Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I’ve seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It’s always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it’s been a thing.
Even more dumb is that sales are stupidly frequent so why even bother trying to pay $70 anyways besides FOMO.
For how long?
I’ll admit I didn’t start buying new games myself until around the original halo release.
Halo was actually the first game I bought with my own money. It was $60 2 days after release. The next game I bought brand new was call of duty 3. $60 the day after release.
As I said before the only new games I’ve purchased that cost more than $60 were the special editions of the base games. And it’s not like I wasn’t buying top name games. Borderlands 2 $60. Zelda skyward sword/tp/botw $60. For honor $60. Halo 2 broke world records for most anticipated media and it’s release price from day one was $60.
The standard for new games was $60.
I dunno, I seem to have misplaced my Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Game Prices by Week. :D
Just pointing out that back in the day it was not unusual to have the most desirable games cost $70 for a while. It wasn’t special editions / GOTY stuff - those type of things didn’t even exist yet. So I’d imagine whoever is downvoting you is an old curmudgeon like me that lived through the Dawn of Video Games like I did, and remembers this as not being uncommon. Hell, even normal NES games were $50 or so. I remember paying that much for Final Fantasy when it came out. Once you add in inflation, that’s an expensive game!