Inflation has made everything else more expensive, it doesn't make sense that video games stay the same price
Good, usher in the golden age of piracyand then if you try to shove denuvo into everything and anything it will backfire magnificently
>>543662850all games should be f2p.
>>543662850Btw Vavra is a jew
Going to pirate it eventually. Not worth my money.
they're already charging $400 for the collector's edition that doesn't even come with the gamehow much more do you greedy fucking niggers want? hope the whole video game and movie industry burns and everyone in them loses their homes. you fucking niggers did this.
>>543662850Yes
>>543662850How much did AAA games cost in the late 90’s? What happens when we adjust that price to match inflation over the last 30 years?
>>543662850fuck's sake this nigger already charges $60 for Deliverance II when not on sale, wtf does he want?
>>543663113>how much more do you greedy fucking niggers want?It's an indian company, sir
>>543662850I am eternally waiting for steam sales
>>543663213$40-$60, it was literally the fucking same, sales aside
>>543662850Studios can attempt to charge whatever the fuck they want to for their games.I haven't paid more than $20 for a game in at least 5 years though.
I paid fucking $50 for this when it came out
>>543662850The fuck are they even charging for? There's zero costs to producing the disks because there are none.They're already going to make money on cosmetic extras. In addition to "collector's editions" which don't even have the game attached. Take Two and Rockstar are just intent on being greedy assholes, locking single player content behind a paywall, and making sure even their employees get paid less. The game itself can be good, but the industry implications are nothing to celebrate.
>>543663261>it was literally the fucking same,I dunno if you've noticed, but $50 in 2000 is $99 today.The dollar is worth literally half of what it was just before 9-11.
you could expect to pay $200-$400 for a system, the systems have gone up but the average price of the games themselves hasn't, not reallyshows it must have been REALLY overpriced back then
>>543662850A much bigger market means massive economies of scale. Distribution costs are much cheaper, too.
>>543663397There is no economy of scale for video game development.Each one is a unique 1 of 1 product...
>>543663382>shows it must have been REALLY overpriced back thenI can only guess they knew nobody was going to go for the price of them increasing significantly? now that I'm realizing it's actually comparatively much cheaper because same price despite inflation, I can't explain itI know what I paid back then, however
can definitely tell you I'd never pay $100 for one fucking game, that's outrageous
>>543662850I will still wait for the 75% discount
>>543663357They are charging for the multi-million dollar development costs...you don't think the cost of the plastic is why games have a price, do you?
>>543662850>Warhorse co-founder Martin Klima wantsdas rite that surname is reserved just for real bulls
>>543663357They don't even print game manuals anymore. I thought it was cool when games use to come with maps too
>>543663636>>543663636>Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has sold over 6 million copies worldwide as of June 2026.so say those were all $60, full pricethat is $360 millionhow much you think his dev costs were
>>543662850Burden of proof being on yourself, please explain to the class why you believe that it "doesn't make sense" for a video game to stay the same price. Show us that you understand even a little bit about the development pipeline or where the majority of costs in game dev or publishing goes to. Show us anything that would create contrast for us to draw context and thus cognition from.Please and thanks.
>>543662850bro has never seen a supply and demand graph. they're already charging the max possible price. every business works like this
>>543662850Charge whatever you want. I wouldn't even play this slop for free. Not my problem
>>543663760>they're already charging the max possible price.this has to be why it hasn't increased really since the 90's; there's a maximum people are willing to pay for a vidya and it was set long ago, and even if inflation goes up, people would just stop buying and increase pirating
>>543663734GTA VI was $3 billion.Thank you for staying on topi...oh wait. You you didn't.
>>543663875>Thank you for staying on topi...look at the fucking screenshot, genius>Kingdom Come Deliverance Dev Hopes
charge what you want I won't pay itKEK
>>543662850distributing games online is almost free and shouldn't be affected by inflation.
>>543663636So then give a single price for access to all the content of the game. Not "Pay us another $20" and we will allow you to access the files we already made." Between stuff like that and the previous Trilogy Definitive Edition fuckery, I have little sympathy for their BS. >>543663690Man, those maps and the manuals having little tips or expanded lore. Good stuff.
