Why didn't video games go up in price with 4-5x inflation increase? AAA games should cost about $300 by now

Why didn't video games go up in price with 4-5x inflation increase? AAA games should cost about $300 by now.

The funny thing about your image is that if you get the "luxe box" combo you can get that burrito, another taco, a drink, and cinnamon twists for literally the same price as buying the burrito on its own. These restaurants upcharge you for deviating from what they WANT you to buy.

The difference is that the quality of a beefy 5 later has not changed in 15 years while AAA games have gotten substantially worse

dont give them any ideas

isnt this dog meat

I'm sure even taco bell quality has gotten worse just like everything else

Because wages haven't gone up, and of people are spending more on things like food and rent they need to cut costs elsewhere. The fact that they've chosen this time to raise their prices at all is full retard.

They went up a little bit. usually they were around 60-70$ in my area, now they are 80-90. Keep in mind some gamesi n the 90s did charge 90+ but it was rare. Superman 64 for example was like 99.98 in my area which was insane at the time and is still insane considering its one of the worst 64 games ever made. I think they decided it was so bad only collectors would buy so they were going to gouge them

That isn't true, the quality at every fast food place has gone way downhill

Bout to eat my fucking dog then yum.

Because the overhead per sale only got cheaper while audiences expanded explosively. Now that they have overextended on their own budgets, while the market didn't keep exponentially growing, they are feeling the burn.

It's the other way around. Taco bell has gotten more shit, and games have gotten way better

Because publishers make retarded amounts of money through DLC and microtransactions so they don't need to raise the base price.

things didn't go up in price, everything went up in cost to produce. you are blind to economics.

Uhhhh gimme a chicken enchilada burritos, two cheesy bean and rice burritos with black beans instead of the refried, a crunchwrap supreme, a chicken cantina burrito with nacho fries added into it, and a discovery luxe box with a Baja Blast to drink - and can I get that in a bag instead of the box?

doesn't know about shrinkflation in both media and food

Just get it as the $5 cravings box
It's the most cost effective thing on the menu now

Because the market for gaming was expanding fast. Total unit sales were rising faster than inflationary pressures and costs. So accepting a lower margin of return on game sales was preferable to raising the prices. That's not really the case anymore now that the markets began to stagnate in size, and is oversaturated, and customers have less money to actually spend on games.

games have gotten way better

Oh noes, the unsustainable economic model didn't sustain itself!

How did they not see this coming?

Eat taco bell

stomach hurts every time now

Getting old sucks any other 30+ gamers here have this problem

This is correct.
The reason games haven't increased (much) in price is because most of the profit comes from deluxe and collector's editions as well as DLC.
They're banking on dedicated customers to splurge on more expensive versions of the game to make up for what they lose from regular sales.
This is also why most collector's editions now are like $200.

and can I get that in a bag instead of the box?

Do they let you do this? The boxes are so shit

Taco bell has gotten more shit, and games have gotten way better

Because no one saw covid coming

Remember when we used to make fun of boomers when they used to say "back in my day chewing gum cost a nickel"? Now we're like "back in my day chewing gum only cost a dollar" because its $5 now.

Why didn't video games go up in price with 4-5x inflation increase? AAA games should cost about $300 by now.

yea i'll take 5 enchiritos with the hottest sauce you got
and one pintos and cheese

remove the best taco... the double decker

replace it with... nothing

still have the ingredients to make it, but refuse to server it

bring it back for two weeks as a limited time offer, then it's gone again

What is the video game equivalent?

A quarter pounder from 1999 is twice the size of a quarter pounder you buy now in 2025.
and it cost like $5 for a large meal, with a supersized fries and supersized coke.
now? the same large meal is $22.

Destiny removing content

No it's a meme

he gets the $5 luxe box that forces you into a plain-ass taco and shittamon twists

he doesn't get the online build-your-own and walks out of TB with a crunchwrap supreme, Beefy 5-layer, cheesy fiesta potatoes, and zero sugar baja blast for $6.50

NGMI

It's a regional thing, by which I mean idiots eat there religiously in loyalty to their geographic location.

No, they don't serve it. You might be able to convince the workers there to make it, but most taco bells are staffed by barely sentient blacks high on weed, and giving them a custom request is a sign of disrespect.

