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You won't like hearing this, but video games must become more expensive. When I was little, my dad got me a PlayStation 2 for christmas, but without any games. My mum was very generous and took me out to pick two games for it. They were 60€ each. Nowadays you would call those full-price games. But now, 20 years later, a full-price game is still about 60€. If you correct that for inflation, it should really be 86€ now. And that's not even covering the fact that games have massively increased in visual fidelity, which is much more expensive to produce. If you don't want games to be littered with microtransactions or ads, then you have to accept that a regular video game must be at least 90€. (98 USD, 77 GBP, 149 AUD, 134 CAD) #Gaming #GameDev #GameDevelopment #Steam #Inflation #Economy #PlayStation
Can't wait to buy the next installment of insert sports game here/call of duty for 100 USD base, 200 for the dlc, maybe even 300 for the ultimate deluxe extreme version.
Okay let’s do some back of the napkin math
($60/game - Cost of distributing physical products) * not that many sales = Not that much money.
$60/game * many many sales with no distribution cost = Much more money
Digital sales and a much larger market mean game prices should’ve gone down not up. If a company is making a profit, even if it’s just one lonely dollar per year, they do not need to raise prices. And game company profits have been going up over time.
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In their first year of sales, GTA 3 sold 4 million copies, and GTA 5 sold 45 million. If we adjust for both inflation and increased sales to make the same amount of money, GTA 5 should have sold for $6.60 a copy.
But their profit could have been 6 million dollars according to their data! Are you saying you are ok with these companies losing 6 billion in lost profits?? You really think it's morally acceptable stealing 6 trillion dollars from them with your greedy consumer practices?!
I genuinely believe if we wanted to only change one thing about capitalism and make it function better it would be to hide how much profit a company makes from itself.
The only information they should have about profits is “yes” or “no”. Because if you’re making one cent in profit that means your business is a success and you shouldn’t be chasing more.