Thread 723060617

games should cost $100. it was never meant for poors to enjoy. i'm tired of their opinions ruining shit and lowering standards. it's like when someone poor goes into a restaurant and gasps that the menu has items that cost more than a mcshit, so they put a negative review without getting anything. bring back proper gatekeeping.

yeah, $149 for gta 6 and $249 for the premium package is pretty much guaranteed now
thanks ea

does he know?

>>723060735
you will buy gta 6 anyway

>>723060617 (OP)
Yeah I was interested in BF6 but fuck that I'l just pirate it in a few months.

>>723060767
I have never played a GTA before and I probably never will

>>723060767
good one

>>723060767
You mean with a -95% discount couple years later?

>>723060617 (OP)
standard edition of games will cost $100 in a few years and nothing will happen, gaymers have shown to be retarded goycattle again and again and again and will keep buying them anyways

>>723060617 (OP)
>NOOOOOOOOOOO US THIRDWORLD SHITSKINS NEED TO SPEND ANOTHER MONTH IN THE SWEATSHOP FACTORY TO EARN THAT EXTRA $10 GAMING IS WOKE NOW GO BROKE

>>723060921
That's a really weird angle coming from EA marketing department...

>>723060921
keep eating slop, goy
>inb4 i pirate
keep playing slop, goy

>>723060921
buying overpriced shit is peak nigger behavior tho, why do you think they are poor? cuz they waste their money in retarded shit

Ignoring budgets, ignoring AAA and ignoring whatever else. The price of video games was $60 for nearly two decades. Inflation has gone up far more in that time. Did you honestly think that video games would stay $60 forever and were immune to inflation?

Answer honestly.

>>723060921
>The next week
>WTF WHY ARE INCEL CHUD RACISTS NOT BUYING QUEERDOM TROONSIMULATOR SIX!?
Lol, get fired!

>>723061225
im not going to pay more than $10 for videogames, never have never will

>>723061225
>fill modern games with battle passes, day 1 dlc and lootboxes
>then have the nerve to increase the sales price while keeping all that shite
video games make more money than the rest of the entertainment sector combined. the suits arent starving theyre just retarded.

>americans gets priced like northern europeans
>immediately lose their shit
>even though they have way more disposable income
Pay up like we’ve been doing for 30 years, i know it sucks

What killed the AAA industry wasn't 70 dollars, it was medicore forgettable games, 70 dollars just cemented its death. What was the last AAA game from a major publisher that legit made you say "Damn, what an incredible game."? At best, it's just focused tested to death "ok" games. I haven't played either Expedition 33 or Silksong, but people are clearly passionate about those games in a way people normally aren't for AAA games, not just because they charged less money (though that certainly doesn't hurt) AAA games are just mid/bad now, simple as

>>723061256
>>723061074
>>723060994
>>723060957
spotted the thirdworlders

>>723061521
look in the mirror, saar

>>723061521
>Insults target audience (White people in Western nations)
>They don't buy the game
>A-Actually it was just uhm...Browns! BUT RACISM IS BAD BY THE WAY!

>>723060617 (OP)
Thanks, Sony

>>723060617 (OP)
The industry died in 2016. It just hasn't stopped moving yet. I think GTA6 is going to be a big eye opener for people. They've been working on that game through the entire woke era. There is no way it isn't flooded with the stuff. It won't flop, but people are going to be fucking pissed.

>>723061312
Then the question was never relevant to you in the first place.

>>723061447
So if we assume games must charge more inevitably due to inflation, would you prefer this be done via those battle passes, day 1 dlc and lootboxes, or simply the game asking for more up front? Keep in mind that the more live service shit is required to make money, the more it will define design.

>>723062554
People are mocking you, but I want you to know, they're right. This is some cringe shit. You sound annoying and stupid.

>>723062932
This is such a blatant bot post. God dammit, fix your bots, people. That doesn't even make sense.

>>723061225
yours is a rhetoric perpetuated by goycattle.
you seemed to have also ignored wage growth, which has long been stagnant relative to inflation, even in the games industry where wages are notoriously low.
games are becoming more costly, but where is the money going? hm? because it's not going to those who make the games.

>>723061225
The problem is on two fronts: Corporations being the scummiest entities in existence that will do everything they can legally get away with to extract money from retards, and the retarded consoomer who will buy it anyway.

