>$70 DOLLAR GAMES IS TOO MU-
Never pay more than 20 dollars for computer games.
>>738272405>$70 dollars on NYC are the same as $70 on ArkansasThis is why people want to boil alive communist, jump from that tranny bridge
That's cool, not paying it.
>>738272405I don't care how much it costs back then, I care how much it costs today>b4 retard
Why isn't my pay inflated?
>>738272405so your salary increased 50% too, right?
>>738272405AAA games today should cost 40$, tip and tax included
>>738272748>>738272801That's antisymmetric
>>738272405Video games are making more money than they ever have in the past. How can you argue they need to increase in price?
>>738272405Good thing wages have also increased. Oh, wait a minute...
>>738272405Does an item that costs x% of my salary in 2010 still costs x% of my salary in 2026?
Back in the golden age I'd just wait for the greatest hits release. Shit was like $15 for top tier vidya. I'd never pay more than $40 for a digital release, not that they really make anything worth buying anymore anyways
>>738272405The quality of games has decreased substantially. I'd value most games at around $10 (2026)
>CPIIt's actually worse than that lol.
>>738272405And we get paid less.
>>738272405The market is twice as big and making a single copy of a game costs the same as making a billion
>>738272748>>738272801Stop noticing.
>>738272624>I is real English man saar!God damn, you didn't even try.
>implying Shlomo will get even $60 out of me of meFOMO immunity is invaluable in the 21st century.See you on xmas sales
>>738272748>>738272801Not the game dev's problem.
>>738272748Because chinks caught up in quality while still working at slave prices. You can do the hecking protectionism only to a point at which point your economy starts to tank. See: orange man's tariff retardation.
The REAL inflation rate is so much worse, especially accounting for shrinkflation and shitflationCapitalism is doomed, they eventually won't be able to squeeze "consumers" anymore, and can't possibly shrink the product or make it any shittierJeff Bezos makes 8 million dollars an hour even while he's sleeping, that money comes from other people working and generating value that is instead going to shareholders, creditors, and fee collectors which produce no real world value.
>>738272405Yes
>>738272405>If you look at this one thing and ignore everything else, I have a point!Where's the change in market size? Or how about the average manufacturing cost of retail games in the increasingly digital era? Coward.
I already pay for my internet I'm not gonna pay to copy paste files around. Yes I would download a car.
>>738272405>we should pay the most profitable entertainment industry more money because the dollar got weaker!!!!they will be fine without raising their prices
inflation shouldnt exist
>>738275746Oy vey! That's antisemitic!
>>738272405and in the meantime they went digital yet never lowered the price due to that, so cry me a river
>>738273837it is when people decide to not pay $70 for his game and his employer loses out on revenue
>What is buying power?
>>738272405don't be retarded.everything else is seeing double digit inflation (at minimum), other than wages.due to a huge influx of brown garbage from god knows where in south america; housing, health care, etc make at least a little sense regarding price hikes -- but software has no such constraints regarding real world inputs. it's pure cunty faggot price gouging.if you're getting squeezed horrendously on all sides; yeah the publisher arbitrarily cunting the price of video games just because they can get away with it is mildly infuriating.
>>738272405now compare quality of Starcraft 2 Terraria Civ5 and shitfuckery of today
>>738272405Maybe if they still came with an actual manual, hell some games don't even have physical releases.
>>738272405>Inflation calculatorThe problem is you don't know how these things work. There is absolutely no simple and realistic method to genuinely gauge what sort of inflation happened in-general-for-everyone-everywhere.This whole argument is absurd nonsense pushed by people who failed economy class on people who never even took it.
>>738275972Starcraft 2 and Civ5 were considered much worse than their predecessors at launch. While Civ5 got partially salvaged by expansions SC2 only got worse. Dividing SC2 into three was fucking retarded to begin with but I digress.
>>738272748I've reported your hate speech to the ADL and SPLC
>>738273837The game devs aren't being paid more to adjust with inflation either, so where does the increase in value come from?
>>738272624>communism is when capitalism
>ignores cost of living>ignores stagnating wages since the 1970'sYep we're in /v/ alright.
>>738272502
>>738272405Hey, remember when governments all over the world started printing a shit ton of money during covid, but there economists pinky promised it wouldn't cause inflation? Haha, those rascals!Hehehe!
>>738276392cool it with the antisemitism please.
>>738276129They didnt you just wanted to listen to only puristCiv 4 niggs were hated by civ3 niggers that were hated by civ2 nigger that were hated by colonization 1994 niggers that were hated by civ niggersList is shorter for sc2 and main issues were "deathball" and "f2"From technical standpoint sc2 is spaceshuttle compared to wheel and to this day unmatched RTS game no matter the fanboyism about AoE or whatever you personaly like
>>738272405The games didnt remain constant in quality though, they got much worse
>>738276449>They didnt you just wanted to listen to only puristI don't have any nostalgia for any entry but Civ 4 is still better than 5 and SC2 isn't even in the top 5 RTS games in terms of gameplay. It gets hardcarried by gooks that have nothing better to do, but even there BW esports is kept alive by the fact that SC2 never matched it.
