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Post by Tiers1 on Nov 14, 2020 18:41:01 GMT
I have had a few beers, and I am sure like I sound petulant when I say this...heck I am being petulant, but I just don't f*ing accept this. By 'this' I don't mean the fact I don't have one in hand, I mean that scalpers will scalp until the demand curve meets the supply curve...which will probably be closer to summer than winter. And Sony won't tell the truth about how many units or why...they won't even address that topic. I have been a gamer for 33 years. I am not unhappy in my life, but the games I enjoy are one of the few truly pleasurable things that I have. And people that don't care about gaming in the slightest are in possession of maybe 20,000 consoles nationwide and are busily making sure people who actually enjoy the hobby will have no choice but to deal with their shakedown. And neither Sony nor any retailer really care. I stand no real chance of getting one. Why? because I have a job and a family. I cannot sit in front of a screen refreshing for 6 hours...it is impossible. Who can? Scalpers/bots and maybe college/high school kids. This might be the beer talking so please forgive me, but literally the people that are actively out in the world working and trying to keep things humming along at any sort of regular job are those who stand the least chance of being able to purchase the thing they like that makes them happy. People that exploit people like me for a living, or that don't have any major responsibilities, are the ones that stand the better chance.
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Post by randomnobody on Nov 15, 2020 1:26:32 GMT
Yeah, that's how most things in life go. Luxury is for those who can afford it...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2020 5:29:57 GMT
Remember when nintendo released those mini snes consoles that came packed with games in them and scalpers pretty much made sure that nobody else would be able to buy one for the originally affordable price?
Peppridge farm remembers
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Post by wlewisiii on Nov 15, 2020 12:30:01 GMT
I have Warframe and Genshin Impact on my PC. My son has our Switch but I don't think he even uses it except when waiting on updates to download.
I just wish I could use a decent OS like FreeBSD to play my games rather than Windog but you put up with what you have to put up with.
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Post by Tiers1 on Nov 15, 2020 17:07:48 GMT
Every day there are more Ps5s for sale on Ebay despite the fact they are being consumed from the site regularly (Stockx sells one every 2 minutes). The scalpers got so many of these its ridiculous. I have spoken to people who work for the big box chains and quite frankly it could be Spring before it isn't a battle to get one.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Nov 16, 2020 3:36:17 GMT
Why not just wait the X months to get one?
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Post by randomnobody on Nov 16, 2020 4:28:12 GMT
Because I want it NOW!
- Everybody
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Post by nddave on Nov 16, 2020 6:25:01 GMT
Yea best way to deal with scalpers is to just ingore them, when their cost to profit ratio suffers because no one is dumb enough to buy from them or when legal action is eventually taken on them they will die off.
Honestly I could care less for the next gen consoles. Kinda been burt out on consoles since last gen. Bought a WiiU in its launch year, a N3DS a few years ago and bought a Switch last Christmas for my girls and me and honestly that's good enough for me as I primarily game Nintendo anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2020 7:04:04 GMT
Yea best way to deal with scalpers is to just ingore them, when their cost to profit ratio suffers because no one is dumb enough to buy from them or when legal action is eventually taken on them they will die off. Honestly I could care less for the next gen consoles. Kinda been burt out on consoles since last gen. Bought a WiiU in its launch year, a N3DS a few years ago and bought a Switch last Christmas for my girls and me and honestly that's good enough for me as I primarily game Nintendo anyway. Honestly, Nintendo does a great job at covering the needs of most casual gamers, myself included. You got your racing games, sword games, your shooting games. I was never into games like call of duty, and I have an Xbox 360 with dark souls 2 if i wanna hate my life
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