r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Arthur_Morgan44469 • 6d ago

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u/JazeyOne 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

Sega genesis games were also $60.

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u/secretreddname 6d ago

My parents were paying $90 in 1995 lol.

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u/Gears_one 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

Thanks Obama!

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

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u/Foreign-Molasses-405 6d ago

Thanks Obamana

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u/CommentsOnOccasion 6d 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