Choosing to spend more on something is not the same as it costing more. Games are cheaper than ever to develop, the barrier to entry is lower than ever. Hiring 5 studios and 1000 employees to make one game is a decision, its not the cost of doing business.

But the employees at games studios need to get paid too.

I’m sorry, were the developers not getting paid until the price hike? I find it hard to believe that there wasn’t enough money to pay the developers before than. How much did the CEOs salaries go up after that price hike?

Ultimately, ten extra bucks just isn’t that unreasonable for a video game.

Maybe not, but the value certainly hasn’t changed. Why would I pay more for the same value? And that extra ten bucks is being squeezed out of everyone everywhere for everything in life, its not just a problem in the video game industry. Its simply a matter of corporate greed. Fuck the corpos and fuck their simps. They don’t care about you, stop defending their greedy practices.

While costs go down and wages stagnate. But hey, the CEO needs a new yacht, so you plebs just need to suck it up and spend more.

I mean, technically yes. Cyberpunk was a pre-existing IP before 2077.

I buy my own groceries and j refuse to spend 70 on a video game. Because I have to buy my own groceries.

It sounds like there was something wrong with your setup. I use Tor almost exclusively for general browsing and while its definitely slower than VPN and unprotected browsing, its never taken more than 10 seconds to load a page, and that’s on the long side. Usually no more than a few seconds longer in any other scenario. Definitely never been 3 minutes.