Post #3525098

2026-06-23 14:19 UTC

It’s funny to see that when the main console makers all raised their prices for the same reasons as this thing is expensive everyone was like “Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft are so greedy! They hate their consumers!” And this thing being overpriced it’s “oh sweet baby angel Gabe, we know the hardships upon thee in thine many literal ships at sea. Please accept my money.” I’m joking here so calm down Steam nerds. But I do think some folks need to realize none of these companies want to jack up their prices like this. Everyone wants to make a profit, sure, but AI is screwing everyone.

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@wowbaggerip@lemmy.world 2026-06-24 07:45

From the perspective of a game developer, I dislike the big 3 because they take money from consumers of their products to play games with online multiplayer features while not providing any support to the developers of those online games with regard to server costs, let alone the crazy amount of work it is to add online multiplayer support to a game. I don’t think a lot of consumers realize this because there are so many people flaming developers for not adding online multiplayer support to their games without realizing A: How much work that is or B: How expensive server costs are. If consumers became aware of the fact that NONE of their subscriptions for online access actually went to supporting server infrastructure for online games, they would probably all move to PC/Steam.

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