Current Events > I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't care about $70 games.

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Every entertainment product has gone up in price over the years but games have been static since the mid 90s

Like yeah it sucks but it's like $10 calm down

Also within two months you can probably find it for $50

Corporate shill!!!! I bet you spend hundreds on Fartnight!!

Yeah no I don't care either, it's insane that the price of games didn't go up sooner in the first place

If only wages had risen as well!

i don't even buy, like... more than 1 TrIpLe A game a year. if that

i'd be happy, actually, if it meant lootbox gambling and battle passes went away

I agree, but remember...gamers are giant manbabies

I don't even remember the last time I paid full price for a game tbh

Game prices have not been static since the 90's given the nature of DLC and microtransactions.

People will complain about the slippery slope, but games havent increased their price in a long time. Honestly shocked it took this long to get to 70. And with AAA games, those tend to go in the bargain bin after a few months anyways unless made by Nintendo.

Same. You can bet these same people complaining about the $10 increase in price have no issue throwing buckets of cash towards fast food, streamers, starbucks, etc

Phantasy Star 2 was $100 in the 90s, but that was also when a game that sold 100,000 copies was considered a monster hit.

In a vacuum I agree but the raise is just to pad executive pockets and raise sky high video game profits to new records so in that sense I cant justify it and I wont pay the $70 for a new game

$10 is a meal or more. And games have gotten cheaper to produce and distribute

I wouldn't have a problem with them, except shit is getting more expensive and my paycheck isn't getting any bigger.

Sucks, sure. But I don't buy enough games to really see ten bucks as a deal-breaker. I also anticipate that I'll be getting hundreds of hours of enjoyment out of this game; and in an ideal world where I could accurately gauge the volume of enjoyment I'd get out of a game before purchasing, I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for 'bigger' games.

Plus I already put in my anti-corporate greed dues by sitting out the last two Pokemon gens (and I'm sure Ninty's still reeling from the sting of it).

Backlog is big enough as is, dont mind waiting to play new releases until good price drops, people just suffer from FOMO

Stop buying at launch!

Doom_Art posted...

Every entertainment product has gone up in price over the years but games have been static since the mid 90s

Like yeah it sucks but it's like $10 calm down

Ugh you'd think by now people would at least come with up with an argument for supporting this. I guess "I have disposable income" is enough of a reason but it's a pretty tone deaf reason. The increase sucks, especially since everything is getting more expensive. Personally I don't plan on buying any $70 games anytime soon, but don't be a jackass and go "it's only $10 calm down." That is a big deal and it sucks, whether you can afford it or not

Smashingpmkns posted...

$10 is a meal or more. And games have gotten cheaper to produce and distribute

Games have gotten far more complex than they used to be though. The cost to actually develop the games have gone up.

Only have about 7000 in savings, and I could care less aswell. I mostly buy games with credit cards which I get cashback on anyways, which offsets the 10 dollars.

I don't care if they charge $70 for games like Elden Ring. Games that have the content and full package all contained in that one price.

And honestly, I pretty much only day one games like that, so it doesn't really effect me as much. I literally only got that and Dying Light 2 (Regret) day one last year.

But it's sad to know that they're gouging and taking advantage of others by raising the price of series they like while also still trying to nickle and dime them or make them feel like the balance is off by not buying even more once they get the game.

I 100% will not pay $70 for any game until I know there's not any microtransauctions that effect gameplay and pacing.

Smashingpmkns posted...

$10 is a meal or more. And games have gotten cheaper to produce and distribute

i could buy games being cheaper to produce if you're making games today that are equivalent to snes games back in the day. but not aaa and shit, now way no how.

pauIie posted...

i could buy games being cheaper to produce if you're making games today that are equivalent to snes games back in the day. but not aaa and shit, now way no how.

To be fair, most of the AAA costs are self-imposed, and outside of a few big titles many, many of them are poorly received these days. They basically went past the point of "throw money at it until it's good" to "throw money at it until it's good, then use the excess money to make it the worst thing ever made."

LightHawKnight posted...

Games have gotten far more complex than they used to be though. The cost to actually develop the games have gone up.

Most AAA games are built upon the infrastructure of games made years prior. Most of the money in game dev goes to advertising. Like COD for instance has a 4x marketing budget over their dev costs. Thats fucking ridiculous.

This additional $10 isn't going to mean we're getting better games, it just means that the fat cats in suits will pocket more money.

When you tack on DLC and microtransactions gaming hasn't been more expensive than it is now. Idk I think it's a wrong move to embrace or encourage increased pricing of games when there is no benefit to the consumer.