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Ain't payin no $80 for no game

Just wait 5 years until it goes on sale for $20
https://steamdb.info/app/578650/
- Or $0
  https://gg.deals/game/the-outer-worlds/#price-history https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-outer-worlds/free-before-avowed

Man, there better be a ton more content than the original to command that price. The first was a decent game, but it felt pretty boring to me, and it's wild that they could use a whole solar system as the setting and it feel so small.

tbh a 20$ game isn’t any less capitalist

The regional pricing of this game is also garbage. I see on steamdb that a few third world countries (where I live) got prices similar or higher than the US for this game.

I'm not buying that shit until it's more than 60% off. Like for instance the alters has sane regional pricing. Most poor countries get a hefty discount from the US price...

Lmao china is only 55usd while europe is a whopping 92usd. I hope it flop.

"Capitalism subsumes all critique"

I will not be buying any game for $80. lmao

Being aware of the irony is free. How you respond is completely up to you.

I just looked it up, and I'm surprised to say that Spider-Man 2 (just released on PC back in February I believe) is still only $60. I mean, sure it's over a year old from it's original PS5 release, but the fact they're not asking $80 for it is kinda nice.

And Oblivion Remastered is "only" $50.

$50 today is equivalent to about $28.50 19 years ago. So it's effectively half price lmao
- Except wages didn't increase that much, and price changes drive inflation, not the other way around.
- I meant it's "'only' $50" because it's an entire overhaul of the original game, rebuilt from the ground up. Similar to how Skyblivion is gonna be.
  Like, that's a damn good price for one of the best RPGs ever made, with the amount of work that went into it this time around too. I'm not complaining about paying that for such a great game.

Once again I have to remind people that inflation exists. Game prices go up just like everything else and the last few years have seen insane inflation rates and game prices haven't really climbed since the 90s. $60 in 2019 would be worth $75 today. $60 in 1996 would be worth $122.

Inflation rises, but wages do not. We'll pay more when we have the money, and the workers are paid fairly.
Once again I have to remind particular morons that inflation is a convenient excuse for execs to never take a pay cut, only ever exorbitant raises and bonuses.
i love how inflation is just always magically a reason for companies to charge arbitrarily large sums for their products, how the hell do you people think people are supposed to afford things?
seriously, if everything just constantly increases in cost, how precisely do you envision the economy functioning?
- Long story short:
  Keynes wrote a fairy tale about inflation raising wages and shortening the work week
  Richard Nixon started inflation as we know it
  Economists worldwide fell into line
  Shockingly, wages didn't go up, the work week didn't shorten, and we now have record-breaking inequality (due to the Cantillon effect).
  To this day, people who paid to "learn" the fairy tale insist that inflation is good.
And 4k TV gets cheaper. What’s your point?
Why do publishers increase the price of games, though? It's not like the price of the rare components to make games increased.

Developers need to eat and pay rent.

Let’s not pretend developers are going to get any money from these price increases. It’s all going to the publisher’s shareholders.
So the developers of $20 games are homeless?
- Lots of Indie game developers actually don’t make enough to live off.
- you know that games are made with different numbers of people on a team right

Microsoft sets the price and they whant you to subscribe to gamepass so they can lock you in and eventually shitefy it

it's free on usenet. just saying.

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One of my favorite games is trying to get the best price on a game I want. My backlog is a few years long at this point, so I don't need to buy any new games. But if I can find one I want for 90% off or more, I usually buy it anyways.