I think about this often, how companies are all about squeezing every last dime out of their customers these days. What happened to chances of getting a free sprite off the lid of the soda, the coke card for discounts on other items, B1G1 free deals, 1 free month of game time with purchase.
As long as people keep paying the prices, there's no downward pressure.
Yeah, this is true, until recently when things started going back up. AAA PC games were like 39.99 for a while just a few years ago.
You could. I'm only half joking when I say PoE is a PoB verifier. There's not too much about the way-too-fast combat, trading, and "crafting" that makes PoE that fun to play beyond the surface level. The true fun comes from understanding the systems, sitting in front of PoB for hours, solving whatever puzzles your build presents, and then having PoE tell you how wrong you were.
The consumers power of choice has gone down drastically. 5$ footlong promotions, buy 1 get 1 etc. All sorts of promos gone by the way side because they own 60% of the market and the other 40% is owned by people in the same circle that all meet up at the WEF deciding how they can turn us into gay fungus bug eaters.