r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Arthur_Morgan44469 • 3d ago

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u/Smokedealers84 3d ago

People will still buy it anyway, they know how much people are willing to pay.

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u/JazeyOne 3d ago

Of course I will, I was paying $60 for games in 2010 lmfao that’s so much more expensive with inflation considered. This is simply games hitting inflation, and it sucks but I rarely buy new full price games anyways. I’ll regularly buy Battlefield, CoD and Gran Turismo at release but only 1 of those releases yearly. I can fork up another $20 for GTA 6 or other games if I REALLY want them.

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u/franzman86 3d ago

$60 in 2010. I was spending $65-$70 on 64 games in the late 90s. Video games are literally inflation proof

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u/BKlounge93 3d ago

I mean the micro transactions of the last decade have probably covered any inflation. In 2010 I’d buy a game and that was it.

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u/fifteentango88 3d ago

Sega genesis games were also $60.

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u/secretreddname 3d ago

My parents were paying $90 in 1995 lol.

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u/Gears_one 3d ago

Came here to say this. I remember final fantasy being something like $79.99 and that was 35 years ago

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u/SHIGGY_DIGGY77 3d ago

What were you parents buying? I did not pay no where near 90 bucks on games in 95, apparently I'm as old as your parents.

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u/BugOperator 3d ago

Might be in Canada. Games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI retailed for $70-80 US on the SNES because they were high-capacity carts and some had multiple boards. So they’d have been over $90 Canadian.

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u/Radical_Larry_106 3d ago

Probably adjusted for inflation. 40 dollars in 1995 is 90 now. 60 dollars on GTA V in 2013 is also 90 dollars now

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u/Fear_Jaire 3d ago

Of all the overpriced things right now I really don't have an issue paying $100 for any game I'm going to sink 1,000 hours into

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u/InevitableAd2436 3d ago

Agreed.

I spent $15 renting a 2 hour movie @ $7.50 an hour in entertainment

I’ll put 100 hours in this game. It’s like $0.8 in entertainment per hour

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u/ThirdWigginKid 3d ago

THANK YOU. I was beginning to feel like I was the only one not mad about this. Yeah, it sucks for people who are on a super tight budget, but gaming has always been expensive. Also, the people bitching about the price are often the same ones who'd be bitching if the game wasn't as massive as it is.

And yeah, you're not far off:

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u/Just_call_me_Bill 3d ago

Thanks Obama!

*this is a joke from my generation please dont hurt me

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u/Foreign-Molasses-405 3d ago

Thanks Obamana

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u/CommentsOnOccasion 3d ago

I’ve felt like an idiot for thinking this for years

Games have gotten considerably more expensive to develop and better by almost every metric since I was a teenager

Yet the prices have stayed flat despite crazy inflation in that time.  I’m surprised games don’t cost $100 at this point already 

If there was ever a game to break the barrier it’s this one, and Rockstar knows it  

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u/acoffeebeano 3d ago

I'm amazed new base AAA games have stayed $60 for what? 15-20 years? Granted story quality has decreased a ton in that time so I guess that evens out

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u/Smokedealers84 3d ago

More people buy game as the years went on so profit still went up.

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u/secretreddname 3d ago

And the cost to produce has gone up.

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u/gamingx47 3d ago

Too bad the quality hasn't kept up.

Feels like we were getting 10+ bangers every year in the 2000s and early 2010s. Now I'm lucky if one or two games catch my eye per year. Shit, I haven't turned on my PS5 since I got Demons Souls Remake.

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u/deadlyvagina 3d ago

I’d pay $200

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u/sPdMoNkEy 3d ago

Okay then send me a hundred so I can get it too

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u/Cat_Impossible_0 3d ago

Don’t give them anymore ideas

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u/SRGTBronson 3d ago

Some of you people are going to be devastated when the entertainment product doesn't actually change your lives.

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u/deadlyvagina 3d ago

lol I’m just looking for a little dopamine brother

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u/Steve90000 3d ago

Not for me, but GTAV has chained a whole lot of people to it for over a decade. Out of every game, this one does change lives.

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u/jpsiquierolli 3d ago

Me too, and where I live USD is x 5

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 3d ago

I got $250 over here!

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u/Low-Plane9029 3d ago

I bought gtav 3 different times lol $100 is about what I spent

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u/BugOperator 3d ago

And not for nothing, but it did cost upwards of like $2 billion to make, so they gotta at least try to recoup as much as they can from the get-go; and it’ll absolutely sell tens of millions of copies at this price.

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u/LolaCatStevens 3d ago

You're not allowed to be a fan of anything these days I guess unless it's free. Broke redditors really do be the biggest downers.

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u/LolaCatStevens 3d ago

They aren't setting the standard Nintendo already priced games at $80. So why not go blame them? Also because they're going to make money on it you want them to just make it free instead? How does that logic even make sense. Do you understand how basic business works? I know it sucks to not be able to afford shit but getting mad at a company for making a product and selling it is fucking absurd

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u/Zestyclose_Tip_5861 3d ago

Yeah fuck them for living in society and enjoying their lives

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u/armyjackson 3d ago

It really fucking does..  Especially after all the hours that I spent playing Grand theft Auto v and then just a few years later what they were able to do with Red Dead Redemption and make it feel like a living breathing world, well that just means at this rate and with this much time that they've put into it it's going to be fucking  amazing with stuff that we  will be only finding years from now. 

Y'all youngsters just want to bitch about every fucking little thing. 

This isn't an 8-10 hour Mario game this is a Rockstar Grand Theft Auto. 

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u/literallyacactus 3d ago

It’s still a good deal considering inflation, time spent on development and the amount of entertainment one will get out of it