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.
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13esq@lemmy.world 10 months agoNew releases used to be £40 when I was a kid (twenty years ago), given inflation, £70 sounds not too bad.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No you don’t. You are just imagining. At no point ever was $20 typical for a new game.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It absolutely was in the 1980s.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
13esq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That $40 included plastic packaging and a disc both of which largely don’t exist anymore.
matt1126@feddit.uk 10 months ago
And a complete game!
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
dandroid@dandroid.app 10 months ago
Those cost pennies. They were never part of the cost.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Absolutely agree with you. However it’s what’s been said to people for years to justify the cost
dandroid@dandroid.app 10 months ago
I guess I just have never heard that before. 🤷