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@brightamethyst: Because game developers are going to make their money one way or the other. Fact is that most games can no longer make a profit at prices that haven't gone up in over a decade.

With this in mind, this means that they've got one of two choices: 1) Either keep the games at their release price for longer (like they used to do back in the day) or 2) Load the games up with cash shops and microtransactions.

Despite what anyone one particular person's preference is, arguments can easily be made for both methods because neither option is inherently evil or wrong-- they are just two very different ways of handling the issue of how game creators make enough of a profit to stay in business.

For the "never go on sale" model, people forget that this was the norm back in the beginning as video games had no idea how else to price their products so, they looked to the only other comparable model at the time: books.

Hard copy books don't drop in price simply because the book is older, quite the contrary, the price of the book is the price of the book is the price of the book. In this model, the profits of the first copies of the item go towards recooping the losses from production.

Upside to this model is that once you buy the game, if you're going to open your wallet afterwards, it's going to be for extra content such as levels, etc that the developers make after the initial release. In other words: You run 0 chances of coming across a $20 charge for better armor. Downside to that model is that, alas, yeah, the game is going to cost more when you go to buy it.

In the second model, that of putting the monetization for the game into the game itself, the thinking is that "whales" (those who spend a lot of money in the cash shops) pay more so that others can pay less. The upside is that, yes, the price of the game itself is cheaper but, the downside is that there will be valuable items and/or features locked behind a paywall. This means that people with deep pockets or who are willing to be "nickel-and-dimed" are going to be at a distinct advantage when playing that game to those who do not pay extra.

Again, there's no inherent evil in either method but, yeah, alas, them's the choices.