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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.
Also piracy. For years they were like “piracy is killing the games, if only it disappeared, we would lower the prices”. Well it was what actually happened in Poland, piracy declined greatly, in the response game distributors risen prices to full euro level (they were much cheaper before) and drastically cut down full polish localisation of games, which were surprisingly common in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.
It’s always been a bullshit claim and had cause and effect blatantly backwards. If you want to reduce the rates of piracy in a location where it’s common, you lower prices. High prices drive high piracy, not the other way around.
Exactly, it’s on the rise again. But what’s more worrying rather than games is that polish torrent scene was basically entirely obliterated and book piracy don’t want to get back up (maybe it will considering book prices are currently galloping like crazy).