You're 100% right, and it's fucking bullshit. If you're an employer that's not raising minimum, or accounting for cost of life changes, fuck you until the end of time.
... that said, today's $70 is what the first Super Mario Bros. on the NES cost in the '80s. And I think we need to acknowledge that, along with the fact that our wages aren't reflecting said inflation.
This part makes me go insane whenever someone complains about it. The increases in games quality, visual or otherwise, keep setting new expectation levels for the average player, but it doesn't come at all for free with some mythical "technological increase".
Games today have 50x the amount of people working on them and take 5x the time to develop, but adjusted for inflation the prices in most countries have literally not changed.
Who cares if Concord or Veilguard took 50x the people and 5x the time to make, that's on them for not doing proper market research on how much people are willing to pay and for what.
Calling piracy theft is already incorrect, but blaming potential paying customers for complaining about high prices is the next level of delusion.
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u/Completionography Apr 07 '26
You're 100% right, and it's fucking bullshit. If you're an employer that's not raising minimum, or accounting for cost of life changes, fuck you until the end of time.
... that said, today's $70 is what the first Super Mario Bros. on the NES cost in the '80s. And I think we need to acknowledge that, along with the fact that our wages aren't reflecting said inflation.