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VAMatt on 12 July 2022
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Leynos said:
VAMatt said:

Gaming was extremely expensive back then. Adjusted for PPP, the games cost more than twice as much as games today. 

Until you factor in subs, passes,MTX,DLC, Premium editions,gold editions,day one editions. overslept editions,my dog sparky edition,late for the dentist edition,the game has 15 different currencies. buy these skins, coins,health packs, EXP boosters,cards,levels, go buy candy bars to get exclusive DLC (FF7R) different ISP gives different DLC (Avengers) lootboxes. Star Wars Battlefront II being basically unplayable unless you bought into all that shit.

I got a complete game back then.

You did get a complete game back then, but the games were typically much smaller, and even when factoring in DLC, they were still more expensive back then.  

You're that $60 a year to play online is a new expense, relative to the time we're talking about here. But, you get online play for that. There was no online playback then.

All that other shit you mentioned, microtransactions and the like, it's completely voluntary. I have never spent a single penny in any video game buying in-game currency or on any sort of microtransactions, and I've been gaming since 1982.