alphacyberranger to [email protected]English • 11 months agoMadden should not be 70$lemmy.worldmessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1381
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minus-squareXIIIesqlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoNew releases used to be £40 when I was a kid (twenty years ago), given inflation, £70 sounds not too bad.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•11 months agoThat $40 included plastic packaging and a disc both of which largely don’t exist anymore.
minus-squareDandroidlinkfedilinkEnglish4•11 months agoThose cost pennies. They were never part of the cost.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•11 months agoAbsolutely agree with you. However it’s what’s been said to people for years to justify the cost
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoNever was a significant cost. So complaining, you are never going to get you 50c of plastic to burn down the planet to spite publishers.
minus-squareFlying SquidlinkfedilinkEnglish6•11 months ago40? I remember when they were 20. Hell, I remember when you could get slightly older titles for 10. I used to go to Egghead and buy slightly older games with my allowance.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-11•11 months agoNo you don’t. You are just imagining. At no point ever was $20 typical for a new game.
minus-squareFlying SquidlinkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-211 months agoIt absolutely was in the 1980s. Edit: Here. Even cheaper than I claimed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agomore importantly they sell way more units now. It takes virtually no more effort or cost for gaming companies to sell 20 million units vs 1 million.
minus-squareXIIIesqlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoIf they’re selling 20 million more units than they used to, then $70 clearly is not too much and outs this post as nothing more than a moan.
New releases used to be £40 when I was a kid (twenty years ago), given inflation, £70 sounds not too bad.
That $40 included plastic packaging and a disc both of which largely don’t exist anymore.
And a complete game!
Those cost pennies. They were never part of the cost.
Absolutely agree with you. However it’s what’s been said to people for years to justify the cost
I guess I just have never heard that before. 🤷
Never was a significant cost. So complaining, you are never going to get you 50c of plastic to burn down the planet to spite publishers.
40? I remember when they were 20. Hell, I remember when you could get slightly older titles for 10. I used to go to Egghead and buy slightly older games with my allowance.
No you don’t. You are just imagining. At no point ever was $20 typical for a new game.
It absolutely was in the 1980s.
Edit: Here. Even cheaper than I claimed.
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more importantly they sell way more units now. It takes virtually no more effort or cost for gaming companies to sell 20 million units vs 1 million.
If they’re selling 20 million more units than they used to, then $70 clearly is not too much and outs this post as nothing more than a moan.