Based on what little I know that goes into video game development, $80 seems cheap - assuming no mtx.
But if it's $80 + mtx? Fuck that.
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I'm 100% sure that the next ~~Fifa~~ EA FC will cost €80 AND will have micro transactions AND people will buy it in millions of copies anyway
This is Nintendo, they make games cheap and sell for way more than it is worth. Also, with the massive increase in how Many people buy games these days, even $60 is more than enough to cover costs and have enough left over for the next game. The biggest "cost" in making games is paying the dozens of execs who do nothing all day billions of dollars.
The Taxer-in-Cheif can be a moron at the same time that corporations rape our wallets without either of them excusing the other.
Prices are set by graphing a demand schedule and the supply. You graph how many sales you will get at each price point (sales go up as price goes down). Then you graph how many a company will produce at each price point (the more it costs, the less they will be willing to make/risk). The point where those two graphs intersect is the equilibrium. Which is the best price to charge. Taxes shift the cost, increase the price where they intersect.
Digital is weird. Iirc, the risk is more in pirating. The more copies that exist, or the easier they are to access, the more pirated content will be out there. Don't forget to include shareholder profits in cost, and the cost of other parts of the business (like a beloved endeavor that doesn't turn a profit, Costco hot dogs for example).
I'm not an economist and welcome any better explanations or corrections to this. It's been a while since I took that class. But I love the topic.
Either way it's still caused by the tariffs
Nothing to do with tariffs, just a reflection of higher development cost and, and that's perfectly fine to an extent, the very core principle of capitalism.
Let's please not discuss if capitalism is good. It's just the way it is.
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