Thread 719693476

$80 games are here to stay

cool, and i still won't buy them

>>719693476 (OP)
I don’t.

I'm keeping my money

>>719693476 (OP)
>but people still buy these games
Nope. I've taken up a secondary hobby that actually produces things. I'd rather draw more porn than spend $110 CAD on a game.

For me, It's $0 dollar games

>>719693476 (OP)
Thanks Nintendo...

Best thing about getting old is that I have patience to wait a whole and but then for 50€ or less on sale :)

>>719693476 (OP)
Piratechads win again

>>719693476 (OP)
>80 has retreate dtothe old 60 70

what the fuck is this cunt talking about?

last year games were 45 NEW unsealed from any retailer

>>719693476 (OP)
>AAA games flopping left and right
>people clamor for more cheap releases with value for their buck like E33 or Silksong
>thousands of people layed off
>dedicated gaming market shrinks every year

>NO WE WILL NOT LOWER PRICES WHAT SO EVER THIS IS THE NEW NORMAL
so this is the hill they want to die on

Poorfags and thirdies are being kicked out of gaming
How is this a bad thing?

>>719693476 (OP)
So why did they use a picture of a 50 dollar game for their shitty article then?

TOTAL

INDUSTRY

BANKRUPTCY

SOON

>>719693476 (OP)
This is what happens when AAA keeps taking financial advice from journos and boomers.

>>719693476 (OP)
I thought that AI was going to make things cheaper, did the shills *gulps nervously* lie?!

>>719693476 (OP)
there are also a lot more quality titles releasing at $50 or less
these psyop articles are so pathetic. "heh sorry chuddies we know your life is empty and meaningless and you're just gonna pay whatever price we choose to set"
i'll just quit fucking playing video games, and i have in the past for years at a time and it was totally fine

>>719693476 (OP)
Watching dev teams fail and lash out is better entertainment than any $80 game.

>>719693476 (OP)
>$80 games are here to stay
Nice. Repacks and cracks are here to stay, too.

>>719693476 (OP)
>people are buying $80 games a-actually
Lol, yeah right.

>>719694291
>i'll just quit fucking playing video games, and i have in the past for years at a time and it was totally fine
Do you fags only play the latest AAA goyslop? The only mainstream i've bought in these last 5 years has been Helldivers, the rest has only been indies and old games

Roblox

>>719693476 (OP)
>buying games

Do these industry analysts being paid the big bucks realize that a lot of people will just skip?
GTA6 and Mario is gonna sell 1 trillion copies but your game won't.

The cheapest i will buy a AAA game is usually $20 or lower.
$30+ would have to be a dream game.

>>719693476 (OP)
make it 200 i don't buy them anyway

>>719693608
Based, same
every modern slop shitty game that's 70+ dollars has been garbage tier.

>>719693476 (OP)
I'm playing MGS1 for free, FREE
Why would I want to play new games? Even the new games that are fun, they're only 20-40 dollars

>>719694347
You really underestimate how retarded the average joe is with their money, there's a reason why cosmetic dlc got as popular as it did

>>719694592
delta force is FREE

>>719693476 (OP)
>but people still buy these games at these high price points
Uh, but they don't. Every week we see a new quote from some executive about how sales are down because of high prices. And it naturally means that people are buying fewer games than ever.

>>719694629
That's because the games are dogshit, not because they jacked up prices.

80 dollar games are barely even worth talking about, these days every new release is 100+ bucks for 3 day "early access" anyway.

>>719693476 (OP)
$50 is the new $60, unironically.

only ninteniggers are stupid enough to eat up that shit.

>>719693476 (OP)
Let me guess, that analyst is Michael Pachter. That fucker needs to finally retire.

>>719693476 (OP)
Ok then I'm not. You've gone from getting $60 from me to $0

>>719694250
Thank you Silksong for setting the indie standard.

>>719693476 (OP)
i like that picture of gustave

>>719693608
This.

>>719693476 (OP)
I wouldn't pirate most of the games coming out these days, let alone PAY for them.

Good, accelerate their demise
Not even GTA will save them

(((((analyst))))))

>>719694441
People who have a PS5 will buy GTA6. But few are going to buy a PS5 to play GTA6. If the PC version is poorly optimized, GTA 6 just might fail to recover its dev cost
I expect its writing to be ridiculous and meme worthy. GTA6 threads will occupy the same niche as Ragnarok threads

>>719693608
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>>719695220
Have fun reading books

>>719695294
haha anal

>>719695341
Thanks!

>>719695341
I have enough games already.

>>719695341
Will do :)

>>719695341
Reading is fun. You should try it, you matzo licker retard.

>>719693608
flippy blippy. Buying the latest goyslop from Ziongames? No I don't think so!

>>719695341
Between my existing library, most new games being pirateable and games just being too shit to justify the $80, I will.

Mario Kart World was the only $80 game and it's still $80

>>719693476 (OP)
Fuck off with 70. 60 used to be the standard before I think sony raised it for their AAA movie shit they call games.

>>719695320
I think you're really underestimating third worlders. I do think lifetime sales will probably be lower than GTA5, but it's still going to do absurd numbers because its a big "gaming event" for zoomers. These are kids who were 12 when the "first" GTA, 5, came out.

>>719695341
You know what, I will.

>>719695508
And it's genuinely not worth it

>>719695341
Sure I will, but I can game as well.

>>719693476 (OP)
Who is still buying that slop?

>>719693476 (OP)
>ANALyst
lol faggot

>>719693476 (OP)
>the old $70 pricing model
Kill every libshit game journalist.

>>719693476 (OP)
>when you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commision

>>719695508
It's also being outsold by Mario Kart 8.
I'm flabbergasted that these analysts not only still have jobs, but that suits still pay and believe them.

are major AAA studios even publically traded? legitimate business suicide doing this. last throw of the dice.

>>719693476 (OP)
>but people still buy these games
they literally don't.
Is journalism nowadays just straight up lying?

>>719693476 (OP)
>gaming industry collapsing
>"80 Dollar price tag stays"
Sure, buddy

>>719695641
>"Y-yes, you see, good gamers s-still buy AAA games full price..."

>>719695618
Mario Kart World has an attach rate of 92%, no way in tranny hell (where you belong) is it being outsold by MK8

>>719695341
I will.
In an actually good game.

>>719693476 (OP)
But my internet connection is only $30 a month

>>719695689
Oh look. A nintroonie. Right on time.
https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2-sales-numbers-mario-kart-world-8/
https://gamerant.com/mario-kart-world-sales-mario-kart-8-deluxe-july-2025/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchwallace/2025/08/30/mario-kart-world-falls-behind-in-sales-mario-kart-8-deluxe-surges-ahead/

>>719693476 (OP)
I never bought a 60 dollar game so this doesn't affect me

>>719693476 (OP)
>pls goy buy games for 80$
NEIN!

>>719695752
bro it was the only GAME FOR THE SWITCH 2 ON RELEASE?? What the fuck else were people gonna buy? You just getting a switch 2 to wait for donkey kong?

>>719695752
>[Update: It has been brought to my attention that the Mario Kart World sales numbers I reference in this article don’t include digital copies bundled with select Switch 2 consoles, so it’s likely inaccurate to say that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe outsold Mario Kart World in the month of July, except maybe in terms of standalone physical and digital copies. The bundle copies aren’t being counted (many, I’m sure), and Piscatella confirms this in a recent follow-up on his Bluesky thread, which you can read below.]
Read your own links tranny

>>719693608
fpbp
>>719695341
thanks, currently at flight of the eisenstein

>>719695840
>he counts bundles as legitimate sales
kek. Bet you think Horizon is also a blockbuster hit, troon.

