Swami

..as the industry pushes you to more rarefied stratospheric heights. If online gaming gets to be too expensive, push back by not buying. Because if you don't they (the industry) will keep milking you for all you got.

I did a similar calculation recently... here are my figures... I paid about AUS$400 for a 16KB RAM cartridge for my Atari 800 computer back in 1981 or so. In today's dollars that's about $1600. Now, I just purchased a pack of three 32GB USB sticks for around $14. By my back-of-the-envelope calculation, bits back then were about 250 million times more expensive than now!

I feel like the sweet spot for PC gaming is always around $1200 -- more if you want it to last longer, less if you want to save money. But I'm grateful that almost everything else is getting more affordable. Yay sweatshops! Oh wait ...