Because corpo suits and investors don't understand that 100% market saturation is impossible. They saw 8 billion people worldwide and probably thought they would get at least a billion of them playing some kind of game. Number must go up, and since one game made a billion, or whatever the current record is, that means every single project must aim for that totally reasonable goal. Which means more marketing, more analysts, more financial advisors and less guys actually making the game because a good game isn't as an important factor in driving sales (which is actually true in the short run, but now we are seeing the long term ramifications of it, like Concord)

Are things more expensive because these companies know people will pay for them anyway?

The whole sandwich used to weigh .25 pounds
Now they specify that it's .25 pounds of beef BEFORE its cooked

Are things more expensive because these companies know people will pay for them anyway?

Yes.
chipotle is almost double the value compared to taco bell these days but nowhere near the same price.

Inflation is a scam.

Hell no. 15 years ago while in college I'd drink every night and smoke weed and shit and the only thing open that late would be Del Taco and even drunk and high as shit the food tasted mediocre as hell. But at the time it was cheap and filling so....

I hate minimalism
I hate brutalism
I hate minimalism
I hate brutalism

Basically yes
The only way to stop price gouging is for virtually the entire market to collectively boycott the product until it reaches the desired price; the fact that this can happen is the main reason why price gouging isn't heavily legislated anywhere yet.

The problem is people don't do that; fast food for example is too much of a staple commodity (damn near necessity) that the market genuinely values it enough to tolerate the higher price. Fuck man, I don't wanna have to cook when I get home from work, and an $8 big mac isn't gonna break the bank for not being a $5 big mac, so who cares?

Skyrim won game of the year in 2011. That should tell you all you need to know about the state of gaming at the time.
At least modern gamers clowned the absolute shitshow that was fallout4/starfield. But we needed real games like The Witness to come out in the meantime for people to see what games are capable of.

Zero Sugar Baja

Literally what the fuck is the point? Unless you're a diabetic, why be a queer eating junk food then think,"If I drink this 'Sugarless' drink, that's still filled with bullshit, its healthier!"

Skyrim deserved GOTY in 2011

damn near necessity

I don't wanna have to cook

kek you're probably 400 pounds

If that's true then it only bolsters my point further

If Baldur's Gate 3, or Expedition 33, or Elden Ring, or any of the best games in the past few years had been released in the 2000's they'd easily have been the best games of that decade, by a wide margin.

in the decade of Deus Ex, Half Life 2, Resident Evil 4, Majoras Mask, GTA San Andreas, Mario Sunshine, Smash Bros Melee, Morrowind, Oblivion, Assassin's Creed 2, Monster Hunter FU, some others i cant remember right now

lol exquisite bait, the only reason you think those games are so good is because they're surrounded by a sea of shit

Wasn't that the full release of minecraft. Surely that one was more relevant and transformative than fallout nv without guns and interesting quests

Video games have become way more expensive to make and basically had the same price for decades. I'm totally fine with games being more expensive IF the extra money goes to the devs so they don't have to crunch, don't get fired, don't get unpaid overtime and released games are actually finished products. We all know that is not what the extra money is used for though.

want to cut back on food for my health

the economy forces me to

I feel like I’m being ployed

But we needed real games like The Witness to come out in the meantime for people to see what games are capable of.

the puzzle genre is the lowest form of video games

Literally yes.
Companies just look for absolutely any reason to bump their prices even when it doesn't make much sense and then the prices never go back down.
Supermarkets with record profits (not revenue, PROFITS) then bump their prices up the next year to "maintain viability"
Fast food prices going up by 30-40% at a minimum within 3 years.
They do it because they know people will continue buying and have no other choice.

want to cut back on spending money on new vidya

the industry makes shittier games more and more forcing me to save my money

definitely a ploy

Sports? Racing? Cinematic 3rd person shooter/platformer?

Horrible game. Worse movie.

Yet when prices are raised at the threat of tariffs and the tariffs are a nothing burger it's still orange man's fault and not the greedy as fuck companies

They have good fries, and if you feel like being a fat fuck, you can put the fries in your taco.

They're literally not doing anything wrong as long as people pay. If they rise prices too much then they will lose to competition.

Baldur's Gate 3, or Expedition 33, or Elden Ring

There’s two too many Dobson reactions

If they rise prices too much then they will lose to competition.

