Vidya is now too expensive to buy new

>>382090426
sucks to be a leaf doesn't it?

Yeah bro I dont even play vidya anymore I just watch people play it cuz its so expensive

>>382090426
>minimum wage job
You need to get a higher paying job.

>>382090426
Prices are the same here in the US as they've been the last decade

>>382090426
>I make roughly 1200 a month on a minimum wage job.
Stopped reading right here.

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>>382090426
minimum wage is $10.50/hr in Canada.
minimum wage is 7.25/hr in america.
can you stop being a little bitch faggot.

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>A FUCKING LEAF

go complain somewhere else you fucking leaf.

>>382090747
Oh i'm trying, but its a bit difficult when employers want a university degree for anything beyond 10.60 an hour. Not to get political either, but the mass inmigration has made getting any job difficult with higher population and affirmative action.

>>382091047
>Not to get political either, but the mass inmigration has made getting any job difficult with higher population and affirmative action.
LOL get this bullshit outta my face. Your just making excuses for yourself you lazy bitch

>>382091296
Not an argument

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>>382091047
>mass inmigration
Who's fault is this?

>>382090426
>$100 after taxes
Taxes are $30? Fucking really? Even for Canada that's ridiculous. Wouldn't importing be cheaper?

Either way the price to content ratio is definitely being skewed in favor of price. Shit like ARMS you could probably beat in a rental. Dunno if they have that in Canada or not. If I'm going to spend $60 on a game I'd expect it to last for months, so something like Disgaea might be acceptable at that price, but ARMS? Fuck no.

Please into basic economics. /v/ scares the fuck out of me when it comes to economics.

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>>382091047

>>382091047
>the mass immigration has made getting any job difficult with higher population and affirmative action.
Wouldn't an increase in population lead to an increase in services needed? Canada isn't Sweden. You guys definitely have enough open space for habitation. The problem is that nobody is actually developing the neighborhoods that should have been built decades ago.

>>382090426
A FUCKING LEAF

>>382090426
I made 700 a month my last job, quit crying. You have kids or something?

>>382090426
Get prime and save 20% on preorders you poorfag

>>382090928
Tax is 13% in Ontario, and 6% in Michigan. Prices are also higher in Canada than they are in the US.

>>382090426
A

>>382091047

I started my job when I was 16, as a dishwasher making about $8.50 an hour. I'm now a cook making $15 with no formal training in the latter. I also live in one of the most expensive places to live in Canada, so it's totally possible. Just gotta search out the right kind of job.

It's do-able, senpai. I believe in you.

>>382091868
Eastern canada. Food is more expensive and tax is 15%. There's also huge competition for jobs since our local economy sucks. People come here when theyre old and rich to die.

>>382092059
Drive down to Michigan.

>hmm should I hoard video games or improve my life

>i know

>i'll complain that i can't afford to hoard video games

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No they're not getting too expensive. Video games are considered a luxury good for a fucking reason anon. They're not a right, nor are they essential. If you can't afford them, or can't find a way to pirate, then you can't play them. Tough shit. So why don't you stop being a little bitch and either fix your situation, get good at handling your money, or stop complaining.

>>382090426
Only a cuck would by the game new. It's expensive, unfinished, until they release a ton of patches, DLC and shit. It'll be 50% off in a month and 70% in two. Can't you wait?

>>382090426

This is why piracy exists. I'm surprised the Switch exploit has not developed into a full-blown piracy solution already.

I would buy one if it did.

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>>382091868
>Wouldn't an increase in population lead to an increase in services needed?
Hypothetically yes, but the gains are generally reaped at the middle class & up. Mass immigration depresses wages of the lower class and it's universally a negative to have competition willing to accept third world wages. A gas station attendant (for example) who used to make $15 CAD per hour now makes $10 because there are so many more potential workers. And this is what the middle-upper and upper class want, because they now pay their employees $10 instead of $15.

This is coming at precisely the wrong time in history, too, because automation is going to slaughter a lot of those lower skill (thus lower class) jobs. Europe and North America are going to end up with a lot of jobless angry blacks, muslims, and latinos in the future, and that's not a recipe for stability.

