I'm sorry for not living in a first-world country and not having grown up in a rich family.

Games are a luxury, you aren't entitled to them (though in a third world country you probably aren't entitled to basic necessities either)

> you aren't entitled to them

Nobody said that.

> though in a third world country you probably aren't entitled to basic necessities either

I think you should travel more before writing that kind of comments.

It really depends where you live eh.

Videogames are usually not made in cheap countries

That is irrelevant to how affordable or not it is for the end user.

If you can’t afford to pay for the labour to produce it, then why would you expect to be able to buy it?

Here's the thing: if I can't afford a game because it's so outrageously expensive, I'm not going to just not play it and miss out, I'm going to pirate it.

And now that I'm an adult who totally can afford these things (after bypassing all the roadblocks that the world's entertainment companies put for customers from Russia), I still pirate everything because that's what I'm used to, and that's what I'm convenient with.

That's fine, the problem is people acting like it's outrageous to charge $60 for 100+ hour length multi-million dollar projects. Factorio recently increased its price by $5 to $35 in line with inflation and gamers are outraged. How dare they charge more money, it's totally immoral, etc. I don't get why people feel outraged about it.

My main complaint is not that games cost this much money, but rather about digital distribution. Especially with console games, it used to be such that you could buy pre-owned cartridges/discs and sell yours. It was really cheap to you, and technically the game developers also got their asking price for each copy they sold. You were also able to swap games with friends who had the same type of console.

With digital distribution, you still pay the full price, but your copy is "single-use" in essence. You're never getting any of that money back. And, the only way to buy games digitally is "new" for that full price.

You don't pay for the labour to produce it, you pay for a gamble over an investment. The labour to produce the game can totally be paid if the price of the game is reduced but the amount of copies sold increase by a significant amount to make up for the price reduction.

And wallet and income of the consumers in region X of the world do not stretch magically because game companies in region Y decide to invest more on games. It is not that simple.