Except they're all in a cabal and all rise their prices one after another to roughly match with a few differences based on what they offer. Which is obvious outcome because all of them stand to benefit from all prices getting higher.

Taco bell's beef and cheese are a massive downgrade.

They also used to put on extra sour cream for free.

Games are a luxury good being released into an over saturated market. A market filled with decades worth of older games that are still playable. So it's tough to sell at a higher price point being nobody needs to buy a new game on release.

replace it with nothing

the gordita crunch is a menu staple now and is infinitely superior. the only true taco bell travesty is how rarely they roll out the volcano menu.

Those 3 are better than all of the games you listed. It's not close.

Banners in gacha games

What about the benefit of crushing your competition because your food is 10% cheaper?

the Hot ‘n Ready’s now $5.55

Someone has to pay

Fast food mexican was dead to me the day Del Taco took the spicy jack chicken quesadilla off the menu. It was a logistics thing apparently, they didn't want to have different cheeses anymore.

Who the fuck wants pure cheddar cheese in a quesadilla or mexican food in general?

Yeah ok guys this would be GOTY if release today youtube.com/watch?v=X7KJ7yDJDGk

we got it you're restarted

Because the playerbase increased 10x, so after inflation video games should cost $30

The worst thing was when they got rid of the Meximelt. It was nice when they brought it back a few months ago, for a few weeks.

Meximelt

no beef

add steak

Perfection.

Bring back the sangria dew fuckers

NUMBER MUST GO UP

Processed hobo actually

rollslop but open world is game of the century

lol

Explain why you think video games should cost more when they're worse now than they were 20 years ago.

drinking carcinogens because you are afraid of a little corn syrup

fucking goycattle indeed

What's the point of sugar free when you eat your own body weight in fat and corn syrup anyway you fat piece of shit.

Mexican here, I never understood Taco Bell.
Looks like dog shit.

I haven't eaten any fast food since 2014.

Yes, Elden Ring is objectively a better game than any of your favorites from the 2000's
I'm sure I sound like I'm baiting but I'm not. It's just true. Quit being a fucking monkey and learn to evaluate things objectively

Mexican here

Stopped reading here

implying they don't

Oh what's that? You don't want the 3 DLCs and the Year One Pass and the Cosmestic Packs and the Deluxe Edition and the OST and the Digital Manual that would have been free in the box 20 years ago?

I guess you're not a real gamer.

Video games became the bread and circus to keep you from revolting that and working yourself to death if you live at home still you are comfortable and sheltered from this

Fauci did

Anon its a minimun wage fast food job no one wants to serve you youre autistic custom bullshit.

Not my fault that you're butthurt because your psychopathic government is trying to demographically replace you with 70IQ mestizos, anon.

if they ever get rid of the Doritos Locos I'm never eating there again.

Chipotle is insane

giant bowl full of beans, rice, chicken, veggies, cheese cream, salsa, and dressing for $11

Everywhere else that woukd cost nearly 20

be goynigger

gets fucked with no lube in his goyass

can't have enough of it

begs kikes to rape him more until he has multiple anal fissures

nice thread subhuman

The $1 cheeseburgers from McDonkeys were way better in the early 00s than the $6 abortions in a bun they sell you nowadays

because they have no marginal cost

Meds, now

Anyone get migraines if fake sugar like aspartame gets into your system

Where the fuck do you live? It's 7.49 near me for a plain ass standard pepperoni

Pita Bread instead of a normal tortilla (fat people eat more bread)

Cheese instead of refried beans (refried beans have more protein)

ranch instead of sour cream (fatties love ranch)

I'm sorry, i'm not fat anon.

$5 for a burrito

this is the future the Terminator warned us about.

Excellent fucking bait now we eating good that's the kind of shit tilting Anon Babbletards

irrelevant retarded Anon Babbleposting

minimum order $X

every combination of a normal sized order is $X-1

These unreasonable prices are to shepard customers into getting lux combo boxes which sells more units for shit no one would order purposefully, creating a cycle of restocking "popular" options in inflate every metric that's meaningless. The luxe combo is good, but not great.

RTS games

THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS!

Any fomo bullshit in online games.

