Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide

simple@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  $80 on release day. $60 a month later. $40 a year later. $20 a year after that.

  What you’re paying for isn’t the game, its the hype. An enormous component of a modern AAA game’s budget is just advertising. That’s what your $80 is going towards. You’re paying to have people tell you to buy it.

  Even assuming you don’t feel like pirating… Just be patient, play something that came out a few years ago, wait for the next Steam Sale, and own the game for pennies on the dollar.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Relevant XKCD.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    An enormous component of anything is advertising, I don’t see your point.

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  • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I agree with the first paragraph, not the ones after

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      mainleaf.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-market-a-vi…

      As a rule of thumb, you’re looking at 25-50% of a AAA game’s budget going to advertising. So a $40 game becomes an $80 game in large part because the publisher is putting out $10Ms-$100Ms just to raise name recognition and build hype.

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      • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Except that if no advertising is done, the game’s sales are probably a lot lower (which is why they do it). If the game doesn’t do well initially, it’s less likely that you’ll find it years later as well

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• slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, buy most games at half price or less, fully patched up and with all the DLCs. Such a joy!

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• pulido@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh well, nothing much has changed for patient gamers.

  Aye. I wait until games are finished before torrenting them.

  Feels good being off the consumer bandwagon. Games are coming out faster than I can beat the ones that came out years ago. I have enough digital entertainment for the rest of my life without ever having to spend a dime.

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