Quote Originally Posted by Paladinleeds View Post
Sure, we can take out the cash shop, but your sub fee goes up to $100 a month.
Even with 2% inflation over the last 50 years, with a base subscription of 15 dollar you'd end up at 38 dollar.
If we go for more realistic 10 years (because MMOs weren't a thing 50 years ago), the base subscription would go from 15 to 18 dollar.

Meanwhile, the technological progress constantly reduces the price per performance unit, whether that's storage, connection or processing speed.

You aren't paying for the product there, you're paying for the executives new cars.