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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 3141955" data-attributes="member: 9053">Be careful saying this, because the inflation issues are a lot more complicated than most people think. The most important thing is that not everything increases with inflation at the same rate. The computer I bought back in 1993 ran me about $2500. The brand new system I just put together that was much more powerful (relatively speaking--comparing a decent computer then to a smokin' hot one now) ran me $1400. I also just put some of my old C64 and Amiga games into storage from the 80's, and the list prices on most of them say $50...which is about what you pay for a new game today.So you can't just take inflation and multiply things out and say "voila, games cost the same!"What really matters is the disposable income of your market, and I'd have to say that the disposable income of an adult gamer has certainly not tripled in the last 30 years. That's the real issue, as most people have a price point that they use for "impulse buying" and if you're above that, they take a long, hard look at whether or not a game is something they'll actually use before buying it.For me, and this is why I sometimes am one of those people who say "games are too expensive!", most print games are over my impulse buy price point these days. In the end, it means I buy a lot less gaming products than I normally would, and that's why I say that games are too darn expensive today.So there can be very good reasons why a game is coming out at $45 these days, but that really doesn't matter to me. Unless it's something that I'm really interested in, I'm going to pass on it. If that same game were $30, I'd probably just pick it up if it seemed like something I'd like to read.</blockquote>

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