News Ubisoft deletes 'fraudulent' Far Cry 4 keys

Yarp. I still remember the advert for Street Fighter II: Special Championship Edition on the Sega Mega Drive from Rumbelows: £59.99. Corrected for inflation, that's £108.35 - and that was just the bare game in a standard plastic box with thin manual. No special edition extras there! When you account for inflation, games are incredibly cheap these days. Sure, there were the budget games released at £2.99, then £1.99 as sales slipped - but, as has been mentioned, these were typically the work of one man, or two if ported from a different machine, and built to a very different budget to something like Grand Theft Auto V.

Even then, a game released in 1983 for £2.99 would be equivalent to £9.22 today - which meshes quite nicely with the sub-£10 price point of many digital-distribution indie games, and is far more expensive than the sub-£5 of most mobile games (mobile gaming, of course, being the new haven for one-man-band bedroom programmers looking to make games, now they've been squeezed out of the PC market.)