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SvennoJ said:

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.


Thats absolutely nonsense. Not all MTs are the same. Some MTs actually release after the game was launched and some $60 games also offer a wealth of content while also offering MTs. Yes, you have games that offer bad MTs like where they purposely extend grinds or actually remove content from the games. However you are just generalizing the MT system.

I'll give you a perfect exactly. I've played WoW since 2005. Over the years Blizzard added some MTs like Store Mounts and Pets, stuff that wouldn't exist 15 years ago. They cost as much as the $10 price tag that current games are raised to, and id argue that WoW has more content than any game you can point out that cost $70 today. No game this gen has justified the extra $10. Nothing we haven't seen last gen or even the gen before that, so far. 

Also the PS3 and 360 was billions on hardware and they couldn't recoup that, Xbox might have, with its Subscription service, but no figures are out and we can only do our own maths on it.

PS5 and XSX are not systems in the same situation. This inflation crap is nothing Sony, Nintendo and Xbox cannot just eat up, as they are making more money than they ever have with Subs, software and overall sales. They are just making excuses to justify the price hike. They are multi-billion dollar profitable companies. They just want to please their share holder pockets and making you pay more for literally nothing extra.