NOOOOO, 90$ IS TOO MUCH FOR A GAME!

Anon Babble

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what causes this

Its worse than that OP. Video game prices have stayed relatively the same since 1985. Mario cost $50 when it came out. That's equivalent to like, $135 today. This is just a long-overdue correction to the price of games, but tendies are so used to paying $50 for the past 40 years that theyre throwing a shit fit.

what causes this

4cuck being scared of it's past ( they incubated the sharty )

inflation is not the only metric

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what's the other metric

more money chasing fewer goods

except the goods can literally be duplicated infinitely and are not scarce

inflation does not affect entertainment

so, the salaries of the people making the game don't go up? nor the cost of the hardware required to produce it?

wages not scaling with inflation
gaming market growing exponentially in the last decade
profit margins increasing, way higher than Hollywood's
digital media taking over, aka higher profits due to logistics
etc

Maybe stop hiring useless devs and paying them astronomical wages? The layoffs happening in the entire vidya industry aren't happening for no reason, it's just the useless fat being trimmed.

according to inflation

yet wages still stayed the same. shareholder shills are running out of arguments lately to justify their greed.

why do you even assume that that shit has anything to do with game prices?
there being more money going around could simply mean that more copies of video games get sold (at zero cost), raising the revenue without raising the prices. there's zero reason why the demand for video games should stay constant, and you can look at some data and very easily see that it hasn't.

Imagine having to pay your bills by shilling on the internet for billion dollar companies who don't give a shit about you

Goddamn it must suck being brown

you can only optimize your company for so long before cutting further becomes unfeasible. eventually, sometime in the future there would be a point where the return would not be enough on a large game, ergo prices will have to rise at some point.

wages not scaling with inflation

this is the most fair point, but what about nintendo? they pay their employees well, that's not their fault most companies aren't scaling their wage to inflation.

gaming market growing exponentially in the last decade

profit margins increasing, way higher than Hollywood's

digital media taking over, aka higher profits due to logistics

same point thrice, again, it can only expand so far.

Kill yourself shill. E33 was profitable costing 50 bucks. There's no excuse for 90 bucks games

Wages

The pay scale of studio devs has no relation to the actual cost of the game.
They either continue to toil for their salary regardless of profit or get laid off.
Hardware costs are less affected currently by inflation and moreso by being in a bubble.

OP isn't real

The funny part is that Spain has a tax on storage devices to account for piracy losses. So it's actually 100% legal

that's not what that means, retard.

now number going up bad, old number no matter

but the CEOs needs their yacht or another house to rent to

ship builders need work too

it's shilling to use logic

NOOOO I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE LAW SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Nintendo would have to be absolute clowns if they'd sell the game at 60$ or even less when they know that profit maximization occurs at 80$.

retard
jaks are fucking gay and have always been fucking gay

brings up "mai inflation" when talking about shitty vidya which btw makes record breaking profits year after year and primarily sells through virtual distribution with the tiny bit of physical distribution being the most cheap garbage tier its ever been compared to back in the day (no booklets, physical media, and 90% of the time no CD and just a piece of paper with a virtual code on it)

keeps their mouth shut when asked why worker wages don't match inflation rates as well

many such cases

keeps their mouth shut when asked why worker wages don't match inflation rates as well

the fuck you want me to say? "that sucks" i guess? i wish they would go up.

suppy

literally infinite

demand

half of people's disposable income
Result:
People's money will be taken and the only variable is how many games they will get in return.
Money will go to whoever provides the most games for the price.

Yes, it is.

Yeah because my salary also adjusted for inflation right?

What this means is that the government is stealing stolen value from everyone who buys hard drives and doesn't use them to steal shit

If you're not a retarded, tech illiterate zoomer you won't get one

Profit maximization doesn't mean much if you end up milking your customer base too hard and thin them out.
Profit in future projects is jeopardized for short term gains.

supermarkets also account for a 'loss' for shoplifting, does that make shoplifting 'legal'?

I don't care that billion dollar companies make less money when adjusted for inflation, simple as

Explain to me why I should pay more for games when the quality of games are going down

depends on the state, but effectively yes.

you're retarded, sorry

between how the law has been handling it or not rather and shit like self checkout, pretty much

Eh, anon is correct.
In some states shoplifting is basically legal.

saying 'effectively' and 'is' are two different things. downloading movies doesn't tend to get you in trouble, but it *is* illegal.

there's a reason why loss prevention in stores has escalated to having guards standing at exits to stores in some areas, and why target has a literal crime investigation lab that rivals some police departments.

I'm not paying more than $30 for a game.

but muh inflation

I'm just not going to do it.

the law says its illegal

the enforcers of the law do nothing

let me tell you about a funny little piece of paper that used to say something along the lines of "Algeria is an integral and indivisible component of the Fourth French Republic". Your piece of paper doesn't mean shit lol

In those states shoplifting even commonly results in law enforcement detaining the thief, so it results in thieves getting in trouble, but the justice system doesn't prosecute them and doesn't give the thieves criminal records. Some career shoplifters get into police custody three times a day, but their actions are never found to be unjust.

Inflation means you have less money for unnecessary expenses

It's not capitalism if the government tells me what is necessary and unnecessary.

b-b-but inflation

okay, still not buying your shit game

Ah yes, food, such a frivolity.

You literally get to pick the price of the game when developing it.
You allocate X number of people and machines and all that, divide the price and that's it.
All inflation does is making a 60 dollar game have less people working on it.
And to be honest, that is not a bad thing at all.

bot post?

Probably just a commie

not you specifically, nerd.
just the tard faggot shills like keighley and the other faggot vidya devs who keep sprouting bullshit about "well hehehe prices have NEVER gone up before so be happy!"

inflation is not universal, electronic products have historically gotten cheaper with time. this is the first time we're seeing constant price increases during a single generation
but you know all of this, nigger kun