I think it's funny how people are saying "if you grew up with the NES and SNES, you remember $80 games."
No they don't. People who grew up with the NES and SNES were kids at that time. They were almost certainly not buying their games back then. Their parents were. And even then, kids rarely have a concept of money, so even if they were using their allowance to buy the games, the cost of the game still barely registered.
Games have been $60 for a long time, and it makes sense for them to remain around that price. "B-But my inflation." Wrong. The gaming industry specifically implemented systems to offset inflation, at least that's how they sold it. Physical-to-digital was argued to be many times cheaper (if not for GameStop's fuckery) because it meant you didn't have to manufacture tons of physical disks, boxes, paper inserts, etc. which was a great cost-cutting measure. Then you have the biggest measure: DLC and Microtransactions. The DLC of today and the expansion packs of the 90s-00s are worlds different. Most expansion packs were essentially new games that had half the level of content of the original. Nowadays, you might get something like that, but generally it's just a few extra quests or features for 1/3 the price of a new game. And mtx is even worse. "Here's a costume for your character. It only costs 1/10 the price of the entire game." Or even better, "here's this stuff we cut out, but you can get it back by paying 25% more for your new game."
The problem is that all this bullshit that was arguably implemented as a way to keep games lower in price are going to continue being used. So you're getting double-fucked now. Kind of like when the government says "we haven't raised taxes in a while, so why are you mad we're raising them." You're already taking my money at a percentage, which has inflation arguably baked into it, why do you need to do more? Same thing here. You're already trying to bleed me with microtransactions, and now you want MORE money for the base game. Absolute lunacy. Then you add in that Nintendo games cost like $50 million to make, and they're saying they need $80 base prices to sell, when games that were made for $250 million did just fine selling at $60.
tl;dr Raising the price of games is greed, not inflation. And don't let retards on X tell you otherwise.
