“Mario 64 was 60 dollars in 1995 meaning that it would be about 100 dollars today”

Pay has NOT kept up with inflation. People are poorer.

Folk need to stop pretending like people have as much money as they did in the 90s. Rent costs, house prices are astronomical.

Xbox’s business is still impacted today by outpricing people with their initial Xbox One reveal pricing a decade ago.

Nintendo Treehouse comments are absolutely packed with people complaining about prices.

Again, I’m vastly aware that game budgets, inflation etc have increased!

but Pay has NOT increased accordingly. I don’t know the solution, but that’s the reality.

And I make these points as someone who is lucky enough to earn well enough to just buy them regardless. Most aren’t as fortunate.

Game bubbles regularly disregard the poor, unfortunately, as the industry has an above-average number of middle-class background workers.

Price increases combined with physical knock effectively prices the poor out of legally gaming (Buying directly from them/the digital store)

  • LaughingLion [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    this might surprise you but most people dont define words based on what some assholes wrote down in a dictionary but rather the cultural context for which they hear and use those words like exercise some basic dialectic analysis here this reference to dictionary shit is literally lib-brained

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      Defining sense to understand the sentence meaning is a basic tool of semantics, due to the lack of common cultural referential, if you are that tepid to not understand it there’s no point in continuing, disengage. Also don’t bend theory to justify your dullnes it’s not Marxist

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        dont try and couch your ableism behind synonyms like “dullness”… gamers really cant help themselves even when they dont use slurs the intent is still there.

        fuck.right.off. lib