It’s not hard to understand. The mobile app stores trained people to expect sub $1 prices for everything. Games that were priced fairly did not sell well. They

It’s not hard to understand. The mobile app stores trained people to expect sub $1 prices for everything. Games that were priced fairly did not sell well. They still don’t. The five (or fifty) people on HN who insist they’d pay full price for a game with no loot box mechanics do not a sustainable market make. Unfortunately the loot box mechanic is so lucrative that all you have left in the market is unscrupulous companies. It’s a natural consequence of gamers insisting that the content they love to consume cannot possibly cost what it does and the industry must be full of exploitative sharks. Funnily enough, 15 years of this has not resulted in good games getting cheaper but rather good developers leaving the industry. Who could have seen that coming?