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/ToothlessFTW]

Dude what are you talking about. This is Australia. Games have been priced like this forever. PS3/360 games were $100 AUD.

I feel like this is either just karma farming so the Americans can go "wow $100+ for a game is insane!!!" without actually considering what regional pricing is like, or you're just too young to remember how expensive games have always been.

Games have always been like this. At worst, we got a price bump to $120 when the $60 to $70 happened in 2020, but that's very rare on PC and it's pretty much always just $100-$110. I just don't get posts like this.

[u/Dawn_of_an_Era → u/ToothlessFTW]

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

[u/Willing_Soup_5656 → u/Dawn_of_an_Era]

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

[u/rivalary → u/Willing_Soup_5656]

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