>>719695341
thanks, currently reading The witcher, the tower of the swallow, when i'm done with the book series I'll play the trilogy, and then read the new book releasing september 30th. Feels fucking good bro

>>719695835
It was bundled, which makes it even more pathetic.

>>719695881
MK8 is bundled with switch 1 consoles xister

>>719695840
>Bundles

>>719695898
read it last year (kurwabro here) and it's good

AAA gaming being so expensive whilst simultaneously being buggy unoptimised shit with minimal content at launch for so long has already naturally conditioned me to wait at least 6-12 months before even considering buying their shit. And even then I'll only buy it on sale for at least 50% off or more. If the game has Denuvo then no buy until that is removed even if the price gets stupidly cheap.

>>719695947
i fucking loved season of storms so i expected no less, good to know though, can't wait

>>719695935
Those numbers didn't include bundled. Can you even read?

The right price is revenue maximizing. That's all there is to it. I don't see many people whine about localized pricing. That's its function.

>>719695915
Did people really buy the switch 2 just to play the same shit they've been playing since 2017? More like switch 2 a better console.

>>719696032
Nintendo fans are in a league of their own delusions.
I think the problem here is that other AAA companies believe they can emulate or exceed that level of brand worship.

>>719693476 (OP)
>Rockstar pulls a giga power move and releases the game for $50
What now, anal cysts?

>>719696092
>just as I predicted five days after release

>>719693476 (OP)
I'm not buying 80$ games, nor 70$, nor 60$

>>719693476 (OP)
look at what nintendo did and tendies defended it btw lmao

>>719695618
>It's also being outsold by Mario Kart 8.
>I'm flabbergasted that these analysts not only still have jobs, but that suits still pay and believe them.
So who wants to explain to this anon why he's a retard.

>>719696185
Yep, they defended it alright. That's why there's one and only one $80 game.

>>719696267
nigga you're going to pay 90 bucks for the next zelda don't lie now KEK

>>719694110
They're butthurt it's $50 and want their wishes to become reality. Typical troon mental illness.

Tell me /v/, how does it feel knowing that Rockstar is currently balancing the entire gaming industry on the tip of their finger and will completely ruin games for the next 5 or so years after GTA6 releases even though it'll be the usual dogshit fake-deep jank slop shit they release every time

>>719696092
I could honestly see this happening, but more so as a hook to pull people in for the inevitable microtransaction holocaust that is GTA Online.

>>719696267
And it's the worst game yet

>>719696386
Honestly I only see it effecting AAA. That's its own bubble of shit. You'll have your overconfident studios saying "hey, we can sell our slop for GTA prices!" and then the abysmal earning calls and layoffs hit. Like they always do.
Indies will stay in their lane. Maybe they'll even get a boost as overconfident corpos battle to see who can die the fastest.

>>719696341
Yeah sure, whatever you say.
Don

There's no way GTA6 will recoup the gigantic amount it cost to make, but GTAO makes them millions every hour so it doesn't matter I guess

>>719693476 (OP)
Fewer people are buying anymore though. You get a few runaway successes and the rest of the industry flounders because it's just not worth taking a risk with random games anymore.

>>719693476 (OP)
>70 shekels
>old pricing model

>>719694380
As far as new releases go, I really only keep up with the Yakuza series. Except for 8, i wasn't a fan of the turn-based combat. Pirate game was fun though.

>>719695341
Sorry still haven't finished my 3tb backup drive of roms, isos, and gog downloads.

>>719696092
i've been thinking about it for a long time, but 60, not 50. The industry would be hilariously fuming.

I just checked my steam buying history and I've managed to not buy a single game for more than 25 dollars since 2015.

>>719695341
I'm rereading A Song of Ice and Fire for the first time since I was a kid. Also decided to read religious scriptures but they're really really boring. I recently finished Lolita at an anon's recommendation and was pleasantly surprised to find it's a comedy and not smut. Also I found a site to dl books for free so it's all good.

>>719695426
Toddlers dont read much

>>719693896
>I won!
>let me show you my emulator logo and those zip files I never used

People might pay that much but fewer people do on a smaller amount of games.
These corpos dont understand that they are ruining their own market this way. Are they so sure that their product specifically will be the one customers will spend their limited money on? Because somethings got to give.

I havent seen a game released in the last 10 years thats worth that price and im simply not gonna pay it, i have found more fun playing older games

>>719693476 (OP)
>buys indies at $10-30 instead
nutin personnel

>>719693476 (OP)
I wouldn’t play most modern games even if I was paid $80 to play them through to the end

>>719696913
>let me show you these free games that are good and can play whenever at my leisure
Yeah, he won.

>>719693476 (OP)
okay

>>719695341
imagine being such a zoomer philistine that not only you can't acknowledge that piracy exists, but you're also so uneducated and uncivilized that reading books is seen as some sort of a negative activity. fascinating behaviour.

I've been noticing many big games just quietly floundering even with positive reviews because absolutely fucking nobody really wants to pay full price for this stuff. You're just missing out on a bunch of day 1 hype in exchange for everyone buying it at the first 30% sale anyway. All the major hits have them screaming "it's too cheap, you'll undercut the industry!". Nigga you're overcutting it.

>>719693819
there's also the near endless supply of older games you can catch up with in the meantime. And once all the DLC and addons for an RPG are out, you can just pirate it all and play it at your leisure. Honestly I don't even know what younger players are getting hyped for anymore, all that cool as fuck games with unique features came out in the 2000s and after that it was all the same shit and a bunch of indie games. I get the feeling that this new generation is only getting manipulated by influencers and streamers

>>719693476 (OP)
for some of us the price is still $0 in universal internet coin

>>719693476 (OP)
I was willing to drop 60 for a really good game. I will never pay above 60 and I'll just wait for a sale

>>719693476 (OP)
They can stay as long as they want, I'm still not buying a game for any price if I don't think it's worth it.

>>719697036
>millennials projecting their behaviour on zoomers again

>>719697039
this is the same shit as with the pandemic where a bunch of businesses and industries screamed that they're dead in the water and "we have to raise prices!" and then had record profits because it was all bullshit
NEVER believe a single corpo word, it's all a scam

>>719695341
just bought 150$ worth of books. id rather buy that than one (or two) ""premium"" editions.

>>719697092
>projecting behaviour
but i enjoy reading books
and i also pirate games
so where's the projection?

>>719695843
good taste anon

>>719697092
>self-reporting zoomer

>>719693476 (OP)
Oh shit, Goyslop XIV will be so expensive, oh no.

>>719697040
kids are hyping shit up because they actually want to experience something cool and be part of it, but corporations just shit down their throats.
its a type of cope and kinda sad.

>>719696938
Corpos are focus grouped to shit and live in a bubble. It doesn't help that journos are backing their delusions and not transmitting consumer discontent at all.
>"Gamers LOVE paying full price." -Journo who read a tweet

I only pay for porn games. Yes I can pirate them as well, but I actually pay for them to ensure all games eventually become porn.

>>719697138
so do i.

>>719697241
I mean, the journos are just their propaganda/marketing team. The aim is not to glaze the corpos, it's to persuade the goyim to part with their money.

>>719693608
same. I buy when it drops to 20 euro or less, and that's only big expensive games, not minor games.
I don't care if I need to wait. Hypetards FOMOs btfo

>>719693819
>50€
lmao.
You mean 20

>>719695341
I already do that. Gaming is the dead hobby, not reading.

???
They actually pay more like $100 for 5-days early access. Ironically from people who are youtubers that complain about $80 games. Gotta get that coverage but excuse it by saying it's part of their job.

Nintendo is the only one greedy enough to push for $80 games that they now have 4 of them.

