What your thoughts on $80 & $100+ Games

[A man on a computer]

 

[DragonMals]

I will ONNNNNNLY appreciate that gigantic price tag if the game is worth playing and if it contains no paid DLC thats more than 5 dollars. Paid DLC has always been a crime ngl.

 

[YoshifreakZX]

I'd rather stick to playing backlogged games at the moment than spend almost 1/5 of my paycheck on one new game.

 

[KyleOnDemand]

On one hand, I get it. I understand it. Times have changed, and so have costs.

But on the other hand, it's a bit of self fulfilling prophecy with this one.

I was thinking about the Devil May Cry series yesterday. We got THREE of those games (Yes, I know, I'm counting the 2nd one, blasphemous I know but it serves the point) on the same console. We got two Metal Gear Solids, and three Silent Hill games. These days' were lucky to get a single entry in any franchise on any particular platform lest they skip it because development times are now equivalent of a full console cycle, or it's a "Live Service" that we all rent the privilege's to play as part of it's tightly controlled experience only for it to just vanish one day. And, the last GTA entry (5) debuted on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and here we are two console generations later still waiting for the GTA6 one to grace us with it's presence. This simply doesn't _need_ to happen. And I had hoped the groundswell of indie games on consoles would have demonstrated and proved that, but alas, AAA instead said "we need to go bigger and stupider and even more expensive" and everyone else is screaming "no man, go the OTHER WAY"

 

[ThePeon]

my thoughts is that it was just gonna happen sooner or later as western industry some how over spend money and they wan´t us to pay for it.

I mean you can´t tell me Shadows cost 250mill to make all while black myth wukong cost 70mill dollar to make. And it is widely known allot of western game studios go over budget allot of times.

So the 80-100 dollar price tag was just a matter of time they need to make up for their failures some how. Nintendo having does prices is just Nintendo being Nintendo. Even if Nintendo said it would be 50 dollars for their games GTA 6 would come out at 100 and make it the new standard price. Even so dynasty warriors origins was 80 bucks long before Nintendo even announced their games to be 80-90.


My issue is there is no justification to the prices yeah sure time changed but salary has not changed with time and quality of the games has not changed.

The only thing price increase will do is increase piracy and turned gaming in to a rich people past time.