• kromem@lemmy.world
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    Rumoured from out of people’s asses.

    The CEO of Take Two said a comment about how he wished games were priced based on the hours of gameplay provided and not flat pricing.

    Which then got clickbait headlines being written as outrage bait hypothesizing that in such a world GTA 6 proving 150 hours of content would be priced at $150.

    Which evolved to headlines baiting even more outrage suggesting the CEO was actually thinking of pricing the game at $150.

    Then people falling for the outrage bait have been writing pieces or creating memes in opposition of $150 game pricing - which literally has zero indications of being a thing.

    It’s total BS, and a good reflection of just how shoddy games ‘journalism’ is these days.

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    There’s absolutely no evidence that this is going to be the case. All that happened is that the CEO made a dumb comment and CEOS are always making dumb comments doesn’t mean anything.

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      The President (Rockstar doesn’t have a CEO) is also the founder of the company and made every single Grand Theft Auto up to now.

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        Who’s talking about the president of Rockstar? OP was referring to the CEO of Take Two, the person who made the pricing comment

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    Can’t wait to be forced to buy cars in a game franchise that’s literally titled “stealing cars.”

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    My uncle works at rockstar and he said that gta6 is going to cost $150 a day to play but you can earn real money by murdering people and selling drugs irl

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      Every time I wait for someone to stop at a light and I try to open their car door to pull them out of their car and steal their car, their door is locked.

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      You can preorder now, send me $ and start selling drugs irl, you’ll get in game currency once the game is released.

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      If you hum The Final Countdown while it’s loading, it’ll let you play original Vice City instead!

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    With the recent track record of AAA game studios and their milking of long-running series, it might not even be worth pirating.

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          Absolutely was going to mention that one. That was probably my favorite one too… Once they went 3D with GTA3, it was fun too… But really, GTA4 was a similar game ( i didn’t even play that one much). GTA5, literally got bored at the beginning

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    It’s just inflation. The value of a dollar in 2036 is a lot less than now.

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      You know, I’ve read stories on how money was so worthless after Black Friday that workers transported their wage with a wheelbarrow. How come that nowadays, inflation just means that everything is fucking expensive, but you still get the same jack-shit paycheck?

      I’m pretty convinced it’s not inflation that drives up prices, it’s greed.

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        In the past, governments didn’t have inflation targets. The black friday event involved the government flooding the gold market, dramatically reducing the value of gold. At the time the value of a dollar was directly tied to the value of gold. In hyper-inflation events (that don’t often happen in developed countries but do still happen in some countries around the world), inflation may be 50% or 100% or 200%. Sometimes way more.

        These days (the last 30 or 40 years), inflation and gold have been decoupled, and instead the government has a target range of approx 1-3% inflation (depending on your exact government, but if you’re in a developed country then it is probably close). This was intended as a target that would allow businesses to have some certainty and was low so they could ignore inflation in their forecasts. The original target range was 0-2% set in New Zealand, but as it spread around the world it got slightly adjusted to a 1-3% range.

        The governments now try to directly control inflation by changing the cost of borrowing money. You might have recently had inflation hit as much as 9%, but this is nothing like what happened in the old days.

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        In the past inflation was seen as a bad thing and destabilizing to an economy so governments put actual effort into making it go down. The easiest way to do that is to keep employee wages in line with inflation, but at some point someone, probably with an R next to their name, decided that that was evil socialism, and so shouldn’t be done.

        So now inflation goes up and the government just sits there and goes “oh nothing we can do”.

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    I remember when I could go to Egghead and get an Apple II game that was a little old or just not super popular for like $5-10.

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    they’ll probably do the fallout 76 method with a timed subscription,

    which is why i play san andreas ps2 still