Imagine byuing a single shitendo game
You are your own demise, terminal toddler retards

>>719697602
Everyone should have learned their lesson with star wars outlaws

Imagine buying games.
Actually, imagine playing games in 2025+

>>719695341
yeah I'm having fun reading Cradle and the Sun Eater thanks

>>719696913
not playing video games board.

>>719697407
issue is that they drink their own kool aid.
optimally they should lie to buyers but give important info to their corporate overlords. thats not whats happening though.

>>719693476 (OP)
They best hope their industry can survive with the limited sales they still get, which will be dropping rapidly as people wise up to the moon-existent quality.
I see zero reason whatsoever to ever buy a video game in 2025. I haven't bought one since 2023 and the only two games I've pirated in that time were both made before 2014.

>>719693476 (OP)
>>719693608
same lol I never even bought a $60 game.
max spending = $30 per game, no more.

>>719695341
Just started The Black Tongue Thief and it's a fun a book

I think the videogame industry will go the other direction people here expect it to.

I think the audience will shrink but the price will go up to compensate.

I think by 2035 you will see $500 games with insane DRM that are extremely niche but sell 100,000 units to their respective autists.

Mainstream AAA that cater to everyone will die, it's already dying if we're being completely honest. Even indies are dying because no one buys the stuff that has universal appeal anymore.

People buy factorio, crusader kings 3, flight simulator and other very specific niches.

And we all know every single one of those demographics would happily pay $500 for the same game.

>>719698157
>I think the videogame industry will go the other direction people here expect it to.
>I think the audience will shrink but the price will go up to compensate.
same direction as Gunpla

>>719694380
>Do you fags only play the latest AAA goyslop?
Why do you think this board is so dogshit?

>>719695294
>games analyst
More like Gay Anal Cyst amrite

>>719693608
fpbp i stopped buying games a long time ago. i mostly just emulate the golden times and simce my pc is beefy enough, everything looks like a remaster. but you know, uncensored.

>>719693476 (OP)
80$ games? I'll continue to pirate or wait for a sale. besides older games are always available and often times better than whatever 80$ slop is thrown out.

>>719698213
We see it in a lot of markets now. Also lego, figurines and other niches. It's weird that videogames are being considered one single monolith, while in reality they are completely separate experiences with different audiences and niches. Hell you could even say they are completely separate hobbies.

I think the gaming industry will recognize this and go the niche route with higher prices.

Look at modern games

>vile negress lead
>pajeet AI slop setting and plot
>dogshit gameplay and controls
>abysmal forgettable music
>DEI nonsense to indoctrinate you
>day-1 DLC cut from the already empty main game
>"early access" never finished
>dev is more active on twitter and reddit than they are working on the game
>$80+ price point
>and above all else absolutely NO hint of entertainment whatsoever

What possible fucking reason would I, or anyone else for that matter, have for buying video games?

>>719698330
>I think the gaming industry will recognize this and go the niche route with higher prices.
SAAR in future you're video game experience well be bespoke to you uniquely made with generative AI only for you SAAR for only one easy $200 subscription your imagination is the game saar think like a brilliant and get the brilliant games

>>719693712
Thanks Nintendo and their sheep.....

>>719695341
>implying games will stop existing after an industry collapse
>implying people can't go back and play older games
>implying people can't pirate
>implying people can't replay games they own
>implying people can't catch up on their backlog
>implying
You are the winner of the stupidest person of the month award. Congratulations!

The only $60++ game I've pirated in the last few years were FF16 & Armored Core & Atelier Yumia
They all sucked, not even worth playing for free.

>>719693476 (OP)
It's been pricey for so long that increases don't register to me, sorry

>>719698157
>People buy factorio, crusader kings 3, flight simulator and other very specific niches.
>And we all know every single one of those demographics would happily pay $500 for the same game.
i would absolutely not pay fucking 500 dollars for factorio, are you fucking daft?

>>719698664
> games they own
> own

OH NONONONO
how do we tell him

>>719693476 (OP)
My problem isn't really the price itself, it's the fact sales have become shit because games KEEP their launch price forever. That 50% off ain't shit when you still total at $40, for example.

You guys realize that most people don't play games right? And I don't mean non-gamers. I mean people that buy the games, literally don't play them.

Most people purchase games based on hype on social media without ever starting the game as evidenced by achievements and thropies. If they start a game more than half stop playing after the first 2 hours, 90% stop playing after 5-6 hours.

This is why no one cares about quality and only wants to milk the purchases. Developers realize the people that ACTUALLY play the games are a minority, so you don't need to cater them. In fact the game itself is merely an excuse for the hype cycle.

It's all there to try and generate fomo and get people to buy the game and never play it.

>>719698686
i've been only pirating GoG releases, I don't trust these new release groups to keep shit clean.

>>719698698
Not you personally but most autists that have thousands of hours in factorio absolutely would, and you are being disingenuous if you are pretending they won't.

>>719693476 (OP)
All the GOTYs were either 50 or 60 bucks.
Coincidence? I don't think so.

>>719693476 (OP)
Wont buy. Doesn't affect me. Don't care.

>>719698834
GOTYs are always a popularity contest, and popularity is affected by who can crack their wallet for the biggest marketing budget.

>>719698780
That's rather sad statistic.
>realize I have yet to run any of last five games I bought
...
Fuck.

>>719698780
yeah my friend has that problem, he buys single player games but never finishes them, he keeps buying random shit and then makes the excuse that he paid less because he used a keysite. The only pro side of something like this is that you can try out a bunch of games you would have never touched at his computer, but this behaviour is just idiotic. He never had a lot of money and he's also the kind of person who suggest I should buy a lottery ticket to "maybe have a chance to score those 50 million !!!11!11!" ... and he's the one who got to reproduce and have a child. brb killing myself

>>719698780
>people who buy games, but don't play them
>people who don't buy games, but watch streams
>people who actually buy games
It's weird that additional pillar popped up.

>>719698815
i am an autist that has thousands of hours in factorio you dip
most people would just pirate the game

>>719693476 (OP)
Good. I hope they get more expensive.
Make it $100. $150.
Hell, $2000.

>>719698902
wukong didn't win tho

>>719693476 (OP)
Except Sony outright showed that people buy $70 games less than $60 ones and it is an active detriment to sales figures.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/91257/new-69-99-price-may-negatively-impact-ps5-game-unit-sales-data-suggests/index.html

People are buying them, sure, but it's verifiably causing less sales. Even now many devs are starting to release games at $30-50 price points just because $70 is so untenable.

>>719699123
Which is why I said hellish DRM, probably with some cryptography stuff and always online checks would be in order. If you couldn't pirate factorio 2 and it was $500 and it was significantly better, actually quality we both know you would start saving up.

>>719693476 (OP)
Yeah go ahead, compare your UE5 slop to GTA VI, price your UE5 slop the same as GTA VI. What could possibly go wrong?

>>719693476 (OP)
I mean, MP games have been $100+ for a while already. You DO want that season pass, right? How about yearly season passes? Not everyone who bought the game has to get those, just enough people.

>>719693608
Cope. i will still buy 80 euro nintendo games. Nintendo needs it for lawsuits to stop pc chuds from stealing our games

>>719699087
It's funny because the "people who actually play games" group is hated the most by developers.

People who buy games and never play them is their target demographic which they actually want.

People who don't buy games but watch streams add to the hype cycle and social media FOMO farming which is what these companies want and need to rope in the first group.

Meanwhile people that actually play the game add nothing to the company except potential complaints and "entitled whining". It's actually in the best interest of these companies to try and minimize the amount of people actually playing the game, which is insane when you think about it.

>>719693476 (OP)
Then my wallet is going to stay closed too.

>>719693608
Stop being an economic terrorist

>>719693608
fpbp

>>719699349
People who buy games and never play them only really pop up when sales got involved, buying full price and not even playing for few hours is very rare.