>>738272405NEVER PAY MORE THAN 20 BUCKS FOR A COMPUTER GAME
>>738276449>gaming has declined so much that garbage like Civ 5 and SC2 are considered masterpieces by zoomers
>everyone in this thread is an expert economistquit pretending like you all know what youre talking about RETARDS
>>738272748oy vey
>>738276758the anon's in this thread would probably do better at not crashing the economy every ~20 odd years like the 'experts' though.
>>738273904>Because chinks caught up in quality
>>738276875Don't worry you'll forget my post to protect your ego the instant your eyes skim across chinkheld general #3523426. Also it helped alot that the west flushed their own quality control down the toilet to compete with chinks.
>>738276619>SC2 isn't even in the top 5 RTS games in terms of gameplaynigga sc2 have 400k monthly playersAoE4 has 9kThe fact you dont see sc2 on opinionated best of lists is because it hold entire RTS genre in stranglehold since 2010Its that much of a technical monster, there isnt a game that can come close to pathing system if we ignore everything else in discussion
>>738272405Haven't they been justifying the deluge of DLC and microtransactions on the price not changing? And the quantity of those haven't changed at all after the price hike?
>>738276742Lets all sit down and listen to the boomer talk about fucking Heroes of Might and Magic 3 AGAIN
>>738272405that's actually not as much inflation as every other good, the mcdonalds dollar menu is 115% more expensive than it was 8 years ago
>>738277291Your skull is filled with liquid shit if you think popularity and player numbers equal quality. For the record AoE4 is shit too. There is nothing else to discuss. I'll continue to be in the wrong for playing Doom 2 wads when I could be playing Call of Duty Warzone, the best FPS ever made or whatever the fuck has the highest amount of flies around it at this instant.
stfu, videogames have never been more profitable and now they are cheaper than ever to distribute. We can have games that are good or even better than the ones we have right now without the sweat droplet on my characters balls having 12,000 polygons instead of 60.Doesn't help that gaming studios spend a shit ton on marketing (money laundering) point is that triple A games should be $40 max.
>>738277551>Your skull is filled with liquid shit if you think popularity and player numbers equal qualityOfc it is especially if you are comparing x40 times the player base 16 year old game to modern RTS that wanted to take the throne.I get the slop of FPS games today and doom2 is good for what it is, but in RTS genre, there is only SC2, then void, then whatever RTS game you like
>>738272405I've yet to ever see a convincing reason why inflation isn't literally a made up kike scheme to make the general populace more uneasy and more willing to accept usury.>but actually inflation is real, it just describes the cost of goods risingOk, still made up kike shit.
>>738278483>but actually inflation is real, it just describes the cost of goods risingalternatively, it describes the value of the dollar falling... IE that gold bar isn't 'more valuable' today than it was in 1970. it's the same gold bar, with roughly equal utility -- it's just being compared to paper that's increasingly turning into monopoly money.
>>738278483>>738278867(So yes, made up talmudic tricks)
>>738272405-ch. Faggot got your tongue or something?
>>738277543>AND I WISH IT WAS WEDNESDAY SO I CAN GET A CHEESEBURGER FOR49 centsAT MCDONALD'S! BABY!
>>738272405Except modern games aren't even close to being worth $60, regardless of what year it is.
>>738277543UM WE HAVE EXCLUDED THE VOLATILE CATEGORIES OF FOOD AND ENERGY FOR SOME TIME NOW ANON.
>>738277004Would average western manchild even afford any luxury product if it wasn't for slave labor? Think about it for a second.
The games suck though. If they were absolute can't miss masterpieces, I don't think anyone would be too miffed by the prices. They're shoveling out soulless garbage and then having the gall to charge more for it.
>>738276094why is college tuition excluded from that chart
>>738276243There is no increase in value. There is a decrease in the value of the dollar.
>>738272405Gee, I wonder why the economy is so fucked right now...
Why does inflation boggles people's minds? If you keep 60 dollars under your mattress in 2010 the amount of goods you can purchase with it by 2026 has decreased because people value the dollar less, thus you require more of them to buy the same thing. People value the dollar less because there is more of them in circulation, and potentially how desirable they are to other countries on the world stage due to geopolitical stuff (this is mostly irrelevant right now if you're american because you still have the more desirable currency)
Doesn't matter. $70 games don't sell and a product is worth what people are willing to pay for it. It's going to rule when GTA VI is $80 and the EAs and Ubisofts of the world launch their next quadruple A slop no one gives a fuck about at the same price. You haven't begun to see how hard a game can flop yet.
>>738272405>infinite supply of digital product means price should trend to 0>massive competition because tons of indie devs and studios are also making and releasing games now compared to then so even just considering alternatives prices should lower>prices are just set on vibes and feelings to pay devs>people not buying $60+ games cause AAA often makes trash that maybe is pretty but not optimized and not fun>plenty of <$30 games way more fun and interestingYou have to make a good game and you have to advertise it. There is a lot of competiton out there. Many want to follow their dreams and gamedev but not everyone has what it takes.Theres also the many many multiplayer games so online playerbases are dwindling across the board as players spread out and lose interest over time. To the point where some multiplayer games that are good are just temporary experiences for a few months after launch.
