You're off by a factor of ten. The per capita GDP of Finland is not half a million a year. It's 50,000.

So? The GDP of Finland is .3 trillion dollars. The GDP of the USA is 16.77 trillion.

It is redistribution of wealth. When people hear that they freak the fuck out. It's an uneven distribution of wealth. Your six or seven or however large income isn't going to be split evenly.

In America wages have stagnated and productivity has skyrocketed.

Quite frankly as long as being poor doesn't suck and isn't humiliating, I don't care how bad the gap between the wealthy and poor gets. If the economy grows, everyone wins in that model. Granted, if the economy shrinks, everyone loses but people hit the ground in less critical ways.

FWIW, I don't give a toss about marketing budgets too much.

Maybe GTA V wouldn't have sold the way it did if it wasn't for the fact that billboards and busses were wrapped with GTA V ads and so on, but...

Depends on the game.

GTA 5? 137 million in development costs. Metal Gear Solid 5? 80 million. Destiny? 140 million.

Triple A games hitting the 50 to 100 million in development cost mark isn't uncommon, which is right along the same cost as a hollywood film.

Konami built the Fox Engine, Treyarch built the Frostbite engine, CryEngine... etc.

3 bucks sounds about right when you take manufacturing out of the picture. It doesn't cost more than a few dollars to put a disk into a box and send the box to the store.

Like complaining about paying full price for broken games IS an issue I'm on board with. Because fuck that. That's a huge problem in the industry.

But when PC gamers complain that their games are crippled for consoles, then balk at paying full price, then I have zero sympathy for PC gamers. I don't care about someone's system specs, they are aware that it takes more time and money to make a texture that looks nice at 4k versus one that looks nice at 1080p right?

Maybe I'm just playing the right games, the last few games I've bought have been Metal Gear Solid 5(aside from that whackass save bug with Quiet), Splatoon, and Smash Bros. So, maybe I'm just not that hardcore of a gamer anymore? I don't know.

Big Hollywood movies tend to have a theatrical run which is the bulk of the returns on investment.

When that BluRay is in your hand, most of the money for the film has been made back when it was running in the theaters.

Games priced at $50 bucks need to sell more copies than a Blu Ray of a Hollywood blockbuster.

Not only that, but there's different support costs for a Blu Ray than there are for games. Game has an online component? That costs a ton of money to upkeep.

So, either games are going to have to be not as pretty as console versions, or PC gamers are going to have to put their money where their mouths are with regards to paying for prettier content.

Right, my point is that people bragging about buying PC games when they're cheap, bragging about how nice they look and wondering why anyone would pay retail fail to realize that those games cost money.

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are all making profit right now.

All the GPU and CPU power in the world is nothing with out assets and engines to actually use all of that power. Building those engines and assets cost time and money in the form of human effort(procedural generation won't save the industry here; they still have to look nice and fit well into the environment).

So, tell me exactly how paying way less for games that require way more work is sustainable?

Like, League, and WoW and so on are an easy answer because it's basically SaaS, but more like GaaS. But what about anything else?

I just don't understand it.

Instant gratification.

I don't understand how the PC gaming market works. You release a game that cost some $millions to produce, and you can't even get full price out of some customers.

I wonder how many problems, like day one DLC, micro transactions, etc, would go away if we were willing to pay the true cost of games development.

As gaming hardware improves, how can games dev be sustainable? We demand more graphical fidelity, richer, prettier assets, etc. Yet, sales numbers need to be ridiculously high to just break even. More than just PCs mind you, there's going to be at least one or two more console generation. Not mention mobile, which will never go away.

Either we need to pay more for games up front or there's going to be an economic calamity in games.

Which, fine by me. My favorite game series is done(not unless Kojima and Konami make up). I don't have a major desire for AAA games.

What kind of proof would satisfy you? Why aren't you satisfied with the numerous screencaps, videos, actual threats given, etc. etc. especially in light of the r9k murders?

You do know the reasons why PHP CMSes like Wordpress are ridiculously popular is that it is dead easy to find a host that already runs PHP and MySQL right? Most of those installs aren't owned by developers. They're owns by regular people.

Virtuix Omni doesn't solve the problem where turning your head in a game mean for mouse or even thumbstick look is much much slower. You're also constrained by your neck (insert Poltergeist joke here). Plus having your head turned away from where your torso is pointing is going to cause neck and shoulder pain.

New FPS games could come out that take this into account though. I think though that FPS games in real life just aren't fun. I mean, lasertag and paintball are niche activities because of physical constraints. Not just by fatasses like me, mind you.

What doesn't have me paranoid though is that I'm open about my cannabis use and so are tons of others. There simply hasn't been a mass roundup of cannabis users from social media.

I'm not worried the NSA or the FBI is out to get me because I think they literally have more important things to worry about.

What I am worried about is anything actually getting flagged? If I get curious about say, how do explosive belts used by terrorists work, does *that* get flagged?

So far, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. The workload already is ridiculously overburdening our spy agencies. Adding flagging or any sort of tracking would only make that worse.

I'm inclined to believe that if we were flagging things, the Tsarnaev brothers would've been caught.

Depends on the types of games we'll be playing in VR.

Brianna Wu suggested that the best games for VR will be slower and more thoughtful games. So more Life is Strange than Team Fortress. Given what's been said about FPS and VR? I'm inclined to agree with that.

Although the use in vehicular sims will be unparalleled. Looking around the cockpit of a car/tank/plane/giant robot doesn't break the immersion. You can look left and right and up and down and your viewpoint doesn't change much.

Maybe he shouldn't have dropped all those dox with his face and name all over it.

He's been grandstanding this entire time. I don't care if the rape charges are legitimate or not(I am inclined to believe they are; I also suspect something deeply embarrassing is probably also going on that ironically Assange wants to keep hidden). What he did was illegal for a pretty damn good reason.

I think he's undermining his cause because what the US has been doing has been atrocious too. I have no sympathy for Assange or the US intelligence apparatus here. he's making this about himself and less about the abuses of power by the US. He's been a creepy slimy prick for years before this even happened.

goddamn it now i just realized that most of the linux I know has been through mansplaining.