Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[The Last Stand]

Okay, what is with this take of inflation to justify the increase of game prices?

 

[DeadwastePrime]

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Okay, what is with this take of inflation to justify the increase of game prices?

i mean the argument is technically sound once you adjust pricing with inflation in mind. 6 could've taken the 70 dollar route tho, but at least it isnt 100 dollars or more for the base edition

 

[CIS White Droid]

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Okay, what is with this take of inflation to justify the increase of game prices?

It's retards not understanding that inflation and purchasing power are not the same thing and they do not change at the same rate.

 

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It's retards not understanding that inflation and purchasing power are not the same thing and they do not change at the same rate.

We don't calculate prices in purchasing power. We calculate prices in money. Money is directly adjusted by inflation.

 

[Poop A Loop]

We're not mad that they're charging too damned much for GTA6. We're mad that thanks to our shitty government printing money to avoid having to tell boomers and others no once in a while, we're at about 95% inflation since the year 2000. But we can't express that becuase there is no solution to that that doesn't involve our economy collapsing. Which it's going to do anyway.

Totally agree.

Maybe games are more expensive due to inflation AND shitty management that can't manage projects to save their lives and instead scope creep the hell out of something that should only take 3 years to finish.

But that doesn't matter because games are not an essential service. So even if those rainbow-haired freaks are right that games should cost more, I don't care. I have inflated groceries, transportation, housing, healthcare, and retirement (if I'm able to retire at all) to save for because people are delusional if they think social security is going to be around and that medicare/medicaid will be for anyone except whatever shade of brown or genderspecial is at the top of the progressive stack that election cycle.

Games studios compete for a limited optional share of my wallet regardless of inflation and I'm more than happy to give that shrinking slice to games that aren't gay or reddit, or to just hang onto it and give it to organizations that actively work against the evil tankies that want to see me dead.

 

[Scarthew]

Im surprised they're not undercutting gta's it since they know theylll make billions a year on microtransactions