Developer delves into Denuvo DRM to run Hogwarts Legacy on a secondary PC

[lonetac]

The PERCENTAGE of AAA games costing more than $60 has INCREASED… not sure why this is hard for you…

Volume has no effect on percentage. Yes there are more games being released now - that only makes my point more obvious.

Read the post I posted after that. Games are in fact getting cheaper, not more expensive. Numbers dont lie. You are not looking at things outside of one graph and %.

Im trying to engage you here respectfully, I am not talking out of my butt.

And volume has a lot to do with %'s. 2% of 1000000 is a lot, where 2% of 10 is not. Saying 2% of games are this depends on the volume on if that is a lot. %'s are very easy to manipulate to tell any story you want.
*EDIT* Steam users try to do this to tell a story all the time with "recent reviews". They be like recent reviews show this game sucks but recent reviews are like 2% of the reviews so is that an accurate representation of the game?

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[GodisanAtheist]

I strongly disagree. The game industry has inflated it's profit margins for years. $70 today isn't $70 in 1997, but mainly the costs to publishers and developers are WAY lower. Digital distribution has delivered a cash injection to these companies the government could only dream of.

It's not the struggling I does charging $70+ for a game. It's the AAA studios taking in BILLIONS in revenue that are pumping up prices, to keep shareholders happy.

- The market is also WAYYYYY bigger. Its not just digital distribution, the largest of which (Steam) takes the same cut as most retailers did.

Gaming is mainstream now, "nerd" culture is mainstream now, its not just something basement dwelling nerds do but Dad's with families and mortgages.

I'd rather my kids spend an hour each on the weekend playing a videogame than letting their brains run out their nose plopped in front of the TV as an alternative. Of course they still have to unplug and go outside the rest of the time.