Cost (Gaming)

by squidnh3, Monday, April 14, 2025, 11:18 (1 day, 7 hours, 13 min. ago) @ Coaxkez

Perhaps I'm out of touch, but it seems absolutely crazy to me that $40 is now considered a premium price for a game like this. When you compare that price point to the price of other goods these days, that's pretty damn cheap for what you are (probably) getting.

Maybe it's the concept of games as services that has changed this? In general, I think people are decent at properly assessing the value of a good, but tend to underestimate the cost of services. Reframing these games as services has gained the developers some things, but it seems to have come at a cost of people expecting high value for almost nothing.