what point is that? that companies are evil if they give you refunds in gift cards?

am i also evil when I get my nephews gift cards for christmas? because i’m restricting their consumer choice!

because 12 year olds care about what store they buy games from…

what? I literally just bought it 3 weeks ago. That number is going to be high because I only have 4 games.

I will buy more games as time goes by and that cost will go down. That’s how math works.

I also bought a PS5 four years ago, and only had a few games for it for the first few months… that’s how buying consoles/games works. Now I probably have like 50+ games for it, but it’s been years.

my point is everything was cheaper a few years ago.

Depends on when you buy the game. New retail games on steam deck are still 50-60 bucks.

I can also find massive discounts on digital games on switch. I just bought like a bunch of $5 or less games on the last eshop sale.

Does Zelda and Mario go on sale for $5? No. They go on sale for like $30-40. I also just bought Mario Odsyessy for $40.

I’m happy to pay these prices. Cool if you are not? Lots of people buy shit I would never spend my money on. I haven’t bought a gaming PC in 15 years, because it me it seems like a huge waste of money and time.

Almost as if other people have different preferences, and priorities than you do? And they are happy to buy products you are not.

I mean, you can do that.

But it’s inconvenient and expensive and takes up space. So most folks choose not to do that for pragmatic reasons. Physical media still is broad available for books and music. Less so for films and TV shows, but many are still available in physical formats at online retailers.

I have a lot of physical books, like 500+. People tend to be quite negative about it and have so for a long time, because the popular conception is that physical media is stupid and wasteful. A lot of people take pride in owning nothing physical and regard that as ‘minimalism’ and are more than happy to purchase digital rentals or subscriptions only to further this aesthetic.

But it makes no sense to continue to produce physical media if only a niche audience is buying it, unless the product is niche, cheap to produce and has a high mark up. That’s why Vinly works, folks are willing to pay $30 per record and records cost pennies to physical reproduce.

Yep. I’m just an idiot. It’s not like I’ll go back to the store ever again and I’m a regular customer.

They are clearly ENTRAPPING ME. Just like all the times I returned a product and they gave me a full refund, that was also total entrapment. Or when I returned a product for a warrenty fufillment and they replaced it, also entrapment.

cool, and a few years ago you could get a switch lite for $200. still can, in fact.

yeah, your human rights are being violated, clearly.

meanwhile pharma companies are murdering people with drug costs, but this is where you draw the line. very brave and strong and smart!

because folks are bitter about they still charge $60 for a 10 year old game.

I’m not. I bought a switch 2 last month and Zelda BoTW for $70. It’s great. But what do I know, I’m a morally bankrupt bootlicker or something, because I was happy to spend my money on something that I am enjoying.

it’s not super common but a couple times a year i will buy something and the price drops a week or two later and you can contact them to get a gift card for the difference. you aren’t going to get in in cash or credit in 2026 though. it’s 30 days from date of purchase for all the places i have done this for.

it also costs half as much as a steamdeck.

you’re comparing a Civic to a BMW3 series and asking why the Civic doesn’t have leather seats and a 5K audio system.

americans voted for this. they wanted to be fleeced.

everyone told them tariffs were stupid, and they told those people to f off, they know better and Trump is a Really Smart Guy Who Knows What He Is Doing.

lemmy seems to have a hard on for painting Nintendo particularly as this awful terrible corporation. Most likely because they are bitter they won’t lower their game prices. And they turn it into this weird moral issue and compare them to Steam as if Steam is the ‘good guy’ and Nintendo is the ‘bad guy’. it’s basically virtue signalling over consumer choice or something, instead of political issues. because only bad stupid people would ever own a switch or something.

I mean, cool. I don’t buy a lot of shit from a lot of companies because I also don’t find their pricing and business model appealing. But it’s not a moral issue in any way. There are far worse examples of course, too. Jeep makes objectively shitty cars for decades, but people keep buying them, and complaining about how they are shitty, for the lifestyle image/cool club they think owning a Jeep puts them in.

But you’re 100% right and basically no company is giving customers refunds over any of this because it’s already enough of a clusterfuck as it is to get their own refunds. But hey, let’s not let complex and costly reality get in the way of idealistic consumer entitlement over like $20 bucks, which even if they could give people the refunds, it probably would among to very little money. Even more hilarious is that folks who never bought the product still seem to think they should get a refund from Nintendo because they had a Gamecube 20 years ago.

i think you mean the store she bought it from refunded you the difference.

many retail outlets have 30 day price guarantees, sometimes 90.

Nobody was buying NES systems direct from Nintendo.

well if you’re rich and you lose a bundle it wont be a big of a deal, that’s why.

hedges are risky, and it’s much easier to take risks if you have a large cushion to fall on when you fall.

not much, unless you’re rich and you make some smart hedge bets against it.

diversify assets is always smart, move more of your portfolio to cash and bonds.

No.

It’s everyone else who is wrong. You ignorant fools just can’t see how they are going to make life better for everyone.