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| Topic | Are video games expensive? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/30/18 12:53:53 PM #58: | I'd say when you factor in the full price of a video game (which includes DLC and microtransaction costs as well as retail price), and when you consider the content of games themselves (which may include major games being deliberately gimped to sell the aforementioned microtransactions), I'd say most games these days feel like they're not worth what's being charged for them, but there are at least a few that feel like they should cost twice as much because of how good they are. "Developers have to charge more because costs are higher than ever" is something of a fallacy, though, because it assumes static pricing and ignores the fact that a lot of those extra costs are things the developers themselves forced on themselves without customers actually asking for them. And we've already seen smaller studios generate triple-A level (or better) quality games with a fraction of triple-A budgets. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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