SvennoJ said:
CaptainExplosion said:
All else I can say on the matter is wages need to be raised to combat inflation, and I wouldn't be surprised if much of today's inflation is Russia's fault. Nothing good has come out of Russia since the release of Tetris. |
Remember Covid, that's where the accelerated inflation came from. Mostly from Trump's completely botched response to a global pandemic, but it would have happened regardless. (just not as bad if handled better)
For inflation in electronics you can blame Bitcoin mining for that next to streaming. Supply hasn't been able to keep up with much faster growing demand for bandwidth and data centers.
Russia plays a role as well, but quite a minor one on the world stage. Nothing compared to Trump attacking the whole world economy or Biden blindly backing Israel leading to "By June 2024, Suez transits of dry bulk cargo ships were down nearly 80 percent on a year-to-year basis as operators rerouted grain and ore shipments to avoid the Red Sea stress zone."
But true, nothing good since Tetris I can get behind. Andrei Tarkovsky made great movies, actually his last one came out the year he died, 1986, 2 years after Tetris ;) However without Russia the space station would have been in trouble. At least in space countries can still cooperate.
https://www.reuters.com/science/spacecraft-carrying-russians-american-takes-off-baikonur-cosmodrome-2025-04-08/
Anyway inflation is a tool of the mega rich, keep those pesky wage costs down giving smaller pay raises than price hikes due to inflation. Trump and his Billionaire friends are doing it right out in the open, tarifs aka taxes on buying products while reducing taxes for billionaires, corporations, increasing work hours for minors, getting rid of social assistance etc.
Value of a game is to me how it makes me feel. A short game like Journey is more valuable to me than 100 hours of Ass Creed Tasks. Hence I bought the digital, new physical edition and sound track, while getting Ass Creed games from the bargain bin.
And the scope / variety, I didn't hesitate at all to buy the deluxe FS2020 edition at release, CAD 150 at the time. Same with GT7, got the digital version for convenience and steelbook physical edition.
Yet when I pay $10 for a digital game that sucks it still feels like a rip off. |
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