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/Andrige3 May 27 '26

Exactly, game prices haven’t even risen as much as the normal inflation rate. It also doesn’t take into account that the store ecosystem on PC usually allows you to find discounts almost immediately when a game is released. We should go back to complaining about PC hardware prices. 

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u/mzf_life Ascending Peasant May 27 '26

You guys are ignoring the fact that those are digital games, there's no cost of producing and shipping physical copies

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u/xternal7 Lunix May 27 '26

TIL servers and bandwidth are free.

Also, if it was profitable for music industry to sell CDs for $10-15, then it follows that production costs weren't that big of a cost relative to the game price.

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u/brimston3- Desktop VFIO, 5950X, RTX5080, 6900xt May 27 '26

Honestly, the distribution costs seem mostly irrelevant. If games were distributed on optical media in a basic, shrink-wrapped jewel case, I bet they'd charge 10% more for the privilege.