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Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I remember when the entire concept of digital downloads was sold to us as a way to make games cheaper, and the sacrifices we make on physical media, boxes, manuals, pack ins, etc, would ensure those cheaper games still saw devs making more money than they ever would with a physical copy.

I called bullshit on it from the start.

and now we have digital download games that cost 80-100 dollars.

GTA5 made a billion dollars in 3 days.

I fully expect idiotic fucking gamers to make GTA6 earn a billion dollars in half a day, and thus rewarding this shit so spectacularly that every game that follows will also be 80-100 dollars.

And those same gamers will cry… oh lord will they cry, about the incredulity, willfully oblivious to the fact that its their very fault that it happened.

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LwL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If game prices had adjusted for inflation, we’d be paying 250-300 for one now.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t just greed especially in this case (from what I heard some pretty basic features like car customization are locked behind the “ultimate edition”), but in general it’s more of a miracle (and result of the massive market growth combined with no unit cost) that game prices have ignored inflation for this long.

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- A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Always gotta be someone to white knight.
  
  Won’t someone think of the poor companies, they are making record profits…but we should be paying more because they’re not making enough record profits!
  
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  - LwL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Reading comprehension, how does it work?
    
    I literally said that in this case it’s almost certainly just because they know they can get away with it and make more money
    
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    HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Give him some slack, double negatives can be challenging for some people.
    
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Kekzkrieger@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They will also cry that the game is incomplete or buggy as they keep preordering every shitty game.instead of waiting for half a year.

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- A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yep.
  
  Preorder the most expensive version, then cry about the state of gaming that they helped create.
  
  We already went through this with videocards, where idiots paid scalpers ridiculously insane amounts of money for scalped cards cause they could not go without new shiny for 5 minutes… And anyone with a brain said its going to hurt gaming and video cards in the long run, because its showing amd and nvidia that people are willing to spend 2000 for a 500 dollar card.
  
  and wouldnt you know it, card prices magically skyrocketed as soon as stock stabilized, and suddenly now the prices are unfair and insane.
  
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
A fool and his money are quick to part ways.

… I’m still adhering to ‘Remember: No Preorders’, from fucking 15 years ago now.

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