They make it for me lol

fast food

quality

cute retarded bruva...

eats taco bell

not fat

at best you're not as fat as me but if you're longing the loss of the double decker taco in any capacity then you're a fatty

You're an esl. Quality does not mean good just like quantity does not mean alot they are simply metrics. If taco bell's quality was rated at a 2 in the 90s and is still a 2 in the 20s then they maintained their quality. Dumb fuck retard.

Trvke

avatarfagging as dobson

Damn, even sucking dick isn't this gay.

Why were people so obsessed with the nacho fries? They are shit and now they are a menu staple. Fucking disgusting.

Dicks?! Where?!

What does that statement even mean? If those games released in the 2000's in a one for one state as they are now and could magically run on the hardware of the time? Because that's a meaningless statement. Or are you implying they released as a 2000's game within the hardware limitations and development tools of the time? That statement is also meaningless because those hypothetical games would be far different many ways from the versions that actually currently exist.

Wait don't tell me the thing that's getting you nerves and brain damages is still legal in muttmerica?

Old games don't actually hold up to today's standards when you compare them fairly.

What is "comparing fairly"? Are the new games better because characters are built with a thousand times more polygons? I don't think so.

cars are better than horses

what does this even mean? If you teleported a car to the 1600's you wouldn't be able to fill it with gas. Or are you implying you have some kind of magical car that runs on hay? that comparison makes no sense

Go through drive through

Add nachos to my order

Get home

They forgot to give me either the chips or the cheese

Every fucking time. I've just stopped ordering them now.

Go through drive through

Why? If I'm going out to eat, I eat at the goddamn restaurant!

We're comparing videogames to other videogames you disingenuous cunt.

Because the price didn't go up "x4-5" it went up <$5
video games should have went up only $5 at most but we are seeing $90 video games

The beefy 5 layer burrito comes in basically every box. Buying a la carte items that aren't on the cravings value menu is just throwing money away. This is how I know this board is bad at videogames because if you can't do basic math like that looking at menus then you are not ever making any efficient choices in a videogame. Zero meta knowledge, inability to learn outside of the game. Poor critical thinking skills. It is very telling. Anyway I like the build your own cravings box, cheese quesadilla, add steak, beefy 5-layer for second item, fiesta potatoes side. Large Sugar free Pepsi. Videogames.

For me it's ordering online and picking up inside, you can check easily that way

It's nice to see bait with a tad bit of effort every now and then

Honestly I'd rather just get a lb of ground beef and make em at home than go to TB. White people tacos are so much better homemade.

Modern cars are better than classic cars too.

I don't like doing the dishes

Do you have to go through the taco bell app or can you just set up a pickup order through doordash or something?

We've reached the point where people don't even get fast-food anymore because it's practically a 'luxury' you treat yourself to every once in a while due to inflation

Rent is unaffordable for a bachelor

Can't move out and start a family because corruption prevents prices from lowering so that corporations profit the most

Lobbying is protected and veterans are homeless in the streets alongside drug addicts that are used to profit the state with government funding so it will literally never be fixed

Governors are paid to maintain issues paradoxically, meaning the poor are incentivized to remain poor and never make it out of poverty.

All of this while billionaires get more tax cuts and education gets worse funding while board members promote LGBT shit to kids and you're put in jail if you refuse to allow the indoctrination of your own son or daughter.

How the fuck did we get here? None of this is even a conspiracy. It's literally the truth. It's literally what is happening.

If Baldur's Gate 3, or Expedition 33, or Elden Ring, or any of the best games in the past few years had been released in the 2000's they'd easily have been the best games of that decade, by a wide margin.

In all fairness, coke zero also has no caffeine in it.

Because their customer base increased.

Am I weird for just buying normal soft tacos? I always got a grande taco when I was a (fat) teenager. It's not like I dislike all these crazy meals full of bells and whistles, I just don't think they taste better than the normal thing. When I was a kid I always ate cheese pizza and the adults around me would make fun of me because they'd cover their pizza in like 30 different vegetables and shit, and I always thought, "I'll understand as I get older." As a teenager I upgraded to pepperoni. I still eat pepperoni. I don't get the appeal of covering delicious meat and cheese with all this other shit.

That's how supply and demand works, yes. Everyone's trying to make/save money and nothing has inherent value, people give things value.