>>738272748/thread
>>738280614Many people cannot and will not comprehend it even if you explain it to them. If I own 1/3 of all goods in the economy and you double the money supply and hand the new notes to your banker friend, I need to at least double the price of things I sell for me to continue owning 1/3 of the real wealth, proportionally. But somehow no one really gets it, so everyone gets swindled including our bosses who feel like they cant raise prices or they cant compete with the other people who are too dumb to raise prices. And yet then for some reason, big smart corporations like mcdonalds raise prices.
>>738272405Inflation is a shit fetish shut the fuck up
>>738272405OH MY GOLLY SAAR TINK OF DE 600 INDIANS DAT MAKE DIS UE5 GAME
>>738272801I saw signs at the local supermarket saying they were hiring at $17 per hour. It used to be state minimum wage ($7.50) back in 2010.
>>738272624>the great depression was caused by communists
>>738272405>cost go up because... IT JUST DOES OKAY???
>>738272748ima reporting u 2 hr
>>738273837It actually is since entertainment is an industry people only engage in when everything else is stable. You can't charge $10 for the circus when your audience are paying $20 for dinner.
>>738272748Americans have brain damage and keep voting for Republicans despite them presiding over the last 10 market crashes in a row
>>738272669only the supply side gets to influence prices or it's economic terrorism
>>738272405All money digitalized in the vaults of Jew's casuing inflation shouldn't be considered real anyways, it just exists to devalue the work of actual humans
>>738272405And how much has the average wage gone up in that same time? That's what I thought, fuck off bootlicker
>>738272405>inflationAny actual arguments OP orrrrrrr.....?
>>738287042Ah yes please flood my country with so many browns, that's surely worth the extra cash Ill have in my pocket when I am surrounded by favelas one day, thank you democrats!
>>738287936The brownification of America is a bipartisan effort. Keep voting though, I'm sure it does something.
>>738288119Okay let's say I agree with you, what if I find fags/trannies to be repulsive?
>>738272748found the racist
>>738288156Then I'll refrain from offering to suck your cock.
>>738288287erm...
>>738272405>2000>hardcover book costs $20-30>2026>hardcover book costs $20-30DAMN YOU INFLATIOOOOOOON
>>738272405Fuck off
>>738272748oy vey!
>>738272405And what was the buying power back then?
>>738289201Hell, TVs are cheaper than they were.>b-but multi-million budgets with advertising and actors-Not my problem.
>>738272405That's neat and all, but wages haven't really risen to match inflation, negating your point. Nobody has "more money" to buy inflated prices, especially on luxury goods like video games.
>>738272405You corporate bootlickers are the worst niggers in existence
>>738272502FPBP
>>738289685They are paid shills. Why do you think there's so many people on here saying you never owned that game you bought 50 years ago and can still play? An ordinary person wouldn't be saying that crap.
>>738272694>The best gif of all fucking time
>>738288156Then you're a victim of culture war brainwashing and actively vote against your own interests and social class in a misguided attempt to hurt people you hate rather than help people you lovecongrats on being a gullible rube though
>>738272405Sorry I still won’t pay 60 bucks for a video game
>i wont even buy their games at 60>they somehow believe i'll buy them at 70/80/90 like a snoy or tendie
>>738280579in the next life, futa will be real.
>>738280909>$70 games don't sell and a product is worth what people are willing to payExactly... GTA can get away with a higher price point but it's the exception. There are just too many games and not enough time or buyers. There is little point to buy anything on release at full price
>>738288119>The brownification of America is a bipartisan effort.Trump has objectively reduced immigration. This isn't up for debate.>but some of it is still happening!Yeah well more of it would be happening if blue team won, and they would pretend it's a good thing.
>>738287042>>>/pol/
If you guys still had the gold standard, prices (and salaries) would be going down over time because there's only so much gold. Sounds good right? But then you'd have the problem where breaking even for any company would be a nightmare: first, you pay expenses at a high price, but then by the time you sell your product the prices have gone down. Literally buy high sell low. So companies would shut down, then there'd be a price spike due to lack of product, then you'd get a brief period of new companies churning out lots of stuff, then they shut down again... Economists know what they're doing.
>>738280579well that was weird..
>>738272748you work a shit job
>>738273732The real culprit is the soviet union collapsing so leaders could just actively hate their population again without fear of a soviet communist meddling. Bill Clinton getting rid of the already picked apart glass steagal was a big reason the housing crisis happened. Banks weren't even supposed to be multi investing and gambling in the first place.
Technology gets cheaper over time, as production processes get more efficient and new inventions drive down the price thanks to competition.These inventions in gaming are things like better, easier to use programming languages and engines, as well as AI coding tools.Add to this an expanding audience, and games really should be getting cheaper.
>>738273732Inflation at that level is good.The problem is letting the billionaires hoard all the profits from improved productivity.
