Joe Von Zombie
Hell yeah!
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I've never bought an elder scrolls or Fallout game on release day. Specifically because those games are bug riddled beta builds when they first come out.
And I don't doubt that prices don't need to rise to justify costs, but that's par for the course in manufacturing. Everything from pizza to electronics is overpriced in relation to production costs. That's not going to ever change without strict government regulations and video games are not going to be an exception to this rule. Video games are always going to be over priced like most consumer products and we can't change that.
So rather than wasting much energy being frustrated about what I cant change I just decide on a price threshold I'm willing to pay for a quality AAA game. As of now that threshold is $80 for games like Uncharted, but for games like Witcher 3 and Horizon Zero Dawn that threshold increases to $100. I've gotten 200+ hours of entertainment from Witcher and 100+ hours from Horizon. Think about how much id have to pay to get 300 hours of entertainment from movies on bluray and UHD. Assuming the average film length is 2 hours I'd have to buy 150 films and assuming the average cost of a new UHD and Bluray averages $20 - $25 that much entertainment would cost me about $4000. So in terms of the amount of entertainment a quality AAA game provides I consider release day prices pretty cheap.
Using your Blu-ray analogy, I see where you're coming from, but there are cheaper legitimate alternatives to that as well, but that's another discussion entirely. Also we can change these things. Battlefront 2 is a testament to that and I firmly believe Battlefront 2 is just the beginning.