Time makes shit devalue

>comparing dying game store's bargain bins to a digital storefront where the game has been updated ever since that bargain bin
brick and p
mortar stores put games in bargain bins because those games cost money for them to keep.

uh nigger games cost $100 now ($60 for base+ 40 for dlc)

don't buy dlc

You forgot about loot boxes

>Comparing buying the game versus buying the game
wow user you sure are a GIGANTIC thinker. I guess Steam is a great thing because now the 2nd market is dead and I have literally no choice

Ahem,
FUCK CIANIGGERS AND THEIR NIGGER CATTLES.

Wait a sec were's the resource links?

This is actually the reason why indie devs cry about G2A and other key resellers. The prices on those reselling sites are determined by "supply vs. demand" dynamics and not by whatever the dev farted out 10 years ago.
So the prices there are logically minuscule compared to steam and they hate it.

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stop buying shit games that do this, it's only you who is to blame for enabling those publishers to cut up their games for extra money, you show them it's okay by buying it and at the same time whining why they get more expensive.

20 years ago was 1999 and it was $50 because price dropped with the use of disc based games
Go back further and 50% of the price of the game was because of the cartridge.
When games went digital their prices should have dropped massively.

no, you're retarded. a brick and mortar store will put it up that low because it takes inventory space, on a digital store they still have to provide you with bandwith and all the other features that every game ships with like cloud save storage. also, the publishers themselves determine the game price on a digital store and a brick and mortar store can basically price it whatever the fuck they want. you don't need to have a galaxy brain to understand this, you just have to not be ratarded.

ok i will not buy witcher 3 and skyrim and original sin 2 and bioshock and dark souls (1, 2 and 3)

Games also became so shit they should be half the price just for that

>listing off games that had dlc made post launch rather than games that had dlc made before launch
nice job

Witcher 3 got a fast drop in price though

Dropping the base price is detrimental to post-release sales, since most of those sales happen during sales.

This is such a lazy and uninformed opinion about pricing in the game industry. This shit has been debunked so much... That's not how prices work. Games don't just come out with $60 for the full game. More like $120 or more to get all of the content. Also if you consider that the average real wages of the public have actually gone down since the 70s then games are also more expensive on that front.

True.

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It was the case until like 2013. When valve was still dropping the prices to their own games, those drops would cause market competition and other games released in the same era would drop to match. When HL1 started selling for a single dollar and getting great sales, other old classics would do a similar sale to rake in free money off a game they had previously assumed was milked to death long ago at 8$. When L4D hit 15$ every multiplayer shooter around it would drop to 15$, and so on. Now that VALVe doesnt make games with price tags anymore, there is no other publisher with a reason to lead the industry in price drops.

If a game comes with release/month1 DLC and there is a version that doesn't have it, you are buying half the game. No one sells the full game for 60$. Its just an extended demo with the first 4 stages.

>Also if you consider that the average real wages of the public have actually gone down since the 70s then games are also more expensive on that front.
this isn't a fair consideration. average price of luxury consumer goods has gone up - admittedly not as far as things like house prices, only something like 30% - and the video game industry has not matched this pace overall. In fact, pre-crash games were hilariously more expensive than even things like a PS3 with all the trimmings.

They are also the ones that decided to sell those third party keys so low to begin with that people can resell them at a profit.