Sony:
Full version of GTA6 with every perk is $100.
- Consumers complain
No collectors edition, no physical disk
- Consumers complain
No online mode for what looks like two years
- Consumers complain
Game locked at 30FPS on PS5
- Consumers complain
Undetermined PC release
- Consumers complain
Pre-sales are at an historic high, on pace to smash records. Play Stations are sold out in many venues because of the pending release. Hype is through the roof.
Is it any wonder that game corporations feel that they can do whatever they want because consumers lack the backbone to say no?
It’s your fault.
Hace dos semanas falleció la madre de mi mejor amiga en Asturias. Sin dudarlo cogí el ordenador y compré el primer vuelo para allá que era de @volotea y me fui directa al aeropuerto. Hoy descubro que al escoger la tarifa (la única q se me ofreció porque quedaban 2 plazas)
La inflación ha subido un 8,8% en 3 años según el INE.
Sin embargo:
🏋️ Mi gimnasio: 35€ → 42€ (+20%)
🛒 Mi compra semanal: 61€ → 72€ (+18%)
💡 Factura de la luz: 70€ → 85€ (+21%)
💈 Mi barbero: 10€ → 14€ (+40%)
📺 Suscripciones: 9,99€ → 12,99€ (+30%)
🚗 Seguro coche: 400€ → 480€ (+20%)
¿A vosotros os cuadra? 🤔
hot take: we preferred to go out to the theaters until prices got super high. then safety issues popped up, plus a pandemic lockdown kept us away. once we were ready to go back to the movies, prices were so egregious that people couldn't go.
we stayed home, watched streaming and the more we watched, the higher the prices got there, too. now it just feels like we're being punished for trying to find reasonable entertainment while shareholders are scrambling to recover pandemic losses and find easy future profits.
greed is making it all complicated and it doesn't need to be.