Pricing woes

[Kovlak]

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (digital only) at $39.99 + $29.99 DLC

Assassin's Creed Blag Flag Resynced at $59.99 or $69.99 or $199.99 + $90 of DLC

EA Sports College Football 27 at $69.99 or $99.99 (with digital stuff + coins) or $149.99 (more digital stuff + 2 types of digital currency)

GTA 6 at $99.99 with DLC

Game pricing models are getting out of hand.

Console and current hardware prices are hiking up. Emphasis in selling barely different controllers for premium price by console makers...

Who is everyone planning to sell all this crap to? Who can even afford it?!

This seems wholly unsustainable. PlayStation is planning to let digital blacklash blow over, but who really wants to spend nowadays in stuff that costs significantly more and also gives way less value to them?

The whole current gaming, outside of indies, is just jarring. Up for a major shift.

Maybe they should dig another ditch next to the ET game's to bury all this stuff when it fails to sell...

 

[JellyjamLu]

GTA 6 is allowed to be that price imo, heck i'd pay 150+ why? blue moon title, will last the test of time, probably exceeding past next gen easily and for me personally...I don't buy many triple A titles anymore, so I double down on having no problem paying the premium here.

Sorry but if you believe GTA 6 is not going to be anything special, not have a massive impact on the gaming sphere, your a bit delusional.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

That's way too much.

There's clearly a disconnect between what the industry perceives gamers to be and what we actually are — just because I bought the newest console, doesn't mean my disposable income STAYS at that level.

Hell, most of us can only afford a couple of new games a year, and have since the NES era.

How could they not know this?

 

[Kovlak]

GTA 6 is allowed to be that price imo, heck i'd pay 150+ why? blue moon title, will last the test of time, probably exceeding past next gen easily and for me personally...I don't buy many triple A titles anymore, so I double down on having no problem paying the premium here.

Sorry but if you believe GTA 6 is not going to be anything special, not have a massive impact on the gaming sphere, your a bit delusional.

I'm not saying that, but I'd be surprised if it didn't have at least microtransactions, if not a lot of throwaway dlc like vehicles, clothes, weapons to milk the players further Ubisoft style.

And I wouldn't be surprised if GTA Online is paid or at least has a monthly subscription.

Take Two will likely try to monetize GTA 6 to Hell and back.

 

[Burzuru Burzuru]

games like these cost too much to make. if gta 6 fails it might change everything.
and if it doesn't it will be the next big game that took 10 years to make.

 

[JellyjamLu]

I'm not saying that but I'd be surprised if it didn't have at least microtransactions, if not a lot of throwaway dlc like vehicles, clothes to milk the players further.

And I wouldn't be surprised if GTA Online is paid or at least has a monthly subscription.

Take Two will likely try to monetize GTA 6 to Hell and back.

Oh yeah that's coming with GTA 6 online for sure, but just like GTA 5 before it, I still enjoyed the game and never bought a single micro-transaction/shark card.

 

[Kovlak]

How could they not know this?

The upper management nowadays seems to think only about their earnings and bonuses. And are willing to throw their customers and, even, investors under the bus. They seem to think a quarter at a time.

Oh yeah that's coming with GTA 6 online for sure, but just like GTA 5 before it, I still enjoyed the game and never bought a single micro-transaction/shark card.

If they go the Ubisoft route, they're going to make you grind hard for it.