And this is precicely why I mostly play indie titles made by individuals or small teams that are sold for under 10 bucks. Fuck this noise.
GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100
Submitted 5 months ago by Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://80.lv/articles/gta-vi-might-inspire-other-aaa-developers-to-price-their-games-at-usd100/
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Adalast@lemmy.world 5 months ago
FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not fucking happening. I wouldn’t pay £100 for any game.
businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
how incredibly american to phrase learning they can get away with fleecing people for $40 more as being “inspired”.
Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I wonder… Will Grand Theft Auto VI be the next “AAAA” game? Or have we ditched that term now since the utter failure of the first game that dared wear that title?
archonet@lemy.lol 5 months ago
if it’s higher than $60 it can go suck a fuck
in fact, if the online is as ridden with issues as 5’s online has been, I’ll probably just pirate it. Why would I want to pay $60+ just so I can get squeezed for even more money via microtransactions?
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
if it’s higher than $60,R* can lick my taint.FTFY
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
If GTA6 is $100 for the basic copy I hope absolutely nobody buys it.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I imagine there will be a premium version that’s $100 plus but I can’t imagine that they’ll risk trying to sell it at that price for the base version. People aren’t exactly running around with disposable income right now, at least in the US.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’ll push a shit ton of new pirates, thus creating more headaches for them if $100 games become the new normal. It’s almost like they love shooting themselves in the feet with a shotgun and then blaming everyone else as to why they can’t walk like they used to.
NastyNative@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Rockstar I would say is one of the few that can demand that price. I would pay $100.00 bucks cause Im going to play it for the next decade. We could be on GTA15 but rockstar dont roll that way.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, and we have inflation going on, prices are going to increase. That’s not a crazy price for a game you’ll enjoy for years - if it’s not broken when it’s released. If you pay that money and have to wait for months of patches you’d prob be a bit pissed off.
Mini_Moonpie@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It will be funny if they make it free to play because they think maximizing player count will translate into more shark card money than they could make off a box price + shark cards. Not that I think that is likely, just a funny possibility.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 5 months ago
I still have a huge backlog of games released in the last 30 years, so I can’t easy wait for every game to go into sale. There is absolutely no need or urge for me to buy any game on release.
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I spent 20$ on the last game i played, and put over 140 hours into it. Just saying.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 5 months ago
AAA games are already $90CAD here with deluxe/special editions going for $120-$160. I can’t remember the last time I actually bought one of those games because most of them are trash designed to exploit the player as much as possible. There are a lot of other hobbies I’d rather drop that kind of money on that respect my time heaps more than modern games.
I think Tiny Glade is the only game I play regularly that is an actual new release. Everything else is 5+ years old because I got them on sale for good prices.
twinnie@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I have paid full price for a game in 10 years. GTA6 will be late to the PX party anyway. Looks like I won’t be playing it until 2035.
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They can try, but it might not work. GTA VI has been in development for like more than a decade and will probably have loads of content. I could see $100 being justified. But not every other AAA game would be the same. Most wouldn’t in fact.
That said, video games have been $50-60 for the last 25 years. If they’d kept up with inflation, they’d be close to $110. So, I get it.
bokherif@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Arrrr, alexa play despacito
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This seems fine given the scale of the game and assuming it’s not bad, but it’s more worrying how it will lead to $100 shovelware five years from now. We already had Zelda at $70 (also worth it) so i could see a trend forming.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
Yeah. Super Mario Bros. 3 cost $50 on launch. This inflation in game price is horrible!
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I know, star fox 64 cost me $70 too. Part of the reason why i can’t blame them that much
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s surprising that games are getting cheaper compared to the cost of living. If you take into consideration the fact that games are becoming more expensive to produce, I really don’t understand it.
Gaming is way cheaper for me than it was during the ps2 or ps3 era.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 5 months ago
We still have a ways to go before reaching the inflation-adjusted, $150-per-game peak of mass market games in the 1990’s. A key difference is games back then had way higher marginal cost (it’s near zero now).
The interesting thing is that the market is becoming a lot more like it was back then, full of people that only buy one or two games a year and only play those. Of course now, the model is retaining players with DLC and MTX, whereas in 1995 it was more because people could only afford one or two games a year.