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Bethesda being the forefront of practical pricing for video games was NOT on my 2025 bingo card...
(hexbear.net)
they redid all the assetes (it's not just a simple upscale), has all the orginal DLC. Not just Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine, but also all the smaller home dlc too.
they're also not spammed the second you leave the tutorial. and are a part of the world now, and NPCs have rumors discussing them
They also gifted the game to everyone working on Skyblivion instead of sending them a C&D like Nintendo did to the people who worked on AM2R
I don't think some games costing $80 makes $50 for a 20 yr old game any less atrocious. Plus, they added new asdons just to increase that more. So even calling it a $50 game is incorrect. Bethesda/Microsoft is still a shit company. Nothing has changed.
All I'm seeing is how easily people get used to being scammed because there are so many youtubers and influencers play the role of manufacturing consent by calling it a "good deal".
And do not bring in developers getting paid enough. The issue is never the price for something this high selling. It's always the hierarchy and wealth distribution in the company. Even if the game cost $100 those people aren't gonna see much of it. A $20 game when so many people (in the hundreds of thousands or even millions) buy it can still pay the developers enough if they were actually paid their share.
Like I bought vintage story (a indie game) for only 20$ and thats basically one of the most complex survival games made by a small team. Hell even starsector was cheap and that is made by two people.
extremely ambitious indie game that does something complex and unique: $10-$20
formulaic AAA slop that is barely different from the last one: $60-$80