It's literally the first thread in this sub-forum at the time you posted this.
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Also... seeing that you own 1500+ games and have only really played 26 of these enough to get at least 1 achievement each, while idling the rest for cards, you're probably fine. Heck, you own Red Dead Redemption 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Dark Souls I-III and the complete Fallout series and you haven't played them (apart from less than one hour / one achievement in New Vegas). Those games alone are probably enough to keep you occupied for a year.
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I have a dream that when I will have lot of free time and life will be less stressful , I will finish most of these games . Just finished a indie game named Toem.
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Damn, maybe it's not that big of a deal but your message looks creepy asf man. Why do you even care to write such a sentence, look through every game he has, see achievements etc. Topic of this thread isn't even relevant to what you wrote here.
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Seeing if someone only idles their games for cards instead of actually playing them takes a few seconds. Finding a few games as good examples of what they could play while waiting for better times took a few minutes and I didn't have to "look through every game he has". And how are games that are already available to them not relevant if the price hike made buying new games unaffordable for them?
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Okay, i think he didn't mean games became unaffordable only for him. Prices reached high levels in a lot of countries because of unstable situation in almost every corner of our planet, so it should be everyone's concern.
The fact he idle's his games and not playing them and the fact that he thinks prices should be lower are very different topics, don't you think? Again, im not trying to defend him without his permission, it's just really funny to see your comment about his underwear in a discussion about something else.
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Only makes sales that much better. Also yea, the world is kind of on a downward slide. Don't let it take you away.
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It's just insane to me that they're hiking prices up just when the economy is tanking worldwide.
I get that they are making less money but they should think that people will have already less money to spend on trivial things so making them more expensive is not going to help them make more money, quite the opposite.
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The "currency" economy will probably collapse sooner or later.
The world economy has been "bubbling over" since the day the "virtual currency" known as "fake money" and the "pooled funds of countries that can print unlimited amounts of money" that existed before that were incorporated into the economy.
The era in which countries with few people who can understand those "economic mechanisms" have been exploited as "economic colonies" as "labor power" and "resource supplying countries" has continued
Humanity seems to be distrustful of "exchange markets" and "economies" as well as familiar "companies" and "corporations.
This is especially true since humans are no longer needed as a labor force.
We often hear about "restructuring" by replacing them with "machines.
In the past, it was called "Luddite movement"?
Sooner or later, "damaging a robot will be a death sentence.
In the past, there were no "security cameras" and "people protected people" so that criminals could not be identified and people's lives were restored to some extent.
How about today's society?
Cameras are staring at people's faces at bus stops, train stations, and intersections.
The "technological singularity" is also "people becoming closer together.
You don't care what people do if you can't see them.
You will not be able to leave the deeds of those who can see.
It doesn't matter if it is Ukraine or Taiwan or Brazil or Syria or Palestine or Israel or Africa or Thailand or Russia, we are entering an era where the deeds we should care about are being taken away beyond the limits of our time to live as human beings.
Human beings have either quit being human, or they will fade away or become self-modified human beings first, or they may inadvertently claim that we are the Borg.
We are in a time when "labor" is "obsolete" and "machine labor" is "more trusted by people" than "trust in the human mind" after the economy has been rocked by "fake money" and "coronas".
Soon all will continue to watch news and broadcast programs covered by AI without knowing it.
So what will happen to the "human product game"?
AI can now produce pictures and 3D.
People will not notice if AI is making games in the not-too-distant future if they are just baked and applied from STORY, fairy tales, and novels that are often found in retro games.
At that time, if "money" has no credibility, then should creative works disappear from history without being backed up, without being guaranteed the right to reproduce, and without being preserved from history? If there is no trust in "money," then the question will be, "Can creations disappear from history without being preserved?
I am looking at the optical reproduction of the activities that occurred on the earth in the past from a wide range of observations from the other side of the starry sky in the distant universe, as if I were a resident there.
I wish I could joke about that.γπ¨βπ»ππ‘ππ‘ππ‘ππ‘ππ‘πγγγγπ<To view the universe in light is to see the past.
