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You won't like hearing this, but video games must become more expensive. When I was little, my dad got me a PlayStation 2 for christmas, but without any games. My mum was very generous and took me out to pick two games for it. They were 60€ each. Nowadays you would call those full-price games. But now, 20 years later, a full-price game is still about 60€. If you correct that for inflation, it should really be 86€ now. And that's not even covering the fact that games have massively increased in visual fidelity, which is much more expensive to produce. If you don't want games to be littered with microtransactions or ads, then you have to accept that a regular video game must be at least 90€. (98 USD, 77 GBP, 149 AUD, 134 CAD) #Gaming #GameDev #GameDevelopment #Steam #Inflation #Economy #PlayStation
Can't wait to buy the next installment of insert sports game here/call of duty for 100 USD base, 200 for the dlc, maybe even 300 for the ultimate deluxe extreme version.
But their profit could have been 6 million dollars according to their data! Are you saying you are ok with these companies losing 6 billion in lost profits?? You really think it's morally acceptable stealing 6 trillion dollars from them with your greedy consumer practices?!
I genuinely believe if we wanted to only change one thing about capitalism and make it function better it would be to hide how much profit a company makes from itself.
The only information they should have about profits is “yes” or “no”. Because if you’re making one cent in profit that means your business is a success and you shouldn’t be chasing more.