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lol. lmao.

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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's just it. First off, I rarely am interested in Capcom games, think the last one I bought was in maybe 2016? (RE7). So this person you are responding to really is going off the handle over a nothing burger, I assure you.

But you've hit on an important point, that's important to discuss. These price hikes are disproportionate to the growth of household earnings, and more importantly, digital media was supposed to drive costs down, and not up for the end consumer. We don't actually own these games, we more or less lease them. There's nothing physical anymore. Which is a problem. Not that I don't like the ease of digital purchases, it's the fact that at any moment I can be stripped of access to the product. Which makes it a lease or rental, not full ownership. Yet they keep wanting to drive the costs up up up, in light of that fact. It's getting to be gross behaviour. The products are declining in quality, the costs keep going up, actual ownership of the end product comes into question, and the profits keep going to a smaller and smaller circle of people, some of whom are among the most vile of people alive today.

Enough is enough.