Not so much defense, more like "uhh, yeah, things cost money, inflation exists, welcome to the real world", and I can't disagree honestly. People gotta use an inflation calculator on old games.
This meme does have real "too late, I drew you as the soy cuck and myself as the chad!" energy.
Also, comparatively, it’s still one of the cheapest forms of entertainment. You buy a movie ticket and it costs you $25-30 for an hour or two of entertainment. I bought BG3 for $80 and have 400 hours on it (so far) and will very much have more on it. That averages out to 20 cents for an hour of entertainment. Even factoring in a need for a console, $400-500 spread out over thousands of hours ends up being a cheap investment.
I’m not defending Nintendo, they do lots of shady stuff and their controllers are shittily made these days. But the price of games these days isn’t entirely outrageous.
This is something I run into with a lot of hobbies. Wanna play Warhammer 40k? Prepare to pay at least $500 for miniatures (even if you're 3d printing, still need to buy that printer). Wanna do historical swordfighting? Prepare to pay $1k for protective gear and a sword. I know people who like shooting and I'm just like, I already paid for a sword and I don't need to pay $20 to reload it. Hell, even in video gaming there's people who've dropped hundreds of dollars on gatcha games.
At the end of the day it's capitalism and it's economics. Companies will charge the price that will make them the most amount of money, if they charge less than that then scalpers will buy up their stock and resell at the 'correct' price, if they accidentally charge too much then they'll eventually be forced to bring prices back down, or go out of business.
The longer you play warhammer the cheaper it gets! My first army from 2009 is still largely playable, although I did another decent sized buildup in 2014 or so.
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u/Avnesya 23h ago edited 22h ago
Is there actually "people" unironically defending em at this point?
Legit asking
edit : typo