What annoys me, and the reason I got out of the gaming habit, is not the prices per se but the outright bilking the makers do now. It used to be you could buy a game and keep using it no matter what, even without any patches or expansions, assuming you had the console or a system it was meant for still.
But once game consoles incorporated stores and digital expanded content, and required server access... that has no longer been the case for many many games. Many games either require sever access, or lock you out of some or even all of the game without it.
I recall a old Transformers game my brother and nephew were playing a few months back, and commented to me that extra content and some characters can only be played and unlocked with servers running, and tey were shut down.