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by koakuma-chan 298 days ago
> If you ask me, no computer game is "$30k good"

It's a pity. Computer games is something where you can make anything happen, and if done well, players could get really invested and be able to experience things they would never be able to experience IRL. It saddens me that the gaming industry isn't doing very well IMO.
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close04 298 days ago
> It's a pity

If there's a game that all of a sudden makes people enjoy it that much that they'd spend $30k on it as the rule not the exception, I'll be very worried that those people will retreat in the game from real life. It would go way beyond "I spent 10h straight playing GTA because I can do so much stuff in the game".

$30.000 is a lot of money anywhere in the world so it takes a lot to make a balanced person dish this kind of money for a game. Most of the world's population doesn't have $30k as their entire wealth.

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koakuma-chan 298 days ago
> I spent 10h straight playing GTA because I can do so much stuff in the game

Think bigger. Any single player game is not what I am talking about. You can only feel superior to others, etc, in multi-player competitive games like Counter Strike (where, I'm sure, lots of people spend a lot of money on in-game items already). I think that real life is the ultimate game of this kind, but it is not always fun because you only have one life you can receive punishment like going to jail, etc, so there is a limit to what you can realistically do and what you can experience. I think of real life as a sort of a lobby between computer games.

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close04 297 days ago
Not sure why me mentioning GTA became the core of your reply, that was the least important part. Any game that makes people en-masse spend $30k to play must be extremely addictive.

> I think that real life is the ultimate game of this kind

Until you give them a game that's beyond street-drug-level addictive, which a game that can extract $30k from a majority of people definitely would be. People would withdraw from real life into the game and that can't be healthy. So I don't agree that it's a pity we don't have such games.

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OkayPhysicist 298 days ago
You can make just about anything happen in meatspace if you're willing to piss away thirty grand in 6 months. That a purely entertainment budget of over $1,000 a week. You could fly to anywhere in the world for the weekend. You could do an irresponsible amount of cocaine. Throw lavish parties. Fund a pretty respectable gambling habit (it's like microtransactions, but they sometimes give you your money back!). Buy yourself a gun collection. Alternate between all of the above!
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koakuma-chan 298 days ago
Go play Rust with a group of people, wage war against another group. It's extremely fun when everyone involved is really passionate and invested. You can't get that feeling out of any deadly sin.
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OkayPhysicist 298 days ago
Maybe I'm a lover not a fighter, but I can think of several activities to do with "passionate and involved" people that are dramatically more fun than swinging virtual rocks at virtual walls.

Don't get me wrong: I do not have a 60k a year entertainment budget. I get plenty of kicks out of my well-coordinated Squad gameplay with my friends. But thinking it's how I'd best be spending $1000 a week for maximum enjoyment? Absolutely not.

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