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so we're all clear. What is the difference between selling 100 copy's at $5 vs selling 5 copies at $100?
Dev's lock in prices at $100 and only discount down to 5%-10% because industry standards and publishers or some bullshit. They don't care if I eat, I don't care if the eat. Doesn't matter how good the game is. This is how it's always been in capitalism and to participate means neither of us care about the other one. If we maintained what these sales were like during the hayday, I'd go to bat for any of these devs. But I've seen the sales in the past few years. Minimal at best then posts like these saying "support them". Eat shit.
You're not a starving artist any more then we are. You want to create a world of maximized profits then don't ask for sympathy and support when it takes away from my labor too. I will play the game like you and demand cheaper while you demand more money. Go figure games now are not great and maybe profits are up because prices don't drop anymore, but there's likely more starving artist types developing games now then there were during the great days because guess what got everyone into gaming then? Cheap sales and game prices we all could afford and play on our jank systems. Now they fuck us and say "support our full price game or you're a piece of shit"