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I am all for it, I haven't replayed any modern game in years.

Must be nice to be a zoomer. Couldn’t really get around that back in the day.

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games as a service
basically F2P models with extra kikery

Games as a service. Derived from Software as a service, a gay term for a particular distribution model.

>replayed Divinity:Original Sin 2(have 300 hours)
>replayed The Witcher 3(have 300 hours)
>replayed Pathfinder:Kingmaker(have 300 hours)
Maybe the problem is in the games you play.

I couldn't imagine replaying a game as boring as The Witcher 3.

I envy you. For me, it started with humble bundles when I had barely any money, plenty of games clogging up my library and I thought it was a good investment. After having more disposable income, I bought plenty of games on sale, even old games I had once pirated, with no intention to replay any time soon. I was close to 700 games. Took a while, but I am now down to around 130. I simply started deleting the majority of the shit I didn't need or want.

The only game in my library that I have over 100 hours in is MH:W, followed by Disgaea games at around 60 hours each. I don't see it as a problem, why does playing games I enjoy make it so they're the "wrong" games to play?

>a game as boring as The Witcher 3
>tranny detected
dilate harder as you cope, you seething fagget
The Witcher 3 is great

>We might as well go to a subscription service if we just discard games the moment we are done with them.
I can't completely disagree with this.

If you're going to pay $60 for a game, play it for a month, and then sell it for -- let's be optimistic -- $20, you might as well have paid up to $40 for a month-long membership to a subscription service giving you access to the game. The end result is the same; you got to play the game, and now it's gone. In general terms, if you simply don't care about keeping your games, you might as well just use a subscription service, perhaps even a streaming service like Stadia.

Personally, I'll never use such a service, but that's just my personal preference. And while I don't want the industry to move further towards subscription models, but if I'm being honest, I already have more games than I have time to play, and I never buy new games anyway.

>The only game in my library that I have over 100 hours in is MH:W
You have some horrible taste in videogames. I couldn't force myself to play MH:W for more than an hour it was that bad.

based

Lol.

>Pirating didn't exist in the 90s

You're a funny guy.

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If you enjoyed TW3, I can see why you would drop MH:W after an hour.

If there was a GaaS that allowed access to every game released on your owned platforms for like $15/m then you would have to be actually retarded not to want it, just sayin

Guess you won't play games in the future then

If there was a pirate version of SMB3, the 6 year old version of me certainly didn’t understand how to do it.

>posts the elf
You sure showed him with this joke character.
>inb4 it's not a joke character
Did you even play the game?

>Yea Forums constantly has nostalgia threads about blockbuster
>but paying $100 a year to play any game they want? fuck that

I don't think this is a matter of impulsive purchases, really. I mean, you seem to be referring to people who buy tons of games and then don't have time to play them all, but the guy whose post is pictured in is referring to people who want to resell their games after they're done playing them.

>Implying people don't re-watch movies
>Or re-listen to music albums
>Or re-read books
This is a shit argument

Blockbuster? Never heard of it or seen threads about it. I'm European b t w.

>reselling actually good games
Do people really do that that? I keep my games. I replay them.

Unfortunately. What a fucking slog that was.

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Lol I just played compilation cartridges I got from the flea market for way less than the prices in your picture.

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and that's a good thing
collecting video games is the most pathetic hobby on earth

There's already enough games to last you several lifetimes, why waste your precious time on future drivel?

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video game rental stores were a thing, retard

Fake and gay. You clearly have not played the game since you are taking joke characters seriously. Maybe you are just retarded?

>games as a service
>internet connection required at all time
>no modding allowed
>flooded with microtransactions
>if devs fuck an update there's no way to go back
>optimization can get worse with time
>"hey guys we have decided X content is problematic so we will be removing it, hope you don't mind"
>servers down even though you wanna play single player? What a shame
>takes several months just to release a single patch with content
>"hey guys we have decided our games as a service model is not enough and our investors have decided to add a battle pass, please understand"
But hey, at least we stopped piracy!
based

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Pretty much. That limits me to a few game every year but then again is right.

