit that. Taxes... everyone pays their share until everyone has nothing. I preach about this stuff daily elsewhere. Capitalists bemoan the socialists movement as a bunch of freeloaders until you realize when you take the befudged numbers away you sit with 50% unemployment as businesses cut labour, while costs rise. We live out of buckets and switch the hot water on max an hour a day, but still we receive massive water and electric bills, because conservation means the price goes up to support the bloated burueacratic budgets. And the same goes with gaming companies, Prices go up and up. And back catalogues grow smaller and smaller. Game studios, to be successful, should remain as small as possible. Or they will all end up like the rest of us.

I do agree with accuracy of information. Don't say Capcom when its Square Enix... But we all make mistakes. All companies at this time have things one can point at it seems. But more so, its quite easy to tie these things into a relevant larger narrative, as demonstrated above, which is why I also bemoan posts I read sometimes reprimanding users for not staying on topic. Because not being able to make that connection sometimes I feel is not the fault of the original poster. Other times people just want to undermine others' abilities to express themselves, like the comment section on a political Youtube video where the overwhelming views on matters are just conveniently ignored.

But yeah, its been a while since I've been on the latest games trend, I'm just not buying the dream theyre selling anymore and its been like that for a while now. The technology we see now was already developed 50 years ago, strategically bled into the market incrementally to 'make it look affordable', but you should know for 90% its not. All that matters for them over time is the number at the bottom of the spreadsheet, to the point that a human life is deemed less valuable than an apple because you can sell an apple at least and you as a labourer is deemed a liablity and an expense and it sickens me. The world has it priorities on backwards....

Purposeful resource deprivation to the ends of maximizing profits, no NG+ for you, like the housing market and the banking sector takes advantage of your lack of access to capital so the banking sector can sell the same home over and over again without truly owning it, in a market driven by purposeful lack of supply creating an overdemand and escalating the price, just like the latest video cards, to lock in consumer spending to the fullest extent. Maybe you're better off without the NG+, so you can become one of those Wall Str goons that earn a million dollars a week sitting on their asses. The system rewards those that don't spend, because it means you don't have to move capital around and remains staked in the system. But you have to game the system a lot to get to that point.

But spending creates a problem for governments, not that they don't mind the 50% trickle-back tax guarantees so their fiscal years can balance, but more so they do not have the instruments to get money into the hands of people that need it and its just a greater percentage being pushed into big business with the capability of moving those funds offshore, which is why y'all see inflation because nations do not have sovereign wealth anymore.

We can include consoles too in this argument. They are just as affected by microtransactions and gambling practices. What's worst is that we got them now in single-player games. What's next? Ads?

Yeah, sadly, it doesn't work with many people.

True. They bite more than they could chew, but they quickly understood that episodic games don't really work well with gamers. Not many people stick around with that model. I've seen articles about it.