• insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If wages are stagnant like they have been for a while (at least in USA), money has less purchasing power and people have less savings/spending money. So I wouldn’t call that fair, or at least not the in the sense that “we’re just adjusting it”. Raising the price in economic situations like this is squeezing the customers (whether it’s intended or not), and I doubt most prices hikes with successful things are just to keep the lights on.

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      1 year ago

      I think this was my main problem with the reasoning being inflation. Everyone focusing on the value of the game itself. My problem is when someone blames something on inflation I think everything goes up in price except my wages lol.

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        My problem is when someone blames something on inflation I think everything goes up in price except my wages lol.

        But that’s not the factorio developers problem, that’s your governments problem. So it’s a bit unfair IMO to assign the ‘blame’ to them.

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        1 year ago

        The devs aren’t exactly billionaires either, I’m sure their groceries went up as well.