>Maybe you are just retarded?
Possible, but I know I'm not the most retarded person in the thread since I never replayed The Witcher 3.

>+$20 more for a fucking gun and Mario Bros/DUCK HUNT
>Mario Bros on its own is $30
No wonder everyone I knew had the Zapper.

Did you miss the note on your own image which states games for sale as low as $20.

well, to be honest, most of my steam "friends" have above a hundred games, about 80% of them. about 40% have more than 200 games. That's two hundred games and if you check the list they haven't played most of them and probably bought most on sales, if not all. that's compulsive, if anything. making explanations and argument like "oh, but if only I could sell it" is like saying "if only I could stop buying." I mean, I would also like to resell, that would allow me to save and buy other games, sure, but in the first place, I wouldn't purchase something I know I won't be able to use or won't use. Also, I think if steam would ever make a reselling option, it would be actually a disadvantage to all sale buyers. they wouldn't be able to sell it at a higher price, given steam has a purchase history for your account.

Poles btfo, it's like 1939 all over again

If games ever become subscription only I'm just done playing new video games ever again. Simple as that.

and stuff like is why GaaS doesn’t sound as feasible. compared to music, films, books etc., games have more points of failure that would be costly for both producers and consumers if they’re not addressed ASAP

Jesus and people are defending this shit? What has happened to the gaming industry

some of it is concern trolling.

Renting a game isn't the same as having a subscription service brainlet

>two hundred games and if you check the list they haven't played most of them and probably bought most on sales
Or bundles. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a bundle which had only one good game but that single game was cheaper than ever. If the cheapest way to get that one game is to buy the bundle, I'm not going to refuse just because it comes with other games. Fuck the other games. I don't know your friends, but if you see people with absolute shovelware in their library -- like the kind of shit you can't imagine them voluntarily buying -- then those games probably came bundled with some games they actually did play. On the other hand, yeah, they could have just been buying lots of games during Steam sales because they thought they would have more time to play them.

In any case,
>that's compulsive
I wasn't even saying it isn't compulsive. I'm just saying compulsive buying is a different subject than what the guy pictured in the original post was talking about. Again, he was talking about people who want to resell games AFTER playing them, not people who buy games and NEVER play them. Different things.

What we really need is 10 more launchers and DRM which fuck the shit out of legitimate customers but not pirates because they simply get the version where the DRM is removed. Fuck big ass greedy, short-sighted cunt studios.

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blockbuster was also in europe. though, if you're a zoomer you won't know or remember it. it was mostly a vhs cassette rental and a very known and prominent, before the Internet streaming became more popularized.

For me, a lot of the games I have that I didn't even play were part of some bundle or another that was dirt cheap and ended up being cheaper than just buying the one or two I wanted on their own.

yeah, yeah I get I got off-topic, just wanted to point out the problem wouldn't really be as persistent in the first place, if not for compulsiveness. I mean - some games I bought I would resell, like Dishonored or FF XV.. but that ends there. I only bought the ones I actually install and play or replay from time to time.

A lot of things. It has deteriorated progressively since the early 2000s. That was around the last time the industry at large had a healthy producer-consumer dynamic. It's mostly a victim of its own success. Business-types see the numbers start going up so they expand the scope of their projects for even greater potential payoffs but the revenue growth isn't quite linear so they have to do a bunch of gay shit like guaranteed post-launch DLC and microtransactions and other money making schemes designed to bleed whales dry of everything they have.
A streaming service where all of your games are kept locked away from anyone who doesn't pay a recurring fee and they can control the entire ecosystem is the next logical step of ensuring retards will continue to drip feed them money for eternity with the added bonus of rendering piracy basically impossible.
That is, if they can actually make it work. Personally, I don't think they can because there's no way to eliminate latency entirely which will make it feel really shitty to play any relatively fast-paced game. Of course, a lot of people seem to be fine with low performance so I could be totally wrong.

what happened? what happened is that devs on twitter are literally calling their customers crybabies that point out "every detail, big or not, like a bunch of wussies that can't grow up and just play the damn game." The damn game that they made so someone would buy it for leisure. Can you fucking imagine the nerve of some of these motherfuckers?

