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I used to get Wingstop all the time in 2023 and 2024 when I first started College, but time has passed and I got it again recently and I feel like it downgraded a lot.

The fries are differently cut and less crispy, and there’s practically no seasoning. The wings, albeit nuggets in my case cause I get boneless, are also a little different in texture, but I guess the sauce makes up for the taste. Hell, the corn is so much smaller than I remember them being, too!

Has it downgraded after 2024 and onwards for yall? I presume it’s cause the Private equity firm Sixth Street acquired it that year, but maybe I’m just tripping.

So I used to watch a lot of Cartoon Network when I was a kid, maybe like 6 or 7 years old, and I am coming across many of the shows that I used to watch come out with spinoffs. This makes me want to watch these older shows again and get into them; I’m 21 now for further context.

Just wanted to gauge the fandoms average age through the responses of this post, I feel as if current fandoms compromise most people like me, those that have loved the show ever since the shows came out and have grown older with them, or loved it as a kid and found their way back to it.

Here are the shows I loved the most as kid: Adventure Time, Regular Show, SpongeBob, Fairly Odd Parents, Total Drama Island, Dexter’s Laboratory, Courage, Rugrats, Danny Phantom, MAD, Gumball, Fish Hooks, Kick Batowski, Chowder, Ben 10, lots of PBS shows, and many more that I don’t care to remember right now, yall can ask me in the comments!

TLDR; I think the outrage is a bit overblown over basically cosmetic DLC content and a couple missions being locked in the ultimate edition, the price is reasonable considering inflation and how good the game likely will be and how much it costed, and the lack of disc is a disappointment but inevitable nowadays. I’m not a fanboy or anything but I’m optimistic for the game and excited to play it.

Now I am usually very critical of predatory monetary practices performed in the gaming industry. I exclusively buy 10+ year old games with heavy discounts and sparingly any new games (maybe 1 or 2 a year) for that reason. I’m a budget gamer lol. Considering my standing as a GTA and RDR enjoyer as well, I honestly do not see the issues with Rockstar’s pricing of GTA6. $80 for a game that costed $60 in 2013, so adjusted for inflation it’s actually below what the average inflation rate throughout these years would expect for games nowadays, about $85.

Now it’s still a bit steep for me, especially as a broke college student, but GTA is such a great game series that I do not see it as too much for me. It’s a no brainer of a purchase for me. Nintendo games which have set this precedent, yeah I would be more hesitant, and future titles will for sure price their games at this level, but Rockstar has spent over $2b on this game and actually provide full and polished products that exceed expectations. Many games nowadays do not deserve this pricing, they don’t even provide completed games, but I am certain Rockstar will deliver.

The extra $20 for the Ultimate edition doesn’t seem too bad for me either, all of the content is purely cosmetic (I doubt the car shops will have performance enhancing modifications, rather only aesthetic), and RDR2 already had some missions or encounters locked behind the ultimate edition. I hadn’t even known that as I only have the standard edition, but the game for sure does not feel incomplete or unpolished.

I think I’ll end up buying the Ultimate edition, $20 nowadays is like $5 back then, and I think it’s silly for gamers to think that their sector of the industry will always be immune to inflation, so it’s not that bad for, basically, DLC content. Again, if you’re paying $80 for a game that isn’t even complete, buggy, and has very predatory practices, then this argument does not apply.

The only thing that sucks for me is that there won’t be a disc to buy at launch, and those discs will ultimately be keys to download the game rather than having the storage on the disc. We will own nothing and be happy about it at the end of the day, but I just don’t really care. All games are like this nowadays. Not even Steam is immune to this. I just want to play the game damnit lol.

Wondering what yall think.