I would pay that much for a finished game on durable media like DVD, BR, rom cartridge (I guess if anyone wants to publish for my SNES, I'm buying because the console still runs)

Over the air updates have perverted development schedules to release in marketing timelines and backfill bugs later. The era where game development is about creating a carefully crafted experience, at least the games from the more respected studios, is over.

If "Buying" isn't "Owning" then "Piracy" isn't "Stealing".

Companies aren't making billions in profit for their shareholders? Cry me a fkin river.

Also, look at Crysis with all it's settings maxxed out and show me the huge list of games released in the last year that are comparable. There's entire youtube playlists comparing the quality of 15yo games to new releases and it's shocking how much is needed to be spent on hardware to get no better quality.

At least games like Expedition 33 are being made occasionally, they made a fantastic game (albeit with a disgusting lack of virtue signaling and progressive dogwhistles. Gross. like how dare they?) and retailed it for less than $50

The production costs are mis-applied and that's why they're so high. Fuck solid gameplay mechanics, we need 60GB of trash textures for the floor. Like literal garbage.

We will deny the economic problems until it is impossible to deny them. This unfortunetly means we will continue screwing this up and setting ourselves up for a very difficult recession.

First rule when you fibd yourself in a hole is to quit digging.

Instead, everyone is ordering more shovels.

You inply and interesting question. What place will luxury goods and services like overpriced videogames and premium online memberships have in next year's economy?

deranged CNN brain aside, how did you arrive at this conclusion? For instance, MS just laid off 15k workers a few days ago (in the face of record profits). Now, OBVIOUSLY this is actually (somehow) Elon Hitler Trumps fault, but could you explain your reasoning?

Because on the surface you sound like a deranged, hyperbolic cunt (like that rsilvergun chick), but giving you the benefit of the doubt..

> The economy is in shambles thanks to DOGE and Trump,

It's the Boomers' chickens coming home to roost. Between Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats, they voted for lower taxes, higher spending and funding it via the national equivalent of taking out loans on their kids' identity.

The pattern was consistent between Republican and Democrat admins and Congresses, which is why I tell every person I hear whining about "threats to democracy" that the greatest threat to our "democracy" is the actual behavior of o

Value is whatever someone feels it's worth. I personally don't pay very much for games anymore, but I'm also patient and don't keep up with the latest iteration of the exact same games all that often.

For me, there's little value in "new" games, especially since they are typically worse then older games in the same genre. Kids may not feel this way.

If you felt $60 games 20 years ago was an acceptable bargain, then really, you should be okay with $80 since that's actually LESS after you account for inflation.

Substantially less value. Re: doom, all of classic gaming (atari games were solo efforts, mostly yet still made a multi-billion dollar company)

> Video Games nowadays are harder and costlier to develop as ever before. But the tools to do them have gotten cheaper and cheaper.

> Besides, who asked for biger worlds, or more photorealism? I was perfectly happy with Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. I left Arkham Knight and Robocop Rogue City 75% through because of the endless grind. Guess many of you will be happier with a smaller world and a tighter story.

> Another thing, Game Studios nowadays do not have to manufacture (very expensive) cartridges, or (cheaper) CDs/DVDs, or boxes, or manuals, or pay to ship and distribute all that stuff. Just bits in the ether for marginal cost per extra unit sold.

> What do you folk think? Do games today (adjusted for inflation) bring more value per U$D, or less Valuer per U$D compared to games of yore?

> May this be a good question for an "Ask Slashdot"?

I'm still trying to convince the developers with my buying habits that maybe "open world" isn't the game design for EVERY game. There has to still be some meat on the bones between railroad and open world. Because I haven't been impressed by an open world in two generations.

In the days of physical media, the retail price didn't reflect most people's actual cost. You'd buy a game for $50, play it, then sell it back to GameStop for $20. Actual cost to you: $30. Or if you weren't in a hurry, you'd wait for the first round of people to finish playing it and buy it used for $40. And then sell it back again for $20, for a net cost of only $20.

Digital sales have eliminated the used game market, so the retail price is what you really pay. Game makers need to understand they can't compare digital game prices to physical ones and think they're the same.

> Plus most of the time there are so many bugs, patches, blah blah blah that need to come out first, why pay $60, $70+ when I can get the fixed/complete game later for 50% or more off?

Lots of games have bugs that literally never get fixed. Snowrunner has had an autosave stutter bug since day one which is still there. There is actually an open source patcher to fix the problem, and has been ages, and they STILL haven't fixed it, even though they could just copy the fix.

What I find compelling is waiting for all the DLCs to get released, because not long after that's done there is usually an all-in version which costs little more than the original base price. Although I broke this rule for

70USD is expensive if there is a lot of more money to be placed in the game. The worst offender are the "surprise mechanics", what the people named as loot boxes. On top of that, games that are online focused may have a "battle pass" or "sessions" that has a paid tier and that is time bound. FOMO is a thing that drives sales (so you cannot wait for a GOTY version of Call of Duty). And to insult anybody else, there are preorder bonuses that may be fictional currency you can use to gamble or three day early a

yeah our Play Asia prices were cheaper in my area but I do have a few harder to find games from Asian carts. I thought I'd be more annoyed with them than I am the only issues i have are some of them don't recognize other people playing the same game because it has the Japanese title instead of the NA one.