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I know most people don’t care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.
Please don’t vote for Poilievre. He’s basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.
Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He’ll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.
Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren’t Canadian.
To the Canadian Citizens who don’t know because it is their first election, you can visit the Elections Canada website to get all the information you need. You can also contact your local Elections Canada bureau if you prefer to speak to someone.
You are supposed to be automatically registered as your turn over 18 or after you have become an official Canadian citizen, but it is always a good thing to ensure that your name is on the voter list and that your residential adress is up to date so you can receive your voter information card by mail before the advance poll take place (which will happen during the long Easter Weekend from April 18 to April 21).
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You have got to be FUCKING kidding me!! Holyshit bro… these motherfuckers are too comfortable with price increases…
ppl are like “the price of games makes sense if you consider how much time and work goes in to them” and i am here to tell you that just like animation, tv, comics, music, every other kind of media, the price tag does not reflect the artist’s paycheck. the only wallets getting fatter are at the top, and they are fatter now than they’ve ever been. support indie and learn to steal or go without
Also we used to have multiple video stores in every town where you simply rented any brand new game you wanted for $5-10.
The one I grew up with had a late fee of $1 a day so my mom would just let me keep a game until I was finished with it, because that never ever exceeded the cost of buying it new. This is what we all did.
It’s shocking how easily something that useful was so completely murdered by streaming services. Nobody wanted to keep cheaply renting games??
You used to be able to rent the consoles too but now consoles demand you make a user account. Yker save data used to only be on a memory card but now that’s only accessible with the user account.
You know what? I just spent 3 hours writing up a pair of youtube comments about the misinformation on display here (ZERO games are listed as being $90 USD for a physical copy. Zero. None. Some jackass saw one listed as 90 Euros and went “Oh so $90 USD?” and now it’s everywhere. The known prices for physical copies of games on the Switch 2 range from $40 USD for Bravely Default [which uses the shitty key cart system] to $80 for Mario Kart World, with Donkey Kong Bananza being listed at $70 physical and NOT using the key kart system)
If you see ANYWHERE selling it for $90 retail, that is the retailer jacking up the price themselves. This took me two seconds to look up. $80 for a game is still a price increase for sure, but there’s a huge difference between a price increase from $70 to $80 and a price increase from $70 to $90, let alone stating that physical games will be more expensive or that “Physical switch 2 games cost $90.” You’re welcome to be upset about a game costing $80, but stop claiming or even implying that all games by a publisher will now cost $90, it’s provably untrue and extremely reductive.
Rentals no longer being a thing fucking sucks and I agree with that, but for the rest of these points….. Misinformation and “Unfair” points always piss me off royally, likely due to my autism. We are in a cost of living crisis, people are justified in being unhappy, even UPSET about price increases, people should support indie games more, devs are not paid enough.
But the price increases deserve to be looked at in closer detail WITHOUT misinformation and hyperbole, especially because the price of games hasn’t been adjusted for inflation since the days of the NES despite production costs for large scale games increasing exponentially, combined with the fact that major publishers seem dead set on most of their game releases being the exact same price regardless of whether the development costs or amount of content are comparable which has caused, well, “Video game prices and their effects on development” are a pretty complex issue that goes past the points of “Support indie devs” and “So far all claims that Switch 2 games cost $90 are (AT PRESENT) provably bullshit and you do everybody a disservice when you spread information that’s provably bullshit”
But let’s talk about the increase in price for the console (copy and pasted from my comment on Youtube, which also features discussions of the false rumors of switch games costing $90, goes over the ACTUAL known prices of switch games including the fact that Street Fighter 6 is $60 CHEAPER on the switch 2 than it is on Steam, the situation with “key carts”, and my views on the console’s tech demo costing $6 instead of being included for free):
“$80 for a game is still a price increase for sure, but there’s a huge difference between a price increase from $70 to $80 and a price increase from $70 to $90, let alone stating that physical games will be more expensive or that "Physical switch 2 games cost $90.” You’re welcome to be upset about a game costing $80, but stop claiming or even implying that all games by a publisher will now cost $90, it’s provably untrue and extremely reductive.“
Man it must be great being an American and not having to deal with the rest of the fucking world. It’s also like America benefits from the lowest prices pretty considerably!
Also, framing this as being a price increase from $70 to $80 is deeply fucking disingenuous. It’s a price increase from $60 to $80. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was a $60 game. If you want to play the new Mario Kart, you’re paying a $20 surcharge.
Sure, you can say it’s only $10 because it seems like Switch 2 games will default to $70, but this is the boiled frog problem that a lot of people are complaining about! These companies are literally just testing the waters on what they can get away with price wise.
You don’t adjust costs for inflation alone and go "wow games are so cheap now! :D”. You adjust costs for purchasing power, which because wages have been so fucking stagnant, has not gone up nearly as much. Games are getting more expensive as EVERYTHING is getting more expensive, as your wages cover less and less, and you can’t get even get your own facts straight.
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