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@KaiserKitty @alyx @LukeAlmighty I still feel like I got $70 out of TotK tbh, even though I ended up being of two minds about the game. It reuses the same Hyrule but there's so much shit added and changed, in fact there's kind of TOO much imo. I got really burned out.

I'm hype for crossworlds too. Judging by how much I've played Mario Kart games vs how much I've played the Sonic Racing games though, I think an extra $20 is REALLY worth the price there. I have maybe like 50 hours combined in the sonic ones, whereas I've put 300+ into mk8dx alone.

Way too much Nintendo hate out there lol, I don't get it. I hate their litigation shit, but their games have always been things I know I'll have a great time playing if I buy them. Like man, I had never played a Kirby game before (outside of air ride). Pre-ordered Forgotten Land and was extremely pleased, it's one of my favorite games ever. There are some nintendo games that have questionable quality every now and then, but I think that overall they have an amazing track record that goes back farther than most studios have even existed.

@ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty @alyx from what I know about the PS3, the price was actually still low in relation to the manufacturing costs. But, it was still too far out of most people's reach (including what they would need to make use of all of the features, like an HDTV). They packed so much shit into that thing lol.
They ended up cutting the ps2 back compat and cut the price down, and sold them at a loss for quite a while. The only thing that really ended up helping to turn the tides were the console revisions, the slim and super slim models. At that point, the stuff Sony did originally was much cheaper. The PS3 was a little too cutting edge for the time it released.

@alyx I think that it's pretty obvious given he's said they'll fight "to the last Ukrainian," he doesn't want to play ball with the people who want to actually help, and has completely silenced opposition political parties and even religions. He's a trainwreck. Of course, it was Russia that invaded to begin with and Putin is also continuing the fight, but if hypothetically his terms are just "don't join nato and we keep the land we have now" I don't see a reason you wouldn't take that deal other than pride and maintaining power.

@LukeAlmighty @alyx hey, I don't personally like Rockstar games and I'm still willing to give them that honor. I fucking love Nintendo games, I think they're the cream of the crop the majority of the time. That's why I'm not concerned about the price at all and VERY clearly not many people actually were in the end lol, just looking for something to complain about.

@alyx @j they had their independence, but zelensky is a literal joke and is ruining it :P they would still have all their territory otherwise.

@alyx I honestly think most of it comes down to zelensky not wanting to take a single L even if it means throwing the entire country into the meat grinder.

@LukeAlmighty @alyx I've been saying this about $80 Mario Kart too. Games are not $60, they just seem like they are. Everybody has spent more than $60 on a game before. Fuck, look at all the popular MMOs. You pay for the game and all the expansions and a monthly subscription. It's well over $100 to play FFXIV for a year at the most basic level but nobody complains about it because it's good. They feel like that it a justified price. OSRS is $100 a year minimum. So if GTA 6 comes out and it's $100 but you get hundreds of hours out of it and it's this massive blockbuster title, is that not worth it? I would so much rather pay $80 for Mario Kart World than $60 for the majority of other AAA games out there. And that's exactly what I've done for a long time lol, in the past decade the only full price AAA games I've purchased are Nintendo ones. If you don't count the ratchet and clank or FF16 pc releases at least, but those came in at $50 instead so it kind of just half counts. Meanwhile, I bought breath of the wild, tears of the kingdom ($70!), smash ultimate, Mario kart 8 deluxe, animal crossing new horizons, and Kirby and the forgotten land on switch. Those games were all worth the money to me, with the exception of maybe AC because I kind of got fucked when my Nintendo account got hacked but that's a different story.

Anyway, point is, yeah... People are already buying games over $60 even if they don't realize it but they do so because they think it is worth their money to spend more on it. If that's the case, then there's nothing wrong with a game coming out of the gate providing that value up front and center and wanting to charge more for it.

As for the rest of the industry, they're already struggling to sell games at $60 and $70. Hell, cheaper than that for some of them. There are plenty of FREE live service games that are getting completely destroyed. It's really not about the price. If they think raising their prices to the same level as Nintendo or Rockstar, potentially the two highest quality studios, they are going to be in for a rough time.

I still think chat gpt is an invaluable tool for a ttrpg GM. It's kind of like those daily writing prompts, but specifically tailored for what is going on in your campaign. Nothing it gives you can be used wholesale, but it does really spark creativity.

For instance, today my players will be going to the last rebellion city in a nation that has been in civil war for the past 20 years. All these different NPCs were telling them not to go there because it could be utter chaos after their previous leader committed treason. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was going to happen in that city though when they actually decided to go there. So I just asked chat gpt. It gave me a whole slew of stuff I didn't particularly care about, but one little thing about a propaganda flyer going around about the party, who had worked with the traitor in a different nation previously, sent me down a massive well of inspiration. Now there is an entire boss battle there where they can either fight the new leader who feels extremely betrayed, or they can join him and the rebels for one final push to the capital. Like, none of that came from chatgpt, it only mentioned there being a flyer. Like I said, writing prompts. Brilliant.

Of course, I still write most of everything myself. I've got a really big world. It's really helpful every now and then though. Especially for on-the-spot stuff. You would normally use some sort of generator, or before those existed a roll table, but those are at exponentially lesser degrees of depth and often give results that make a lot less sense.

not all AI usage is bad and it can be really useful as a supplementary tool which can replace other such tools that are far more rudimentary. I can see it being really beneficial as an artist for pose references. I've been inspired by AI art to write things and make music based on what it spits out. Using it as a tool to bolster human creativity is great, but not to replace it. If that makes sense.

@get @Wormwood Don got trolled

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@j the ukraine sympathizers NEVER bring up NATO, it's wild to me. all they had to do was NOT JOIN NATO and russia never would not be attacking. that was the whole genesis of the war.

@alke wonderful!!

everyone's talking about this game being GOTY but i've *never heard of it* until just now!
interesting... maybe worth checking out.