Not just websites and online services but games, stores, restaurants, etc are they? Have you noticed significant quality reduction with nearly matching price increases?
Not just websites and online services but games, stores, restaurants, etc are they? Have you noticed significant quality reduction with nearly matching price increases?
A AAA game over a decade ago cost $60. Players don’t want to pay that today. While the cost of development tools and engine design have gone down, asset costs have skyrocketed given the higher fidelity.
That has pushed a lot of games into the freemium model and relying on whales to fund the game. The market won’t buy what it says it wants.
Customer service has been atomized as, except for luxury goods, price always beats out over service. Because of this, stores are trying to drive down their bottom lines to nothing as a way to get more customers. Since customers won’t pay for good customer service, they don’t get it.
The labor market is extremely tight, leading to combative management and labor. In order to cut costs, restaurants have chosen to cheap out on food and/or raise prices to compensate.
no, i can’t. Because their solution to me not wanting to buy the stuff they’re currently making (because I want the stuff they used to make) is to make their current stuff even harder!
You’re saying “won’t” when I think you mean “can’t”… As in, the number of people who have that much disposable income has dropped to a point where there just aren’t enough people with the ability to pay… And instead of fighting to raise the minimum wage (and all wages in general), or lowering their prices to a point most people can afford, they’ve chosen to make shittier stuff
No, I mean won’t.
$60 a decade ago was worth far more than $60 now. Hell, Super Mario Bros 3 cost $50 at launch in 1994 and it isn’t like quality of life crashed that hard.