Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[The Last Stand]

Okay, what is with this take of inflation to justify the increase of game prices?

 

[DeadwastePrime]

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Okay, what is with this take of inflation to justify the increase of game prices?

i mean the argument is technically sound once you adjust pricing with inflation in mind. 6 could've taken the 70 dollar route tho, but at least it isnt 100 dollars or more for the base edition

 

[CIS White Droid]

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Okay, what is with this take of inflation to justify the increase of game prices?

It's retards not understanding that inflation and purchasing power are not the same thing and they do not change at the same rate.

 

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It's retards not understanding that inflation and purchasing power are not the same thing and they do not change at the same rate.

We don't calculate prices in purchasing power. We calculate prices in money. Money is directly adjusted by inflation.

 

[Poop A Loop]

We're not mad that they're charging too damned much for GTA6. We're mad that thanks to our shitty government printing money to avoid having to tell boomers and others no once in a while, we're at about 95% inflation since the year 2000. But we can't express that becuase there is no solution to that that doesn't involve our economy collapsing. Which it's going to do anyway.

Totally agree.

Maybe games are more expensive due to inflation AND shitty management that can't manage projects to save their lives and instead scope creep the hell out of something that should only take 3 years to finish.

But that doesn't matter because games are not an essential service. So even if those rainbow-haired freaks are right that games should cost more, I don't care. I have inflated groceries, transportation, housing, healthcare, and retirement (if I'm able to retire at all) to save for because people are delusional if they think social security is going to be around and that medicare/medicaid will be for anyone except whatever shade of brown or genderspecial is at the top of the progressive stack that election cycle.

Games studios compete for a limited optional share of my wallet regardless of inflation and I'm more than happy to give that shrinking slice to games that aren't gay or reddit, or to just hang onto it and give it to organizations that actively work against the evil tankies that want to see me dead.

 

[Scarthew]

Im surprised they're not undercutting gta's it since they know theylll make billions a year on microtransactions

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA 3 cost $95 when it launched.
Vice City cost $92 when it launched.
San Andreas cost $88 when it launched.
GTA4 was $95 when it launched.
GTA5 was $86 when it launched.
GTA6 is $80. It's the cheapest GTA game.

For reference, Chrono Trigger cost $150.

I had to look up "purchasing power" to understand why that argument is flawed. Basically, purchasing power is how much your money can buy now from then.

The above post shows this flaw because A), those games did not cost that much THEN at launch, B) that means that your dollar NOW is worth LESS then BEFORE.

Adjusting past prices for current inflation only highlights how less your dollar is now, not how much MORE something "SHOULD be worth."

 

[The Ugly One]

Case in point, three years ago I had a PS4, I was paying yearly for Sony's online service. One day I found a mistake had been made and they had double charged me, so I contacted them, it took forever for me to talk to a real person and that person told me there was nothing that could be done. Fortunately I had paid with Paypal, so I did a charge back with them, I only got the money back for the one subscription, I had still paid for the upcoming year. Next time I turned on my PS4 I was told that I had violated their terms of service and my account was banned and none of the over two dozen digital titles I had bought would launch. Two days of calls and chats latter and I was informed that the charge back was a violation of the terms of service and my account was banned for life and thus I could never play the around $1000 worth of games I had on my Ps4 again.

sorry bub, our EULA says if we overcharge you, we get to keep the money

caveat emptor

It isn't paying $100 for games people are upset by, it's paying $100 when you don't own anything and can lose the game for any reason. We live in a world where your digital ownership can be yanked away because someone at the publisher doesn't like what you posted on X. $100 is an insane amount of money to pay for something you don't own.

This is part of why I roll my eyes so hard when people glaze Steam and Gaben. Steam generally has a light touch with account bans, and they do ensure you retain access to delisted games (must be on the agreements they sign with publishers), but it doesn't change the fact that the reason they don't just shut down people's libraries is they choose not to, not because they haven't fundamentally transformed PC gaming into an online rental service where you own nothing, everything's a live service, and you praise St Gaben the Fat for it.