Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn’t want to earn money from them I wouldn’t charge money for them.”
The game follows the premise of being trapped in an underwater submarine out of necessity to capture deep pictures.
I wonder to what degree people react because it’s a cheap game and for some people this is the only stuff they can afford (especially in the current economy), so raising the price feels like a personal attack to them.
People who buy 70$ games don’t care as much because they’re already able and willing to drop such hideous sums on games, and the hardware needed to run them.
if an increase of two whole dollars is enough to freak someone out, they don’t need to be buying video games. Like if you’re really THAT broke, you’ve got other priorities.