Unpopular Opinion

I’ve considered this, especially after watching moistcritikal’s very sarcastic rant on the matter. Nowhere in it does he mention the living wages of the devs, artists, and creators of the games, just that the price increase seems insane. Fact is, I remember when a pack of unfiltered camels smokes would run you about 75 cents, and the prices now are near, if not double digits.

Gonna take a lot of work to shift the mindset from “games should never cost more than d dollars” to “we need to develop a financial system whereby inflation doesn’t matter to us”.

35 years ago I didn't get a Super Nintendo or Sega because you could get 12 Commodore 64 games for the same price as a single Mario game. And a few years later my dad got hold of a 286 so we could play DOS games like Wolfenstein.

Wage stagnation is absolutely heartbreaking.

But even if I were making a livable wage, Nintendo's prices and other AAA are still ridiculous. The Steam wishlist sale life is the good life.

Jup, have had that thought before. And i think another Factor is that people now own more games than back then. Making their collection more expensive and equal to that what a few games cost in the past.

So we Always sortoff spend the same part of our budget for games, and only now when the price is rising it takes more out of our budget.

So we feel like the price is rising in an unfair manner .

You're not wrong. I believe I paid $44 for Ultima for the NES back in 89. I've personally never paid more than $49 for a game since then. Of course at this point I have like 2500 Steam games I haven't really played and access to a butt-ton of retro-gaming so I'll probably never spend more than $49 for a game.

Same with porn. But now, the only fans type sites are ridiculously expensive and you don't even know what the hell you're paying for until you pay.

Huh, unpopular opinion.

Does Lemmy know that popular opinions need to be downvoted? Smh....

Arguably, it's taxes on the wealthy that is the problem. That said. Nintendo can go felate themselves. Greedy, anti emulator dickheads.

There are certain games - like the Grand Theft Auto series - that could easily charge 300 bucks and still offer insane value to the player. Given how many hours a typical person puts into a game like that, the cost per hour ends up being practically nothing. I think game pricing only becomes an issue for people who can’t stay entertained by a single title for more than a few dozen hours before needing to move on to something else.