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Azzanation said:

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.

That's some nice mental gymnastics. MTs give you extra content, err no. MTs hold back content which you can re-enable by paying up small amounts of money or to skip the grind. How do you know you get nothing in return for the higher game price. It's not a luxury tax, it goes straight into the budget for the game, allowing a bigger more polished game than one that costs less. The difference between a 20, 40 and 60 dollar game is obvious, the difference between 60 and 70 is smaller but not nothing...

The PS3 and 360 era didn't cost them billions because of exchange rates and inflation. The PS3 was very expensive to produce because of adding blu-ray which had a big shortage in blue laser diodes at the time. Standalone blu-ray players cost over $1000 when the PS3 launched! The 360 lost billions because of RROD, pushing a faulty console out the door.

Today we're dealing with increasing hardware price, a situation that hasn't happened on this scale before. A perfect storm of diminishing returns, global pandemic, and further destabilizing markets from Russia's war mongering.

Anyway vote with your wallet, don't buy a new GPU. Stick with game pass, ignore Season passes, DLC and MTX. It's all overpriced compared to what we had 2 generations ago.