>>543662850>games that are lower quality that are 100% digital downloads and dont even come with a disc or even have color instruction manuals
>>543663969Not to mention when you buy the game for $60 it isn't the full game. The game launches with DLC on day one that's not included unless you pay extra
>>543664117companies like EA with old Maxis shit gets straight fucking predatory>here's a game in 26 parts, you need to buy at least 9 of them to really have a "full" game but it's a GOOD game if you buy at least 15 (also all 26 will not function together well at all since we never designed it to be played with anyone buying all the DLC parts)
>>543664203>>543663214>>543663734(((they))) charge $70 full price now (((rockstar))) wants $80 for an incomplete game
>>543662850They can charge as much as they want, I'm not paying more than $50
>>543662850feels good to be a pc master race that is unaffected by pricespiracy is always free
>>543664351I'm just basing it on his non-sale steam pricegranted steam probably takes as much as half or perhaps even more, though it probably scales down with steam taking a bit less for more significant sales numbersalso rockstar fucked up significantly by all accounts with this one, should not have taken $3 billion in dev costssupposedly they wasted a shit ton of money trying indian devs (ironically to save money) to then spend even more money fixing the fucked up work of the indian devs, lol
>>543663921It's totally fucking irrelevant to how much GTA VI cost to make and how much GTA VI is being sold for, you moron.
>>543662850No. They're not Rockstar. They should try it and get humiliated.
>>543663636>They are charging for the multi-million dollar development costs...you don't think the cost of the plastic is why games have a price, do you?>>543663734>>Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has sold over 6 million copies worldwide as of June 2026.you gave zero indication you were specifically talking about GTA, you're the one who said I was "totally off topic" when 2 games are being discussed in the OPdipshit
>>543664732>>543664624
the only other company that could get away with charging obscene prices for their games is nintendo
>>543664732>>543664747Two games aren't being discussed.One game, GTA VI is.The KC dev is saying he hopes corporations will feel emboldened to be money grubbing scumbags since Rockstar is doing it.The facet that he made a different game once does not change the fact that GTA VI is the topic being discussed.Learn how to speak English, you buffoon.
>>543664866>Two games aren't being discussed.I'm sorry you feel assblasted because you started off coming at me shitty like a faggot and now are stuck in this sunk cost fallacy thing doubling down, but this guy's own expectations when he's made like $400 million at the prices he's charing now is DEFINITELY on topic for the opdo you want to keep going, or would you like to simply move on
>>543663734keep in mind I didn't come at you shitty at all, I came at you on topic, to which YOU got shitty >>543663875take the L and move on
>>543662850I hope so also. That will make the torrents faster
does Klima surname sounds slavic?
>>543662850I will just play older games not giving these fags more money
>>543665081>>543665369I know it's hard to believe, but piracy isn't going to last foreverthe endgame of the whole "protect our children" digital ID thing is ID verification to your ISP every single time you start an internet session, and everything you do on that session being tied to your government identityat that point or not long past even running shit like tor or bittorrent is going to be illegalinternet is getting balkanizedthat is the futurethey did finally figure out how to kill it they just have to take this slow route there, through a bunch of obvious "well that's not going to work you can just use someone else's ID to get on facebook" fail gates
>>543664983>>543665064>the headline mentions he made a game, so the topic is about that game...even though it's talking about a different game.I'll make it easy for you, I'll use a sportsball analogy. Sportsball is full of 75IQ fans like you.>Super Bowl LV champion Rob Gronkowski hopes the 2026 season will encourage teams to charge more money for stadium seatsIs the headline talking about Super Bowl LV, or is it talking about ticket prices for the current and future seasons?
>>543662850I suggest they start charging per hour and also unskippable ads every full hour.
>>543665836meant this guy >>543664425 instead of >>543665369 my bad
>>543665907>he wants to keep going and trytooharding and splitting hairsidc bro whatever you need out of this exchange, it's yours, I don't need it, take it, you win, fucking hell
>>543665982Come on, anon.Is it talking about Super Bowl LV, or is it talking about the 2026 season?It's a really easy question to answer. There's only two options. Just pick one.
