People don't like hearing it, but it's actually true, and I have the numbers (and personal experience) to back it up.

Think about what you consider the best the game industry ever was. You're probably thinking somewhere between the SNES/Genesis era and the PS2/Gamecube era, right? Games were way, way more expensive back then. A high profile PS2 game was $50 new back in the early 2000s. Adjusted for inflation, that's $80.

"But what about DLC and microtransactions!" you argue. Oh, you mean like expansion packs? Warcraft 3 was sixty dollars in 2002, which is a hundred bucks today. Add in TFT and you're looking at nearly 200 dollars. Were you complaining about that? Why was Warcraft 3 totally worth it when today the exact same thing is a cynical, corporate cash grab?

How about Street Fighter 2? That game had three different versions on the SNES alone, and they were no different from DLC today. Street Fighter 2 was a hundred fifty dollars in today's money, and that's just the first version which had a whopping eight characters. If they released a fighting game with eight characters for $150 today you'd be rioting in the streets.

Most of you are going to get mad about it, but you know I'm right. The only reason you remember games as being a "better value" is because your mom used to buy them for you. Unless you were an adult in the early 2000s, you don't get an opinion on whether or not games are too expensive nowadays, because they objectively are not.

EDIT: Gonna get this out of the way before anyone has the chance to even bring it up. No, I'm not saying Calla Duty 41: War of Wars is worth $100. But I am saying that modern masterpieces like Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild, Doom Eternal, etc. are. I was willing to pay a hundred bucks for a fantastic game back then, and I still am.

Let's put it this way: Why was the content of Final Fantasy 6 - the actual game itself - worth $150 dollars, but Final Fantasy 15 is only worth $60 despite having a hundred times the complexity and content?

People don't like hearing it, but it's actually true, and I have the numbers (and personal experience) to back it up.

Think about what you consider the best the game industry ever was. You're probably thinking somewhere between the SNES/Genesis era and the PS2/Gamecube era, right? Games were way, way more expensive back then. A high profile PS2 game was $50 new back in the early 2000s. Adjusted for inflation, that's $80.

"But what about DLC and microtransactions!" you argue. Oh, you mean like expansion packs? Warcraft 3 was sixty dollars in 2002, which is a hundred bucks today. Add in TFT and you're looking at nearly 200 dollars. Were you complaining about that? Why was Warcraft 3 totally worth it when today the exact same thing is a cynical, corporate cash grab?

How about Street Fighter 2? That game had three different versions on the SNES alone, and they were no different from DLC today. Street Fighter 2 was a hundred fifty dollars in today's money, and that's just the first version which had a whopping eight characters. If they released a fighting game with eight characters for $150 today you'd be rioting in the streets.

Most of you are going to get mad about it, but you know I'm right. The only reason you remember games as being a "better value" is because your mom used to buy them for you. Unless you were an adult in the early 2000s, you don't get an opinion on whether or not games are too expensive nowadays, because they objectively are not.

EDIT: Gonna get this out of the way before anyone has the chance to even bring it up. No, I'm not saying Calla Duty 41: War of Wars is worth $100. But I am saying that modern masterpieces like Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild, Doom Eternal, etc. are. I was willing to pay a hundred bucks for a fantastic game back then, and I still am. It would be massively entitled of me to say that Chrono Trigger was worth $150 but a modern RPG with nearly photorealistic graphics and a massive open world full of things to do and complex battle mechanics is only worth $60. Insultingly so, really.

People don't like hearing it, but it's actually true, and I have the numbers (and personal experience) to back it up.

Think about what you consider the best the game industry ever was. You're probably thinking somewhere between the SNES/Genesis era and the PS2/Gamecube era, right? Games were way, way more expensive back then. A high profile PS2 game was $50 new back in the early 2000s. Adjusted for inflation, that's $80.

"But what about DLC and microtransactions!" you argue. Oh, you mean like expansion packs? Warcraft 3 was sixty dollars in 2002, which is a hundred bucks today. Add in TFT and you're looking at nearly 200 dollars. Were you complaining about that? Why was Warcraft 3 totally worth it when today the exact same thing is a cynical, corporate cash grab?

How about Street Fighter 2? That game had three different versions on the SNES alone, and they were no different from DLC today. Street Fighter 2 was a hundred fifty dollars in today's money, and that's just the first version which had a whopping eight characters. If they released a fighting game with eight characters for $150 today you'd be rioting in the streets.

Most of you are going to get mad about it, but you know I'm right. The only reason you remember games as being a "better value" is because your mom used to buy them for you. Unless you were an adult in the early 2000s, you don't get an opinion on whether or not games are too expensive nowadays, because they objectively are not.