so, its now around the price of netflix? hmmmm, and could easily add up to a AAA game? seems a bit off

Why?

This is $84 a year for the high-end subscription, including Steam discounts, which isn't really that much money. I don't know if the game is any good, but if you're the type of person that considers it to be, that is the sort of money that can be well worth playing for the feelings of accomplishment the game provides.

That's why games can have monthly costs that are similar to Netflix, with much less content - Netflix doesn't provide the same sort of sense of accomplishing something. (Let's ignore the fact that nothing in the game world might actually matter - it's the feeling that is important.)

Only if you play it for more than 6 months which is a lot longer than I usually play a AAA game.

far too high

Sound like perhaps you aren't the target market?

People should be able to price at what they want to, without getting HN flak.

This is a discussion website. Being vindictive isn't helpful, but niether is criticism inherently bad. An awful lot of the good content here is experts being critical of new ideas.

Just imagine that they had appended "to me" to their comment. Then it's just a datum.