The game hasn't been announced for PC until two days ago. If you wanted to play it so bad that you're willing to spend $70 on a subpar store, then why would you have waited to play it on a platform that there has never been any guarantee it would even come to?
I don't own a Ps4. There is a huge difference between buying an entire console to play one game and buying one game when it comes out for a platform I already own.
There was no guarantee that it was coming to PC, that is true. I wasn't so much waiting for it as I was occasionally checking the gaming news to see if and when it may happen. Now we have our answer .
And if you were happy to wait until it came to your preferred platform, why wouldn't you just keep waiting until it's a reasonable price?
I mean I wouldn't say I was happy. I was working full time during a pandemic while everyone else stayed at home and played it on their PS4. Actually, to be honest, I was kinda fucking miserable in April of 2020.
I haven't bought a full priced AAA game in years. I am subbed on the patient gamer sub and often am very frugal with my money.
I haven't even told you that I'm buying it for $70, though I might if I feel like it. I've switched to night shift and now have more time on my days off to play video games because I'm awake at 4am... last year I wouldn't have had large pieces of time to kill.
I agree that $70 seems a bit pricey for the game. Though I'm willing to wager a lot of people flipping the fuck out in this thread have been $60 for games and if you account for inflated prices across the globe right now $70 kinda makes sense. (Yes I also hate corporate greed and know it's being distributed digitally etc.) I bet a lot of those people buy goods at inflated prices like sneakers or alcohol or paying rent in a city that they realistically should move out of. I don't call them "stupid" for doing that. It's their life and their financially independent call to do so.
If it's my personal financial call to spend $70 on the game it doesn't make me "stupid". Also, I still have no idea how the argument that I surely have enough excess cash laying around to have played it last year (which literally would've cost me more money) on a platform that I didn't want to buy makes any sense.
Either way, just giving a little perspective.
I agree the game is pricey. I agree that it sucks for people who can't afford it. But calling me stupid is fucking ridiculous... im not writing a check for $50k to a Nigerian prince who claims to make final fantasy games.