Old games meant the price covered everything you ever got, so the products needed to be far more robust than the complete shitshows many companies throw out now. Paradox released a new DLC about a month ago and so far are up to patch 17 of the new update fixing things and there's still so much shit that either doesn't work properly because it's broken, or simply hasn't been updated to work with the new 4.0 revamp of the game. There are multiple threads on the PDX forum and Reddit sub about these things and all it does it paint a picture of an extremely substandard product shipped way too fucking early yet still full priced.
Luckily for many the new DLCs get cracked fast so at least they don't have to pay for their whole game to repeatedly break over the first few weeks and months of a new update.
I don't disagree with this, and moreover, I would argue that substandard product is still the same evidence of the effects of inflation. The only way around the effects of inflation is to have the largest corporations built the cheapest possible product at the largest possible scale.
Fundamentally, I still think these companies need to lower the size of the product (shrinkflation), but I don't think that's a problem because of the bloat that is already in games.
Old games meant the price covered everything you ever got, so the products needed to be far more robust than the complete shitshows many companies throw out now. Paradox released a new DLC about a month ago and so far are up to patch 17 of the new update fixing things and there's still so much shit that either doesn't work properly because it's broken, or simply hasn't been updated to work with the new 4.0 revamp of the game. There are multiple threads on the PDX forum and Reddit sub about these things and all it does it paint a picture of an extremely substandard product shipped way too fucking early yet still full priced.
Luckily for many the new DLCs get cracked fast so at least they don't have to pay for their whole game to repeatedly break over the first few weeks and months of a new update.
I don't disagree with this, and moreover, I would argue that substandard product is still the same evidence of the effects of inflation. The only way around the effects of inflation is to have the largest corporations built the cheapest possible product at the largest possible scale.
Fundamentally, I still think these companies need to lower the size of the product (shrinkflation), but I don't think that's a problem because of the bloat that is already in games.