$70 + tax is RIDICULOUS for games.

[LiveLaughLoath]

Essentially $80. I mean... Wtf? There is no reason for games to be over $20-$40. Except for greed, of course.

[freeburn]

Unless you just want to play a game asap I don't see any reason to even buy full price games anymore

Single player stuff will just drop in price over time, and the gameplay experience doesn't change, if anything it's just better after patches and updates. There isn't really any fomo (for me personally) with single player games.

MP games are a little different since you kinda wanna be in the mix while the game is at its peak, but in general most mp games don't cost 70 bucks, and if they do it usually has a single player aspect also.


I think it's a little scuffed that most full price games used to be complete experiences with single and multiplayer. Now you generally get one or the other, very few games are including both.i remember having a blast in random ass afterthought multiplayer modes from games like uncharted, bionic commando, etc. Like those games had no focus on mp, but still included it and it was fun.

[Sergis]

*******s forget theyre competing against every game out there already

ill just play the old chit and leave 70$ AAAA experiences for the streamers

hell witcher 3 is going to be a decade old in a year and i still havent touched the dlcs

[Deathstroke]

Bidenflation is real

/thread

[bartosh]

Bidenflation is real

/thread

if you wanna talk about inflation, games should have been ~85 in before biden took office

[PumkinPie]

So many reasons to not buy a game day 1. Bait and Switches, Sweet Baby inc crap, just plain buggy as ****. Better to wait on reviews and sales. I have a backlog of games to play anyway.

[eod8989]

People are still pre-ordering and buying them though and the Micros and dlcs

[Muzzlrpress]

While it does suck, video games are one of the lowest cost things when adjusting for inflation. A $45 game in the 90's would be an $87 game now.

The good thing is if your don't buy brand new, games almost always go on sale, and AA/indie games are always cheaper.

[Coal Man]

Eh. I'm not mad at it at all. As a kid I was buying games for $60. Most (or all) were shorter and had less content than the giant games we have now. Today I pay just $10 more after so many years I'd say it's kept it's price more than almost everything else in that time.

Also, there are so many games now that you can just play something older while waiting for a sale on the new game. On PSN for me there are sales like every month on different titles

[LtGoose]

Bootlickers will tell you games are relatively cheap and prices haven't been raised in a decade so we should be happy to pay $70.

While they completely ignore the fact that video games are the biggest media industry on the planet and companies make record profit year after year. They resell you the same game every year and all you're doing is purchasing a license to play, not the game itself.

[Coal Man]

Bootlickers will tell you games are relatively cheap and prices haven't been raised in a decade so we should be happy to pay $70.

While they completely ignore the fact that video games are the biggest media industry on the planet and companies make record profit year after year. They resell you the same game every year and all you're doing is purchasing a license to play, not the game itself.

I'd argue you gotta look at everything else in entertainment to make a comparison. How much do you pay to go see a 1.5 hr imax movie? Or buying a 4k Blu-ray? What about a concert?

I much rather play a great game personally and I spend 70 to get hours upon hours of content. As well as being able to replay them. Not to mention the sales that happen within months of release. Older games go down so much in price. There's so many things you can complain about when it comes to modern day living, imo the cost of games isn't one of them.

[swolefnatic]

Stop crying

Image isn't loading but games were $100+ back in the 80s and 90s for chit tier quality games by todays' standards... inflation adjusted.

The truth is games have been getting much MUCH cheaper despite exponential increases in development costs.

[sooby]

$70 is alot, but consider how much we were paying for N64 games in the past lol. Some of the games were like $100+

It's not that bad IF you get your hours and enjoyment from it. The game being bad, that's a different story in and of itself.

[phaginator]

Just wait for a sale lol, games at release suck these days and need patches.

[TokenV]

doesn't seem outrageous to me tbh

of course I wouldn't mind if they were dirt cheap obviously but taking the pricepoint of all things into consideration videogames come out on the most fair side imo

look at $/h to put it into perspective (srs)

[rocketfish]

if you play retro the cost is of a click to download

[eod8989]

$70 is alot, but consider how much we were paying for N64 games in the past lol. Some of the games were like $100+

It's not that bad IF you get your hours and enjoyment from it. The game being bad, that's a different story in and of itself.

