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Azzanation said:
SvennoJ said:

You're defending MTs with a subscription based MMORPG ??? Charge $15 a month and then still charge more for a 'pet' ?
Playing WoW from 2005 would have cost you $2,710 dollars by now, initial game plus 6 month subscription plan since 2005.

Keep on believing you're getting nothing extra. Either you get less, or you pay more. No matter how much you would like companies to just eat up inflation, they won't. Either budgets get adjusted down, or revenue needs to be raised back to where it was somehow.

As I already showed before, Sony isn't making more money than ever, revenue declined. Inflation adjusted revenue is shrinking even more.

MS is up, but also short of inflation atm

Revenues up 6% to $3.74bn in Xbox's best non-holiday quarter to date
Content and services, including Xbox Game Pass, grew 4% to £3.02 billion, but fell short of expectations

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/revenues-up-6-percent-to-usd3-74bn-in-xboxs-best-non-holiday-quarter-to-date

Definitely not enough to cover a 70 billion dollar acquisition!

WoW being a subscription-based game is a separate issue altogether.

The point here is that not all MTs are bad. Example: Plenty of game have seasonal MTs, such as Halloween or Xmas items, stuff that wouldn't have been created at launch. We also have charity MTs where all profits go to a charity etc.

Just because a game has MTs does not justify a game that has zero MTs to raise its prices by $10. What game have you played this gen that justifies the $10 increase compared to any game you have played in the past?

These companies aren't going bankrupt and not profiting, they are still profiting, just not as much as last gen... yet. That extra $10 on games is nothing more than you filling greedy suit pockets. Same can be said for Sony increasing Hardware prices. They want you to pay off Sony's investment of Bungie quicker even though they can clearly afford it. This is how the Rich continue to get Richer and the Poor just accept whatever excuses they make.

Oh that's easy. Horizon FW, worth more than $70 imo. Absolutely amazing production values, quality from start to finish. It did have issues with the 60 fps mode but they did rewrite their upscaling methods and fixed it in the end. Story, characters, world building, all perfection for the 100+ hours I played it.

Ratchet and Clank was also more than worth the admission price, not a single glitch encountered. Polished to perfection.

Both games a big step up from their previous gen outings.

GT7 however, a lazy cash grab that continues to be a disappointment. It looks great though. It's still better than Halo Infinite, but not by much. PD and 343 really need to be held to account at this point. FS2020 can be thrown on that pile as well at this point. Sure they add a lot of content all the time, but refuse to fix the basics and actually make it a worthy flight sim.

The rich continue to get richer by allowing giant mergers stifling competition. Not by adjusting prices to reflect the reality of exchange rates and inflation. Comparing Sony's 3.6 billion acquisition of Bungie to 69 Billion acquisition of an entire segment of the industry, lol.