It doesn't matter to me cause I don't buy games at launch like some cattle, I always wait for sales so I can grab it at like 60% off or something

>>719694006
I am extremely happy to see AAA implode this way.

>>719694229
It absolutely will. It's just that the industry hasn't shifted yet.

>>719699260
no, ppl hate DRM even more than high prices. I dont buy Denuvo shit even on 10 buck sales

>>719699603
>buying them at all
you are still a cattle

>>719694380
I've been playing a game I bought a while ago, called Wingmund lately. Have you heard of it? Of course not. But everyone's heard of the latest AAA slop. We don't even have to play it, to see it's slop. So we make fun of it. But that's the state of the industry. So we make fun of it.

>>719699727
People still buy denuvo games, same for kernel anti cheat shit which is even worse. They don't care at all.

>>719694302
Watching the FAFO play out has been incredibly pleasing. My only complaint, the latest articles on the Bioware fuck up that was Veilguard don't go deep enough. I wanna know more about it.

>>719694434
Roblox and ... what's the second biggest revenue game? Minecraft? Fortnite? Whichever, these two make up something like 60% of all video game revenue.

>>719693476 (OP)
>$80 games are here to stay
Except when it comes to China, their games are like 30-50% cheaper for some reason. I'll pirate it anyway.

>>719693608
i bought metal gear solid delta for half price from some russian key site. i will never pay more than $40 for a video game and even that seems expensive

>>719693476 (OP)
I'm not going to buy GTA6. I cannot care about Rockstar's immensely polished boring open world. I do not care about playing an okay third person shooter where I can shoot random passerby.

>>719695341
I do recommend Elric of Melnibone, and other Eternal Champion novels by Michael Moorcock. Very entertaining if you're into Dark Fantasy.

>>719699571
It's the majority of sales. About 50-60% of purchasers of games never even install or launch the game. Especially true for AAA games.

>>719693476 (OP)
Weren't they JUST dooming about how 95% of zoomers don't buy games?
Increasing prices will surely fix that

>>719693476 (OP)
>$80 games are here to stay
That's fine, that's what sales are for.

>>719695503
I don't think I'd pirate any of the new AAA games, since you couldn't even pay me enough to play them.

This will shrink the market for big budget projects.

>>719699808
And that's why we can't have nice things

>>719698902
>popularity contest
how come astroflop won then
how come cod didn't win anything

>>719699571
This is not true. Many of those retards go full on the FOMO pre-order a game full price and then never bother with it when it actually releases, even when purchased full price. They convince themselves they will play it at the weekend when they have time, but then something comes up or they don't feel it (because hype and fomo already moved on) and then they end up never playing it at all.

I see this all the time with friends of mine, even special edition preorders end up being unplayed.

>>719700002
i'm convinced they are purposely releasing games at a higher price knowing that the 'sale' price would still be $40-50

>>719693476 (OP)
At those prices I'd only buy Nintendo. I can just pirate everything else on PC

>>719699284
>everyone and their dogs deepthroat GTA5 as second coming
>Epic give it away for free
>try it with friend
>mediocre campaign
>heist end game got boring after 2nd heist
>our 3rd and last heist was with flying bike
neither me or my friend understood why people deepthroat this game so hard
the same goes for GTA6 which is apparently GTA5 with updated graphic

>>719693476 (OP)
>80$ have retreated
where? new games are 80€ and I'm forced to either wait a couple of years and buy them discounted if they are good or simply pirate them.

>>719700217
This is just basic supply and demand. Release something at a high price and the people that really want it will buy it and once their demand is covered reduce the price.

>>719699732
Maybe, but not brain dead
If the game doesn't have denuvo I get the repack version

>>719693476 (OP)
i will break out the popcorn and laugh as gta sells at 100 bucks or something retarded, and then for the next few years devs try to emulate it and repeatedly fail to understand that the ip popularity is what determines the price point for normies, and for hobbyists even that doesn't determine it, and all completely flop and scream into the void because of it
>bbbbbut they can charge that why can't i, I AM ENTITLED TO THAT MONEY
the only people buying at these price points are streamers for the most part, because the price will never matter to them even if its 500 bucks because it's a tax write off and they make it all back instantly anyway

>>719695341
MAYBE I WILL!

>>719696341
I mean it's been what, 15 years since the last one?

>>719700397
>missed experiencing being part of the discovery of the random weird things on the map
>missed the multiplayer shenanigans with all the creative types
>missed hackers dropping so much money that you could buy whatever you want and then fuck with noobs on weekends
>missed the un jaded noobs unironically roleplaying for the love of role playing
yeah bud the experience is totally the same now as it was a decade ago

>>719695341
Thanks, anon.
I'm currently reading Asimov's Foundation.

>>719695341
I legitimately read more in 2025 than I play games. Currently reading Piranesi. It's more fun than games as well.

I'm glad to see It's not just me but it's a general trend on 4chan among anons. I guess it's both the advanced age and that games are absolute dogshit now that contribute to this.

>>719693608
fpbp
Haven't bought games for more than $5 in over a decade with very few exceptions that I deemed worth it, like Sekiro or Hi-Fi Rush. Way too much good shit out there for dirt cheap or free to blow tons of cash on the newest releases. The fomofags who can't handle not playing a game for its own sake and need to feel like they're part of everyone else playing it can continue to subsidize the hobby for me.

>>719693476 (OP)
this won't end well for them

>>719695341
will do, because I've found a new hobby

>>719693476 (OP)
Team Cherry will save us.

>>719693608
came to post this

Is not water, is not essential, is not scarce, or a limited time service (unless you a cunt) and have loads of games to play, I can wait.

I am having a blast with MGS5, 10 years after its release, I am not one of those people that gets the ick because something is older than a month and thus it doesn't give them a dopamine rush, or whatever is at fault for consumers wanting something that already exists but won't play it because is "old".

>>719702558
why did the dumbass AI give her a belt below her tits?

>>719693819
Yeah I don't have to buy a new game at day 1 or worse, preordering

>>719693608
When the first post is also the best post.

>>719693608
bingo

Poor fags gonna seethe. I will continue to buy all the newest releases and idc if they are buggy at first. I trust the developer to fix them.

>>719703263
>adding a belt for no reason in nonsensical places
It's a weeaiboo

>but people still buy these games
Do they though? Every AAA game this year has flopped.

>>719695341
just finished Bram Stoker's Dracula but thanks

>>719693476 (OP)
you could price games at $1000, some idiot's gonna buy it, that doesn't mean all games should be priced at $1000. a game sells less the more it costs due to the simple fact that many cannot afford it or justify its price.
corpo execs and investors are incapable of thinking long term. you offer them $1000 today, or $100,000 next year, and they'll take the $1000 without thinking.

>>719693476 (OP)
I don't fucking think so.

>>719704535
There was a jap indie dev a few years back who priced his new game at like 200 bucks or something, it still sold pretty well.

>>719699260
no i absolutely wouldn't, stop thinking you know what i, or anyone else, would do, just because you want it to happen

>>719693608
My man

>>719693608
FPBP
Vote with your wallet

>>719693608
Yeah yeah we already've heard of that

>>719705337
You WILL do it. You don't have a choice. Don't say you won't do something just because you don't want it to happen.

>>719693476 (OP)
Stop buying $80 games
Stop buying UE5 slop
Stop buying AI upscale dependent garbage.
Stop buying denuvo slop.

>>719705238
cool, but what does anecdotal evidence has to do with anything?

>>719705715
>You don't have a choice
lmao this isn't fucking bread you dunce. i absolutely won't. i haven't spent more than 10 dollars for a game since space age, and that was like once in a year kinda thing.
i won't buy expensive games and no amount of gaslighting will make you convince me.

