It's like he is calling gamers heroin addicts, games by any means.

I'll "make it happen" when it's 90% off

I'm sure they'll be fine. I think ppl will pay up.

$80 is the reality of games very soon, $100 will be a reality one day. I don't buy a lot of games when they first come out, I'm fine waiting for a sale down the line. I didn't buy a lot of games at launch when they were $50 either.

I think we all get what he's saying. Problem is that you certainly don't want to hear something like this coming from the mouth of a privileged such as him, notwithstanding whatever other insanities he called in the past.

Gamers have already found ways to justify themselves to pay 30 bucks more just for the privilege of 2-3 days early access. I don't think the looming 80$ AAA "crisis" is exactly gonna affect the bigger players except for the smaller ones who will try either new things or mediocre games that will obviously lead to bad sales because of the expected retraction from gamers changing paying habits.

Tubers and streamers have to get the game as soon as possible to make the most out of it, then the game is everywhere and followers get FOMO so they will have to buy it too. It's an unfortunate system, but companies are laughing all the way to the bank.

Yes but fo you notice gamers are now finding little details, anything at all to attack a game so they don't get FOMO. This Randy comment might even be used to drum up outrage, deservedly so. All it needs is a less than stellar score, 85 should do and a spark of outrage over any little detail, maybe identity politics or some character in the game. Borderlands 3's "comedy" was pretty heavily looked sideways at, the game wasn't well received by fans, it sold half of what Borderlands 2, pre economic problems. This might not flop but the game has a 300 million budget, breaking even is a real possibility if gamers reject it and that still with good sales of 4-5 milllion. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out at any rate, how a once 30 million seller will perform today, I can't wait to see what the industry is like at the costumer level, it's very hard to gauge how people are doing financially, if you were to guess you'd think worse than 2008/2010 just with the shear cost of living alone. Europe might now be as bad but it's getting there...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

Yong covered it. 

Well, I've always thought Borderlands is a dogshit series so I couldn't care any less what Randy says. Would never support that series even if Randy was a standup guy and did nothing but good in the world.

Oh you're better off, count yourself lucky I have played both 1 and 2, Tales from the Borderlands and the VR remaster. They look so fun and early on are very much that but they turn into nonsense, repetitive slogs and the "comedy" starts to physically hurt. Stay away, the games are traps, I'll not be tricked again into believing Borderlands is a good series if you intend to beat it, nah, they are aggressively mediocre games you are almost certain to drop out of exhaustion. The games should call it quits between a 20-30 hour run time and make the content less MMO like. 

Tiny Tina's spin off looks legit really a good time tho... oh right, I'm being tricked again.