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Message: [QUOTE="gwardojones, post: 180393, member: 8305"] This is why I'm so confused about people saying we should be paying more for games. They act like the companies selling them at an increased cost are poor devs struggling to keep the lights on, not multibillion dollar, international entertainment corporations. In the early days of games, the price in the US was often $60 (sometimes more) because of the cost of cartridges and chips, not because "we're spoiled" as fans of gaming. Those developers were often charging the necessary price to keep the lights on and to make enough to develop another game. Very few games sold copies in the millions. And because they weren't mass producing copies like today, the cost of manufacturing was more expensive, hence the price point. These days, selling anything under five million copies is considered as "not meeting expectations." Now we have Nintendo trying to increase that price, as if the rest of the industry isn't going to move in that direction AND further increase it. Dev teams are bloated, the companies copy-paste the same schlock over and over and are actively and outwardly hostile to their own consumer base. As far as I'm concerned, there is never a good reason to defend a corporation. Get what you want as a consumer. If a company won't give it to you, go to someone who will. [/QUOTE]

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