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Stop charging me $50 to watch a movie or I'll just wait or go somewhere else.
I like to calculate enjoyment per hour for cost. Red dead 2 took me 120 hours for $60. That's 50 cents an hour, and not counting the now many replays. So there's a good bar.
Then you have the movies, who now want upwards of 12-14 dollars an hour of enjoyment. Or I just wait until I can get it at home.
Now, there's a lot of variable there, something being more expensive does not mean bad, I can justify the costs if I want it enough or if I'm, say, looking forward to a specific movie. But they're fighting for our leisure time, our Friday and Saturday nights, and for that cost it's just not worth going to the movies and "seeing what's showing" anymore. They nickel and dimed us out of that experience. Why go spend $40-50 dollars for 2 to go see a movie when we could rent one at home, or play a game, or any number of things?
I can't imagine playing red dead for 120 hours, pure torture.
I do that with items. If I make $20/hr and that item is $50, that's 2.5 hrs of pay. If my rent is $1500 then it is 75 hrs of pay. Two whole weeks.
Hits digital a few months later which means it hits my Plex server a few months later.