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This meme uses a fast food burger analogy to humorously compare video game release practices between the past and present. The top section marked "THEN" displays a complete, full hamburger labeled as the original game, with optional side items (fries and soda) labeled as expansion packs, representing that older base games were fully playable on release with expansions being additional non-essential content. The bottom section marked "NOW" shows only empty hamburger buns as the original game, with all core burger ingredients (lettuce, tomato, patty, cheese) sold separately as DLC, a strip of bacon as a pre-order bonus, and condiments marked as a Best Buy exclusive. The meme criticizes modern gaming monetization that splits core playable content into separate paid purchases, leaving base games incomplete at launch.

Meme criticizing modern game DLC practices using burger analogy

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This is a single-panel illustrated meme set against a solid red background. It features two stylized drawn characters: the left character is labeled 'GAME DEVELOPERS', an angry woman who is shouting, and metaphorically spitting sharp knives from her mouth at the right character. The right character is labeled 'PS4 OWNERS', a man who is visibly injured, bleeding from multiple knife wounds to his chest, clutching one of the embedded knives with a pained, upset expression. The speech bubble from the game developer character reads 'WE WILL NO LONGER RELEASE GAMES ON 13 YEAR OLD HARDWARE THAT HAS HAD A SUCCESSOR FOR 5 YEARS!'. The joke uses a violent metaphor to represent how PlayStation 4 owners feel personally attacked and harmed by video game developers choosing to phase out support for the aging PS4 console, after its successor the PS5 has been available for 5 years and the PS4 hardware is 13 years old.

Game Developers Stopping PS4 Game Releases Meme

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The GIF shows Peter Griffin from the animated series Family Guy, visibly enraged, repeatedly punching an interior wall. His fist breaks through the drywall, leaving a hole, and he becomes splattered with blood from the impact. The text above the footage reads "Game ends on a cliffhanger Studio shuts down". The meme conveys the extreme anger and disappointment gamers feel when a video game they enjoy ends on an unresolved narrative cliffhanger, and no sequel will ever be released because the game's development studio has shut down, a common occurrence that many players can relate to with multiple real world examples coming to mind.

It's sad that so many games come to mind

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This is a satirical gaming meme using crude stick figure and Wojak art. On the left side, 6 stick figures representing major gaming publishers and platforms (Ubisoft, EA, Nintendo, Epic Games, PlayStation, Xbox) each hold a gun that has backfired, shown by a red explosion from the gun's rear end, indicating their attempt to attack has failed. On the right, a calm, unbothered stick figure holds the Steam platform logo, completely unaffected by the failed attacks. Below this scene, a group of enraged, open-mouthed Wojak-style figures yell the word 'Monopoly!' in anger. The joke conveys the widely held gamer sentiment that large gaming companies attempt to enforce anti-consumer practices such as excessive pricing, exclusivity locks, and subscription mandates to build a monopoly over the market, but Steam's continued existence as a pro-consumer alternative prevents them from doing so.

Steam Ruins Gaming Companies' Monopoly Plans

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This is a two-panel meme using a scene from the classic *Tom and Jerry* animated series. The top panel displays an open page of a book with text stating the logical rule: 'If a purchase can be revoked at any time then a payment should be refundable at any time'. The bottom panel shows an extremely angry, steaming version of Tom the cat labeled 'Game Publishers', holding the same book and reacting with fury to the stated rule. The meme satirizes the widely criticized double standard in the video game industry where digital game purchases can be revoked by publishers at any time for any reason, while consumers are regularly denied the ability to get refunds for their purchases whenever they request them.

Game Publishers Angry At Logical Refund Rule Meme

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This single-panel meme uses the popular smug Bugs Bunny 'no' template to joke about the difference between Rockstar Games and other AAA video game companies. The top text states that other AAA companies dub their games into multiple languages for international players, then introduces Rockstar Games, which is followed by Bugs Bunny's dismissive 'no' to represent Rockstar's common practice of not providing full multi-language dubs for their releases, a common point of criticism from international fans.

Rockstar Games Doesn't Do Multiple Language Dubs

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