I was looking up PC controller prices and found this... $136 off?! $136 WOULD BE TOO EXPENSIVE IF THAT WERE THE ENTIRE PRICE, LET ALONE $735.

I don't care if it's made of fucking unicorn farts, why the fuck should it be that expensive?

Also aparently xbox controllers are now like $250. Who the fuck is paying more than $50 for a controller lmao wtf has gaming become.

Fuck that noise, I don't care if it performs like shit, I'm buying a shitty ali express controller for $10 instead lmao.

Gamers delenda est. :gamer-gulag:

  • Yurt_Owl
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    1 year ago

    Gaming headsets have always been an absolute meme of overpriced tacky crap. Also the pro controllers that are coming out are beyond worthless. I got the elite 2 without googling first cos am stoopid thinking i could bind the paddles to something useful like keyboard buttons on my PC. NOPE it only binds other Xbox buttons. What was the premium even for? Slightly more convenient controls?

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Gaming headsets have always been an absolute meme of overpriced tacky crap.

      Completely agree. If you want to actually get something good then go to someone known in audio like Sennheiser or Philips directly, not a "gaming" peripheral manufacturer. I've been using a set of Fidelio X2HR for years and years and they sound better than any capital G Gamer headset I've ever tried on while being practically invincible to what I put them through.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          100% I'm glad I grew up during the forum era because the various audiophile nerd forums of people obsessed with various graphs I do not understand taught me to do proper research because a lot of the equipment sold is overpriced rubbish marketed for people that don't know better. These days those niche nerd spaces for extremely obsessed people are much less visible online and that is a bad thing for the average person who doesn't end up learning.

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              That how I eventually discovered adding +reddit in google searches as forums were waning in the past decade.

              This is eventually going to be replaced but I'm not sure what by. A downside of fediverse is that the distributed nature of it makes it quite hard to search for information - not helped by search engines being entirely geared towards presenting the most mainstream corporate internet out there.