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people are right to be upset their hobby is pricing them out. (hexbear.net)
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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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[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly I think it should be proportional or a tiered system based on sold copies not revenue e.g tiers based on 100k/250k/500k/1mil/5mil+ sales would be fair. The vast incredible majority of indie devs don't sell more than 100k copies. 1mil copies is already a decent studio and anything more than 5mil is a major AAA title and fuck them.

I do think its ok for Steam to get a large cut from these AAA devs, keeping in mind Steam has pretty much taken over as "official" social platforms for many games with only Reddit and Discord being viable but not always reliable platforms.

Second point is the Steam workshop does provide real value and once again its something not just AAA devs but almost everyone have become dependent on. Of course there is Nexus which is still a heavy weight in old communities e.g Bethesda/TES but these tend to be outliers. Most importantly though, even if the user would prefer third party mods the fact is Steam workshop integration is very simple and reliable.