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One of my favorite games is trying to get the best price on a game I want. My backlog is a few years long at this point, so I don’t need to buy any new games. But if I can find one I want for 90% off or more, I usually buy it anyways.
You criticize society, yet you participate in it!
Curious.
I am very intelligent.
We’re basically forced to buy this game.
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Ain’t payin no $80 for no game
To be fair, I wouldn’t pay $1 for no game. If I’m paying money—no matter the amount—I expect to actually get a game.
Just wait 5 years until it goes on sale for $20
That’s a bit more of a rare occurrence: I wouldn’t count on it happening for OW2 as well.
tbh a 20$ game isn’t any less capitalist
“Capitalism subsumes all critique”
Man, there better be a ton more content than the original to command that price. The first was a decent game, but it felt pretty boring to me, and it’s wild that they could use a whole solar system as the setting and it feel so small.
I just looked it up, and I’m surprised to say that Spider-Man 2 (just released on PC back in February I believe) is still only $60. I mean, sure it’s over a year old from it’s original PS5 release, but the fact they’re not asking $80 for it is kinda nice.
And Oblivion Remastered is “only” $50.
$50 today is equivalent to about $28.50 19 years ago. So it’s effectively half price lmao
I meant it’s “‘only’ $50” because it’s an entire overhaul of the original game, rebuilt from the ground up. Similar to how Skyblivion is gonna be.
Like, that’s a damn good price for one of the best RPGs ever made, with the amount of work that went into it this time around too. I’m not complaining about paying that for such a great game.
The PS5 version was actually ported to PC a full year before the official PC release by a bunch of Brazilians. In many ways with was even better than the official release. Only downside is that it didn’t have ray tracing. But if you don’t care about that then it was worth playing.
Of course this has nothing to do with your point, just saying.
Microsoft sets the price and they whant you to subscribe to gamepass so they can lock you in and eventually shitefy it
i watched a video about the new Marathon game and how it lacked the political ideologies and warring nations of the original trilogy, and filled the hole with a very basic vague anti corporate aesthetic. this is essentially why I found the first outer worlds so dull, it went out of its way to say nothing about anything beyond corporate power dynamics
will have 3 hours of content like the first one.
Developers need to eat and pay rent.
Let’s not pretend developers are going to get any money from these price increases. It’s all going to the publisher’s shareholders.
Which is why I avoid games with big publishers and shareholders.
So the developers of $20 games are homeless?
you know that games are made with different numbers of people on a team right
Lots of Indie game developers actually don’t make enough to live off.
Once again I have to remind people that inflation exists. Game prices go up just like everything else and the last few years have seen insane inflation rates and game prices haven’t really climbed since the 90s. $60 in 2019 would be worth $75 today. $60 in 1996 would be worth $122.
Once again I have to remind particular morons that inflation is a convenient excuse for execs to never take a pay cut, only ever exorbitant raises and bonuses.
And 4k TV gets cheaper. What’s your point?
I agree with you but it’s so hard to talk about. Most major publishers are leeches who artificially drive up price and force developers to release unfinished games…yet at the same time, the cost of development has gone up. Indie games are proof that you don’t NEED fancy graphics with mocapped actors to make a good game but it’s irrelevant when there’s bigger demand for “cinematic experience” and that stuff ain’t cheap.
But because I used to pay $30 for a game in the 90s, I think games should be $30 forever.
