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Every time I compare the values of video games to movies, even the small indie ones come out on top. Cinema is so expensive nowadays.
by BiteCode_dev 3y ago
Every time I compare the values of video games to movies, even the small indie ones come out on top.
Cinema is so expensive nowadays.
- ekianjo 3y ago> Cinema is so expensive nowadays. and that's not even taking in account the overpriced pop-corn
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoI actually don't mind the popcorn price, as that goes directly to the theater. If you choose your theater wisely, you're helping a local business.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoNor the fact they still show ads before the movie you paid for.
- dietr1ch 3y agoI kind of wouldn't mind too much, but they start the movie around 30 minutes late just to show ads and trailers.
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoThen also arrive at the cinema late so you can skip the ads. I always arrive about 10 min late to skip the ads.
- dietr1ch 3y agoYeah, but I'd have to learn the timing like it's a train that's regularly late roughly the same amount. It's easier to learn to watch movies home.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoDoesn't work at the drive-in, though thankfully ours only shows one preview before the feature. But the drive-in is an edge case.
- ChuckNorris89 3y ago> the drive-in Tell me you live in the US :D
- jhbadger 3y agoEven in the US drive-ins are a relic of another time and most of them have closed. They were most popular from the 1950s to the 1970s.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoEveryone should make the effort to support the ones that are left. Going to them is an event, and affordable.
- DropInIn 3y ago"Going to them is an event, and affordable." Hmmm.... So is bull fighting but most of us refuse for various ethical and moral reasons... Maybe we should treat a giant parking lot that goes unused for 99% of the time, and requires people to use polluting transportation when they could use public transit to go to a theatre, as the giant unethical mess it is, eh?
- Juke_Ellington 3y agoTo be fair, most movie theaters in the US have a giant, 99% unused parking lot attached to them anyways. Plus anywhere with a drive-in probably doesn’t have transit.
- DropInIn 3y ago
- jokethrowaway 3y agoThat's why actors are celebrities spending millions on drugs while game developers constantly question whether they should get a real job
- chrisweekly 3y agoYet, cultural footprint aside, in economic terms the video game industry is significantly larger than film. (Sorry, citation needed, but I clearly recall reading this from a reputable source.)
- maroonblazer 3y ago"Gaming is Five Times Bigger Than Movies Now" https://gameranx.com/updates/id/416500/article/gaming-is-five-times-bigger-than-movies-now https://gameranx.com/updates/id/416500/article/gaming-is-fiv...
- ffgjgf1 3y agoUnfortunately a lot of that is ad filled P2W shovelware
- yCombLinks 3y agoNot much different than Hallmark shovelware
- johnnyanmac 3y agoMany people only play free phone games. It tracks. I know people on the internet constantly discount it, but mobile is much too big a platform to ignore in discussions like these
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoI think the market is confusing gambling with gaming. The two markets don't overlap (or not directly, I'm sure there are people who enjoy both). We pretend they do, but the only thing they share is the technical aspects in producing something. Diablo Immortal clearly highlighted this. It's equivalent to saying that soccer and basketball are the same game because played both with a ball. "core gamers" (the gamers that play videogames) are actually "videogamers". Mobile gamers are gamblers. Of course there are also some videogames in the mobile world, so you can find some core gamers playing videogames on mobile