I see your fatassery and raise you 25 pounds

Not all taco bells allow you to buy the build-your-own luxe box.

Also you can change your side with the normal luxe box

Elden Ring/E33 would. BG3? No chance in hell.

You can just use their website

All I know is that my money goes a lot further than it did in 2008. Now that was a recession. *cracks open monster, sips*

well it's not filled with literally 50% of your daily sugar intake, is really the point. regular soda has all the same shit except aspartame

Went to wendies

Order doublestack

Two patties stacked ontop of each other was the same width as a pickle

What is this kikery?

AAA games should cost about $300 by now.

You're absolutely right, you'd make so much more money if they were 300 dollars.
Please increase the prices to 300, no, make it 400 dollars! It'll help the industry.

Keep voting for tariffs and deregulation, I'm sure that will make our burgers thicker

Sakurai only drinks coke zero and no water.

He won.

How

the fed

fast food is for richfags now

Buying combos is always cheaper than ordering a la carte, though Taco Bell is generous with the price of a box vs. what's included in it

We are the largest exporters of beef in the world
Tarrifs have nothing to do with this. It's greedy fuckwads at the top

The problem with regulation is that corporations get to choose the fucking regulations, not a 'for the people' body of government. Such a thing doesn't fucking exist anymore. Boomers sold the state to their overlords and now their kids don't have a fucking future because they'd rather see their home prices go up and shit their diapers when they get too old to function.
I seriously hope millennials remember what their parents did for them when it becomes a choice between putting their retard boomer parents in a home where they get abused by black nurses or 'do the right thing' and look after the parasites themselves.

what did you expect when you voted for a gameshow host and a car dealer

I haven't voted since I turned 18. I never felt like there was anyone worth voting for. It honestly felt like every party was already owned and subservient to the rich and my need would never be met or recognized.

There is no competition, retard. All our businesses are owned by the same oligarchs. There's no alternative, and you can't start your own grocery store because there's always some Democrat that shrieks about how you need to fulfill a laundry list of untenable regulations that make starting impossible.
Across the board, both political parties just want more of the country owned by corporations because that what makes them money in campaign finances and kickbacks.
Retards like you will see billions of cum-stained hands raping your economy and then say some Randian, "Muh free market," shit. Uh no, actually letting an oligarch class form unassailable monopolies is not a free market, you retard. It's literally the exact opposite.

tariffs have nothing to do with beef production

Americans really are this stupid huh

calls others stupid while talking about beef and tarrifs on a video game board

lol moment

Man I wish the beefy 5 layer came with that much cheese.

yeah except it's half the size and mostly refried beans and sour cream now. otherwise exactly the same
for me, it's

cheesy gordita crunch

beefy 5-layer

nachos and cheese

baja blast upsized to a large for $0.10

but you are still based

yeah when we controlled it, we let it get this bad, but you'll make it EVEN WORSE

There is no person you can vote for that will stop or reverse the decline.

Who controlled it from 2016 to 2020 again?
Was it the trannies?

these four years are when everything went wrong, the eight prior years and four subsequent should be ignored

Inflation only exists where people allow it to exist. If you simply won't pay a price for something, the price can't inflate, can it?

I don't see the resemblance.

And it probably still doesn't cost 0.89 to make this burrito either.

things didn't go up in price, everything went up in cost to produce.

...which made things go up in price.

This board is absolutely plagued with underage third worlders screaming about everything and calling everything they don't like, can't run, and genuinely don't understand slop, but let's not pretend a lot of talent and passion hasn't left the industry. I have high end hardware and 90% of the games I play are at least 10 years old, and probably 70% are 20 years old.

Burger combo meals at large chains used to be 6-7 dollars now they're like 20.

read the OP. he's asking why shit didn't go up with the same rate if it's all due to the same thing, inflation.

Alright but why are their quesadillas so fucking expensive

Well video games are also more expensive to produce than they used to be, so why didn't they go up in price?

I need to find a copycat recipe for that volcano sauce, that shit was delicious

They're still 3 of the best games ever made.

videogames aren't more expensive. in fact they're cheaper because the skill ceiling to develop a videogame has been lowered dramatically. it used to be that you needed to be a computer engineer at the very least because you needed hardware knowledge to optimize your game. now you can visual script a whole game and hit export to every single platform automatically.

