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I think an explanation of the rage piracy people have is that they want to not pirate but prices keep going up so they are even more mad that they "have to"
And no that's not me. I pirated games long ago when I was broke but frankly it's easier now to just buy games. I don't buy too many and I wait for sales when I do. I get not wanting to pay these high prices though. Even broke people ought to be able to play a year old video game for God's sake. There are some games I waited several years for. Because a $60 game really is worth $40 4 years later, right?
That's totally fair. I, like many, have watched in horror as games get more and more expensive. I dont buy that many anymore either. I dont have as much time to play as i used to.
If i am being fair, though, the scope of games has changed significantly since the early days of gaming in terms of hours of content and quality of graphics and what they can do. Storylines, cinematics, everything has been slowly becoming bigger since the days of playing streets of rage on a sega genesis and completing it in a few hours. With 3 characters to pick from and a limited set of moves with enemies that get more health, they hit harder but are just a reskin of a previous enemy.
I dont think 70 or 80 dollars is a good price. It's too expensive. But i also dont think games should be 30 or 40 dollars brand new.
But in saying that. There were games back then that cost more than 80 dollars. And n64 games used to cost in the 60 dollar region when they were new. Same with ps1 games. I think over 20 to 30 years for the price of games to have risen by between 10 and 30 dollars is not that crazy, even if they are too expensive now. 60 dollars was a lot more in the 90s than it is today.
The original ps1 would cost almost 800 dollars in todays money.
Overall i think nintendo are greedy and they go to far with raising the prices. I just think everyone pointing at nintendo need to remember that its the industry as a whole that has raised prices to where they are, not just nintendo.
I'm with you. I feel like games could sanely cost $50-$80 brand new, depending scope, like you said. But I also think keeping those high prices for years is bullshit. It is greed. Honestly though in some cases they could probably make more money (particularly on steam) if they had cheaper prices over time. I waited a very long time to buy RDR2 because I just couldn't stomach the new price. Took yeaaars to get to . I think $40 on sale. That's some bullshit. If they dropped like $5 every 6 months they might make even more money and people like me wouldn't have to wait so long.
Nintendo never dropping the price is the worst. If some of those games weren't so good they'd obviously go out of business doing that. They found their niche and exploit it with greed galore. And then despite piracy being hard on their consoles out of the gate... They still ruin lives over it. Fuck that. Pick one Nintendo, never lower prices or prosecute hobbyists. Can't have both unless you want people to hate you