Despite owning a Switch with a fuckhuge library built up over 9 years, I refuse to buy a Switch 2 out of principle. I do not buy games at full price because I'm not an impatient retard. You cry out "MUH INFLASHUN", and I can counter with in-game ads, subscription services, having to pay for online play if you're not using PC, scummy DLC practices, battle passes, digital storefronts rendering manufacturing costs to virtually nothing, and the advent of indie titles that BTFO of AAA slop.

All of those things supplement the so-called rising development costs. Prices aren't what they're becoming today because of inflation or rising development costs you retard, they're becoming this way because of corporate greed and said corporations knowing full well that retards will buy it anyway. See: Jewtendo.

>>723060714
The issue si that if you drive them out now you will just be left with Middle Aged Millennial Funko consumers as the primary market to be appealed to since they have disposable income and out outnumber the STEM Nerds.
So in truth all that would happen is another decade of moviegames.

>>723060617 (OP)
GTA6 will set a new standard.
You'll pay more for vidya and be thankful for it.

>>723061447
Weren't all of those tricks made specifically TO keep 60 dollar games profitable?
>game budget goes up
>price doesn't change
>"oh fuck we need more money"
>"do this nobody will tell the difference"
Most of /v/ has definitely caught on and doesn't mindlessly consume (I hope), but I'm 100% positive that normalfags will happily slurp up whatever financial model is thrown their way. Most normalfags have probably spent so much money on 60 dollar games with battle passes, day 1 dlc and lootboxes that a ten dollar difference realistically shouldn't mean shit. But to SEE that price reflected on a sticker, NOW suddenly that 10 dollar difference is too much.

Just because the standard is $70/60 doesn't mean you have to retail for that much. Devs can choose to sell for less like E33 and still be hugely successful.

>>723064396
Yeah, and?

Do you want more free to play forever-online slop? Phone games and un-losable mobile RPGs designed to keep retention on literally the dumbest people capable of earning income?

The industry suffers when it caters to morons. Games need to be funded, that money comes from someone, that someone with the money sees Fortnite and Black Desert making a trillion fucking dollars and says, "Make me one of those, I want more money and fuck the people that care about video games."

I want the industry to take chances on someone's passionate ideas again. I want VR games with as much quality as Half Life Alyx released every four to five months. I would happily pay $100-$500 for amazing games that blew me away. Games that made me feel like it's the year 2025 and not still 2012.

I won't pay $70 for rehashed shit that isn't half as good nor revolutionary as Skyrim. I don't fucking need Mario Kart 12 or Assassin's Creed Tatarstan. I want to feel excited for a game release again. I want to look at screenshots and say "Holy shit!". I want game previewers to freak the fuck out at their copy.

Only rich people deserve to exist.

>>723061225
It's not my fault that all the big AAA companies massively overestimated future market growth and over expanded to meet a market that wouldn't exist.

It's also not my fault that 93% of all player's game time is spent in multiplayer games that are over 10 years old and that only around 7% of people are buying and playing new games.

>>723065882
It's not big corporations' fault that you have the nerve to exist without their permission.

>>723060767
I plan to buy a PS5 (possibly second hand but I'm not going to try gambling so only if I find a seller I like) and a second hand copy of the game, then reselling them when I'm done. It'll probably suck but I have played every GTA's single player campaign to date when the game was relatively new so I want to play this as well. I hope it'll be at least tolerable enough to finish.

>>723060921
Goy

>>723060617 (OP)
>saves the industry

Millions of games exist, just wait for a sale and play something else in the meantime lol

>>723068413
brown coded post

>>723068595
>jew coded post

>>723060617 (OP)
I wish future games will cost $200.

>>723060617 (OP)
good.

>>723068204
Yeah the UE animations AI slop will truly save the industry lmao

>>723060767
Seriously they would make more money at $70. If it's $80-100 people will only buy the game once or might even skip it. But if they get people to buy it 2-3 times at $70 they make a lot more

>>723060617 (OP)
Borderlands 4 already had a sale bringing the price down to about €50, that's inside less than a month
If you buy games at €70 you are utterly retarded and paying a FOMO tax

>>723061225
Inflation isn't real it's just a mass gaslighting event to push profits.
>hurr durr $20 in 2005 would be $30 today
Alright so why is my $20 bill minted in 2005 still only worth $20?

>>723060617 (OP)
>record revenue billion dollar growing industry

>>723071218
Inflation is as real as the value of funny fiat currency, but it stems from bullshit jew kikery literally spawning in wealth out of nothing through loans, interest, and usury and the system adjusts for it by printing the money to match the wealth they decided to create and give themselves, thus making themselves wealthier doing absolutely nothing but sitting on it, and devaluing the wealth of the actual working classes labour. Did you know in just the last couple years since covid when they started printing like crazy if you had been working 50 odd years up till now, of all the money you might've saved up, 30%+ just went up in smoke? Pretty cool right.

