Lesson 1: Nobody cares how poor you are.
Videogames are a cheap hobby. If you can read this, you’re most likely on a device capable of playing hundreds of great videogames, and for practically free. You can emulate DOS games, SNES games, arcade games in MAME, adventure games in ScummVM, and countless others. There are classics throughout the medium which are just as essential to play as any game you might not have the means for yet. You could be a blessing to yourself and others by expanding your tastes, discovering underrated gems, and sharing them. You could play DoDonPachi, Another World, Mother 3, Osman, The Colonel’s Bequest, A Mind Forever Voyaging, The Silver Case, DOOM II (you could spend a year just playing DOOM WADs and continuously be surprised), one-credit-clear a Metal Slug, get good at StarCraft, or just forget about having taste and waste your life playing clicker MOBAs (but please don’t post about anything other than clicker MOBAs if you do this).
Yet people aren’t content with having several lifetimes of free entertainment available to them, so they feel the need to complain about videogames that cost money, or that require hardware (PC or console) that costs money, or that have in-game purchases or subscriptions. They dress up their complaints using concepts like “value”, “product”, “consumer rights”, and other bullshit that has nothing to do with the actual quality of the game to someone who has no problem affording it.