>>382090426
Americans have seen their wages stagnate since the 1970s, which primarily hurts the lower and lower middle classes, so yeah it stings. The problem is that video games are actually undervalued with respect to inflation. Games used to cost $50 USD for a new AAA release as far back as the SNES in 1994, which in today's money should be close to $100 or so. Game developers aren't earning as much money as they should be, because their audience has stagnating wages (due to globalization and economic migrants).

The minimum wage is 500 in my country. Stop complaining.

>>382090928
So basically the same value?

>>382092804
You're not entitled to Western luxuries.

Hell, if you're Eastern European, you weren't even part of the games market to any meaningful degree before 1990. Honestly you're not part of this conversation at all.

>>382092202
This. They busted some guys at the Mackinaw Bridge about a decade ago with dozens of cell phones. The reason for it was that the guys were driving from store to store individually, buying up all the phones from Walmart, and then reselling in their own state for a massive profit.

Canada is so suffocated by taxes that doing something similar with a less controversial item seems far more logical.

Just drive down to Detroit with exchanged money, and enjoy the desperation of businesses trying to compete with an almost non-existent economy.

>>382092863
Russians are like 50% of PC gaming market

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>>382092804
ZIMBABWE

>>382092863
I rather live with just 500 in my country than next to muslims.

>>382091047
>doesn't have a degree
>blames immigration
lmao go study, retard

Tell me more, the average salary in my country is 1/6th of american's salary and we pay the same $60 price for a game
That's like paying $360 for a game as american
Piracy is the new way

>>382093304
Russia is full of muslims, Ivan. Don't kid youself thinking that you don't have them near you.

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>>382092920

https://newzoo.com/insights/countries/russia/

$1.4 billion value, assuming it's relatively equal in spending, means 44% * $1.4b is $600 million.

http://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gaming-market-worth-36-billion-in-2016/

PC gaming market is 36 billion, so $600 million is like 2%. Not very significant.

Since even your best case is insignificant, let's look at the actual topic of the thread, which isn't limited to PC games. Pic related, Russia is not even top ten in gaming spending overall (PC, console, mobile, whatever). And note how none of these are Eastern Euro, unless by some monkey magic you include Germany.

>>382093467
I don't live in Russia. Try again.

>>382093606
Ahh the tiny infographic actually already did that calculation for the Russian PC value, which is 0.68 billion. So pound for pound, Russian PC users buy more things than other platforms in terms of % of audience for Russia.

>>382093439
>Tell me more, the average salary in my country is 1/6th of american's salary and we pay the same $60 price for a game
>That's like paying $360 for a game as american
Because the jobs you do aren't valuable to the global economy? Not my fault.

4chan isn't Romanian, Google isn't Ecuadorean, Microsoft isn't Russian, Amazon isn't Serbian, etc. etc. Seems like you need to get your act together if you want to compete.

Like I said, you aren't entitled to Western luxuries. Quit whining and fix your own country's economy

>>382090426
Good, fuck Canada

>>382093773
I will keep pirating, thanks

>>382091047
Guess I'm lucky then. I live in a small community in Nova Scotia and work at Michelin Tires. I've only got a high school diploma and I'm making $23/hour plus shift premiums. There's also lots of opportunities to take courses to improve your chances of promotions to better paying day jobs in the plant.

Isn't the minimum wage in texas like $4 an hour? You fags should be grateful

>western luxuries
Like all the Muslims your prime minister imported into your country? Is that a western luxury?

>>382093942
Texas has minimum wage, but insane state and sales taxes. Amazon was their way out, before state government found a way to actually make a profit.

>>382090426
You make less per month in Canada bucks than I do per week in US dollars.

>>382093606
>china
>1,388,232,692
fucking god damn like 6 kids per couple

>>382093606
>China has more than 4 times our population, likely not counting undocumented citizens but only have 2,000,000,000 dollars on us
It's weird to say only 2,000,000,000, but what gives?

>>382095106
Communism in the form of "socialism". Keep everyone dead broke, while exploiting their services for pennies on the dollar. It's great for those at the top, but leaves almost no economy for the actual people. Take away any form of quality control and oversight, and you end up with cheaply built everything, that is dangerous and unstable.

>>382091743
Lmao this pic

>>382094119
Yeah, but you have no income tax or property tax.