• NeilBrü@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Look, you can charge whatever you want.

    “Is your game worth $80?”

    That is the question every studio executive needs to ask themselves.

    Given the recent trends in AAA-funded projects, for the most part, that answer is “Oh, hell no.”

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      Exactly. They can charge $200 if they want to but it doesn’t mean people are going to buy at that price. The price point needs to be where people are okay paying for it and I don’t see it happening at $80. Okay, I lied a bit, I see it happening for some games but not for BL4.

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    There once was a game that was not free
    The head of the game was big Randy
    He joked one day with a cheery grin
    Real fans would pay the fee HUAGH

    Soon may the pirates come
    To snag some games and have their fun
    One day, when the cracks are done
    We’ll take our games and go

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      No, it will be on steam day one. They had to figure out a new way to shoot their sales numbers in the foot.

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    I didn’t even buy Borderlands 3 for $60 and there’s no way in hell I’d pay $80 for something similar. I spent the full price of Baldur’s Gate 3 for myself and two of my friends for a total of $180. Make the game worth it and you have my money. If the development cost of games has gone up then prove it and make better games.

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    I’ll buy this when it’s $20 with all expansions in two years.

    It’s not because of Randy Bobandy here, him making an inane, alienating comment is his gimmick at this point and should be expected. It’s t because I found that if I play a game on release I end up playing the worst version of the game. And then I never play expansions because I rarely replay games and I’m not about to play an expansion to a game I haven’t played in a year without replaying the base game again.

    So I buy games a year late, at half the price. I love gaming.

  • Z3k3@lemmy.world
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    Welp looks like it’s know what the next jimquisition is going to be on.