Comment on Madden should not be 70$

• MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That $40 included plastic packaging and a disc both of which largely don’t exist anymore.

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  • matt1126@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And a complete game!

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  • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Never was a significant cost. So complaining, you are never going to get you 50c of plastic to burn down the planet to spite publishers.

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  • dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those cost pennies. They were never part of the cost.

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    • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Absolutely agree with you. However it’s what’s been said to people for years to justify the cost

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      • dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I guess I just have never heard that before. 🤷

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  40? I remember when they were 20. Hell, I remember when you could get slightly older titles for 10. I used to go to Egghead and buy slightly older games with my allowance.

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  • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No you don’t. You are just imagining. At no point ever was $20 typical for a new game.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It absolutely was in the 1980s.

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      • comic_zalgo_sans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Go take a look at www.cgwmuseum.org - Computer Gaming World scans from when they started in 1981 and the primordial soup of the games industry was still trying to figure things out. There’s a variety of prices in the mail order listings, but within a few years there’s a bunch of titles that go for around the $50 level.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  more importantly they sell way more units now. It takes virtually no more effort or cost for gaming companies to sell 20 million units vs 1 million.

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  • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If they’re selling 20 million more units than they used to, then $70 clearly is not too much and outs this post as nothing more than a moan.

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