>>738276875you're either the most ignorant white trailer trash, or a jeet
>>738272624good morning saar
>>738272405Two ways to look at this:1. 70 dollars is too much because it was ALWAYS too much, especially for a digital-only product2. 70 dollars is especially too much now that the cost of living has gone up and people can't affort to spend on entertainment so readilyEven if people can affort it, it doesn't mean it isn't too muchbonus:devs are now using more and more AI, reducing the actual effort required to make the game,some companies spend more money on advertising than they do on developer paychecks
>>738272405Oy vey!
>>738272748averages out with those dudes whose pay inflated by 10000%
>thread chock full of 50k/yr Andys throatsucking billionaires The jew propaganda has worked tremendously on you all. Amazing job
>>738287936Isn’t Trump no longer deporting illegals that work on farms and hotels and importing indians by the thousands?
>>738272405Their market is much broader now and everything is digital so I don't own the games, and they're constantly nickle and diming the player with DLC and microtransaction shitThey don't need to raise the price.
>>738272405>im retarded & fell for jew magic thusly so should you >nevermind manufacturing cartridges & doing work in the 80s & 90s was more expensive>also ignore the fact that your money only inflated if you put it in certain Jewish owned institutions >the dollar bill that is still a dollar in 1986 totally doesn't still equal a dollar but in terms of actual exchange it doesHere's your (op) reddit fag
what if we capped inflation of salaries?
>>738273837>Not the game dev's problem.It is if I won't buy their overpriced slop lmao
>>738294549Pretty sure they just rig the system so you have to buy it
>>738294532>>nevermind manufacturing cartridges & doing work in the 80s & 90s was more expensiveSteam taking a 30% cut is pretty expensiveOP is still a faggot though
>>738272624>>$70 dollars on NYC are the same as $70 on ArkansasBasically, the cost of living in NYC is significantly higher.
>>738272748>Why isn't my pay inflated?You don't get a inflation adjustment? Most companies do at least that.
>>738272405I just wait until games are less than $30 and I am financially comfortable. You don't NEED to play games at launch.
>>738272405shut the fuck upi'm so tired of this midwit retard argument where you pretend inflation is all that exist in a vacuum and ignore currency devaluationit does not matter how much it used to cost you fucking clownit matters HOW MANY HOURS YOU HAVE TO WORK TO GET ITyou are getting fucked by currency devaluation into infinity, you are ALREADY PAYING MORE PROPORTIONALLYany excuse to raise prices under the guise of "nooo but see you're paying less than you used to" and pretending you aren't already paying more than ever should get you 10 lashes every single time
>>738294591>Pretty sure they just rig the system so you have to buy itHow exactly are they going to force me to buy their overpriced slop?
>>738294657
>>738272748If you are unable to negotiate better pay then that is entirely your own fault.
>>738272405Inflation calculators are the most depressing shit of all time, the jew is taxing us without most of us even realizing, I can deal with being a lonely chudcel but this level of wage garnishing is downright satanic, how the fuck our currency lost half its value in only 15 years.Abolishing the Fed and going back to the gold standard should be priority number one, another 30 years of this and the USA will be a big favela.
>>738294592Most large devs are exempt from that 30% btw
>>738272405Great, but here's thing: basic essentials to keep alive keep going up, and my salary has not gone up at all. Games should be going DOWN because they're luxuries.
>>738294857Is there evidence of this?
>>738287042retard, "just vote for the people who want to import infinity 3rd world slave labour to undermine your markets even further, that'll fix everything!"uh, no, literally the entire problem. gonna vote for whoever is gonna deport the most of them
>>738294830>if you can't convince your bosses to pay you 150% the standard wage you're solely to blamemoron
>>738294909Americans only have 2 choices and it's actually just one choice in a different colour tie. Burn it all down and start MMP.
>>738294909Part of the problem, but the fed printing money like crazy is as much of a problem, both issues are about increasing the supply but not the demand, which causes workers and money to lose their value
>>738272624So you suggest they implement regional pricing for the US? How would that work when a retard in NYC could just buy all the stock in Arkansas on amazon?As for online games you'd have to region lock steam accounts to US states which is even dumber
>>738272748Thats very anti-semetic of you to say anon.
>>738294909In practice it's not so simple because the jobs that migrants take (unskilled physical labor, usually) generally do not overlap with the jobs citizens take.
>>738272748I get paid in ESPP stock and over time I realized that's where the majority of my pay inflation actually comes from
>>738291650What is bad about that? You didn't explain how that's bad.
>>738287936didn't they open your shithole to the jeets lmao
>>738295174Midwit argumentCitizens don't take them because you refuse to offer pay and conditions they will consider equivalentIf you cannot pay first world locals to do a job, that job should not exist. It should not get to continue to exist because you found retarded 80iq poors who are used to worse conditions who are happy to accept the shit pay and shit conditions you offer. It's just an eternal race to the fucking bottom when you allow it, and we should punish the people who try to facilitate this so harshly they never think about doing anything wrong again out of fear.
>>738295174This is a fairy tale. Citizens take those jobs. Citizens need to have those jobs available so they are not all funneled into, and fighting for, medium and high skill jobs with increasingly inflated credential requirements.
