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the-pi-guy said:
Azzanation said:

The question is why they need to raise the price? Video games are actually selling more and more so the price doesn't need to be raised as they are making more money off more sales. The other main concern is $70 games that also have MTs. Sony pushed $70, guess what EA did? Followed, and so have many others.

Every little step you give these companies, they will continue to take and take until people actually say enough is enough. Look at Maddan, the series hasn't changed for 20 years yet EA want to charge $70 for a game they made 20 years ago. Why doesn't EA change Maddan? Because Maddan continues to sell so they just get away with it. I don't want my side hobby to become more expensive just because these billion dollar corps want more out of my wallet. Maybe that's what you want, not me.

I now wait for game sales due to the explosive prices on day one releases. $99 to $149 (AUD) depending on which digital version you want. You really cannot see the issue here?

I'm not saying it's what I want, I'm just saying I think there are worse things. And lots of publishers are pushing a lot of these things that I think are worse, and people don't seem to care as much.

As always, vote with your wallet. Most of these games I'm not going to buy for $45, let alone $70. 

MTs and Lootboxes have been complained about for years to a point where some companies had to go to court, and they even banned the concept in some countries.

In saying that, you can actually argue MTs gives you extra content and is completely optional to a straight up $10 price hike where we get nothing in return except for paying more. Just because MTs are a thing in modern gaming doesn't justify ignoring game prices going up. Sony are not innocent with the MT concept either. GT7 was sold at full price and also had some of the worst MTs this current gen. TLOU1 also had them. It doesn't matter who does MTs because it's not the same thing. Games on GP also have MTs yet the games are technically free on the service.

As an industry, we need everyone from all sides not accepting the PR excuses from these corporate giants, they claim to justify any form of price hike. Not when they continue to earn billions off your services already. This isn't the PS3 and 360 era where the consoles were costing them billions, its completely opposite this gen and last gen.