Yeah, I have evidence: it’s called they sold games at the $60 price for two console generations and claimed to be making record profits. Think really hard, if the price was too low to keep up with costs, would they have done that? Did inflation only occur at the point where the Ps5 and Xbox Series X launched? Or are…

I lost the edit window on this so I’ll just add that between 1994 and 2013, inflation accounted for a 1.6x change in dollar value. Applying that to the 5.5x increase in net profit still puts the GTA profit ratio at 3.4x DKC. And also where I said ‘net profit’ I meant ‘gross profit’. Damnit Jim, I’m a software…

That’s easy enough. I wrote about this in an article a few months ago, which unfortunately I can’t find so I’ll just cover the key points.

And the games also sell to a much larger audience and sell far more copies. How do you guys always show up with half of a math equation and think that’s smart?

Execs at these major publishers and studios get paid 100-1000 times what the average employee is paid. It definitely has a significant and negative impact, not simply on morale, but on production costs and consumer costs. And if you look at the track record of management and executive decisions, they’re rarely better…

In this particular case, actual purchases are only a portion of the revenue Square has gotten from FF7:R. Square got a ton of cash from their exclusivity deal with Sony, then they got more cash from their exclusivity deal with Epic. They also got additional revenue from the Yuffie DLC. On top of all that, FF7:R PC is…

A large part of the cost of old console games were the proprietary cartridges used by each system. That’s far less of an issue with discs and not an issue at all with digital distribution. On top of that, old consoles games didn’t have overpriced DLC or MTX, whereas almost every modern AAA game has both.

Also:

‘Some people are worried it’s the beginning of an across-the-board price hike, even if it’s one that’s been long overdue.’

“even if it’s one that’s been long overdue” this whole article seems like it was written to shill for publishers pushing this agenda despite record profits, more sales than the past due to growth and more and more revenue streams being pushed and added to game. This is gross.

$70 for a day-one, cross-platform release on multiple storefronts? I could get on board with that.

There is a huge mental dissonance between publishers telling their stock holders that they “had the biggest year ever when it comes to profits”, and then turning around and telling customers that “costs for making games keep going up and prices never moved for years”

“There is no reason to assume good faith on behalf of companies who deserve none,” wrote Twitch streamer CaseyExplosion on Twitter over the weekend. “They’ll raise prices if people will pay, and keep all the rest of the slimy, predatory crap too. It’s not a case of either or, and we’re not in any kind of position to…

There’s some truth to this, but there’s also a cold, hard fact that there’s more and more executive ‘overhead’ being tacked onto these price tags to pay for people who expect more and more while contributing less and less.

That savings never existed. I’m old enough to remember when the early move to digital involved promises that digital versions would provide savings ot the end user because they didn’t need to press discs. It’s just lies. Both PC games and Console were $50 in the PS2 era and $60 from 360 on.

I’m more bothered by being told to either pay full price or wait for a discount on a game I’ve been waiting to come to PC for almost 2 years already. Day One drops being $70 instead of $60 would be easier to stomach if exclusivity wasn’t constantly being used as an excuse to charge full price again.

Shut the fuck up.

Now, now, I’m sure the Epic Store is just charging more to off-set the rising cost of shipping and manufacturing all those disks to stores across the country.

Maybe they could stop paying 10s or 100s of millions of dollars in salary to management who seem to only come into the office to play grab ass and talk about hoors over cigars? That should save some money.

To be cancelled after one season is the most anime thing the adaptation could have done.