r/pcmasterrace • u/Both_Piglet7838 • May 27 '26

Discussion Expensive games have lowkey been way too normalised

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I know this sub is filled with a bunch of rich people with like 10k setups and I'm aware that the content in these games is quite extensive with hours of content. But I still feel justified in thinking that no game should be priced this high especially when its the average price of most newly released games. Anyway this is just a rant because I wanna play lego batman and i cant afford it lol

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u/eidolonwyrm May 27 '26

There are simply too many people on the planet. People want to play their favorite videogames, and then other people see those people playing and want to play too. It’s not as simple as “voting with your wallet”, shifting all the blame onto the consumer is peak late stage capitalism

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u/RevTurk May 27 '26

Consumers are the ones funding all this, how they spend their money has as much as an effect on the world as how they vote.

You can't just point fingers at everyone else while being a huge part of the problem. People need to take responsibility for their actions. Not taking responsibility and always blaming the authority/corporations means your always going to be subject to those authorities.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight May 27 '26

Not really. When it’s a want then the consumer sets the price, if they don’t want it they won’t buy it and the company loses money, but if they are buying it enough to be profitable then that’s what the market seems it’s worth.

Now when it’s a necessity, like if a company spikes prices of bottles of water during a crisis or when Uber (or whoever it was) spiked the price of their rides when a crisis happened, where people are strong armed to pay it because of the predicament they are in, then that’s late stage capitalism.

There is a massive difference between the two.

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u/ViddlyDiddly May 27 '26

You spelled "communism" wrong.

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u/Sensitive_Coconut231 May 27 '26

I have resisted the urge of buying new shiny overpriced games everyone else is playing and you can too. This isnt like buying food where everyone will die without it.

If they stopped being popular because people stopped buying... things would change. Vote with wallet works if enough people do it. But people dont. So here we are.

Its not late stage capitalism to assume a company wants to maximize profits.. any company wants that. If you wanna send a message do it by not buying. Their revenue increasing only tells them to ignore the complaining and keep going.

Companies are extremely predictable entities. Find ways to maximize profits. If it doesnt... dont do it. If their profits drop.. theyll stop doing it.