>>719705715
NTA but just because you don't have self control it doesn't mean everyone else doesn't.

>>719706265
>bread
ooooooh, thankfully we aren't on /fit/ or you'd be dead now, anon.

I will not buy games for 80 dollaridoos

>>719697252
Based

Delta sold like shit on Steam just because its 80€

>>719694049
No they're not
Regional pricing does a lot of heavy lifting in those regions.
It's just that no games are coming out worth paying that much for.
If half life 3 came out and was priced as 80$, I'd probably buy. Ubisoft/Rockstar faggotry? Not a chance

>>719703263
It's a weightlifting belt.

Just stop buying games at launch and buy them when they go 25-50% off.

>>719706436
i'm from eastern euro so we have actual bread here, not whatever burgers eat
also i make my own

>>719693476 (OP)
Is there any way to track piracy statistics?
How many more people are torrenting games after the 80$ price hike?

>>719693476 (OP)
>go to bootleg keysite
>get game at half price

>>719707075
i would classify the american stuff as sugar bread ... yuck

>>719707125
Every guy I know younger than me has came clamoring to learn how to pirate. It was like a tsunami. It started roughly 6 months ago and hasn't stopped since. By my friends/relations from games and discords alone I can tell that at least 1/5 of gamers I know have adopted piracy in the past year. Those are only the ones I know about. I've tried to hold on, I was a mega piratefag until around 2012 or so. But even with the ability to pay these days, the prices have became fucking insulting. I'm not paying 120aud-135aud for a video game. Ever. Not in a million years. It either doesn't get bought at all or it gets pirated, simple as. There's armies of games out there for 30-40 aud that are just as fun and give me all my bang for my buck. We're gonna see a lot of heads rolling across the next five years. It's the same thing that happened with woke games, you can't make us buy something if we're not willing to pay for it.

GTA6's ridiculous price will become either the nail in the coffin or the shekelening.

>>719700416
80$ is + taxes, it would be 90€ for us

>>719693476 (OP)
Plenty of old games and f2p games to play. I am never buying a game for 80-100 dollars ever. Pirating is also still on the table.

>>719693476 (OP)
You voted for this

>>719700416
thats literally almost 20% of my wagecuck money, yes im a poor slav but i still have to pay these retarded prices

>>719693476 (OP)
I will buy them at a discount.

>>719707958
Really? I thought you guys got regional pricing at like 10% the western price?

Honestly just pirate everything and spend the money on extra rakija/vodka/pivo or whatever your local slavfuel is together with some sausage to snack on while gaming.

>>719707958
it's already up on the usual piracy site

>>719708069
>>719708115
ofc i pirated it already but i would buy it if it was normally priced

>>719693608
Exactly.

>>719707294
i don't mind the occasional sweet bread, like chałka or something, it's yummy
eating shit like that every day would probably kill me

That is the EXACT type of thinking that leads to industry collapse

>>719708156
>i would buy it if it was normally priced
You're a better man than me then. I'm a westerner that can afford it but still chooses to pirate every time.

>>719700416
EU has the highest game prices in the world, we have to pay for Ukraine and for illegal immigrants

we are on the right side of history tho :)

>>719693476 (OP)

They are not $80 games for me because I won't buy them at that price. Simple as that.

>>719708246
>That is the EXACT type of thinking that leads to industry collapse
Oh god please let this happen.

>>719708279
how hard is it to make a Turkey steam account and just use a VPN?
im guessing Steam will need a Turkey credit card?
can i just find some Turk on discord and pay him to buy me Turkish steam wallet cards?

>>719695341
i already spend more time reading than playing video games.

>>719693476 (OP)
INFINITE GROWTH THE NUMBER MUST ALWAYS GO UP NO MATTER THE COST!!!!!!!!!

>>719694006
Lowering prices while the buying crowd diminishes would mean freefall of profits

>>719693608
This you do you and all, but these games aren't worth 20$ much less 100$

>>719694049
They just steal shit I bought into VR early and quit when Niggers learned how to steal a headset from Amazon. It's gonna be gay niggers and censorship no matter what so I don't buy much anymore

>>719693476 (OP)
Who cares
>Wait for steam sales
>Pirate
>Wait for a year when the price drops
>Pirate
>Wait for a year and when it's discounted on steam summer sale
>Lol @ console plebians

It is pretty funny how angry anons get at being called poor cause it is true. Lazy poors

>>719708730
I'm poor and $80 is easy to afford. I don't think this has anything to do with poverty since $80 still isn't a lot and people can still easily afford all the games they want even if priced $80 a pop living off of welfare or NEETbucks. I think it has more to do with the principles behind it.

>>719693476 (OP)
What's with every game thinking they can charge a lot of money if GTA6 does? The most popular game series in the world, with the most immersive world, that's been a decade in coming, and has the best graphics and immersion of anything released - what kind of delusional execs think their middling games can measure up to that?

>>719708564
Oh no! The CEO of a big gaming company might only make 2 billion instead of 4 billion dollars!!!!

>>719708279
>vatnik talking points
Russia has been weaponizing immigrants against us. every dead russian is worth it.

>>719693608
Wait, it's coming into focus... yep, that's a fpbp if I've ever seen one

>>719701305
Good stuff. back when sci fi was still alive

>>719693608
>people still buy these games at these high price points
literally who??

>>719709213
>i must pay 80€ to own the Russian

you are a mindbroken faggot

>>719693476 (OP)
They do this but then put all the games on sale after 2 years at the latest for like 75-90% off.
I bought every single notable game of the last generation for 75-90% off so are they worth $80 or not because apparently after a year or two they're only worth $15 - $5.

Look at that new RoboCop game. I saw it for 75% off the same year it was released! Why slash prices on games that are worth literally 10x more.

Are they admitting that their games are only worth full price for 1 year tops? Sounds like they're shit games, Nintendo doesn't think like that and they make loads-a money

>>719693608
I wasn’t even buying the $60 games.

>>719709213
this is why we need 100€ games, this will defeat Russia quickly

>>719709025

There is no principle behind bitching about a ten dollar price hike, you just don't wanna pay the extra ten dollars.

>>719693608
fpbp GOD

>>719693476 (OP)
>>719693608
>early access
>microtransactions
>dlc before release
>lootboxes
>day1 patch that barely fixes anything
yeah, i'm cool, thanks

>>719709735
Yeah but it's not like the $10 is going to make a difference for people suddenly not being able to afford the game and therefor seething. It is about the principle of price hikes for no discernible reason, especially as the games doing so are already massively profitable as is.

>burger AAA slop releases for 80 bucks
>chinkshit and gookshit releases for 60 bucks
>even the euros are releasing it cheaper
What a fucking weird timeline.

>>719709735
the principle is that many of these games moving to $80 have baked in fomo slopstore microtransactions that they are making insane money (in both gross and roi) from, so the extra $10 admission fee seems both extra greedy and needlessly exclusionary given that on average they'll claw that extra $10 from gamers on a retexture here or there.

>>719709928
America is the greatest nation in the world.
You should be grateful to be only paying 80$ for our games.
Is what I would say if our gaming industry wasn't overrun with deranged leftists.

>>719693476 (OP)
if you buy american slop you deserve it

>>719693476 (OP)
Every fucking week we get a
>WHY WON'T CHUDS BUY GAMES!?
Bitch-article from the gaming industry, and now they're just outright going
>LETS JUST MAKE GAMES EVEN LESS APPEALING TO OUR DYING CUSTOMER-BASE!
The fuck is going on in the minds of gaming industry leads?

>>719705710
This image is a retard test.

>>719710169
If only the right weren't too stupid to make videogames

>>719700435
except the games industry is all about the shiny new product hype. 90% of people don't give a fuck about a game 1 month post release.

