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"Mario 64 was 60 dollars in 1995 meaning that it would be about 100 dollars today"

Pay has NOT kept up with inflation. People are poorer.

Folk need to stop pretending like people have as much money as they did in the 90s. Rent costs, house prices are astronomical.

Xbox's business is still impacted today by outpricing people with their initial Xbox One reveal pricing a decade ago.

Nintendo Treehouse comments are absolutely packed with people complaining about prices.

Again, I'm vastly aware that game budgets, inflation etc have increased!

but Pay has NOT increased accordingly. I don't know the solution, but that's the reality.

And I make these points as someone who is lucky enough to earn well enough to just buy them regardless. Most aren't as fortunate.

Game bubbles regularly disregard the poor, unfortunately, as the industry has an above-average number of middle-class background workers.

Price increases combined with physical knock effectively prices the poor out of legally gaming (Buying directly from them/the digital store)

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[–] Future_Honkey@hexbear.net 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah. How come all these guys come out of the woodwork defending company's "right" to keep up with inflation (games 60=>90) but get real fuggen quiet when ya point out those same companies don't raise pay and collude with other companies and the govt to suppress wage increases?

It's such a stupid argument on it's face i can only imagine it comes from people who i-love-not-thinking