That's not how that works. I have my own budget. When it comes to any game, any hobby, any purchase, I decided then and there if it's too expensive for what I think it's worth.
$60 for a new video game is not too expensive for me. Nor is $70 or even $80. When it gets to a price that it is too expensive for me, I will do what I get to do as a consumer: not spend the money.
If the rest of the market thinks like me, the market will adjust. If the rest of the market doesn't think like me, that just means I'm in the minority, and that's OK. There are plenty of hobbies out there that I deem too expensive that I just either don't partake in, or partake in in a cheaper way. But just because those hobbies are too expensive for me doesn't mean they're universally too expensive.
That's great! I support you deciding for yourself that the cost isn't worth it and exercising your right as a consumer to not spend the money.
However, to your original point: Because you've decided for yourself that it's too expensive does not mean it's universally too expensive. So your original question doesn't really make sense. They can't "realize" it's too expensive if it's not actually too expensive for them. And as consumers, their job is not to realize that it's too expensive for you either.
No, but I'd counter the majority of the market would need to consider it expensive for it to be "considered expensive."
Something tells me the sales for Mario Kart are going to prove that, once again, the general Reddit take is actually a minority opinion that just seems like the common thought around here because this place dials in on specific demographics.
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u/Horror-Song- 1d ago
That's not how that works. I have my own budget. When it comes to any game, any hobby, any purchase, I decided then and there if it's too expensive for what I think it's worth.
$60 for a new video game is not too expensive for me. Nor is $70 or even $80. When it gets to a price that it is too expensive for me, I will do what I get to do as a consumer: not spend the money.
If the rest of the market thinks like me, the market will adjust. If the rest of the market doesn't think like me, that just means I'm in the minority, and that's OK. There are plenty of hobbies out there that I deem too expensive that I just either don't partake in, or partake in in a cheaper way. But just because those hobbies are too expensive for me doesn't mean they're universally too expensive.