>>738295275You enter a depression spiral. People consume and invest less because it's better to just hold cash, fewer investments and consumption means fewer jobs, fewer jobs means less money, less money means less consumption, and so on.The way to ensure lots of consumption and investment is to make money a hot potato no one wants to keep.
>>738294284>AIis mind bogglingly expensive after the providers finally put up prices that are profitable for them after capturing enough of the market. Their strategy is getting unskilled vibe coders dependant on access to their shit and then taking in cash from a base of people that by all rights should not be developing anything. The world is becoming more energy hungry and not less, we need to solve this yesterday and yet governments didn't jump on alternatives in time or straight up went backwards on nuclear.
>>738287042OBSESSED
>>738292223Winnie the pooh
>>738287042democrats hate communists more than nazis lol shut the fuck up
Since we're talking about it are there any good games where I can purposely fuck up economic systems and watch the falloutI used to get it from city builders but I'd like new experiences
>>738295429Why do I need to consume and have a consistent job if what little money I make is always increasing in value. These arguments also always preclude the idea of something other than cash increasing in value faster than currency, you know, the thing productive assets are supposed to do.
>>738272405Yes, modern games are worthless slop
>>738272405Why is goverment into inflation fetish?
How long can this current capitalist system last?When do we pass a threshold of enough proles not being able to afford the increasing price of necessary expenses despite wages never going up to match it?It's just a mathematical inevitability, the non-essential sectors of capitalism are suffering like Doritos and Switch 2 games, because no one NEEDS thoseBut the shareholders who control all necessary expenses are squeezing proles for every drop of juice they have and eventually there's no more juice to squeeze
>>738273732A lot of this inflation was the US printing obscene amounts of money for currency swaps to facilitate foreign investment and dollarization, something that has paid off quite well.
>>738296789This level of wealth inequality was the standard everywhere. At least maybe you could get some peace and quite while toiling for food and praying there was no drought and that nobody important to you got sick. The real tragedy is that we couldn't achieve the future we dreamed of and are going back to the dark ages.
>>7382969061) Averaged out it's estimated medieval peasants worked ~15 hours a week, albeit more sporadic where you may have worked more during e.g. harvest time2) They had so much free time they volunteered to build those churches with architecture far superior to our modern day3) After the Black Death, the living standards of peasants greatly improved and they could afford meat, nice custom tailored clothes, housing, and lots of free time, things modern day wageslaves can't4) Under feudalism you only had to give the lord a small portion of your harvest or similar, and you could reason with them.Under capitalism, you still must pay to legally exist anywhere, as all land is "owned", but the "rent" or "mortgage" you must pay, and the labor required for that, is FAR FAR FAR higher relatively speaking than under feudalism in most cases5) There has never in the history of all of humanity been such bad wealth inequality as now, the top 1% own more wealth than bottom 95% of humanity combined
>>738294909making taxpayers pay billions for floundering in iran sure isnt helping
>>738272405Have the wages gone up?
>>738272748
>>738272502Forever.
>>738272405Ah yes, Inflation
>>738272405don't give a shit mr shekelstein
>>738297179This doesn't make up for the fact peasants were playing PvE constantly and all kinds of shit could fuck them up, including the black plague you love so much. People are depressed now because we have too much entertainment frying our brains. The kind of work people are doing in the developed world has a cognitive load that makes it stressful, there are a lot of things you have to balance in your daily life, and it's a complete apples to oranges comparison of the trouble people had to deal with back then. The decline of he west and inequality in our own countries is bad because it's going to make us like India or Africa, we couldn't preserve the wealth and standard of living of the boomer generation of the near past. Medieval serfs absolutely lived harder lives than niggers on food stamps with iphones and cookouts.
>>738280579I wish women were real
>>738297179>communists will tell you with a straight face that the era known as the fucking dark ages was actually good
>>738290968It already is in this one.
>>738272405(((inflation)))kill yourself
>>738272502While I agree with the sentiment, it was originally a joke at the player's expense because Monkey Island was a $60 game
>>738290263>voting to replace my neighbors with somalis will help my neighbors, actually
>>738289501TVS are also way thinner and unrepairable
>>738303274Were LCDs ever repairable?
>>738272405ch.
>>738272405it was never about the money, games today are just less valuable.
>>738272405I have not bought a 60 dollar game in 2010 and I would not buy a 60 dollar game today.
>>738272748it's called wage theft
>>738272405It depends on how good the game is and how long you can play it for.If it's really great you can charge thousands. Millions even. Whatever.There aren't many or any games that are worth that. Nothing to really be excited for.
>>738272748Very american of youOur wages jumped like 30 to 50% when the covid inflation hit
>>738305525In your dreams maybe.
>>738272405-CH
>>738272405worthless price gouge calculator
>>738272624Shouldn't that be a good thing then? Who the fuck cares about Arkansas if their people's average incomes simply aren't enough to purchase modern entertainment goods at the fair market designated price.
>>738305525Nobody's wages increased by that much in the entirety of the past 30 years.
https://fineleatherjackets.net/monkeyinflation
>>738272405let me check my bank account for a second>it's all bulshit
>>738272405>inflationok Dobson
>>738296789forever because white will never get rid of the jew problem and the migrant are too absorbed by praying shit god and doing crime to even learn about them
>>738298664>what is comparison
>>738287936Flooding your country with immigrants is literally how they built America in the first place.
