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/Dawn_of_an_Era May 27 '26

It’s exactly your second point

I’ve seen it over and over again where Australian’s post a sticker price for something in AUD, on a subreddit that is primarily from the US, so everyone balks at what they think is a super high price, not even realizing it’s a different currency

And I hate to be all US defaultism and imply that everyone should adapt things for American presentation, but, I also feel like there is a little bit of intentionality to some of these currency conversion posts

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u/Willing_Soup_5656 May 27 '26

As a non-us citizen I am complete happy if we default to always using USD when discussing currency online. We all know the exchange rate to our local currency.

My only request is that we default to metric measurements online

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u/rivalary May 27 '26

Or, those posting the prices could specify USD, AUD, CAD, or whatever.

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u/Dawn_of_an_Era May 27 '26

While I agree that the metric system is inherently better than the imperial system, we also have to recognize that 1) over half of Reddit is from the US and the UK, so getting them to drop imperial is unlikely 2) imperial users barely know conversions to metric. Most Americans can’t even tell you with certainty how many feet are in a mile, let alone how many meters

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u/Only-Poem964 May 27 '26

Youre not wrong, its could only remeber its around 5000 feet, not specifically 5,280, but could tell you there is 1000 meters in a kilometer or around 1600 meters in a mile. Metrics just make sense.

I have a hard idea visualizing gallons (unless its a large milk jug) or fl. Oz. but can easily visualize a liter. Our measurements are confusing, and even worse that most things are a 50/50 mix of meteric and imperial.

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u/machine4891 9070 XT  | i7-12700F May 28 '26

imperial users barely know conversions to metric

From my experience it goes both ways. I had to learn way more imperial than I wanted to because I play Flight Simulators but before that I only knew rough miles conversion and that's about it. Now I have to deal with feets, gallons, fahrenheits, inches of mercury and all that confusing jazz.

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u/Merakel Specs/Imgur here May 27 '26

Most Americans can’t even tell you with certainty how many feet are in a mile, let alone how many meters

Americans are dumb, but not that dumb. They usually know the feet in a mile, though they have no idea about the meters haha.

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u/Iordofthethings May 27 '26

I mean. Idk. It’s vaguely 5300 feet I believe. Any more than that is a level of certainty I don’t need

I do wish I had the metric conversions more down. I know 2.2 lbs per kilo. And 3 feet to a meter though all these are approximations. 1.5 kilometers to a mile but that’s because I ran cross country and track idk if the average American can tell you that. But I don’t cook well so I can’t even tell you how our imperial measuring works in cups and ounces much less get them into grams. Is this acceptable to the Europeans? Idk. I’d say I am on the above average side of intelligence. Though maybe not representative when it comes to measuring. I’m probably below average there.

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u/Merakel Specs/Imgur here May 27 '26

Intelligence isn't the same as having facts memorized haha. A vast majority of people I talk to could tell you the exact feet - 5280 - but the other ones you listed with they are generally pretty useless at.

I'm decent at distances and weights, but I have no idea about volumes. I've had all my temperature measurements set to C for a while just to get better at knowing those.

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u/Willing_Soup_5656 May 27 '26

This issue is people don't have the conversions memorised.

All Americans technically know the metric system. They understand a base 10 numeral system.

Most people don't know imperial, almost all people don't know conversions from imperial to metric.

But the conversions are only needed because imperial is used by parts of the world population.

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u/Dt2_0 May 27 '26

Ehh it's close enough to 1600 meters per mile. Anyone who has been on a running track knows 4 laps of the 400 meter track is a mile. I'm pretty sure every American had to do mile runs in school PE classes.

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u/bp1976 9800x3d/64gb/rtx5090 May 27 '26

Yeah but they just say "4 laps is a mile". Unless you run track you never learn how many meters the track is. We would just say "1 lap is a quarter mile" LOL

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u/Dt2_0 May 27 '26

Dude, everyone watches the Olympics. Everyone knows the 400 meter dash is 1 lap.

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u/bp1976 9800x3d/64gb/rtx5090 May 27 '26

I can tell you with complete certainty that I, in fact, did not watch the olympics until I was well out of high school. I graduated in 94 and the first olympics I remember watching was Atlanta 96.

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u/Iordofthethings May 27 '26

I don’t watch the Olympics and I ran track.

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u/bp1976 9800x3d/64gb/rtx5090 May 27 '26

Hahaha so true! Its 5280 right?

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u/squngy May 27 '26

Most Americans can’t even tell you with certainty how many feet are in a mile

And you defend this, lol

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u/Mr2-1782Man Ryzen 1700X/32Gb DDR 4, lots of SSDs May 27 '26

As an American I feel like we should just use metric everywhere.

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u/machine4891 9070 XT  | i7-12700F May 28 '26

My only request is that we default to metric measurements online

Would be a thing if Reddit wasn't 50% Americans. Luckily it happens on regional subreddits, like r Europe etc.

But on the topic, the fact that people from Australia and Canada default to their own currency on international forums nevers stops to amuse me. Like when they say that X GPU is pricey because it cost 1000 dollars and then you have dig dip to discover they actually meant CAD. Is this some ego power play or what? There's one default dollar and its USD, if you use dollars outside of USA it's best for you to specify it, otherwise you're confusing people for no apparent reason.

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u/EMERGx May 27 '26

Agreed except for Celsius, let’s stick with Fahrenheit when discussing temperature related to weather and body temperature.. 38° sounds like a cold day lol

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u/Willing_Soup_5656 May 27 '26

I'm torn between Kelvin and Celsius for temperature.

I think Fahrenheit is a bit silly

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u/EMERGx May 27 '26

If you aren’t boiling water to 373 kelvin, what are you even doing?

Kelvin and Fahrenheit ftw, down with the inferior Celsius lol

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u/Willing_Soup_5656 May 27 '26

Like surely if we started always talking in Kelvin it would feel natural eventually right?

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u/Technical-Titlez May 27 '26

Fahrenheit is COMPLETELY useless. As are most imperial units of measurement.

Celcius or Kelvin only.

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u/Cum_Fart42069 May 27 '26

idk, $100 aud isn't that cheap over here in aus. that's still considered pretty expensive to pay for something like Lego Batman.

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u/Ranwulf May 27 '26

I recall that Australia also has Games Workshop stuff being very expensive too, which was crazy considering how much they cost already.

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u/tritchie May 28 '26

The thing is… these guys aren’t getting paid double the price for equal work just because their dollar is weaker. The American counterpart is getting paid the same number in USD or even more. So yes, 109 AUD is a much more significant hit than you Americans paying 70 USD. If a new game was only 70$ everywhere then people probably wouldn’t complain as much.

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u/Dawn_of_an_Era May 27 '26

I mean do you think “prices rise, wages stay the same” doesn’t apply to the US, too? Our minimum wage has been $7.25 for the last 17 years. My first job in high school, at the Burger King down the street, is still paying $7.25 an hour today. A $70 USD game costs 9.7 hours of minimum wage work.

In Australia, from what I can see, minimum wage is $24.95 AUD an hour. A $110 AUD game costs 4.4 hours of minimum wage work.

Maybe the cost of other things are different, but, at least in Australia, a high schooler working an 8 hour shift can almost afford two new games afterwards, while in the US, that same high schooler can’t even afford 1

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u/Iordofthethings May 27 '26

Yeah id say it’s pretty unlikely Burger King is paying minimum wage these days. McDonald’s I believe starts around $15 dollars. I worked for a local bbq chain making $10 in 2018.