> Keeping up with inflation > AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years Be warned, the author/presenter of the following linked video is quite a

> Keeping up with inflation > AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years Be warned, the author/presenter of the following linked video is quite a character, but they do actually make sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7kaK2-725w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7kaK2-725w (2020) deals with those BS excuse as the very same trotted out for years, debunked even by quotes from top gaming execs, the corporate financial filings and exposees on the industry. - $60 has for years just been the shell price with predatory monetization practices raking in more money than ever - the same excuses have been used a few years ago to justify cramming "micro"-transactions down the collective throat of customers, nickel and diming them for the complete experience after having already paid for the shell price; now it's still being said that games' prices haven't increased in decades, while only the entry prices on the box haven't changed - the audience size has only gotten larger - distribution has largely gone digital, saving costs of physical distribution - wages have been stagnant while inflation rose, even some employees of these very same games companies aren't making enough to eat in that very same company's cafeteria - tax evasion by the games companies through pretending their IP is registered in empty offices/basements the world over means they gift themselves hundreds of millions of you US taxpayers money every year.