>>719710169
yeah look at how many pro-communist/socialist AAA games there are
oh wait

>>719710401
>yeah look at how many pro-communist/socialist AAA games there are
...The vast majority of them?
Go ahead and find me a fucking game that shows nationalism as a good thing.

>>719710221
>The fuck is going on in the minds of gaming industry leads?
LINE MUST GO UP INFINITELY OR OUR SHAREHOLDERS WILL BE SCARED AND RUN AWAY

>>719693476 (OP)
We know, Nintendo's still around.

>>719693476 (OP)
that's fine i have decade worth of ps2 games to play while you burn

>>719693476 (OP)
I know a lot of publishers don’t like it, but I’m going to buy a finished product at a discount instead of paying double to QA test the worst version of the product.

>>719710401
Are you fucking retarded? Not only are there tons of AAA games like that, leftist pandering goes well past that.

>>719710228
The right focuses on actually important things. i.e. Not video games.

>>719695341
>needing to read books when you have 60 plus years of vidya

>>719710556
I recently picked up Final Fantasy X. Brilliant game. I forgot how good JRPGs used to be. Never played it before either so it's not nostalgia speaking.

>>719710228
>If only the right weren't too stupid to make videogames
Tim Cain noted that he got constantly bullied for being a faggot while making Fallout.
The gaming industry used to be right wing because you actually need to have diversity of thought to make new creative ideas. A hive-mind only corrupts, it does not create.

>>719695341
Appreciate it, kind indian stranger.

>>719693608
fipibipi

>>719695341
Steams own published stats revealed that the average number of games played each year across the entire player base is 2.

>>719696903
And yet they still outpace you? Curious. Must be a sub 70 IQ thing.

>>719693476 (OP)
>paying more than 3 coins for a game
Good goys.

>>719698736
He's referring to games made before 2005.

id est, boni ludi. Faggot.

>>719708564
The buying crowd is diminishing because the prices are rising. It would be quite easy to see the buying crowd of games priced at 30$ max

i personally think it's a good thing, most bigger new genres were price locked at 4.99 and below and inflation has only increased heavily since 2020. also people view spending money for vidya more frugally than any other entertainment media. it's interesting how many gamers there are and how actively viewed less vidya products are in society, the only thing worse is movies at the moment due to streaming services packaging everything into a neat subscription becoming the norm. streaming is even worse than movies in this regard for music. with microsoft and other companies wanting to decrease the value of vidya, it's good companies are trying to push back to maintain some sort of market before pure stream-slopification for vidya.

>>719698736
I own them because you can't take them away from me.
>b-but muh license
Gay shit your lawyers made up that I don't respect.

>>719702558
Soul is gone on the right

>>719693608
BASED

>>719709610
>completely unrelated topics
lmao

>>719694750
Don't forget snoystation owners. Those good goys will buy the latest movie game for 80€

>>719693476 (OP)
$20
Bet that scared you.

>>719712195
A game like that would have been free 20 years ago on the front page of Newgrounds

Why would I pay for games when I can torrent them for free?
There is no reason to buy new games when they haven't improved at all in the last decade, they all look and play the same so you might as well play slightly older games instead.

>inb4 Denuvo
It gets removed a year after release usually anyway.

>noooo that's immoral you gotta support the dev
The same devs that ruined the industry for good? I won't support them.

>>719713021
>not improved
They have straight up regressed. They should cost LESS now than back then.

>>719712195
>$20 for a fucking flash game
yike

>>719693476 (OP)
GTA 6 will be $99.99 and it will sell millions

>>719693476 (OP)
The only game I will buy for 80 bucks in a new paradox game with season pass included.
All other games can fuck off.

Retards bitching endlessly about an upfront retail price, while giving a free pass to the endless microtransaction GAAS hellscape that makes up most games, are killing games.
I am tired of pretending that "a studio is making a game and selling it for a price" is ever unreasonable.

Why are these articles any analysts so disingenuous? Yes people will pay 80 bucks for only for a tiny selection of turbo normie games like call of duty and big Nintendo shit like mario kart or whatever and gta and assassins creed and borderlands and fifa and madden. Its not like people are willing to pay 80 bucks for all AAA games that come out. Its only for a very select few franchises.

>>719693608
Based.
>inb4 denuvo
Ill simply wait for it to be remove 2 or 3 years later. By then the bugs will have been fixed and i get the best experience while you paying faggots paid to bug test.

>>719713563
You just need to figure who is behind all the complaining about prices and denuvo then you will know why games with aggressive mtx that are cheap or f2p get so many free passes.

>>719713891
I'm fairly aware that it's the instigator but it's self propagating and has been adopted by the majority of people

>>719693608
Same here, I'll either pirate or just play something else.

>Rockstar Social Club garbage
I don't care if they give it away for free, maybe I'll pirate it but I probably just won't play it at all.

>>719713563

Goomba fallacy. Second part is correct though.

>>719700739
What an ugly cover

>>719714528
There's no fallacy.
People are constantly bitching about game prices and never bitching about the actually damaging ways that games are constantly hollowed out for monetization. Ergo most of the people complaining about game prices ARE hypocrites by definition.
Furthermore it doesn't matter if someone "cares about" the various monetization plagues of the industry in the abstract, what matters is what people say and do. If you refuse to buy an $80 game but choose to ever buy a $50 game with and a $30 season pass, you are the fucking cancer killing games. Not the jews, not the evil strawmen game devs, YOU.

>>719714538
I don't think that's what the original cover at for Dracula looked like. Not even game remasters drastically change how the box art looks for no reason. It seems like book covers are treated less seriously than album covers, movie posters, or even video game box arts. I wonder why.

>>719693476 (OP)
>$80 games have retreated
oh okay, so we're no longer gonna have games that cost more than $60 or $70
>the old $60 or $70 is dead

Alright so, which is it then?

>>719693476 (OP)
waitfags win again, as usual.

>>719693476 (OP)
I don't even buy games above the 15 euros mark

>>719695341
Yes?

>>719708564
You could say the buying crowd is diminishing because the perception of value and said quality of 80 dollar games is non-existent, because if the triple A games have sucked at 70 dollars, what would make consumers even think that 80 dollars would be fair for a asking price? I certainly won't be buying 80 dollar games, and even when it came to 70 I've been very selective compares to how it's been back when it was 50/60.

>>719714842
Cause a lot of books (like that one) are public domain so the main way to get people to buy your edition is to make a cover that stands out

>>719695341
books are great, faggot

>>719693476 (OP)
>$80 games are here to stay in my pocket

ftfy

>Shit is more expensive than ever
>Still sells millions
Are Americans just massive crybabies?

>>719693476 (OP)
Good thing I have all the games I need. I'm done with this industry

>>719693696
with 80 dollar microtransactions

>>719693476 (OP)
>billions of eyes looking at GTA
there aren't even that many people in the world

>>719719491
Anon.. We have 8 billion humans now. Planet's infested as hell

>>719693476 (OP)
no fucking way gta will be anything less than $100. if nintendo thinks a cartoon racing game is worth $80, then a game which cost 2 billion to produce is worth at least $100.

>>719693476 (OP)
I don't really see what's the big deal, just don't buy the games at full price.

>>719693476 (OP)
Better get used to paying $90 for games. $100 games are the way forward. $120 games are the future, with the opportunity to buy an $60 season pass, $20 monthly server fee, a small price to pay, really, for the yearly releases.

I-is that a $20 indie game? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! THAT'S LITERALLY TERRORISM!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>719693476 (OP)
>Buying games at full price
I haven't bought a game at launch in a decade. Why the fuck would I do that? Waiting a year or so means the price comes down and I get the benefit of post release bugfix patches.
Even if $80 games become standard, I still won't be paying more than $40 for them.

