The recent ones were good. But they’re basically a visual novel with some combat, so they’re small scale.

It was honestly the design choice to make it procedural generation and then leaving the universe as a new game plus. That killed it completely.

As always, buying a used previous gen flagship is the best value.

You have to keep inflation in mind. 550 would be 450 2019 dollars.

Not really a countermeasure, but the scalping certainly proved that there is a lot of people willing to buy their stuff at high prices.

That’s not how proof works.