$40 Batman: Arkham Knight DLC Pass Revealed, Offers Six Months of Content

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TheSting said:

spemanig said:

"Games are cheaper than they were ten years ago," my ass.

Well if i recall NES and early 90s systems had $40 games. Now they're $60 that's $20 in in almost $30 years.

I've said this before but we're paying $90+ for complete games now and that is crazy.

I don't think anybody said 10 years ago when talking about games being cheaper now. Considering Yoshi's Island and Star Fox would cost about $115 today, people who say that are talking about 20 years ago or so, and in that respect they're right. 

 

3rd through 5th gen games could cost anywhere from $50 to $80. After that prices started evening out at around $50 because of discs making actual production costs lower. Then budgets started rising, and gamers got entitled. They pissed and moaned when it went up to $60, they'll piss and moan when it permanently becomes $70. This kind of milking DLC is almost forced upon some companies just to make a profit with how high the budgets can get, ESPECIALLY in poorly budgeted games like this (where they give a team member several years JUST to create a car so detailed that it's 8GB of storage).

 

I've always been one of the opinion that we should just take the price jumps so any DLC we do get has a better chance of actually adding to the game (think Mario Kart 8 DLC and the like) instead of being something miniscule that could've shipped with the game. Problem is, the same casuals who accept three books becoming four movies are the ones that pay into DLC and pre-orders, so we're screwed either way. They'd pay $80 and still take the DLC we get now.