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The top 1 percent of earners pay 40 percent of all income tax collected. The top 5 percent pay 61 percent of all income tax collected. The top 10 percent pay 72 percent of all income taxes. The top 50 percent pay 97 percent. You are in the top 10 percent if you make $178,611. You are in the top 5 if you make $261,591. https://usafacts.org/articles/who-pays-the-most-income-tax/
Even if you tax the top 1% at 100% you can only run a balanced budget until April. I never want to hear 'tax the rich' again.
tax the rich! Lol...
I try to resist the temptation to buy or play games until well after release but it's not because of the $. It's because they're not finished. Doesn't matter if they're $80 or free. Seems like almost everything ships out incomplete these days, and I don't just mean some DLC is coming later. No, I mean they ship out full of bugs. I like to wait until all the DLC is out, wrapped up in a "complete edition", then buy the full package. Realistically I'm not real likely to replay a game just to go through the DLC. Then there's the most important thing - the bugs. By the time they ship the "complete edition" or whatever they call it with all the DLC they're ever going to make and roll it all up into a package with a bit of a discount usually the game is mostly debugged. Buy at launch and you're running that risk that some bug will glitch out your save halfway through. That's not a huge problem in games that let you save whenever you want since you can just go back to yesterday or whatever, but those games that have checkpoints and save slots? One glitch and it's game over man, game over! Start over from the beginning... or not.
Didn't we have this conversation already, in that income tax isn't the only source of taxation?
Except we decided to take away medicaid and food stamps but increase spending on our military. Also we give Egypt and Israel billions every year. I'm sure that's fine.
What people here don't understand is that the best games aren't new AAA $70/$80 games. Most of the bad games were released at $70. The good games are a good deal cheaper.
That's very Greek of you. Most Americans would kick their children out at 18 and tell them to sink or swim.
I would explain how this was well done but it is off topic. Good luck.
To tie this back on topic, half of our money supply was created in the last 5 years and it wasn't done they way it's supposed to be done; by banks making loans, it was conjured up by the Fed and our monetary policy. It's amazing that inflation is as low as it is. Technically, for every individual, it's orders of magnitude higher than the official numbers we see. Take the same shopping list you had in 2019 and go to the grocery store, you'll double that up today. If the same metrics from the 80s were used to measure inflation, there would be no way to hide it.
I say smaller dev teams.
What cost though? It's not like games are built on physical products. Take Tears of the Kingdom for example, which is a game that's recycled Breath of the Wild. There are new assets, but majority of what's done is recycled from Breath of the Wild. Even Elden Ring is using stuff from Demon Souls, which is a game built back in 2009.
This is the most correct statement you've made so far. Games are priced purely on what the market is willing to bear, and nothing more. Not because they have to but because shareholders demand it.
We can only hope.
I don't think you're aware of how gaming works. There's no such thing as less supply, but more supply. You have four decades of games that people can go back and play, and 92% of us are playing older games. Companies have been working with FOMO as a way to get people to buy their new games, but considering how many games that flopped last year that costed hundreds of millions of dollars to create, then it maybe time for the industry to get a soft reboot. Gamers don't always depend on companies to make games, but other gamers. Recently it's indie developers who've attracted gamers. Like I said before, Gen Z are into cheap horror games you find on Steam. For example Choo-Choo Charles which is a game made by one man. Five Nights at Freddy's was also a game made by one man, and now it's a franchise that blew up. This sort of thing happened to the gaming industry before where Team Fortress and Counter Strike were free game mods that few people made. The AAA gaming industries compliance was never a factor.
To tack on...according to the IRS's own data, even if we were to tax the evil 1% at 100% and make them to work for free, it wouldn't close the budget deficit.
it blows my mind how much general media there is out there. One could probably stop in time and still not be able to consume all that was launched in the last 2 years or so.
I would stop at NES and not go past that in age. Atari 2600 games are just crappy arcade games. Most of the NES games are crap, but so are all consoles. If I were to sit down and think hard, I'd say that maybe two dozen games that are a must play on the NES. Probably more on the SNES. Ducktales influenced Shovel Knight. Earthbound influenced Undertale. Silksong is just a modern day metroidvania. Modern first person shooters can trace their heritage back to Half Life, and even further back to Doom. These games do not suck today because they're old. If they influence game creators today, then there's a reason for it. The best thing is that these games will run on a toaster. Some would say a Nintoaster. I'm not saying Gen Z are playing these games, but I'm saying they should if they can't afford $500+ consoles with $80 games. Lets be honest here in that modern day AAA games do suck.
Not really. Walmart's starting pay for hourly employees ranges from $14 to $19 per hour, depending on the store location, with the company maintaining a minimum wage of $14 per hour that varies by region. This starting wage is significantly higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, and Walmart's rate is also above the minimum wage in most states where it operates.
I wouldn't say gaming is dying but instead the market has shifted. Gen Z play cheap and or free games that focus on social interactions. Roblox is big for them to the point where some of them grew up and are looking to date people who play the game. It's also why Roblox is pedo bait. Another game is Lethal Company that's $10 off Steam and people have funny interactions in that game. Then there was Buckshot Roulette which was popular for a while and is $3 on Steam. Notice anything about these games? They're cheap, they're social, and they're mostly exclusive to PC. How many here have ever heard of these games, besides Roblox because it's making the rounds on mainstream news?
"Disposable Income"Younger people with less money spend less money on their hobby than older people with more disposable income? Never saw that coming.
This has been an issue for as long as I have been a professional. The fancy HR software and people using it won't give a second glance at a resume and cover letter if you didn't gloss it up with impressive sounding words. I never got an interview myself from being honest out of college, it wasn't until I started exaggerating that I started getting interviews and even a response of any kind. I imagine it's even worse today with AI doing the filtering now.