Videogames are about to get more expensive for the first time in 15 years

comfy 100USD plus 45USD season pass for the latest release of handegg or divegrass

not him but take a wild guess.

Only niggers and underage can't into economics. Inflation always proceeds an international crisis, you know, like a global pandemic for example.

>can't into economics
ESL.
Stop masquerading yourself.

Or just buy games from smaller developer teams which make stuff that is more innovative yet less expensive. AAA gaming became a meme post-'16

Quadruple the price down size the effort and money actually going into the product. I don't get why people are mad at this, it's how capitalism works, you aren't entited to a finished product, you aren't entitled to a product that caters to your needs and desires for free. Either buy the game or don't or steal it while claiming you're morally righteous for it and shut up.

go back

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*Remasters the game a year later for full price*

No. The amount of people buying games have increased much faster than the inflation of currency. They make more money selling the same game today than they did 15 years ago simply because there are more buyers.

Well, time to only buy during Steam Sales I guess.

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or stop being retarded and buy from allkeyshop

Uzbekistan obviously

good thing I rarely buy AAA and when I do its on sale later

literally how new

[cries in console peasant]

>He thinks it's over
Get ready for $70 + $40 season pass alongside lootboxes

well, considering that PS1 games were $50 in the 90's, and adjusted to inflation that's $80 today
I don't see why it's bad that games go up in price

new AAA games*
any older games that I actually am willing to buy once they reach their lowest selling point ware the only game prices that matter to me, there are rarely any newer games worth spending money on.
this change will only be bad for the uncommon but inevitable quality games down the line, but it's mostly mediocre banal trash that will come out

The video game industry makes more money than the film and music industry. They don't need to increase prices to keep making profits, they are doing it because they can and know people will pay it

Except games in the 90s were worth buying compare today games.

ok, then keep playing your 90's video games, pal

If anything games should cost less than ever before because
1) economies of scale and the fact that games now sell more than ever before
2) few games these days, especially big-budget titles, is "just" 60 dollars. That's only the starting price, with the full price being hidden behind 'a la carte' pricing with DLC, microtransactions, and so on.

Modern games basically use a free2play model and yet want the listing price jacked up as well, go figure.
And inb4 someone posts pictures from the 90s of how expensive cartidge games were. No fucking shit, rom chips and enhancement chips on game cartridges are expensive as fuck. Meanwhile modern games, whether digital or disc, cost effectively nothing in terms of physical production/distribution.

Fuck, console sales are so bad. No 1st party digital store ever gives out decent discounts. I got Forza 7/H4 from the M$ store last year for a good cut, but it's usually never appreciable.

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>cost effectively nothing in terms of physical production/distribution.

server farms and bandwidth aren't cheap

Eh, i RARELY buy games on release anyways

Relative to the amount of product being distributed and money being made, yes they fucking are. Hence "cost EFFECTIVELY nothing"

I remember when I was a kid shit was 50 bucks brand new at most

Shit, 64 cartages were like $70.

I don't buy anything made by "AAA" devs so this has 0 effect on me. Its just them trying to justify their bloated advertising and executive budget plus the games will still come out buggy and unfinished with extra monetization "features".

The graphical leap from this gen to next has been marginal at best. And they want $10 more for the privilege of MAYBE playing at 60 FPS?

And Ill return to pirating, no problem.
This is just another step towards the market crashing, which would actually be a good thing as it would turn away AAA industry and their fucking ridiculous standards for what constititues making a game.
>games need to cost closer to $100, and still be full of microtransactions
>this is ontop of commitee made videogames that are medicore at best and terrible at worst
They arent worth it, every game that is coming out lately that is tearing ass in hte market does not at all meet the standards of AAA, where they have an army of development, graphical fidelity being hte focus and a small governments money making it. Let it happen.

Smaller dev teams charge $20 for making a worse clone of an existing NES game you can get for free.

And they still end up being better than most big studio games.

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British Caliphate

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Definitely not the UK with those prices.

Games aren't even worth 60, you think I'm going to pay 70?

>Videogames are about to get more expensive for the first time in 15 years

how dishonest, the profit margin kept increasing over the years which made selling games for 60$ for all these years viable, but the publishers are greedy and 30% cut for digital distributors seem untouchable for now, so they're finally moving the cost to customers

as a slav, they went full retard so I pirate stuff in advance