• ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I once paid $140 (just pre-pandemic inflation) for a meal with two drinks at a fancy restaurant for a friend’s bachelor party. It was delicious. At the same time, I realized that no one meal, no matter how good, was worth that price. I don’t know what the threshold is for how much I’ll pay for a single video game, but $80 is more palatable to me when the game asking for it isn’t Mario Kart.

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      3 months ago

      I’d gladly pay 80 bucks for games, Ive paid way more than that in 40K, Warmahordes and Advanced Squad Leader.

      If digital games would give me the same kind of “ownership”, like full access to the code and free reign to modify the rules sets as well as spreading those changes to friends and strangers I wouldn’t hesitate to spend similar amounts. However digital games, even physical on disks, has too many limitations as riders for that price to be motivated

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        I wish we lived in a world close to that one, and maybe someday we’ll get there. Guilty Gear Strive’s source code just got leaked in its entirety, so complete that it can just be loaded as is into the Unreal editor, and a lot of people see this as a bad thing rather than the game ascending to immortality.

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          The Plus R community have been begging ArcSys to release the source code for a long time—hopefully, this will push them to reconsider their stance on open source.

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    3 months ago

    I feel like we keep seeing this headline. “AAA studio says current prices can’t support current budgets”

    I almost never buy games at $60. I buy everything on sale, and there are constantly sales and way more games than I can play. They can charge whatever they want, I personally will be paying less.

    Will the market bear $80 games? Maybe. I feel like a better strategy would be to reign in scope and budget and sell games at prices most people can afford. But who knows?

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, I joke with my friends that game quality is inversely correlated with install size. 100GB+ open world or multiplayer game? Probably mid. 50MB indie game? Probably stays installed for the next 10 years.

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    3 months ago

    BL3 was generic and forgettable. BL4 anything more than 40$ is easily forgettable. Don’t these guys know most gamers have backlogs at this point? No one has the money for this shit.

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      The more I think about it, maybe it’s for the whales of PC gaming.

      Let the streamers, YouTubers and FOMO folks pay a premium to do all the bug testing.

      Then release a polished version for half the price.

      A person like me with a massive backlog is absolutely going to wait until this hits less than $20 anyways.

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      My wishlist is long and at least one game on it gets a deep discount every week. I’m busy playing games between 2€-20€.

      There hasn’t been a major release that would justify paying 50€ and more for years.

      Baldurs Gate 3 was the last game I got at full price and didn’t regret.

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    They’ll probably start it at $80 and be prepared to drop it down if sales are lower than expected. So gamers can tell them that the $80 price point is not ok by being patient and holding off on the purchase.

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      They’ll still have plenty of people buy it for that shit price if only because they’ll give it free to a bunch of streamers and fomo will get the viewers.

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    I’ll enjoy buying it in 5 years during a Steam sale.

    There’s an overabundance of games out there. I can wait.

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    I’ve paid money like that when I could see the effort and love thwt went into the game. I kinda saw that in BL2, but nothing in the series since comes even close.

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        I mean. Of course vidya games’ gonna get hit with inflation from time to time… just like every other product…

        every link in the chain, from producer to consumer needs to have an ever growing increase in profit for capitalism to work

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          It’s not worth $80 to me, and that’s also the way prices work. Things are worth what people are willing to pay. I’ve purchased so many games for $20 and less that have given me more enjoyment than any borderlands game.

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            And that’s completely fair as well, but there will be compromises… because 100DKK is not worth the same 100DKK as for 10 years ago, so as time goes by - the games you’ll be able to buy for 100DKK, will have reduced effort equally to the reduction in value of your currency

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    3 months ago

    Have any large developers ever made small high quality games? Or is that just not sustainable? I suppose the games would have to be repayable.

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      I bought it in Fall 2024 for like 25 bucks with all DLCs. So I’ll wait year or two with BL4 no problem, there’s plenty other games I can play. I never buy brand new games.