Can you even spend $80 on a game?

[Shihainin]

$80 lol. I wouldn't even spend $20 on some of the shit that comes out these days.

 

[Potapota]

I buy most of my games on sales (honestly I do rarely pay more than 20 bucks for a video game) but I am doing financially well enough to splurge 60-ish dollars once or twice a year for something I really want and consider "worth it". Even for that price, I am for damn sure expecting more than a 10 hour short shitpost though and at 80 dollars it better be a god damn masterpiece.

 

[KamakoKamako's icon]

I can literally afford food for 2 weeks for that price...

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This. I could spend $80 on a new game but no game justifies it.

I will not pay more than £50 for any game (and more often than not I won't pay over £30). The last game I paid £50 for was Black Myth: Wukong. Whilst I don't regret that purchase, it was an outlier title.

Before that the last game I bought full price was Cyberpunk 2077, and what a shitshow that turned out to be.

If I can wait 6 years and buy Red Dead Redemption 2 for £15, I can wait a while for GTA VI. And if I can't wait, it won't take long before I can yarr harr it anyway (I don't care about the online multiplayer).

 

[Dyne]

I have a backlog of games. I dont need to buy the $80 game when its brand new.
I can wait until it goes on sale lol

 

[FlyingToaster]

I can't, but even if i could i would refuse to. No game is worth 80 bucks

 

[Sumea]

Currently I'd have to eat nothing and drink only water for 2 weeks to pay 80€ for a game. Well here actually more like 90€ because EU economics work stupid.
Not that I do. Most expensive single game purchase I done in past 5 years has been 35€, when some mega edition of metaphor was on psn sale or something like that. 30€ is just my current maximum.

 

[Rocket2049]

i would ONLY spend 80$ on a game if it's one of those i'm gonna play 100+ hours kinda games
i factor playtime into what i buy always
i'd spend 70$ on metaphor refantazio or persona remakes, i always get near 200 hours gameplay on those.
or disgaea games, i have near 300 on every disgaea title except 6

i would NOT spend 80$ on mario kart world, consider it's only like 16 tracks, less customization and less characters, and no gliding, and you can't even go underwater
for reference mario kart 8 PLUS all it's DLC is 90$ but you get 128 tracks and double the character roster

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

We have that pricing in germany since the ps2 and classic xbox times (well in euros of course ). But with that price nowadays i would rather buy an retrogame that is very hard to get instead getting modern games .

 

[zombie100379]

i get that $80 is a lot for GTA VI , but at the same time development costs have gone up and GTA VI has supposedly cost more then $3 billion......