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Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

My parents paid about that much for a SNES copy of Earthworm Jim back in the mid-90s. It was disgusting then and it's disgusting now, despite the fact that, adjusted for inflation, that would be £140 today. I mean I don't feel like we're getting a 50% discount when a game costs 70 fuckin' quid nowadays.

There's really no reason to spend that anyway, not on PC at least. IsThereAnyDeal.com and the slightly questionable loaded.com (formerly cdkeys.com) give decent discounts even on day one (and Steam itself will eventually have it on sale, of course). Loaded isn't like G2A, which is a credit card thief's wonderland. It's more like when your uncle Jim crosses the border with 40 cartons of cigarettes secreted in the wheel wells of his truck because they cost 400% less over there. I can live with that level of mischief when it comes to AAA games that take the absolute piss with their prices and their hostage DLCs. EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar have not caused me a millisecond of lost sleep when I get their games for £3 six months after release from a code that was originally bundled with a new GPU. With how extremely easy it is to pirate games (something I haven't done in nearly 20 years), I don't feel like those larger AAA companies are meeting us half way, to say the fucking least.