I didn't say anything about 1946, that and CoD are much cheaper, sure that the expansions of the OG IL-2 were cheaper too, that's why I mentioned Great Battles specifically, not just the series in general.
True, same can be said about the increase in price for sixth and seventh gen games from 40 to 50 to 60, I said-
Not that people are super happy to be spending more money, damn near nobody thinks that way. I can completely understand people not liking price increases, or paying a lot for niche products, there's a reason they're niche after all. And certainly there's plenty of times of industries in general pricing stuff higher just because they can, for example the music industry's done that plenty of times. And indeed I'm sure plenty of games that were probably marked up much higher than needed to make back their money, dead certain that could be said with the Wii U to Swtich ports for example. But frankly the solution's simple, either wait till it goes down in price or buy another product, no game's essential after all. Even something niche like IL-2 as you mention you could always get 1946, still a solid experience in its own right even if a bit dated. Even niche genres have plenty of options if you don't restrict yourself too much, it's not as big of a problem as Jim or the like make it out to be.
There is the next level of it, which I think Jim sperged about way back when I listened to him, that is being mad about limited DLC (either time or store exclusive) because you are apperantly entitled to access every iteration of the game that the devs ever made.
as someone acoustic about such things, it does really annoy me when games have edition exclusive DLC, but that's mostly because i like playing a complete game.
game companies are like serial masturbators, each shot comes sooner than the last with less and less in it.
Well, the bigger issue there was that you could "buy" the DLC weapons for 0$ then immediately sell them for a meager sum. Enough autism and patience, and you could unbalance the ingame systems at the first shop. "But don't do that and ruin the game for yourself", but it's hard to avoid that temptation when playing on the higher difficulties where deaths can feel super cheap. EA are cunts.
Not just that used games as well. The last game I bought brand new was Doom 2016. Any game I want these days I just wait and buy used. Also most games come out as a special edition about a year later with all dlc included for less money.
infinite money aside, just having a flamethrower, line gun, detonator right at the start of the game completely throws out some challenges. as an example, when i did my hard core run in DS2, i had to snag an early javelin gun to make the first group of pack easier, since the secondary attack let me deal with clusters of them quickly. this was well before you could pick up the ripper, which is more or less ideal for the rest of the game.
What do the lefties say? "Voting against their best interests!"
I will disagree with point one of this video personally with the part where he compares owning movies vs owning games.
Better question, will he remove/edit the video due to deadnaming?
"trying to think of some of History's greatest monsters who weren't men"
He would have been alive for Margaret Thatchers reign of terror.
fun fact: women are more bloodthirsty than men and more willing to wage war when in a leadership role, statistically speaking.
