• accideath@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Not solely. If you paid $60 for a game in 2010, that‘d be almost $88 today, simply due to inflation. It’s a wonder the prices haven’t skyrocketed any sooner.

    Not that I want that, I‘d prefer games being affordable but it was kinda inevitable considering the way the economy is going…

    Also, I‘d personally rather pay $90 once than have a cheap game with a shitload of micro transactions. Of course, developers/publishers that ask $90 for a game and still include a bunch of micro transactions can fuck right of.

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      2 days ago

      Also, people seem to forget that we’ve been paying $60 for new games for like 40 years. NES games cost $60. That would be like $200 today.

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      2 days ago

      “I rAtHeR pAy $420.69 once for an incomplete game then extra $69 for each DLC” - You. Seriously, go back to Nintendo you gooba

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        2 days ago

        I don’t own a Nintendo console older than a Wii and I don’t plan on changing that.

        I also don’t plan on playing games that try to make me pay for it tenfold by enticing me to buy various in-game currencies.