>>543665919Anyway it's fine let crack down piracy more angry people means acceleration of decline
>>543666090I will simply take solace in having made your life that much better by handing you something you clearly need far more than Ihappy merry easterbirthdaymasversary anon
>>543666224I won't care, my drives will be full by then anyway
>>543662850>video games stay the same priceyeah, free. anyone who is still paying is either not on pc (they have no choice unless they make the change), too retarded to know about the option to download for free, or they're paying because they *want* to in order to give support to that specific games devs
>>543666442usually when I pay now I've already pirated it so know it's not a waste of moneysteam is increasingly making that difficult if you are into mods though, bunch of them now, the entire mod community and all the files is on steam, and like half of those there is zero workaround to get the mods at all other than buying it through steam (can't even use other digital retailers) and using their interface
>>543663213Games used to cost £40 here between 2000-2010Then they went up to £45 Now they cost between £55-£70 depending on what that particular dev thinks they can get away with
I will never spend more than 30 euros pn a single videogame, and only if it's the complete game with every goyLC inclued
better hope they don't find some way to edge out shit like joy2key from functioning right cause some now, without steam, the controller use disappears from ingame entirely
>>543662850Why should videogames inflate in price if pretty much every game in history is still available for sale? Why should I pay a premium for a new game when I can buy a 20 years old game for a fraction of the price? Prices can't inflate if there's infinite competition.
>>543666597You dont even get to own the dlcs any more with complete editionsThe disc is now always the base game + dlc code (can only be redeemed once)Goty editions used to be everything on the disc
>>543666557it's a lot of trouble but you could try emulating steam. though for anything I like enough to get into mods with paying feels like a fair exchange
>>543666845too much hassle for me to care about fucking with for the price it costs, lol>for anything I like enough to get into mods with paying feels like a fair exchangeI do agree with this but have also been an extremely broke nigger for whom piracy was a necessity or nothing, though thankfully not anymoredefinitely haven't made even a tenth of the retail value of all the shit I've pirated over the years, though I've bought a fair amount as well
>>543667191*in minecraft
>>543663213Adjust budgets for inflation as well, derp.
>>543662850Games are $100 already.You pay $70 for the basic version without day-1 DLC.
I dont care about the jeet angle this is just an easy method to make retards hate this dogshit game. Rockstar has NEVER made a single good game in their established history of being a company, it has always been banal boring normalfaggot garbage for the utmost niggercattle.>hurr I steal... LE CAR>durr I drive... LE REAL CAR>hurr I commit... LE FELONY>durr I buy... LE GUNS AND DRUGS>hurr I pay... LE PROSTITUTEVile groid simulators to vicariously live out fantasies from rap songs. Or equally faggy banal boring refuse to simulate cowboys. Fuck I despise this company and everything it has produced. They will forever be an inferior imitation to the Yakuza games produced by an infinitely superior country and culture.
>>543662850>it doesn't make sense that video games stay the same priceit doesthe more video games move to digital only, the more they have to convince people to give them money to rent the licenseand i'm not giving them a single cent for that licenseit's a matter of offer and demand, if they make people choose to not give them money, they make less money then if they had charged lesswith some luck we won't get fucked by normies just giving them moneybut sadly you can never trust that the goyium won't fuck things upso i will just buy my physical switch games instead of bothering with sony
>>543667601>mfw every medium become cheaper when they went digital >except vidya
>>543662850They're not producing physical media anymore. Prices should go down as compensation.
>>543663213Nintendo has been scam people forever.$87.99 would be $193.40 today
>>543667782i'm not paying for a worse productbecause i'm not giving money to rent a licensei either buy something that cannot be taken away from me(i.e. physical media), or i pirate that shit to oblivion
Ideally, you outgrow this shit in high school.
>jew asking for things being more expensive so he gets more moneywoah
>>543668358imageboards? yeah I agree, none of us should be here
DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU anyway we were talking about being mature and above shit like vidya
>that is literally the maximum amount of DESU allowed before triggering the spam filter
He's not escaping that 75IQ look.
>>543662850They already want $90 for top games.
>>543667403rdr1 and rdr2 are good games, same with max payne ipeverything else was garbage tho
>>543665836I see what you mean, and its a possibility but there is always a way. There are a shitton of hardware and software that is not locked behind digital id, we can use these for decades
How do they not understand that just because people will pay 80 to 100 bucks for GTA it doesn't mean people will pay that for their random game? You have to be a mega turbo normie game to get away with it like GTA, FIFA, Madden, COD, Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Resident Evil and probably 2 or 3 other franchises.
>>543662850Buying this game funds the great replacement. It is your duty to pirate it to save western civilization.
Lol yeah charge more, that's a great idea haha
>>543662850>2004>few game development tools>50 people could release a AAA hit game>2026>a tonne of development tools that make the process 10x easier than in 2026>2000 people can't manage to remake that same game released in 2004If they were making games with the same amount of labour as they were two decades ago they could charge half of what they do and still turn a profit.