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If that were true then Gamefly would still be around.

fpbp

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>W-we never go back to old games.
In the age of bundled collections, remakes and remasters.

>Super Mario 3's cost when adjusted for inflation.

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The war on gamers was never about transvestites and roasties, that was just a means to the end to make them look bad and push them to the side.
The true purpose of "gamers are dead" was "to make more profit we need to get rid of gatekeepers that know better to usher in a new generations of shit eaters".
Even in the past couple days I've found a few on this boards arguing
>who are you to decide who gets in the hobby
And that is exactly why gaming is dead. One thinks inclusivity was about trannies, the whole
>game needs to be easy so paraplegic can play Dark Souls too
Is a disingenuous argument, it is basically acting noble as an excuse to draw more and more shitters to a hobby to milk them dry
The world wasn't ready. It is ready now. Every single genre in existence has basically some form of nickle-and-diming subset.
He's talking about the past 10 to 15 years, and he's right because it's been a bunch of forgettable trash just like Hollywood. You could skip the whole PS360 era and you only missed like ten titles worth shit.
>The median sale price of homes in the U.S. was $110,000. At the end of 2017, the median home sale price was $323,100, representing an increase of 194%, much greater than the overall price growth during that period of about 113%. 1988 was a period of high interest rates, though, with typical mortgage rates around 10% for 30-year fixed-rate loans. If you bought a $110,000 home and paid 20%, or $22,000 down, you'd be taking out a loan for $88,000, which would cost you about $772 per month, which in today's dollars would be close to $1,200. Here's another way to appreciate what a 10% mortgage rate does: If in 1988 you borrowed that $88,000 at an interest rate that's prevalent today -- 4.5% -- your monthly payment would be only $446, fully 42% less!
fool.com/slideshow/heres-what-these-25-everyday-items-cost-30-years-ago/?slide=8

Go away and stop supporting corporations.

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So I'm not sure how many people knew about these but my brother was in the Navy in the early/mid-90s and when he came back on leave he brought this weird bootleg floppy disk drive from China that plugs into the SNES cartridge slot and allowed you to load roms directly on the SNES. We spent that visit renting basically everything they had at Blockbuster and ripping them all to floppies. Never bought another SNES game after that.
Not sure if they had one for NES or not.

People don't understand that all Valve would do is let you trade your license. You won't be able to sell it on Steam directly for monopoly money, just trade it or sell on third party sites. G2A 2.0 there is nothing bad about it nor would it ruin Steam, Valve isn't obligated to let you sell them on the comm market, just trade them. If you wanna trade for cash money vua third parties, that's on you.

Forcing Valve to let you sell games directly on Steam would be like forcing Wal-Mart to free up some shelf space for your used games to sell. Makes no sense.

Where have I seen this dumb faggot before?

>Open a new section in the market dedicated to reselling games
>You can only resell a game three months after purchasing
>Part of the funds will go to Valve, the game's developer and the user
>You can only accept Steam Funds
Would this work?

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this pretty much

you're a fag OP

Wow, what is this, she's cute.

That's a maid.

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for a bunch of fags who like to collect toys and other merch from movies/shows/comics/video games they sure hate owning the actual media

good thing that all the best games that will ever be made have already been made.

no, reselling doesn't mean the company randomly gets money from the sale for no reason

Maybe if 90%+ of modern games weren't so fucking bland, soulless, forgettable and unfun I'd actually play them more than once.

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>i will never accept game streaming/game subscriptions
Based.
>i will never pay for a mod
Based.
>i will never pay over $30 for a videogame
Based.
>i will never pay for a microtransaction
Based.
>eat shit, jews
Basado.

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Literally anyone can make games at home user, you can't force every game into the subscription model no matter how hard you try.

>more money is a bad thing
the absolute state of millennials

This but 20$