>>723072458
Why don't we just destroy money en masse to cause deflation?

>>723060617 (OP)
Games that should be $20 or $30 are asking $70. That's what's killing studios. daemon machina titanic scion for example, I make $100k a year and even I am not paying $70 for that fucking game,e ven though I'd really like to play it.
Not sure what fucktard is buying this shit.

>>723061225
>slave mentality
I hope you realize that this will lead to people buyer fewer games because by design wages don't keep up with inflation.

>>723060617 (OP)
Not really.
Everything gets more expensive, even for videogame companies.
So they increase the prices because it's either that of lay-offs.
But since they average ameripoor doesn't have much disposable income they can't afford the higher price.

>>723060617 (OP)
I've forgotten, was 59.99 the old price? Or was it 69.99? I only buy games at a discount when they are several years old, so i've long dince forgotten what the starting price is dupposed to be.

>>723061225
>The price of video games was $60 for nearly two decades.
The price for developing video games has gone lower ever since tools have become more standardized and games have become digital commodities. Factoring that in games should be way cheaper.

>>723060617 (OP)
If I could kill the industry for just $70 I would

>>723060714
>when someone poor goes into a restaurant and gasps that the menu has items that cost more than a mcshit, so they put a negative review without getting anything
this literally does not happen

>>723060767
I'm not a sub-90 IQ consolecuck tho

>>723060617 (OP)
I wish everything were more expensive so we didn't have to put up with subhuman poors everywhere.

>>723060617 (OP)
That's the FOMO price.
After a while they do a discount so regular people buy the game.

>>723076172
So, how's the transition is going?

>>723060617 (OP)
What really killed the industry was the DEI AAA western slop that's mass produced from all these major studios, they can charge $70 if their game is so good it justifies it, but that is quite literally never the case, none of these modern titles deserve that price tag, and they're all pozzed beyond belief

>>723076172
nobody is falling for your bait, shlomo

>>723076948
>>723077281
See what I mean? Canned NPC responses to any criticism. They are barely even human. You never saw this nonsense on the internet during the 90s because poors were priced out.

>>723060617 (OP)
tank you, Trump

even scott the woz calls out nintendo's greed for charging GTAVI money for 2013 graphics

>>723077948
>scott the woz
Who gives a fuck? Are you fucking 12 years old?

>>723078229
>biggest nintendo channel
>half a million views in a day
>does not matter
ok

How come wages don't follow inflation as much? People use the argument for highering vidya prices because "inflation" but wages are pretty much the same

>>723077948
>scott the fake gamer
how can niggers see him as a real gamer when all he played in his childhood was shitcube shovelware? and i mean ACTUAL shovelware

>>723060767
It's so par for the course at this point that I am just waiting for the controversy that happens 2 days before release that kills the launch.

>>723060767
I haven't bought a GTA since 3.

>>723079143
>niggers
pls don't change the subject. anons will do anything but admit the most obvious thing: nintendo is greedy for charging GTAVI prices for 2013 graphics.

>>723061225
game quality has been decreasing for nearly two decades

>>723078613
Yes, it did not matter.

>>723060617 (OP)
Thats what happens when there is an inflation but the wages don't increase adjusted to that inflation. BF6 is 80 Euros in my country. This is a price I would only pay for a game that I am sure will be my GOTY.

>>723060617 (OP)
Yeah, just like the last time $70 games killed the industry. Idiot.

Honestly if you have even... let's say five games in your backlog, and haven't reached the credits in all of them yet... Why are you even concerned about buying new games at all?

Like everyone here probably has unplayed games. Not just unfinished ones that you dropped after a while, I mean you statistically are bound to have a couple dozen games you got but didn't even start yet.

So this idea that $70 games are a big ask is kind of built off a false premise because literally why are you even buying new games to begin with?

We didn't worry about any of this shit in the 90s. We rented, and in the 2000s we relied on used copies. Then once the 2010s rolled around you had endless digital sales so you could effectively buy 12 games for $70 if not more, all of which would last you far longer too.

I just... Think it's a pointless discussion at its core.

>>723060714
i would prefer if games were 200 dollars, as opposed to 70 dollars with microtransactions and other free to play elements STILL. instead of feeling premium, it just feels like i am being told to spend money for a fucking free game

>>723081771
games used to be fun and therefore could justify a higher cost