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Replicant said:
vivster said:

While technically true, this narrative just serves publishers to increase their ingame costs. Games might have become cheaper on their initial price but at the same time they lost content that has to be purchased separately. On top of that we have online subscription costs on consoles.

I'd say things have not really changed much as games can be cheap but they can also be pretty expensive, which is the same as in the earlier gaming years.

While bold is true, it's up to you to decide whether you want to spend money on additional content. I never buy DLC or microtransactions but instead wait for complete editions (e.g. The Witcher 3 and Horizon: Zero Dawn) or simply just ignore the DLC. So far, I haven't felt like I'm missing out on anything. I don't care about some fancy skin for my character that's exclusive to e.g. the game's $100 Special Edition. I'd most likely just choose the standard skin anyway.

You're right about online subscription cost. At the moment though, I'm not subscribing as Apex Legends doesn't require PS Plus which seems to be the case with many of the most popular online games (Fortnite, Paladins, H1Z1, Warframe, Smite, Crossout, Brawlhalla, Neverwinter, Warface, Dauntless, etc). So if you don't care about skins and similar DLC, gaming is in a lot of cases cheaper than ever.

Good for you. Doesn't change the fact that we're getting less for the same money.



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