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Comment on CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

Oh stop, games have been the same price for decades, it’s not surprising they’re seeing a small price increase after so long in stagnation.

In good companies this is passed along to the actual devs making our games, which is something we should all support

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kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, not a penny of the extra $10 is being passed along

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Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This has been disproven and was called out at the time of the increase. Games cost less to develop now than ever. Microtransactions and recurrent subscription transaction1s like battlepasses mean a shit game gets to live longer than it would deserve. People have careers in the field and languages common to the industry - this isn’t a “new and groundbreaking” industry - its one of the largest on the planet.

Studios are absolutely not passing any of that $10 to lower level staff. It was to see if the market would bear it, and no other reason - and corporate defenders came out of the woodwork to pretend BILLION dollar corporations need more money. If videogames were too expensive to make, they’d not be spending so much, now would they?

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- wahming@monyet.cc ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Games cost less to develop now than ever.
  
  First time I’m hearing that, got a link?
  
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  - michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s interesting actually. There are both games with insane budgets that cost more that than triple A games in years past and incredible tooling and assets available for very modest amounts of money + incredibly powerful computers very little. It’s possible for some games to be made for less than ever before AND some to be made for more.
    
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Hyphlosion@donphan.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Small” price increase? Are your toilet paper squares $10 bills or something?
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brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Has the distribution gone up though? If the quantity of games being sold has increased the companies are making just as much even though games are “cheaper.”

Imo. That’s the big argument in this debate that doesn’t get discussed. The reach has increased so prices could come down as more units are sold and the company would get the same amount of money.

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