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Inflation applies to games that are actively being developed for sure. Games don’t program themselves. You need people to do it. Those people need wages to pay rent/food/utilities. If the prices of those things go up they’ll need higher wages which will usually come from higher prices on the game that in this case, they continuously develop.
Lol lemmy.ml is the biggest tankie instance in the fediverse. Really hoping lemmy.world defederates from them soon.