The seller can only dictate the price up to what the buyer is willing to pay in non-essential goods. If you arbitrarily raise the price the consumer is not required to abide.

>>719719739
>As of early 2025, India accounts for about 17.8% of the world's population, China for approximately 17.2%
i said people

>>719693476 (OP)
>we only want the rich Californian elites to buy our games
good luck with that. I'll just keep playing genshin.

>>719694049
Ironic because thirdies are the ones covering for Nintendo the hardest recently here. Have you seen the sheer amount of ESL and ETL posts in defense of Nintendo?

>>719712581
Do you actually have any examples of flash games with as much content as hollow knight?

>>719720464
Alien Hominid

not gonna read this thread and just assume its filled with retards arguing like games havent historically been expensive

>>719693476 (OP)
I will now just wait 3 years to buy your game at yard sale prices (provided it isn’t too infested with nons and weird pronoun people)
Dead space remake: $15 - worth every penny
Callisto protocol: $9 - about right.
Time is on my side here.

>>719721559
I like how you never point out that games were also across the board varied and not just """indie games"""

>>719708564
damn, maybe the CEO won't get a raise this year
lol

>>719695341
name 1 modern game worth more than 30 usd cucks

>>719693476 (OP)
If the rare game comes out that I am interested in I will, pirate it, wait until it goes on a steep sale, or wait for one of my friends in my steam family to buy it.
I haven't spent more than $20 on a video game since Elden Ring came out.

>>719722594
yeah but what if you get hit by a truck and isekai'd

>>719723073
nta but there's more than enough video games new to me that I can play and be satisfied with and if I get isekaid I'll just become a rapist or female elf slaver

>>719695341
I already do... I'm running out of space even though I put up shelving.

>>719698780
>It's all there to try and generate fomo
In which case raising the initial purchase price so high as to discourage fomo is incredibly fucking retarded. Shit like E33 and Silksong had/will have hundreds of thousands to millions jumping in at launch do to a combination of fomo and low entry cost. A $100 ubishit dudebro shooter? Not fucking likely.

>>719693476 (OP)
Not really, they will be $80 on launch for the "my life is a video games" retards, and then discounted to $40 for regular people, then put on plus for the third worlders.
It's the regular game strat now
Nintendo can do different because they never run out of idiots, but everyone else has to do the gay price combo.

>>719695341
I will, thanks!
Right now I'm reading The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford, it's pretty good

>>719695341
Price go up, sales go down, price go down, sales go up.
You can't change it, you can't cry it away, you can't argue.
People buy what they want to buy, welcome to capitalism.
If you want money, you have to make a good price plan, and offer a product people want to buy.

>>719698157
Nobody is ever paying that amount of money for single player games. It only works for a lucky few multiplayer games and that's only because players get to "show off" their e-wallet to others.

>>719723073
I will not consider missing out on some stupid video games a tragic loss.

>>719698157
Well, i will do $20 dollar games for the rest of the people myself and get rich.

>>719693608
This, and I have money to buy them, I simply refuse to buy a game for 80€.

>>719695341
>everyone in the replies exclusively reading sf/fantasy slopperino
sasuga /v/ desu

>>719693608
Based
I could understand if all we had was $60 or $80 games, but some of my favorite games were all sub-$20. I don't see how they can twist peoples arm to shell out an extra for a shitty "AAA" experience when there's an mountain of other similarly good games already there for a 1/4 of the price.

I'm just gonna buy nothing, and win.

>>719693476 (OP)

Whatever. Just pirate everything for testing purposes and then buy the ones that actually deserve to have that price tag on sale, so you still buy them for like 30 bucks

>>719708730
I have hundreds of thousands in cash and I don't even know how much money my wife has here much less overseas. She's the only daughter of a guy who founded a bunch of jewelry stores in Russia. I still won't pay $80 for vidya just like I won't pay $70 for vidya. Most of this current year slop you would have to pay me to play.

>>719695843
Very nice. Garro is a cool dude.

>>719695752
God I'm so glad you never actually learnt how to read.

>>719693608
>mgs delta is 90+ euros
>was cracked and released 3 days early
been enjoying it since

>>719693476 (OP)
It doesn't affect me because I don't play AAA niggercattlekikefaggotware

>>719705710
If you just had to pull out a screenshot for a 15-year old game to make an argument, then your argument is DOA

>>719693476 (OP)
>Old $70 pricing model
>old
I still have yet to buy a game at 70 fucking dollars. What makes these retards think I will buy them at 80?

>>719693476 (OP)
Have they considered Not:
>getting bribed by a shady hedge fund manager to hire utter incompetents without considering how the fuck you're going to pay for them when the bribes dry up
>spending retarded amounts of money on marketing and bribing journalists, then failing to check why a lead's brother just so happens to be getting paid for 3 months from the budget
>releasing a completely fucked product that necessitates at least a year of repair
?

>>719708564
lmao guess Microsoft has to lay off another 2,000 employees, instead of just admitting their C-Suite fags are fucking up and they should recalibrate

>>719695341
Only the worst litrpg shit for me, thanks for asking

>>719719781
Mario Kart is easily worth more than GTA. GTA haven't been good since SA

>>719725740
>getting bribed by a shady hedge fund manager
lol that's the majority of their income. They have infinitely deep pockets. You truly aren't the target audience.

>>719695689
MK8 had a damn near 100% attatchment rate. BOTW had over 100% attachment rate when it released
Go fuck yourself

>>719725889
They are worth the same amount.

>>719696267
>only one $80 game
>ignores TOTK
>ignores Mario party
>ignores kirby (lmfaoooo for this btw)
Tendies are such cultists.
His next respond will be that the other $80 games I posted don’t count for some reason or other.

>>719696092
I hope they do, it would be fucking hysterical if they sell it for $60 just to take a dump on their competition.

>>719726032
Ask anyone if they would buy Ubisoft at full price.

>>719693476 (OP)
Yeah. People buy them. But those people are nintendo fans that only but nintendo games at that price.

All other devs will get fucked over by doing this. Kek.

>>719697252
I'm in that same boat
I support my local H-devs

>>719726121
What does that have to do with mario kart and GTA having little worth?

>>719693476 (OP)
Won’t be buying.

>>719693608
Came to post this.

>>719695341
>only overly priced, money-laundering, political, federally regulated $80 dollar jew games exist
I got Helldivers on sale months ago for $30 and it has been popping off with content ever since. Keep your whatever, choose 3 dialogue options about gender studies and walk sim around talking to other empowered bipocs and if it’s GTA you can kill bystanders in between the lefty dream. I’ll pass.

>>719693608
fpbp

>>719698213
Nigger you can get gunpla as low as 10 fucking dollars, most kits are 30$ max unless you mean PG which are meant for said autists.

>>719726229
You lost? This isn't reddit

>>719693476 (OP)
E33 devs next game will be $70 or $80.

>>719693476 (OP)
it's pretty simple
buy your must have games at full price if you must
if you have a backlog, maybe wait on purchasing that FOMO game awhile so you can get it on a sale

>>719693476 (OP)
>Company: i want to grow 10% each year
>Reality: What about no
That simple goal every company has to grow infinitely is retarded and the source of most problems in the modern world

>>719726325
You're having an argument in your head and posting about it here

>>719700416
>Euros
70 dollars in the states (only place that matters)
>you can reliably find most new releases for 60 or less on sites like GMG

>>719708564
The buying crowd is diminishing because the costs are too high

>>719710401
I wish blind libshits like you would hurry up and neck yourselves.

>>719726303
>most kits are $30 max
Yeah if you limit yourself to HG

>>719721559
>what are cartridges
Go look at PS1 prices compared to N64 to see one of the main fucking reasons it was oldsold 3-1

>>719726046
The tendie's probably back in his shed after expending his allotted internet time.

