Why tf are video games $100?

Remember when flash games were free?
Well, see, now they can put their game on the app store for $5. That's infinitely times more greater than $0. The jump from $60 to $100 is much, much less, relatively, only 2/3x more greater.
You're really getting a deal there, bucko.

>>717881380 (OP)
We live in an era where we're blackmailed into pretending 1s and 0s are worth anything more than what they actually are
Cost of labor and distribution does not justify current price tags, specially considering that the salary of devs does not go up with the game's price tag (actually, they'll get laid off!)
It's like that with every form of software and digital media, the quantification of how ripped off you're being is exponential to how much you pay for the "product/service"

>>717881380 (OP)
DON'T look up "The Creature from Jekyll Island", worse mistake of my life.

I got a ps5 disc edition because buying $100 licenses is fucking retarded

PAY
DEVELOPERS
WHAT THEY'RE FUCKING WORTH

>>717881380 (OP)
imminent economic and societal collapse inc

>>717881380 (OP)
Because I'm not buying.

>>717882580
your disc is a license on a piece of plastic tho
and will be nearly useless when the servers get shut down since every game rely on updates nowadays

5% growth YoY at all costs
Line goes up
Fork it over, piggy

>lower price of game to $90
>stock market catastrophically implodes, billions die of starvation, world war 3 with china

>>717881380 (OP)
Weeks ago Microsoft lowered the price on a game that hasn’t even released yet because nobody would pre order it for $80. The answer is simple, they charge whatever they think they can get away with.

>>717881380 (OP)
just play old games

>>717881380 (OP)
gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette

>>717884502
They got too cocky
Sony and MS are on their knees praying for GTA 6 to be $100 so they can normalize it

>>717881380 (OP)
Dude, I'm only paying $10 or less for any games rn. Idk wtf you're doing - do you?

>>717884335
Finally, some fun!

>>717881380 (OP)

you are ausjeet

>>717881380 (OP)
Are you from brazil

>>717881380 (OP)
Compensation for piracy

>>717881380 (OP)
>pirate or emulate
>game is $0

>>717881380 (OP)
Always has been
Botw cost 90$ and that is a wiiU game

>>717883963
Been "imminent" for like 15 years now, anon. At this point, collapse is just the season finale they keep teasing but never air. Still, wouldn't mind seeing the DLC where central banking gets nerfed.

>>717881380 (OP)
Everything is more expensive.
We're headed towards a new depression

>>717884159
same
us based people arent buying them so they need to charge the suckers more to make up for it

>>717881380 (OP)
they know they can charge that much and ultimately end up earning more money even if the high prices make some people stop buying

>>717881380 (OP)
Inflation. Why are you not working harder?

>>717881380 (OP)

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