Because volume and attachment rate are way higher than they used to be, and games are usually subsidized with secondary income streams like MTX or season passes now.

french slop

one of the best games ever made

lmao

Ordinary Sausage says cat food is delicious so it can’t be that bad

this
dunkin does the same thing; you can get an egg/sausage/cheese sandwich, coffee and small hashbrowns for $6, or the sandwich on its own for like $4.50

it's weird

it's because the money they make from the upsell is like 10x more than the cost of the extra shit. coffee and hashbrowns cost literally nothing for them to make. it's the same strategy movie theaters use, when they ask you to upgrade your popcorn to a bigger size for only 50c more or whatever it's literally just free money to them.

89¢ in 2010 is 1.25$ in 2025 adjusted for inflation. That's a straight 4 fold increase.

Because only Nintendo fags are willing to play 80$ for toys that are new releases/not even rare.

and veterans are homeless in the streets alongside drug addicts

That's by design. With their military experience and networking veterans are among the biggests threats to a government, so the system is designed to disenfranchise them and reduce their power.

the quality of a beefy 5 later has not changed in 15 years

Lol go fuck yourself.
Fast food nowadays is inedible for me and I'm not even a snop.
The quality has plummeted while the price has skyrocketed.

Maybe make it yourself you autistic customer faggot, fucking hate people like you.

This.
Also what's fucked up is that all the fast food started adding onions as filler so the real ingredients go further. And they STILL charge more instead of onions making things cheaper.

Bro. I'm playing Day of Defeat Source again because the gameplay just works. Plus it's crazy that the game just boots up in like 10 seconds.

I started drinking zero/low sugar energy drinks when to lose weight but keep my caffiene intake up for work and after drinking just those for a couple years, full sugar tastes nasty and syrupy.

do they have nacho fries again? Only time I go there anymore.

I just drink plain carbonated water with lime juice and have the occasional regular soda when I am eating out or something.

Because it’s not from 2010, retard.

pretty sure nacho fries are a regular item now. they added tendies to their menu recently too. no clue why you'd want to go to TB for tendies and fries but whatever.
what year is it from then? the beefy five layer came out in 2009.

BG3 is the only game you listed that actually has impressive mechanics, and that game was in early access for like 7 years.

What’s the endgame of all this? Return to feudalism?

I stopped eating at taco bell when they stopped serving the quesarito to try to make people use their shitty app

When the fuck did fast food get so expensive? For the price of a meal at McDonalds, I could go to a real place.
I go to you for cheap slop, if it's not cheap what's the point?

It got expensive when corpos realized they could spike prices and people would still pay.

Is it from 1975? Fucking retard.

I hate fast food companies trying to force shitty apps onto everyone. Why download an app for a restaurant you occasionally go to?

Thanks for correcting the record Anon, I'll be sure to pre-order at $80 plus tip now.

more horse power is more gooder

right to repair? whats that?

Shut the fuck up you brainless consumer.

Because it saves me money? Why do anything?

here is a hard truth, they cost the same amount now but they cost more if you don't get a bundle.

being compliant with and defending it makes you an NPC slave retard, why should you need to have apps for all your favorite slop that have access to your location, gallery, camera, etc just to save a couple bucks? if they can sell you the food at a reasonable price with the app, why do they artificially fuck over anyone who doesnt use it? why are we enslaved to the jewish dollar to begin with? why are we forced to use a currency that loses its own value to inflation? how come any time a country that tries to distance from central banking gets invaded by rothschild banksters and has their country couped?

sitting here and going "well, i save a couple bucks on my mcgoy burger, so this is a GOOD thing i will defend online!" is peak NPC

Well I'm not a fat fuck and don't want to buy four burritos and an extra large soft drink.

It's to hopefully hook retards into buying more of their product. I can only assume studies show this work or every company wouldn't be trying it.

branding, and proximity to you.
Anyone knows that you could just order better food for the same speed at a Deny's or IHOP.

that have access to your location, gallery, camera

What operating system do you use and what browser did you post this comment with

The market was expanding so profits were increasing anyway. Now the market is as big as it can possibly be, so prices must increase in order to increase profits.

