Seriously SE???

[Gilthas]

The funny thing about people complaining about the price of games: when you take inflation into account, the prices of games have become cheaper not more expensive.

Gamers want more and more from each game while paying less and less, all the while development costs have skyrocketed. Yes, it is true that the fact that the market is much larger these days helps, and more units are sold, helps offset the develpment costs, but paid DLC and Cash Shops in MMO's have become important for games to generate a profit. It sucks, but that's life for you.

And yes, it is true that there are companies out there releasing free additional content (Blizzard and CD Projekt ReD for example), but not all companies have the luxury to do that.

It's the fact that in spite of all these extra costs, they still feel the need to charge an expansion pack more than the base cost of the game itself. Where is the line actually drawn?

This isn't really a fair comparison though. You can't just pretend that FFXIV doesn't have a history. 1.0 was a true disaster that earned FFXIV a terrible reputation. To relaunch the game they needed to get past 1.0's terrible reputation, hence the small entry fee. Now that people know that 2.0 is a whole different beast, prices go back to normal.