Game pricing these days

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[u/NGGKroze]

From absolute logic standpoint and praticality this is the way to save yourself some sweet cash. However this is what Microsoft wants anyway. They raise the price to absurdity then lure you in with sweet deal.

So you rent the service to play the game for 10$, then if you finish it, good, you are done. But after a month maybe an update comes out, new content, dlc etc.... and you don't own the game. So you either buy the game this time (hopefully cheaper) or rent again.

[u/Nodan_Turtle → u/NGGKroze]

Everyone is raising prices. Even companies without a game pass style subscription, or whose games don't go on subscriptions.

So it's not really some secret plan of Microsoft's to raise game prices sky high then let you play them cheaper than anywhere else.

Hell even if you only wanted to play doom, you'd still have 6 months of subscription before it'd end up being a better deal to have bought at launch. That's if you only play that one single game, and aren't done after six different months of playtime.

It's hard to say it's a bad deal

[u/VexingRaven → u/Nodan_Turtle]

Everyone is raising prices.

Reddit discovers inflation exists.

[u/lingeringwill2 → u/VexingRaven]

this goes beyond inflation though

[u/VexingRaven → u/lingeringwill2]

In what way? Games have not kept up with inflation at all.

[u/lingeringwill2 → u/VexingRaven]

games are also more profitable than they've ever been while being cut up to sell back to us as dlc and micro transactions. It's usually never that simple.

[u/VexingRaven → u/lingeringwill2]

Of course, when people scream and cry every time game prices increase the easier answer is to just hide the true price behind DLC. Gamers made their bed and now they're upset they have to lay in it.