?? i dont operate any under delusion that my information is private at all, our phones are constantly spying on us, its proven they can turn on and access the data on our hard drives without the LEDs even coming online on your motherboard, etc, that doesn't mean i sit here and defend the slop and system that is enslaving us. i dont sit here going "well, who cares? they already have my info! therefore its okay for every piece of technology to be evil and profit from me!"

It's hard to imagine it now, but before 2013 most people actually had an expectation of privacy.
How times have changed.

Because if games cost that much more people would have stopped buying them on the scale that they do.
Even the $70 rate has reduced sales totals.

I'm not defending anything, I'm justifying it. I'm explaining why people use it. If someone doesn't use the app it would be the same situation but they would pay more money for the slop. It's pretty simple.
You care about this way too much. I don't really understand where you derive your superiority complex when you're just pointing out shit everybody knows about and doesn't give a fuck about. You also don't seem to give a fuck except you want to point out to everyone that you don't use the app that saves you $2 per slop meal.

yup, rather, how our awareness has changed.. we were just naive. we grow up naive thinking the whole world is not evil, because we are not evil, and we assume logically the world has mostly-good. the truth is however, we were born into a babylonian satanic prison and indoctrinated since birth, we are essentially cattle on the freemason farm, they call use "worthless" and "profane" and "useless eaters". we are enslaved to their financial system, enslaved to their technology, its not financially possible to even life off the grid

i mean.... justifying it IS defending it, justifying that its somehow OK and not retarded that you have to use an app in order to get reasonably priced food is like black mirror level scary. you have to make an account and watch ads just to get food that isnt gouged unfairly for no reason other than to force you into the app if you can't afford otherwise?

they call use "worthless" and "profane" and "useless eaters".

Friendly reminder that the word consumer is a term of disrespect.

Taco Bell is best when the employees are Mexican and they stuff the hell out of the tacos much more than they're trained to.

Two different concepts. I'm not saying "this is a good thing and people should be participating in it" I'm saying "this is why this exists and people participate in it".
Of course I don't think it's a GOOD thing people are giving their data out for slop coupons but you're giving out your data anyway by participating in society at any level nowadays. There's no way to avoid this unless you go full uncle teddy. So why not save a buck?
It still isn't reasonably priced if you use the apps anyway, no way somebody can suddenly afford regular fast food just because of apps. It definitely encourages more purchases than people would usually make, but nobody living in genuine poverty is eating fast food anymore.
Point is, if you want to say shit sucks assholes, fast food apps are not it, and engaging with fast food apps is not somehow sustaining this evil economic and sociopolitical reality that we live in.

Jews.

Because it's not real inflation.

How the fuck did we get here?

Jews. The answer is always Jews. They use retarded women, Indians, and the Chinese as bioweapons.

New Bean Burrito 89c

Cheese DLC $2

Sour Cream expansion $3

Beef update $1

You won against the Soviet Union, so now the ruling class does not have to appeal to you because you no longer have an alternative and nobody will support and finance a rebellion.

China

Why would China want to finance a rebellion when the current rulers of the West allow their country to win by doing literally nothing?

Is ANYBODY going to mention the fact that this is not the menu price? This is through a delivery app which charges a higher base price to cover the cost of delivery. Picrel is the actual price if you were to order in-person at one of the stores.

And quit your bitching. Here's the value menu. If you're a big enough of a retard to be spending your money at Taco Bell in the first place instead of cooking at home, you deserve this.

beefy 5 layer

4.49

cheesy double beef

2.79

is there a size difference here I'm not understanding?

The Cheesy Double Beef Burrito doesn't hit the same as it did back in the 00s, pisses me off.
Hate how they act like the tortilla chips belong in there, too.

Don'y give them any ideas, but seriously it's cause video games scale infinitely. You don't have to sell fast food to just your local customers, you can sell video games to the worldwide customer base.

I went to a taco truck and the burrito I bought was $18
what the fuck
it was good though but still what the fuck

Because they tend to sell more copies now and the profit margin is huge with digital. Not just production and distribution, but being able to sell directly without giving retailers a cut, and manipulating the used market with their own pricing.

meat grows on trees and silicone chips dont

Nope, it's the more popular item so they charge you double the price lmao.
Ya'll don't seem to understand their business strategy, it's get them hooked with really cheap prices, which also flushes out competitors, and then jack those prices up.

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