Back then we just bought a few games per year and rented the rest though. $75 per game will add up fast. I game on PC so i get games cheap (also don't have to pay for multiplayer), i have no idea how people are pre ordering and spending $75 on all these new games coming out.

[JayJ350]

Bootlickers will defend it and tell you to "stop crying" because how dare you be discontent with something, but there is a good reason why I hardly every buy anything at full price. Luckily sales events has been a big part of what I like about digital gaming.

[eod8989]

Bootlickers will defend it and tell you to "stop crying" because how dare you be discontent with something, but there is a good reason why I hardly every buy anything at full price. Luckily sales events has been a big part of what I like about digital gaming.

Problem with the sales is they don't get cheap until many months after the game was released. It's not the same as renting one the first week back in the day. Many, many games nowadays (like WWE 2k games) i only want to play for about 10 hours then return. I cannot justify paying $48-75 on them which is what they normally run.

[JayJ350]

Problem with the sales is they don't get cheap until many months after the game was released. It's not the same as renting one the first week back in the day. Many, many games nowadays (like WWE 2k games) i only want to play for about 10 hours then return. I cannot justify paying $48-75 on them which is what they normally run.

Yeah it's made me avoid getting into a lot of the latest games, but I'm fine with that, especially given how most games these days take months to get good anyways. That and it gives time for them to release some "ultimate" DLC included edition for cheap.

[dankydank]

Games that are 100+ hours at $80 is to expensive but your $40 foot dash order for a single person or $100+ on a night out for a few hours is fine JFL @ you

[JayJ350]

Games that are 100+ hours at $80 is to expensive but your $40 foot dash order for a single person or $100+ on a night out for a few hours is fine JFL @ you

*100+ hour game
*can't hold my interest for more than 1 hour

[2020Wellness]

Do you realize that they cost that much back in the 90s?

[eod8989]

Do you realize that they cost that much back in the 90s?

Most games i bought in the 90s to mid 2000s were around $40-50. But i got them for half that used. Also rented them for about $4.

[JayJ350]

Do you realize that they cost that much back in the 90s?

Thing is games didn't have microtransactions or DLC back then, nor did they need months of patching to work correctly.

[eod8989]

*100+ hour game
*can't hold my interest for more than 1 hour

Sounds like an Asscreed game tbh

[JayJ350]

Sounds like an Asscreed game tbh

It's honestly most critically acclaimed hyped up games these days. I don't know how some of these gamers on forums and gaming sites can get so excited about all this chit.

[eod8989]

It's honestly most critically acclaimed hyped up games these days. I don't know how some of these gamers on forums and gaming sites can get so excited about all this chit.

Yeah i want a variety of games. Not indie metroidvania and muddy rpg/jrpgs. Why do all these games look so muddy too? 90% of what i see getting reviews just looks like chit.

We have discussed this how old games were colorful with exciting presentation at least.

[JayJ350]

Yeah i want a variety of games. Not indie metroidvania and muddy rpg/jrpgs. Why do all these games look so muddy too? 90% of what i see getting reviews just looks like chit.

We have discussed this how old games were colorful with exciting presentation at least.

Well there's a good reason why more people than ever are into retro gaming now a days.

I think you'd find a lot of new game sales are driven by zoomers with low standards and the typical consumercel types who just rush out to buy every critically acclaimed new release.

[eod8989]

Well there's a good reason why more people than ever are into retro gaming now a days.

I think you'd find a lot of new game sales are driven by zoomers with low standards and the typical consumercel types who just rush out to buy every critically acclaimed new release.

What? Almost everyone is playing the same few types of survival, battle royal or rpg kind of games. Legit nothing else really gets popular anymore unless it's a Sony game like Helldivers.

Retro is nowhere near as popular as these types of games