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If you look at inflation adjusted pricing, it really is a deal. IIRC we should be at like 90 or 100+ dollar games at this point.
We are already are, look at season passes, dlc etc, 90+ is the de facto price of a lot of AAA games. They'll claim going even higher is to support developers or whatever when laying people off en masse and posting even larger quarterly results, it's pure avarice.
They also tend to sell more copies vs decades ago, which is partly why the $70cad game was so normal for so long IMO.
As usual, the problem isn’t so much that the cost of everything is rising; It’s that wages aren’t keeping pace.
Sure, but that doesn't mean the game developers don't need to be paid. It's still a bargain for the work that's being done.
Developers have been underpaid for years. These increases are not going to them.
this would make sense if the game developers were being paid properly to begin with, rather than the leeches that are the c-suite taking more than they should
point to the wage increases for those developers
That's not inflation works. Inflation shouldn't apply to everything at the same rate.
My first computer costed the equivalent to 1000 euros. Do you think the average desktop should cost 3000?
That is how inflation works... when costs go up prices go up.
Yeah, your computer probably should cost a lot more in "today dollars" but because performance of components gets more efficient over time, you can likely get a better computer for less money.
It's the same reason you have a computer more powerful than multiple thousands of dollar super computers. The technology has improved enough you don't have to pay as much.
Do you think prices should just be locked in place for eternity at $60?
You can't just scale game prices linearly with inflation, sure costs of development have increased, not just because of inflation but also because games are much more complex now. But the gaming market has grown a lot and games are infinitely reproducible so that hugely increases profits.
I don't know how much we should pay for games, but just comparing it to inflation is useless
Games were $60 for so long everyone things it should be like that forever