I just noticed I had a pack of 24 AAA batteries and it made me think of a couple other things about how bullshit inflation is. Those batteries cost me less than $20. Despite most battery types being used less now days, the cost isn't just the same, the cost is cheaper. So 30 years later and batteries are cheaper than when I had to buy them for my Game Boy. If that doesn't already break the inflation bullshit lid there's more. Why are they so much cheaper when even less of them are being used now days, oh, that's right, in 30 years, there's been revisions and upgrades in how to make batteries better and cheaper.
With video games, new software has made the barrier to entry cheaper and easier to make video games, AI development does a lot of repetitive tasks that would normally need to be done with the use of people, and the annual income of the average programmer hasn't changed much in the past 30 years. So not only do people get paid relatively the same as they did 30 years ago in this line of business, the time that it would take to develop the same game 30 years ago would be nothing in comparison.
A good example of this would be the estimated cost of a game like Expedition 33 which a lot are throwing out is around six million. Final Fantasy 7 was $100 million and due to "inflation" would cost $200 million to create now, so it just confuses me that developers are able to achieve better results at far lower costs. You'll have to explain this to me because clearly I'm lost on this inflation bullshit, oh wait, no I'm not. Inflation is a bullshit excuse.
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