>>738272405I don't live in the USA, nigger. Your dollar becoming worthless is not my circus.
>>738276320Moneky Island 2 was $65 at release like all LucasArts games. The joke is you already were buttfucked.
>>738287936> surely worth the extra cash Ill have in my pocketkek can i see those pocket ?
>>738274102>and can't possibly shrink the product or make it any shittierIt will be a while before that, I think. New tech keeps going to making things cheaper and shittier.
>>738306751Says who? Do you even know the meaning of that word?
I have my money in a high yield savings account and my interest rate on it has dropped from 5-6% a year to 3-4% a year why
>>738306886Says literally every history book?Says wikipedia?Says most Americans?Did you never wonder why so many Americans have Irish, Italian, Scottish, French and German last names?You're fucking President great-great-great granddad was German School shootings are the only evidence of education in America it seems like
>>738306974The USA was an English colony setup as an extension by Englishmen, the other European diaspora arrived later, often fleeing from war. And only those from European background were allowed entry into the USA after the colonists rebelled. Otherwise the country is clearly a fork of England.>says every history bookWritten by whom?>says wikipediaAh yes, random strangers on the internet.>says every AmericanLol? What every "American" says is usually worthless as they themselves know nothing about the polity they squat on, they are like naive children.
>>738307342Did you spend all of your school year sucking off dudes in PE class or what?How do you know this little about your own country?
>>738305525So you went from 10 cents an hour to 20?
>>738306751>>738306974>>738307393Oh look, it's a retarded foreign faggot trying to equate settlers building a country to brown immigrants coming and taking advantage of welfare in an already industrialized society. Gee, I wonder what the motive is behind this disingenuous "logic"
>>738307629Reals over feelscry about it faggot, at least you have nose sense that the other dumbass who doesn't even know how hundreds of Irish ended up there.
>>738307685more sense* lol how did I even make that typo, trying to beat >>738307342 for biggest retard
>>738307685>hundreds of irish came over so you have to accept millions of somalis nowImpeccable logic
>>738272502>>738272502>>738272502>738272502>>738272502
>>738272502Fippy Bibby>>738272405Kill yourself
>>738272748>she didn't upskill
>>738272801if your salary hasn't increased by 50% in 15 years then you're retarded
>>738273837Maybe they should look for a better job.
>>738272405don't care, I just won't buy the game. Simple as
>>738298502They are, unfortunately.
>>738274102It's so-so much worse than what your pic shows that I was hesitant in posting my pic out of making others sad.
>>738292170how is it good?
>>738272748stop being anti semitic and stop noticing goy
>>738310379It just is, goy.
there is simply no fucking way your game is worth $70 $60 implied a AAA polished product with $70 you claim you have something better to offer and more
>>738272502/thread
>>738272748Browns.
>>738272748>>738272801fucking antisemite trashreported to the ADL
>/v/ pretends they have an economics degree thread
>>738272624*inYou ESLs tell on yourselves constantly.
>>738272748I find it very unlikely you arent getting paid more than you did in 2010.
>>738294625Nta but the company I worked at would just do a flat 2% increase across the board for everyone except the managers. In 2025 we had an inflation peak of around 3.2%.
>>738272405now post the industry profits of 2010 and 2025if has gotten 30% smaller, I'm willing to pay $90
>>738277004Those obvious advertising threads lmao?
>>738306313I can think of a few basic bitch jobs that paid 12 bucks an hour 6 years ago and pay 22ish now. Have you ever had a job?
>>738278942Basically theft of value by oversupply. It's like if I gave you a promisary note that I swore was legit for a debt I owed and then photocopied it for all my friends as well so yours is worth less. Actually it's exactly like that.
>>738311917>just work for minimum wage bro
>>738275898>>738287936>>738288119>>738307629>>738311570>thread has fuck all to do with brown people yet chuds feel to need to bring them up and whine Rent free lmaobe sure to vote for the orange man a fifth time :^)
>>738288119>I cannot win this argument so the best I can do is try and shame you into not fighting my bullshitAmazing
>>738290263You're the morons with the image problem, do some housekeeping and maybe we'll hear you out.
>>738290263Reminds me of Andrew YangDude wanted to help everyone but as you said, >hurt people you hate rather than help people you loveHumanity was the biggest case of crabs in a bucket Very sad
>>738294909Notice none of the replies refuted this at all. Once even did the "unskilled labor" cope
>>738272405It is when the gas is like 10$ a gallon.
>>738298664Read a book, or a wikipedia page at least lmao
>>738272405ok now factor in cost of living and buying power of the dollar
>>738307685Facts don't care about your brown-horde fetish
>>738272748Shut it, bubs. Without that inflation we would never be able to pay for boomer entitlements.
Uhh... uncs? I'm about to enter the workforce. Is the economy gonna be OK? Am I gonna afford vidya at these wages? If not uhh, I was thinking maybe we could do some communism... pretty please? Just for gaming tho aha.
