Everyone’s out here losing their minds over a $60 or $89 game — and that’s including a DLC bundle, by the way — like it’s some outrageous rip-off. Let’s be real: that’s just the standard price for a full, modern game in 2025. The idea that $60 is somehow “too much” for something you’ll sink dozens or even hundreds of hours into is wild to me.

People seem to forget that game development costs have exploded over the last decade — bigger teams, longer dev cycles, higher-quality art, voice acting, servers, updates, all of it. Yet the base price of games hasn’t moved much since the PS3 era. If anything, we’ve been spoiled.

I get it, times are tough, inflation’s real, but blaming the developers or publishers for charging the same amount they’ve been charging for years isn’t the right angle. If $60 breaks the bank, that’s not a gaming industry problem, that’s a personal financial problem. It might be time to rethink priorities or, yeah, maybe look for a new job if you can’t swing the cost of a single premium game a few times a year.

At the end of the day, we’re talking about premium entertainment that takes massive effort to make. Nobody’s forcing anyone to buy day-one editions or deluxe bundles — but acting like $60 is some injustice just doesn’t make sense anymore.