EXPLAIN THIS

1999 video game price: 59.99$

2017 video game price adjusted for inflation: 149.99$

And people are pissed companies are implementing micro transactions? You are attacking the wrong person

US is also the only place that still only pays $60, the price raised everywhere else

It's not raised enough

>I'm incapable of verifying numbers for myself and just spurt out random shit I've heard from armchair economists
Fuck off.

the costs of making actual gameplay mechanics etc have been reduced

Explain this:
game sold a million times for 60 in 1999
game sold 20 million times for 60 in 2017 +50 dollar season pass that is mandatory, lootbox centered progression that costs about 7000 and 2-5 DLC for up to 30

You are shilling without even reading up on the newest faux-argumentation routines.

There is no mandatory season pass twat

1999 game development price : 1 million max
2017 game dev price : 75 million minimum (plus around 200 million in marketing)

>pays more for video games
>pays nothing for healthcare

I think its a good trade off for you guys.

>>pays nothing for healthcare
They do though taxes

>the point

>you

I get health insurance through my employer for free.

You're paying for it by making your boss money. Jobs don't give you shit for free.

yeah my grandpa paid nothing for epic free healthcare
he's been waiting for his spine surgery for a full year now because the hospital has been postponing it, no free spaces now etc.
boy am I glad to live in such a lovely supportive country that cares about its citizens

Would it be better to live in a country where it would cost your family millions of dollars and he couldn't go at all though?

The stress and high blood pressure are free

the world already has too many people. living old is a meme at this point, sometimes you just have to let go so the younger can still live

you goddamn dev hustlers just won't let up huh?

There's also substantially more competition

>Reaching this hard.

'Games as a service" has allowed companies to rake in literally hundreds of millions of dollars with very few releases. EA made 1.3 billion fucking dollars of mtx/dlc/FIFA Ultimate team back in like 2015. Fuck off with your corporate shilling.

Nothing is free, we just spread the cost around for the whole population instead. Your taxes pay for stuff, you know.

I'll give you that one

Can we just universally up the price of new games to $69.00?

Over having these pay walls ruin what are possibly decent games otherwise.

>pays """"""""""nothing""""""""""

1999 - huge franchise might sell 100k
2017 - huge franchise easily breaks 2 million

Its almost like...they make up for inflation by selling more product. Just like many items at the grocery story still cost the same 20 years later.

Games cost $50 in the 90's, they didn't start being $60 until the ps3/360 era.

lol if you haven't realized triple A games didn't start til like 2006 and nothing's really changed except now developers can rake in more money with digital distribution