This may be why some developers are "trying to sell before they can't sell". (Reason for price increase) Well, I feel that way.
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You make good points, Kappa and I agree with you but it's the same thing as political corruption:
the people who should be making the decision to abolish currency are the ones profiting from it so they won't do it.
Maybe if aliens would drop over here and make cucumbers the global currency... ;)
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Are the values of the world changing in this way?
We will probably start by modifying our internal environmental bacteria so that simply eating cucumbers and cookies will automatically supply the nutrients needed for humanity.π€<What if.π¦ If the reduction of mankind due to adverse reactions of the modification is not taken into account.π
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What's so difficult to understand? The prices where the gaming industry generates most of its revenue barely increase.
And in other regions with way greater inflation they have no other option but to compensate, otherwise way too many people would switch to these cheaper regions.
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make them region locked then like a lot already do - but the more they hike the prices - the easier it is for people to say no thanks and pass - i am not thinking God of War should be priced like a buck or two but i'm also not going to spend Β£30+ on what is really only digital code and a bunch of 1's and 0's
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I work in the restaurant industry, trust me, you don't have to tell me about having to make a living without a raise in years.
And in other regions with way greater inflation they have no other option but to compensate, otherwise way too many people would switch to these cheaper regions.
I didn't know it was region related. But then it's not like gamers are all going to move to Brazil or Eastern Europe so I don't get the switching problem.
My point was only that in a crumbling economy, suddenly making the price of non basic commodities 500% higher will only lead to a decrease in revenue, not an increase. It's basic economy and psychology. I'm not faulting devs for needing to make a living.
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It's not about people moving to cheaper regions physically but about some cheap gamers relocating their Steam accounts, so that they can purchase games for a fraction of the prices in their actual region.
Simply use Google and you'll find plenty reports for Argentina, Turkey and some others.
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Wow. I didn't even know that was possible.
I have always found the discrepancies between regions to be a little ludicrous tbh but this takes the cake.
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If you google, like Golwar said, you will find straight away "service to change your Steam account to Turkey". All I do when I go to update people region here since Feb this year is change people region to Turkey. Everyone moves to Turkey, it's such good place to live in now.
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Everyone moves to Turkey, it's such good place to live in now.
Haha yeah so I heard. Meanwhile my Turkish friends are moving other places.
Guess you won't have to do that long now that prices are going to increase
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So - who really needs all the latest games all the time - bundles/giveaways and free 2 play games are plenty good enough until the next sale - not to mention other sites where you can earn games such as a certain Twitch site
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Who really needs videogames? Books are plenty good enough, not to mention jobs where you can earn a living.
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there are many games made about the jobs i do for a living, lawn mowing, power washing, engine repair, carpentry ... does that make me a
video game character, do i work for entertainment. do i play for money. will someone please give me the cheat code.
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Jump up twice, duck down twice, take a step to the left, take a step to the right, repeat the last two, take a multiple-choice test with two questions and choose B first and then A second. If you're not a god by now, feel free to get depressed by reality. Or continue the happy dance. Your choice. :)
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Your sarcasm doesn't work because books rarely have interactive elements, and when they do, it never goes further than visual-novel-tier choices (and whether or not you actually get a job is determined by the hiring manager, not you).
Meanwhile, there are tons of completely-free games that rival--or even exceed--the quality of paid games; you just gotta look for them.
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I'm done buying anyways.
If I finish one game per week... It will take 15 years to complete all my digital games. Might aswell dig a hole and wave goodbye.
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It is precisely because the economy is like it is, that they're increasing prices. It's really a crumbling tower as others have pointed out, leaving steam and luxurious video games apart, whenever the price of commodities like energy or fuel gets more expensive (among other things, like food or raw materials), then local governments adjusts the wage of their population, so they earn a little more and can tank the costs, however, after these changes; Companies also increase the costs of their services and products, because they have to pay more for their employees.
Rinse and repeat and we're at a point where a salary is not enough to survive, so people have multiple jobs, don't have children because they can't afford them, eat one meal a day or less, share an apartment (because no one can afford a house) with other people (or share rooms)... Of course, those companies could lower the cut their executives get instead of passing the bill to their clients, but, that'd mean earning less money and they'd rather watch people die like dogs than lower their hard earned money.
