>$80 games? who said anything about $120 games? I don't see whats wrong with charging $200 for games...

>>715343758 (OP)
Pay up cuck

back to arcades huh

>>715344253
we're going full circle

>>715343758 (OP)
>If we space things out enough in your precious open world, put in enough bloat and movie segments, and walk a longs, that add up to approx "140" hours of "gameplay"
>That'll be $140 pre DLC, please
And I'm sure gtafags would enable this and it'd still be successful

>>715343758 (OP)
Sure, now remove all padding.
$10 p/h x 4 hours for most AAA games.

>>715344253
As long as I got stepmaniax, I'm good

Zelnick is worse than Bobby but nobody cares because nobody knows who he is. If he could, he'd monetize the air you breathe and make you pay for the privilege of paying him.

>>715344337
Sensible-kun, you must realize that in doing so, you'd be leaving out immersionfags, moviegametards, and normies that want all their entertainment to look and feel similar
That wouldn't bode well for shareholders, who already have it rough as it is only making reasonable returns. Those shareholders should at least be making refuckingtarded returns

>>715344253
gacha is the new arcades grampa
we are so cooked once the zoomie money well stops flowing

>producers want to make more money
>consumers want to spend less money
why do zoomers act like basic economics is some sort of secret conspiracy? You're not making a profound or shocking discovery to state companies want money. Everybody wants money, (you) want money; that's why you don't want to spend it. You're no different from anyone else, rich or poor, producer or consumer. That's the point, it's constant work towards a compromise between the desires of both parties.

gachas will probably be the first to do it, and they'll hide the mechanic behind some time-sensitive degrading resource or something

>>715344535
Alphas seem even more addicted to gachas

>>715344558
I will pirate the games and you will be happy

>>715343758 (OP)
>synthetik costs me 3 switch2s

>>715343758 (OP)
What an out of touch thing to say.
If every hobby were to be priced according to the hours of satisfaction it delivers, then mountain climbing and MMORPGs would likely be valued on par with luxury cars.

>>715344639
spending 5$ a hundred times is apparently less than spending 70$ on time..

I would gladly pay $200 for an OoT-tier experience
the problem is games are just shit now
BotW contains about $20's worth of extremely diluted content
I wonder if AI can fix this mess
inb4
>Nintendo etc will never use AI
all major game dev will incorporate AI in a big way by 2030
all companies will use AI, no exceptions

>>715344718
*site gets taken down by the FBI*
nothing personnel

>>715344253
The core audience for video games, millennials, loves arcades, as long as you sell $7 beers and have a quarter dispenser that accepts credit cards.

MS was planning to publish Asheron's Call with a pay per hour model, but luckily EverQuest beat them to become the first 3d mmorpg and went with monthly subs

I can easily stop buying games since there is barely anything worth playing coming out. If companies want to make less money in the future thats fine by me :)

>>715343758 (OP)
I'm ready to pay $1 per hour of AAA game

>>715344253
>don't need to wait for the profit transfer when you have a direct feed into their accounts
Just the way Lord Mammon intended it to be.

>believes games should be priced per hour of said game not existing

>GTAV2 comes out
>it costs $100 for the single player story
>online costs $100 as well
>and you must pay $20 per week to keep playing
>no one buy the game
>a GTA clone comes out half a year later
>it just costs $50, is much more fun and becomes very popular

>>715344826
>*site gets taken down by the FBI*
)))
open up fbi))))
man in black)_))))

Man I wonder how many subscription services your avg american is linked to and not even including utilities.If they are boomers they probably still got shit like cable and magazines subscriptions lmao

I don't get how casuals can be hyped for 6 when 4 and 5 were so bad. Even their latest game sucked. I remember asking people what they finally thought about rdr2 now that it's out and they said they didn't even finish it.

>pay $600 for a 600 hour long game
>beat it in 3 hours
>money stolen
wooooooow

>>715345365
brand recognition
same shit with every other western brand
they're all washed up but people can't stop buying their new shitty products

look at disney and bethesda

>>715343758 (OP)
We need to do something about the American Question. Maybe a nuke? Maybe two?

>>715345310
gta is enough of a hook for the the truest of consumer degenerates
A model like that would work on just enough people to convince other developers/ publishers that they should do it too
>the gaming market implodes and either the bloodsucking investers leave, and only the dedicated true gamers remain, or the industry finally breathes it's last breath and stays dead
Either way a win. On second thought, games SHOULD charge by the hour. I mean, if shit's already fucked, let's really fuck things up, you know?

The OP image has so many artifacts this shit has to be 10 years old.
Pedotrump not releasing the epstein list deflection thread.

>>715345310
>sends Pinky your way if you fall behind on you ingame fees

>>715343758 (OP)
Try this thread again without antisemitism.

>>715345310
People would still buy it.
GTA had no new entries since V, did any competition take advantage of that?
>saint's row
Dead
>sleeping dogs
Dead
>watch dogs
Dead
There's probably more I'm not remembering.

>>715343758 (OP)
>mfw GTA6 is 100€

>>715345310
>a GTA clone comes out half a year later
>it just costs $50, is much more fun and becomes very popular
There's the upcoming F2P GTA clones, actually curious if they're gonna succeed or not

>PC gaymers will only play GTA 6 in 2027
First Death Stranding, now this. That's kind of racist, man

>>715345985
Got any names?
The only thing that's recent that I can recall is that one brazilian asset-flip scam. Seems like other studios just gave up on trying to overtake GTA.

i paid 100 dollars for dmc 1 in 2002

>>715346072
Ananta

>>715345991
GTA 6 is gonna be mid
it will be closer to GTA5.5, and will have the weakest staying power of any r* game.

>>715346120
Normalfags play GTA for 'realism', an anime-looking game can't court that """niche"""

>>715343758 (OP)
>over $80 for a game with rdr2 engine
lmao even

>>715346120
That's a GAAS gacha slop.

>>715346143
I very much doubt that. I bet there are people postponing their suicide because of that game. That's how ridiculous the whole thing is and Rockstar has the production chains to deliver at least a single player experience like any other.

>>715346181
I wouldn't be so sure. GTA 6 is gonna be expensive AF and tons of people don't have money. If there's a real GTA fix for free they gonna get it

>>715346450
it's been in development way too long, is gonna over-extend on price-increase greed in the worst time possible. And has been suspiciously delayed too many times.
Q2 is also a very weird release time, considering R* have always had top spot with Q4 release dates.

>>715346450
Nah he's right. Casuals will be impressed by it but they don't even play vidya

>and Rockstar has the production chains to deliver at least a single player experience like any other.
lol. They got thousands of indians, no different than Ubisoft.

>>715343758 (OP)
Nobody's gonna pay by content hour, so the only logical course of action is to make games smaller and cheaper than kooky hundred million dollar attempts at porting film industry practices to vidya. That way everybody wins.

>>715345463
Are you crazy? Look what two nukes did to Japan. Would you really risk what would come out of America?

>>715347338
japan wasn't nuked, they were firebombed with proto agent orange

>>715348050
based conspiracy schizo

Nukes are NOT real

I wish arcades exist in the modern day