Everything Costs More And More
Look around and you’ll notice that, man, things cost more today than they did a year or two ago. Consoles are more expensive. Vbucks are pricier to purchase. Subscription services are also going up and up. Then you have the continued trend of $70 games, blatantly overpriced cosmetics, and publishers holding games hostage for a week unless you pay them an extra $20 to play “early.”
It truly feels like every video game, app, store, and company is trying to squeeze more and more pennies out of my pocket with each passing week. Sure, the folks in charge will blame inflation, but it’s funny how, when the economy is doing better, the prices don’t go down. Everything just keeps going up. You can’t even argue that the price increases help make stores and shops better places to visit or use as it just sucks buying anything, anywhere in 2023
This is, like so many things listed in this article, not going to get better in 2024. It’s probably going to get a lot worse in the next 12 months. But lucky for all of us, we will soon be replaced by AI bots who will create all the content and by other bots who will consume it and we’ll have steady jobs mining the metals for our mechanical overlords. I hope I get to mine cobalt and iron next to someone famous, like George Clooney. That sounds swell.