>>738312062>leftists pretend not to understand etcYou realize if you saul alinsky your way through every good faith discussion all you do is leave violence as the only alternative. How long do you think people are going to put up with your shit?
>>738272405In 2010, my rent didn't cost me half my income.
>>738312651>16 years later and still rentinglmfao
>>738312617You won't do shit faggot.
>>738309625
>>738272405calculate this
>>738313515Mario if he economy.
>>738310379>buy house>20 years pass>millionaire Its only bad for poor people honestly.
>>738309838Sure your salary might have increased but so did the taxes. Your purchasing power is shrinking every year
>>738272405>babylennials think they had it bad earning $20/hr minimum wage>meanwhile boomerGODS had to earn >$500 on a 50 cent minimum wage to afford pong and E. T. on their Atari
>>738272405games are actually free when you don't pay for them
>>738310379Inflation makes people spend money instead of hoard money. Spent money leads to investments, which leads to more jobs, which means more income, which means more spending.
>>7383147761970 minimum wage = $1.60Atari with pong was $100 = 62.5 hours of minimum wage2026 minimum wage = $7.25 (let's say $15)900 / 15 = 60 hours of work to afford PS5 ProNow let's compare buying the median house$23,000 (1970) / $1.60 = 14375 hours of MINIMUM WAGE to afford median houseMedian house is now $420,000, you would have to make over $29/h to match the MINIMUM WAGE of a boomer in 1970 in home purchasing power
>>738294907I think he is talking about how steam reduces tax down to 20 percentage for games that made millions, dunno how to prove it
>>738272405That would make sense if games hadn't been front loaded with season passes, day 1 DLC and ingame micro transactions since 2008.
>>738272748People will say jews but but this is just normal capitalism at work squeezing you out for all youre worth while paying you as little as possible.
>>738315219fuck fact: everyone is poor in communist countries (except the commi-aristocracy)
>>738316286>People will say jewsBecause that's what it is.
>>738273837Ok so whose problem is it when I pirate their game instead?
>>738316391Then all capitalism shills are jews or golems
>>738272502>computer games used to be cheaper than console games but steam came along and fucked that up so every game is the same across the boardT-Thanks Gaben
>>738272405I know this retarded opinion/shitpost gets posted a lot and always gets debunked, but for anyone living under a rock:games started cutting costs by removing individual features from the physical copy such as the cart, the booklet, and eventually doing away with the physical copy altogether. games are also using more stock assets in the engine, not developing their own engine at all or even tailoring existing ones, less content, some games aren’t even finished, GaaS, DLC, microtransactions, and the biggest cost offset of video games of all is economy of scale. it doesn’t cost any more money to sell a second piece of software and if you consider that gaming is far more popular today than it was even 10 years ago and runaway population growth, the buying market is much larger and you have a better chance of making your money back. given the state of the industry, no new game should be over $50
>>738316451What is everyone is the universe is a jew except you, ever considered that
>>738316391Jews or not the incentive structures of capitalism naturally result in stagnating wages but rising prices. The line must always go up up up and getting rid of the jews would just be changing who gets to be the boot, and it wont be you.
>>738272748minimum wage laws. if you don’t want to accept a low paying job, the government will just import migrants that will do it. not an entry level job? they have work visas for that
>>738316451Capitalism is how the world operates.
>>738316751>minimum wage lawsHigher minimum wages increase median wages as well, the problem is the potential for unemployment. Get rid of them and your boss will hire a beaner for $3/h.
>>738316686You completely neglected the cost cutting that comes from not needing to manufacture disks, boxes, no need to pay retailers for shelf space or giving them a cut, no need for logistics to transport physical games, its all just the infrastructure to handle downloads and payment processing.The brick and mortar has been removed from the equation, its cheaper than direct mail sales.
>>738316705>Jews or not the incentive structures of judaism naturally result in stagnating wages but rising prices. The line must always go up up up and getting rid of the jews would just be changing who gets to be the boot, and it wont be you.All forms of usury should be outlawed and then everything will fix itself
>>738316851people do not like how the world is operated
>>738272405Game rentals where 5 and you could finish most games in that time
Yeah, games used to be more expensive and you were given an expensive-to-produce cartridge which, if you took care of it, will still work 30, 40 years later.Now, you buy a digital license to a game that can be revoked whenever the retailer feels like it.These things that you are buying are NOT the same and they should not cost the same.Digital releases have basically zero production and distribution overhead costs.
>>738272502For me it used to be 29€ decades ago.Now it's around 10€.More customers on digital platforms = games should be cheaper
>>738317006Alright honestly Im pretty sure the entire jewish question is just a convenient scapegoat for all the ills of industrials society and capitalism so that you wont actually go after the CEOs and business conglomerate leaders that are actually in charge. They dont want you to notice whos really at fault, they dont want you to realize whos really in charge, and they can keep you that way by offering you a convenient and simple answer; that everything goes back to the jews, it has to be the jews, dont look elsewhere, once youve got the jews youve got it all figured out. ((They)) are obfuscating to you who they really are by directing your attention to race and religion instead of economic class and youre falling for it and it pains me to see you thinking youre not being duped when you are my god
>>738314776>1970doesn't count. that was before the correction,try 90's Nintendo gameshttps://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-04/page/n69/mode/2uphttps://archive.org/search?query=description%3A%28nintendo%29+AND+mediatype%3A%28texts%29+AND+date%3A%5B1993-01-01+TO+1993-12-31%5D
>>738317475Basically this
>>738317475It's a good attempt moshe but i am not schizophrenic, there is nobody hiding in the shadows, the foreign influence seeping into my government like a cancer has an extremely well documented name and flag
>>738272502Why?