>>719726815
>if you limit yourself to the most common kit
Yeah, no shit? Even MGs are 50-70 tops. Where the fuck are you paying out of the nose for gunpla of all things? If you bring up PG I'm going to choke you through my monitor.

>>719726990
So you were wrong?

>>719693476 (OP)
>It retreated
>But its comming back because it worked
If it worked it wouldnt have retreated from the high price.

>>719727105
Nigger there is NOTHING expensive about gunpla unless you buy PG which are by and far the most detailed, enthusiast bullshit. You can do the hobby for cheap without ever touching PG is my point.

>>719727191
I guess but I can't imagine someone only sticking with HG.

>>719726435
learn to greentext, mutt

>>719727264
You would be surprised. It's the most varied range and perfect for new people so it sucks them in to be enthusiasts. I have way too many gunpla kits, most expensive one I bought though was that Mega Zaku. Perfect Grade is just way too fucking expensive for me, it's for enthusiasts with more money than sense.

>>719727460
>Eurofag trying to tell his superior how to greentext
Go back

>>719727481
>it's for enthusiasts with more money than sense
I would say that's the case if it's people buying all or multiple of them. It would be pretty easy to save the money you were going to use buying other kits to get a PG.

>>719693608
based same.

>>719727573
I accept your defeat

>>719727845
True, but still man, 250 dollars is the going rate for most of them. I could get 4-5 MG kits for that cost.
Truth is it's all relative what you believe is worth it or not, but for me I don't want to spend 250 bucks on something I could potentially fuck up, building.

>>719693476 (OP)
That's cool. I have a really big backlog filled with shit I buy on sale far below the money you charge and I will pick up your shiny new title when it's discounted low enough too.

>>719693476 (OP)
So is the money in my wallet.

>>719693608
yep

>>719695418
That is fucking true man, I'm starting to think that I will die before playing all my games.

>>719700017
Do they even make AAA games anymore? It's just an endless conveyor belt of recycled slop with higher and higher price tags on it.
I will never, ever pay full price for a videogame going forward.

>>719693687
I took up cooking and would rather spend my money on equipment that I will get endless hours of pleasure from creating delicious meals.

>10 years later
>why is every company going bankrupt?
i hope the crash happens soon. the rebirth will be mesmerizing to witenss

>>719694250
I'm actually thinking about the feasibility of a whole game studio abiding by this one rule for all of their games. It would put some constraints on the development team which could foster novel solutions, otherwise known as SOVL

>>719695341
nothing better

>>719721341
lmao

>>719693608
Based, there isn't a single 80$ game worth buying

>>719693608
you are racust

>>719693476 (OP)

I will never pay that much for a game. I'll just get them on Steam sales.

>>719693476 (OP)
games are getting too fucking expensive to make
years and years of dev time for the game to release in a horribly buggy unoptimized state, running like absolute shit even on consoles
this has been the norm, and more devs are relying on bullshit like DLSS to compensate because "hurr durr if your rig isnt good enough just use DLSS" forgetting this makes games look like blurry shit

>>719708564
>while the buying crowd diminishes

They don't. More people play video games than ever.

But instead of playing western AAA trash they play gachas.

is it ethical to use voodoo to curse game developers asking for my friend baron

>>719708279
>EU has the highest game prices in the world

Because Euro got so strong you fucking idiot.

>>719734952
>the better economy you create the more you have to pay

explain this jewish magic to me

>>719693476 (OP)
>Wait 1 year
>Game is half off
Ez

>>719735084
Games are 80 euro like they were before it's dollar that lost value.

>>719735175
game were never 80€ until recently you dumb jew

>>719734803
Maybe just don't waste 100 million $ for le ebin uber mega graphics?

>>719735153
this used to be true 10 years ago, now you get 30% off

>>719735198
>Video game prices in the Eurozone generally followed a historical trend of starting in the €50-€60 range for new console games in the mid-2000s, increasing to €70-€80 in the early 2020s, but specific prices vary based on currency, region, platform, and game quality.

Literally every rich person I know Pirates and is a miser.

Most broke people have new cars/gadgets and the newest consoles.

I'm starting to despise consumers.

They can keep arguing. I'm simply going to keep spending less and less on games.
I don't even pay $50 upfront anymore, like I did as a teeanger. The games aren't good or impressive enough anymore, and I don't need them.
You meet me at my level, or I'll play something old that I haven't played yet, and probably have more fun in the process.

Reminder that if you live in a 1st world country you have no excuses to pirate.

>>719734803
I don't give a shit. Waste less money and make it work.
It's not my job to pay your sweatshop's wages (more realistically your CEO's, because the grunts barely get paid to begin with).

>>719734803
Stop making massive open world slop with every rock modelled after your mom's ass and make nice small single player experiences.

>>719735431
sorry rabbi but i will continue to pirate every PC game i play

>>719734803
>but sir, we need to spend three hundred million marketed CoD or else it won't sell.

>>719698240
(you)

>>719693608
fpbp

>>719735431
Sure I do. Spite.

>>719693608
economic terrorist incel

>>719696092
>the replies thinking that Rockstarofdavid would ever sell gta cheap
Lol
It's like you retards were asleep for the last decade

>>719735198
games cost whatever the fuck they wanted to cost back in the 80s and early 90s thoughbeit

>>719695341
Thanks Anon, I'm on book 11 of The Horus Heresy. Should have this wrapped up next Spring.

>>719695341
This is the sign telling me to get back into reading that I needed.

>>719693476 (OP)
I have yet to see an 80 dollar game drop that i would pay even 60 dollars for. Or hell, even 50 dollars for.

>>719693608
Fpbp

Not because of a $10 price hike, but because modern games suck.

>>719693696
-$10 dollar game because I might as well pay amelie for the good job

>>719737403
are we sure he wasnt sandnigger-skinned?

>>719693608
Same. I'm done with the AAA industry.

>>719737403
>>719738162
Mia Chung...

>>719737403
>>719738162
>>719738346
Whoa, I looked up the killer and he actually looks like the cartoon pic. Another poltard L.

>>719693608
FPBP. Wait until it's on sale for 20 or less or pirate.

>>719738546
post

>>719734942
Yes
Curse them all mister shaman

>>719738647
Just Google her name, shit ton of articles.

>>719738704
so u cant
as expected

>>719709075
>The most popular game series in the world
That's pokemon.

>>719738793
You are too retarded to Google mia Chung and post pic the yourself? Haha.
Yet another poltard L.

>>719738908
as expected

>>719713596
Because the objective is to manufacture consent for 80 dollar AAAA games, which will also be 80 dollar AAA games.

>>719737403
I was just curious enough, as I figure it's a proxy of the GCJ level in the thread.

The brit is Mia Ayliffe-Chung. and Thomas Jackson
The french national is Smail Ayad

>>719693608
Same lmfao

>>719699743
>Wigmund
That looks dope thanks

>>719738824
Okay most popular among men

>>719740652
that's pokemon

>>719739279
But he looks like the guy drawn.

>>719738793
Smail Ayad. Never went to trial due to mental health status.

>>719725346
I must be that guy's ideal customer, because I'm very comfortable with not owning any Ubisoft game that came out in the last 10+ years.

>>719693608
This, eat shit AAA kikes

>>719740719
Be honest

>>719740719
men as in grown adults not male children

>>719740987
Lmao
Please tell me he got off scot free

>>719741282
Ok but then we have to exclude GTA as well

>>719741137
>>719741282
yep, still pokemon

>>719740987
Why does a Frenchman have an Arabic name and shout Allahu Akbar?

>>719693476 (OP)
>$80 games are here to stay
>Here's why games should be $90

>>719741612
Okay the other guy is retarded but this image is pure pokefag delusion