In this case, US kept rising their credit rates, so people took their money off of the stock market and put it in banks, the demand for USD skyrocketed because everybody wants to put money there, the capital that would have stayed in their respective countries went to US, so literally all currencies in the world took a hit. That is, they devalued
$60 USD of 2022-2023 are not the same as $60 USD of 2021-2022, then the prices in local currencies changed to reflect that. Steam doesn't adjust the price of their local currencies based on the economy of that country, but based on the difference between that country's currency and USD, all so they do not lose money by selling to all these poor countries and their devalued currencies.
So, until the war of Ukraine stops and energy becomes cheaper on EU, as well as agricultural raw materials lower their prices on the rest of the world, US will not lower their credit rates, because that'd put them at risk of a recession, since they can't sell stuff to half the world because they are busy trying to not freeze or starve to dead.
PS. Do not take what I say as some factual truth, I'm just a person rambling about things they have no idea bout on the internet.
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"PS. Do not take what I say as some factual truth, I'm just a person rambling about things they have no idea bout on the internet."
If only everyone would end what they are saying on the internet with this.
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still, there is some truth in your words....but the sales number of games will plummet no doubt
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They'll most likely complain, but not much will change, video games will still make a lot of money.
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They will complain, nothing much will change but the games will not make the same amount of money when ppl on poorer countries STOP buying at all since they can't afford it. Ofc this doesn't mean ppl will stop playing at all. This "Move" Steam have made it will only back fire at the company with the increase of players going to the high sea again. We are about to face a new era of black beards, john silvers and jack sparrows if u want too :P
All this is a backward of almost 2 decades in the videogame industry when everybody was with a wooden leg and a parrot on their shoulders.
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It is precisely because the economy is like it is, that they're increasing prices. It's really a crumbling tower as others have pointed out, leaving steam and luxurious video games apart, whenever the price of commodities like energy or fuel gets more expensive (among other things, like food or raw materials), then local governments adjusts the wage of their population, so they earn a little more and can tank the costs, however, after these changes; Companies also increase the costs of their services and products, because they have to pay more for their employees.
Everything in here is true... except for the part where wages are adjusted and causing more costs to companies. They just raise prices because fuel costs rise and they don't pay their employees any better, which leads to the massive gap between consumers buying power and actual prices. Companies are acting like there's a magic group of people who will buy their products that somehow don't work for a living. Employees are also consumers. They tend to forget about that part.
PS. Do not take what I say as some factual truth, I'm just a person rambling about things they have no idea bout on the internet.
That actually goes without saying for anything on the internet, for people who shouldn't be on medication anyway ;)
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Oh, I wasn't really justifying them, its just, that's the excuse they use most of the time. Government raised minimum wage, then companies raise the cost of their products and services, despite already increasing them for costs (raw materials and fuel among other things) and devaluation, rendering the increase made by the government obsolete, and they justify that last increase because they have to pay a small percentage more to their workers. This is why a job used to be enough to support a family, buy a house and even pay education, and now, 4 wages aren't enough for half of that, the increase on costs is way more than the one on paychecks.
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Government raised minimum wage, then companies raise the cost of their products and services
Minimum wages do get raised though, you're right. And then even companies who make everything in China feel like it's impacting their costs so much lol.
This is why a job used to be enough to support a family, buy a house and even pay education, and now, 4 wages aren't enough for half of that, the increase on costs is way more than the one on paychecks
Exactly. And I have friends who worked for a minimum wage in the restaurant industry. Now their bosses can't afford to pay them anymore, so they are paid "under the table". Brilliant.
And somehow I have the feeling that when the war in Ukraine finally ends (it will end, right?) prices won't go back down.
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And somehow I have the feeling that when the war in Ukraine finally ends (it will end, right?) prices won't go back down.
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Does anyone know ? Most of games have a huge price uplift from 100% to 600% in some regions. It made most of the games unaffordable in this economy. I think there will huge number of sales drop in steam in the future.
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