Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"

Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• verdare@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As usual, the problem isn’t so much that the cost of everything is rising; It’s that wages aren’t keeping pace.

  source

  • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure, but that doesn’t mean the game developers don’t need to be paid. It’s still a bargain for the work that’s being done.

    source

    • hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      this would make sense if the game developers were being paid properly to begin with, rather than the leeches that are the c-suite taking more than they should

      source
    • phuntis@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      point to the wage increases for those developers

      source
    • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Developers have been underpaid for years. These increases are not going to them.

      source
• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not inflation works. Inflation shouldn’t apply to everything at the same rate.

  My first computer costed the equivalent to 1000 euros. Do you think the average desktop should cost 3000?

  source

  • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is how inflation works… when costs go up prices go up.

    Yeah, your computer probably should cost a lot more in “today dollars” but because performance of components gets more efficient over time, you can get a similar computer for less money.

    It’s the same reason you have a computer more powerful than multiple thousands of dollar super computers. The technology has improved enough you don’t have to pay as much.

    source

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can’t just scale game prices linearly with inflation, sure costs of development have increased, not just because of inflation but also because games are much more complex now. But the gaming market has grown a lot and games are infinitely reproducible so that hugely increases profits.

      I don’t know how much we should pay for games, but just comparing it to inflation is useless

      source
• GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Games were $60 for so long everyone things it should be like that forever

  source
• morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We are already are, look at season passes, dlc etc, 90+ is the de facto price of a lot of AAA games. They’ll claim going even higher is to support developers or whatever when laying people off en masse and posting even larger quarterly results, it’s pure avarice.

  source