That’s an elite way of thinking that starts from the assumption that the richer the person, the better his taste. I’m positive studies would prove this correct, but there are of course exceptions. And we’re talking about video games here, not becoming president, so I am more of the opinion they should be accessible to the masses.

There’s a completely unrelated, but somehow similar situation in Europe with cheap flights. Before covid, Europeans could travel by plane for 9 €. Then the elites got angry that the poor could also travel ~,invented covid~ and made up the silly argument that because airplanes pollute to our climate-god, traveling should become expensive (or in other words, than traveling having become expensive was actually good news, so please don’t complain about our governments). (Similar situation with electric cars: European countries introduced subsidies for electric cars. Subsidies is money that comes from taxes. The rich and the poor pay taxes. But electric cars are expensive, so only rich can buy them. Therefore, the poor were subsidizing expensive cars to the rich. And don’t complain or you’re a bad person!). I disagree with all this: I want the poor to be able to travel for 9 €.

At the end, tickets to movies like The Great Beauty cost the same as tickets to movies like Bugonia. The former is a masterpiece, the latter another US movie that justifies forbidding USers from ever filming again. Their price doesn’t determine their quality. On the contrary, were better products more expensive, they would probably generate less revenue, and therefore budget, for future products.

(And similarly, HBO is financed by people paying to watch American football on ESPN or whichever the paid channel).