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I'm still flabbergasted we've arrived at games costing 100€ now. Not some collector's edition, just the normal game. On a console that'll set you back 500€ on its own, not to mention the service subscriptions. Even the god damn next-gen improvements for existing games supported through backwards compat now cost a 2-digit sum. What's next, subscriptions for device features (which you already paid big money for) to work like it's a freaking BMW? It's just utter insanity, and people are still paying for all that shit.
Did you expect them to keep 1990s pricing forever?
Putting aside the fact how little the median citizen earned more in wages in comparison to the prices going up:
No, of course not. However it's not just the games and the console that we're talking about. We're talking about them monetizing every single bit more and more, especially adding subscriptions and taking away ownership. In regards to Nintendo at least they still ship real cartridges with the working game on them, but any digital purchase is neither owned by you nor can be preserved without the help of hackers. They try to continuously make money while giving less and then on top of that the prices went up.
Not to mention their patent troll, anti-preservation and fangame-killing practices. Just in case anyone wants to argue for the company being "not as bad as others" or sth.
Well said!
Is charging for online play not common anymore? I was paying for Xbox live last time I owned an Xbox in like 2009.
Nintendo was the last holdout and started charging in 2018. Only PC gamers don't have to pay extra to play online now.
And if they start charging PC gamers I'll start figuring out how to self host again.
Fuck corpo scum, choom.
Edit: These goddamn MBA types must not realize that I got along just fine playing Team Fortress Classic against my bot army.
This is why PC is and always will be better than a traditional console. "Oh the dev won't do this, good thing the modding scene already has a workaround."
it was never common on pc