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<blockquote data-quote="stargazera5" data-source="post: 7809025" data-attributes="member: 6761664">&quot;Role playing games are a luxury market&quot;This is the fallacy of the entire arguement.&nbsp; RPGs are NOT a luxury market, they are a mass market commodity in direct competition for buyer's $$ with novels, movies, computer games and other entertainment.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The complaints about RPG costs are usually because the complainer is comparing against what they may be paying for&nbsp; other forms of durable entertainment such as a book.&nbsp; And yes, book page counts/$, video game complexity, and movie special effects have all been forced to raise just as the columnist points out that production values have been forced to increase.&nbsp; This isn't unreasonable, it's normal market forces in action.&nbsp;&nbsp; I've seen articles and arguments for years that RPGs are &quot;cheap&quot;, but in reality most of those arguments amount to the person putting forth the argument decrying that the pricing power is in the hands of the consumer.Personally I won't pay more than $20 for a PDF, and even above $10, I'm more likely to put the product on a wish list and wait for a sale.&nbsp; More and more of my gaming budget is going to Bundle of Holding and Humble Bundle because they provide an amazing value, which is to the creator's benefit as I wouldn't have bought otherwise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stargazera5, post: 7809025, member: 6761664"] "Role playing games are a luxury market" This is the fallacy of the entire arguement. RPGs are NOT a luxury market, they are a mass market commodity in direct competition for buyer's $$ with novels, movies, computer games and other entertainment. The complaints about RPG costs are usually because the complainer is comparing against what they may be paying for other forms of durable entertainment such as a book. And yes, book page counts/$, video game complexity, and movie special effects have all been forced to raise just as the columnist points out that production values have been forced to increase. This isn't unreasonable, it's normal market forces in action. I've seen articles and arguments for years that RPGs are "cheap", but in reality most of those arguments amount to the person putting forth the argument decrying that the pricing power is in the hands of the consumer. Personally I won't pay more than $20 for a PDF, and even above $10, I'm more likely to put the product on a wish list and wait for a sale. More and more of my gaming budget is going to Bundle of Holding and Humble Bundle because they provide an amazing value, which is to the creator's benefit as I wouldn't have bought otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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