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Nah. I keep seeing this argument and I really disagree with it. It's actually really simple economics; we don't need to calculate inflation into this. If I think the price of something is too high (especially something I don't need to survive), I don't buy it. Companies can cry all they want, in the end I don't care.
It doesn't seem like you disagree with anything they said?
If everyone followed your lead, the end result would be that video games don't exist anymore. Just in case you didn't play that out completely in your mind.
The industry makes something around 190 billion per year, they will be fine without raising their prices to 80$. I ran that in my head considering that I worked in the industry myself. Devs aren't paid enough not because we don't pay games enough but because these companies are run by greedy fucks. Don't feel bad for them, buy games when they are on sale or buy indie games. Games won't go anywhere be reassured.