They increased season pass price from 1000 Silver to 1200 Silver.

[Nik.]

They just keep making Destiny 2 more and more expensive to play.

[vexer]

been know for a while

[daveyboi]

I mean, inflation is a thing...

[Commander_Black]

Originally posted by daveyboi:

I mean, inflation is a thing...

there's no inflation on virtual things that cost them absolutely nothing.....
Thats just bungie's devs being money hungry and not caring about their community.

Increase the price of everything while not increasing the services provided and decrease the quality to save even more.

[daveyboi]

Originally posted by Commander_Black:

Originally posted by daveyboi:

I mean, inflation is a thing...

there's no inflation on virtual things that cost them absolutely nothing.....
Thats just bungie's devs being money hungry and not caring about their community.

Increase the price of everything while not increasing the services provided and decrease the quality to save even more.

The people who make the content need to pay to live (food, rent, taxes) and the price for all of those have gone up, so the creators need more money, hence the price goes up

[MULTIPASS]

Every profit-driven business is pushed to do this, especially if they are publicly traded or recently bought out. It's not enough to make money, you have to make MORE money than you did last quarter, forever. There are 3 ways to do this: sell more, spend less, or raise prices. This inevitably turns every product to ♥♥♥♥ once they reach the cap on how many units they're going to sell and start cutting costs and raising prices.

[Nain]

Originally posted by daveyboi:

The people who make the content need to pay to live (food, rent, taxes) and the price for all of those have gone up, so the creators need more money, hence the price goes up

i dont work in software development, so im not sure how it works there, but in my job, i did not get a payrise to easen the burden on my expenses due to inflation. everything went up in price, but my salary remained the same...

[Commander_Black]

Originally posted by Jake:

Originally posted by daveyboi:

I mean, inflation is a thing...

If this were an inflation thing, there would be a much wider increase on prices across the board, including destiny and other gaming products. This is just a pathetic attempt to nickel and dime you for just a few more dollars.

amen

[LeanivBirb]

Originally posted by daveyboi:

Originally posted by Commander_Black:

there's no inflation on virtual things that cost them absolutely nothing.....
Thats just bungie's devs being money hungry and not caring about their community.

Increase the price of everything while not increasing the services provided and decrease the quality to save even more.

The people who make the content need to pay to live (food, rent, taxes) and the price for all of those have gone up, so the creators need more money, hence the price goes up

You are talking like digital products are a finite resource,that cannot be replicated at infinitum. Do you really believe that certain things that are extremely expensive and are limited in time to be purchased digitally are not a psychological manipulation of both Fomo and Sunken Cost fallacies?

Battlepasses,limited cosmetics,exp boost etc are all solutions for problems they created

[AethGorr]

Originally posted by daveyboi:

The people who make the content need to pay to live (food, rent, taxes) and the price for all of those have gone up, so the creators need more money, hence the price goes up

I need more money too, so? My wage don't increase so often like they raising their prices. So why would they need this money more than me? This is worthless explanation or reason.

[iamcorn]

It wouldn't be so bad if they'd changed how you could purchase Silver.

Because the only way to get the 1200 silver is by spending $15 to get 1500 silver.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Commander_Black:

Originally posted by daveyboi:

I mean, inflation is a thing...

there's no inflation on virtual things that cost them absolutely nothing.....

Uh ... what?

Games cost money to make. Yes, it's a virtual product, but it still took developer hours to create. It still took servers and workstations and campuses and support personnel, it still took electricity to run all that, and to provide HVAC systems, and yes, all of that is subject to inflation.

[TerrorLTZ]

well isn't like they announced they will increase the price from 1000 to 1200... oh wait they did announce it so isn't out of the blue like many other companies who do announce it literally at release...

[Warmanreaper]

Originally posted by Nakos:

Originally posted by Commander_Black:

there's no inflation on virtual things that cost them absolutely nothing.....

Uh ... what?

Games cost money to make. Yes, it's a virtual product, but it still took developer hours to create. It still took servers and workstations and campuses and support personnel, it still took electricity to run all that, and to provide HVAC systems, and yes, all of that is subject to inflation.

No.. The inflation correlation you and the other guy are looking for that would make this type of argument okay would be directly if game development(Software or hardware related) inflated costs and they needed to cover that... That is the only argument that would even make this relevant.. but even then that's a stretch.. They are digital pixels. There is a limitless supply of this digital good, it's literally fabricated the same way they always make seasons, except they're being a little more greedy. I'm not one for the boot licker argument (I think its pretty dumb) but there's very little logical sense in a million-billion dollar company raising the pass to cost more than what they offer you to buy. If it costs 1200, 10$ is 1000 + bonus 100. You cannot get the pass with 10$... you now have to spend 15$.. you then have extra, which incentives you to spend more. This is a predatory business tactic. Just because they announced this is going to happen does not make this okay. Season pass should stay 10$, or even go down to 5$ considering xpacs are sold for 50-100$ with arguably sub-valued content.

[Nik.]

Originally posted by WarmanreaperYT/TTV:

Originally posted by Nakos:

Uh ... what?

Games cost money to make. Yes, it's a virtual product, but it still took developer hours to create. It still took servers and workstations and campuses and support personnel, it still took electricity to run all that, and to provide HVAC systems, and yes, all of that is subject to inflation.

No.. The inflation correlation you and the other guy are looking for that would make this type of argument okay would be directly if game development(Software or hardware related) inflated costs and they needed to cover that... That is the only argument that would even make this relevant.. but even then that's a stretch.. They are digital pixels. There is a limitless supply of this digital good, it's literally fabricated the same way they always make seasons, except they're being a little more greedy.

Agreed, it's depressing to see these prices slowly go up. I left exactly 10 quid in my paypal to buy the season pass and got really frustrated when I saw it go up.

[Warmanreaper]

Originally posted by Nik.:

Originally posted by WarmanreaperYT/TTV:

No.. The inflation correlation you and the other guy are looking for that would make this type of argument okay would be directly if game development(Software or hardware related) inflated costs and they needed to cover that... That is the only argument that would even make this relevant.. but even then that's a stretch.. They are digital pixels. There is a limitless supply of this digital good, it's literally fabricated the same way they always make seasons, except they're being a little more greedy.

Agreed, it's depressing to see these prices slowly go up. I left exactly 10 quid in my paypal to buy the season pass and got really frustrated when I saw it go up.

Its wrong entirely, but the worst part is that, since it's 1200, You have to spend 10$ for 1000+100 bonus.. You are then incentivized to spend 5$ to buy it.. but wait.. now you have 300 silver left than you mentally are wanting to spend.. you need to buy more.. it's just a predatory tactic.