I'm not sure if this is a minority opinion, but I'm happy to pay $70+ for AAA games. I'm currently playing through Last of Us II on PS4 and will have gotten 20+

I'm not sure if this is a minority opinion, but I'm happy to pay $70+ for AAA games. I'm currently playing through Last of Us II on PS4 and will have gotten 20+ hours entertainment from it, not to mention that it's just an incredible piece of art. Alongside that, during the last 3 months of Covid lockdown I've played countless hours of Call of Duty with my friends. $70 isn't that much of an investment for so much entertainment. Of course the real question is whether or not you'll have to pay-to-play alongside your initial $70 investment. I'd rather pay more initially to have this trend disappear (which is unlikely). I'd be interested to hear from people with more knowledge of the industry. As someone who only returned to video games "recently" (in the last 2 years) I've been astonished at the quality now on offer, but also shocked at the revenues of some of the companies are making, in particular revenue related to in-game purchasing (if I remember correctly, Activision are making ~1.8B revenue per quarter for example, the majority of which is from susbscriptions[1]). [1] https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-strong-first-quarter-2020 https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...