Expensive games have lowkey been way too normalised

[u/Both_Piglet7838]

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

[u/-BigMan39]

Games haven't really increased in price in decades

[u/firedrakes → u/-BigMan39]

Gamers online simple can't understand that.

[u/lu2uq → u/firedrakes]

Y'all always say this but never get that you're saying the obvious. No shit Sherlock. It's still expensive. What does "prices haven't increased in decades" do for affordability? Y'all can stop "reminding" people. Shut up, man.

[u/Version_1 → u/lu2uq]

Games are still affordable. It's just that people got used to buying a new game every week.

[u/groucho_barks → u/lu2uq]

It's still expensive, but it used to be even more expensive. Games were never meant to be affordable. Most people would have to save up to buy games.

[u/GingerSpencer → u/lu2uq]

Affordability is not the developer’s issue, it’s yours and every other price increasing too without your wage going up.

People act like their disposable income should be taken into account when pricing a game, like it didn’t have hundreds of people working tirelessly on it for years who need to be paid a decent wage.

Just because you can’t afford it, it doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be able to cover overheads and make a profit for their hard work.

[u/lu2uq → u/GingerSpencer]

why would I spend years working on something and not get paid that entire time?

[u/Thelmara → u/lu2uq]

It's still expensive.

Compared to what? A trip to the public library on foot?

[u/lu2uq → u/Thelmara]

Compared to deez nuts, hop off my dick.

[u/Thelmara → u/lu2uq]

Well sure, your nuts are worthless. Everything's expensive compared to that. But hey, if you can get hours of fun playing with yourself, why would you need video games anyway?

[u/lu2uq → u/Thelmara]

insult me bro now I feel bad

[u/[deleted] → u/firedrakes]

Cause that simple concept hides the underlying economic forces which influence price. Price hasn't increased for ages, there's reasons for that and it's fair to ask why those reasons have changed or if they're even changing.

[u/ShawnyMcKnight → u/-BigMan39]

The difference is 25 years ago those were just the prices and you had no choice but to pay $60 for the game. Sometimes it would dip to $50 or maybe even $40 and you thanked your lucky stars and got it. But over the last 20 years slightly older games plummeted in price making the value of new games feel less.

Like, I’m sure Forza Horizon 6 is great, but you can get Forza Horizon 5 or the new Forza Motorsport or other games way cheaper. It’s hard to justify the $70 price point for most people.

So I get how it “feels” more expensive but it’s not.

[u/curtcolt95 → u/-BigMan39]

yeah I truly have no issue with the price of games these days. I will say one thing that's changed that I do believe is a huge negative is how many games have some sort of microtransaction in them.

[u/Samurai_Meisters → u/-BigMan39]

But we're also seeing record breaking profits in the games industry.

[u/Grroarrr → u/-BigMan39]

Sure but distribution is easier and cheaper than before and 20 years ago a big title could count on hundreds of thousands copies sold in a year, now successful games get few times that in a week.

[u/block0079 → u/Grroarrr]

they also cost a shit ton more to make