>>738272405>inflation goes up>prices go up>wages don't go up>companies still expect you to pay moreyeah nah i'm good
>>738272405I only put $20 in my gas tank like I've always had. doesn't matter about the price you're still only going to get that much out of me. even with video games. if it's triple shit you'll get $0
>>738272502Based and FPBP>>738272405Correct. Not paying it.
>>738272405People would happily pay 90 bucks if games were worth 90 bucks.
>>738317058ThisUncle Sam can capitalize deez nutz
>>738317987The problem with gas prices going up is less at the pump and more the ripple effect it has on logistics and how that affects the costs of goods and services.
>>738317475A story as old as time
>>738318521This is true, but it's also true that Democrats and the broader left want to pump kids full of HRT and that's also an important problem.
>>738317006
>>738318623Hello both sides bot. You've been posting on a website that posts naked images of people pumped full of HRT 30% of the time. You also think about them 16 hours a day.I think that's important for people to know.
>>738318761What does /fit/ have to do with this?
>>738317475
>>738318808What do you mean, fellow tranny lover?
>>738272405NOBODY paid 60€/$ for a game back in 2010. CoD MW2 was 50€ in 2009 and Diablo 3 was 40€ back in 2012
>>738319015Cucksole fags did.
>>738316925true and fair point.
>>738272748@FBI
>>738294909>>738312297The best refutement is that both political parties actually want 3rd world labour flooding the country.
>>738272694shart compiler didn't post that though
>>738272405wages havent risen to reflect this
>>738314364That's true if by "poor people" you mean the bottom 95% of the world population (maybe bottom 80% in the US). Owning one residential home that you live in doesn't magically insulate you from inflation, because there's no way for you to realize that price increase unless you choose to go from living in a house to living in a tent. Haven't you seen all of the retirees that own the home they live in but are still poor as fuck? Their savings and pensions haven't kept up with inflation, so they can barely afford day-to-day living expenses and the homes that they do own usually fall into disrepair because they can't even afford maintenance. This is why about 20-30 years ago there started to be a huge push in the US selling Home Equity LOC to retirees, because reverse mortgaging the house was the only way for those poor fucks to pay their bills that kept inflating.Selling one inflated house so that you can buy another inflated house is a lateral move which does nothing to improve your situation. Being a millionaire on paper means nothing if there isn't a corresponding increase in the quantity of real assets that you own (either tangible assets, or income-producing assets), because inflation by definition means that your increase in paper wealth is actually a decrease in real purchasing power. The only people who really benefit with inflation are those who own enough income-producing assets to surpass the losses from inflation, which is basically just business owners / the investor class.Inflation necessarily increases real wealth inequality and is economic death, the rate of inflation just determines how quickly that happens.
>>738272405i opened this thread to post inflation porn but i put it off for a while and now im in public
>>738272405This is kind of disingenuous because the whole pool being closed in the middle east is causing runaway inflation.
>>738318917>too much of a newfag to even pretend to know site cultureThey're not sending their best.
>>738322285Yep. 4chan has always been a tranny site, election tourists be damned
>>738280579
>>738272748The oligarchs need to be billionaires rather than just millionaires, please understand.
>>738315219>"saved" a ton of workcommunists are so retarded
where's the videogames
>>738322742bend over and I'll show you.
>>738272405>50% inflationyour country is fucked
>>738273837>>738272405If studios gave less to the useless upper management and investors, they could largely cover the inflation on devs' salaries. We all know where the problem comes from, and it's not games' prices
>>738314364>sell house after 20 years>every other house also costs a million
>>738294625which ones?
>>738294815>6000 bucks for 600 gameslmao the esl who made this revealing themselves. 10 bucks a game, before discounts lmao
>>738294830they just replace you then. that's why high unemployment is being subtly forced. when you know there's a thousand people wanting your job who will take a lower wage because they haven't had work for 2 years and are desperate, you shut the fuck up and do what your told.
>>738272405do you think the average wages have gone up by 50% in in the past 16 years?
>>738272405>no more disks required, pure digital, cutting down on shipping costs massivelyGames got cheaper to make.
>>738272748you know antisemitism is illegal right? think before you post
>>738272405then how come wages didn't increase?
>>738273837It certainly is when no one is buying their $90 game.
>>738306751 yea but back then ellis island vetted whites. u had to have a skill or someone to sponsor you to prove you wouldnt be a burden or become homeless, & u couldnt be sick either or else u got sent back. doing this now to any immigrant would be considered waysis and a human rights issue
>>738294909>gonna vote for whoever is gonna deport the most of themObama?
