How do you explain the Japanese games industry then?
Let us hope that congress exempts artistic products (video games, movies, books, and so forth) from any border tax.
As for video games eating the tax, I don't think it'll happen. Devs will have to pay it, and more will be driven out of business. Either prices rise, or devs start shutting down. Profit margins are thin as it is, and if the US government wants a slice of the cake too, then something is going to have to give.
Why do imports need to be taxed? What is the economic logic behind this?
I'm one of the strongest advocates of protectionism, but I also have an economics degree, so I know where looking out for your own people becomes cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Taxing games made abroad WILL NOT bring jobs back. Foreign countries will not let the USA steal their games industries (and remember that this is a war between developed countries - China don...
And what is the point of gas, food, or water if there are no joys to live for?
Taxing foreign video games is stupid. It makes America look stupid. It solves a problem which doesn't exist (the problem is with electronics being manufactured in China, not video games made in Japan or Europe).
Damn multinationals! Outsourcing the development of The Witcher 3, Minecraft, and Grand Theft Auto to Europe!
Oh wait...
(also note that US games will likely face a retaliatory tax abroad, so Europeans will play European games, Japanese will play Japanese games and so forth - the US would be destroying its soft power if Trump includes artistic works)
True.
Dragon Age Inquisition went completely OTT with gay romances, but Mass Effect should have had something for people who want to swing that way.
Though gay romances make considerably more sense in Mass Effect than Dragon Age.
Gay gamers naturally enjoy gay romances more than straight romances. That's just biology.
Seriously, we've got to discard this idea that all gamers are the same. We're not.
Your sentiment came about in response to SJWs, but it is not a truthful rebuttal to their points. The rebuttal to their points is the EXACT opposite - that we all have our own deeper interests, often grounded in biological and personality traits, and we have a right to spen...
Corridor after corridor of mashing one button and waiting for the enormous health gauges of enemies to drain. No, I'd say that FF13 is fairly hated.
Zelda is not worth $360.
Yes, but it was never quite this bad before. This Christmas was a new low.
With any luck, the machine revolution will take over within the next 20 years and we'll be able to work shorter hours, allowing more time to spend with the family and play games.
Oh man, that would be fantastic. I used to love that game.
I will be buried with a PlayStation so I can play video games in the afterlife.
Eternity or bust.
Russian hackers are like batman. They save us from the shadows.
Poor man's DoA?
The best sale was Winter 2011, where experiencing seasonal game content won you coal as part of the sale. Every day was exciting because you would see if one of your games had an Xmas achievement to get.
And then they went downhill from there. Flash sales were OK, but now we just have a complete mess, with some games being more expensive than they were during sales years ago. First then fun went, and now the good deals have gone.
Hopefully devs made less ...
Poland can into gaming?
Do these people not have anything better to do?
Let's not give them credit.
If someone gets annoyed by VR groping, then they are not mature enough to be using VR. I don't want to play multiplayer games with such people (because they're not likely to be all that fun).
The main problem is devs actually responding to this tiny minority of complainers.
@Cyber
And I completely agree that this makes sense when it comes to Playstations and video game discs.
If, however, this somehow ends up affecting digital downloads, and the price Netflix pays for the rights to foreign movies (British stuff, anime, etc), then it would be a disaster.