You will get used to it, just like you got used to $70. You can afford another $10 per AAA title. That's like half a lunch.
>>730566304>you got used to $70Never happened.
>>730566304>That's like half a lunch.that's a small amount of money for the average lunch, i'd say? you could maybe get a coke and some cheetos for that
>>730566382>brokie indian
>>730566304>just like you got used to $70.OP is an AI because this never happened
Bitch, I'm not even paying $60
>>730566304>half a lunch.fatass lmao
>please bro buy the AAA sloppaThe only AAA game I've bought in the last 2 years or something has been Rebirth now that it was 50% off on sale, and even that feels a bit steep for AAA sloppa.
>>730566304i wontim getting into the habit of waiting for a game to launch, release its planned dlc, and go on sale. there are to many games to play that I dont need to play anything day one. I can wait a few months or a year. same with subscription services like gamepass. there are to many games that its hard to get to even a portion of what they have to offer. And by the time you do, all of those games are on sale and cheaper than a year subscription.
>>730566304$70 is 35 lbs of meat. You must be really hungry.
>>730566304>You will get used to it,Bitch I just wait for a sale or pirate You aren't getting me to pay out the ass for AAA slop unless it's actually something I want
$80 games isn't going to work because no game is worth that much and people are broke. GTA is going to be the sole exception and I would love to see companies try that bs and see a steep discount.
>>730566304Game price is entirely psychomanipulation, it has no bearing on supply, demand, monetary value or anything, because it is an infinitely replicable, immaterial good. The only reason companies insist on it now, is because big publishing is essentially a dead business model that needs constant bailouts and similar psychomanipulation so that those bailouts come from the stock market, government and investment firms.Never pay more than 20$ for a game.
>>730566395Fine for you. Get thinner.
>>730566304I only buy games if they're on a sale and cheaper than $2
The most expensive game I bought last year was E33.
>>730566304>SilksongAAA's wet dream will not happenI'll be so happy when the lay off news continue in 2026
>>730566304I never even got used to DS games going from 35 dollars to 40 with the 3DS.
>>730567185you're really poor
>>730566395The fuck? Go into a Trader Joe's and get a greek salad and a sandwich of your choice for 10 bucks. You can buy meals at grocery stores, anon.
actually, gamers are ready for $90 games
>>730566304The fuck are you on about? Everything is 75% off 2 years after release at steam winter sale. Impulse buyers can get fucked.
>>730566304Weren't games $60? What the fuck
I think the only 70 dollar game I bought this year was Yotei. Also bought Silksong, E33, Silent Hill F, Oblivion, and some stuff on sale... actually, I bought Death Stranding 2 at 70, too. Regret it. That game sucked. But 40 dollars is the sweet spot for AAA, in my opinion. Unfortunately those days are long gone.
>>730566304>he thinks prices will jump up to $80lollmao evenEnjoy video games going well beyone $100
>>730566304I've never bought a video game for $70 and I never will.
I have yet to purchase a game for over 60.
>>730566304I can get big margherita pizza for $10I can also get indie games that will be better than those $70 games.
GTA6 will be 100 and the gtao mongoloids will eat it up and more. It only gets worse.
Pic related was the last time I paid $60 for a game and I haven't done that since, much less $70+. AAA companies can all go under for all I care.
i am used to $0
I've never bought a game for more than 35$, too high in price? I'll just pirate it or wait for a sale
I haven't been pirating much for the past years, but I've also never paid more than $20 for a game.My backlog is fucking yuge already, why would I?
>>730567214>b-b-but your le poor!!Actual rich people don't waste their money on garbage like some nouveau riche cunt.
>>730566304$80 is too much. Shoot, for most games $60 is too much. I think $40 is fair for most games, with $20 to $30 being ideal.>$10 per AAA title. That's like half a lunch.If I am spending $20 on lunch I am either eating at a very special resturaunt or I ordered way too much food.
>>730566304>just like you got used to $70. that's a funny way of spelling $20
>>730566304I barely bought games at a $60 price point. Go fuck yourself and your shitposting.
I always pirate or buy off G2A when the games go dirt cheapYour move industry
>>730566304No game is worth more than $60. Even 60 is too much for a lot of games.
>>730567112same, and it was $50 to boot
>>730566304Nintendo is the only one pushing for $80 games and they are the only ones who make games that are worth the price.
>>730566304Game devs will have to get used to piracy.
>>730569775/thread
>>730569253>My backlog
>>730567507Same the last game I bought for $60 was BF4 in 2013 and that was a fucking mistake.
>>730569730>Your move industryYou're not the target demographic anymore unc.
>>730566304i actually only watch LETS PLAY videos on youtube when new games comes out. I wait at least 3 years for a sale when the video game is like $10 to buy it and play it.as all real gamers should.
I'm already used to buying cheaper games that end up being better anyway. It's been like that even when full price was $50+ and its still the case.
>>730566304I haven't bought a single game over $60 even 6 years into this generation. It's outrageous that Nintendo had the gall to not only jump to $70 as a standard but also casually introduce the jump to $80, and how they didn't get their shit pushed in for it like Microsoft and T2 did when they tried right after.
>>730566304I already have a video game, why would I need second one?
>>730569993Not him but the target demographic can go suck a fat cock.
>year of indies>you will get use to itOP confirmed for terminal retard
>>730569901play your fucking games reee
>>730570572Most of them do.
>>730566304no i will just play my backlog tongue my anus game dev
>>730566304>per AAA titleI didn't waste a cent on AAA in 2025. Get fucked. AAA crash can't come soon enough. The era of indie is here baaabyyy
>>730566304I have literally never bought a game for over 60 thoughever.
$15 is my absolute maximum
>>730566304Except I've literally never bought a game at these prices
sure thing, see you in the bargain bin next sale
>>730566304I only buy keys
$1 meals will soon be the $50 meal, burgers with single patties and fries, and us mutts who think of everything as a food analogy will say "WOW, WHAT A STEAL, THAT'S LIKE HALF A MARIO KART"
Yes and the price of piracy will continue to remain free
I think we should just make it illegal for anyone who isn't a billionaire to possess money. All of the cattle-slaves should be forced at gunpoint to surrender all of their money to the billionaires.
>>730566304I've been pirating $70 games and I will continue to do the same for $80 games
>>730566304Normies are already used to $70 + $20 day 1 dlc + $20 for deluxe edition to play 3 days early for every game they buy
>>730576858>>730576919Anyone who pirates a game should be publicly tortured to death along with their entire family.
>>730566304I never buy 'le dribbel A' games at full price, so no. I shall not.
>>730566304
>>730576919I wish the lies were true, that companies lose money due to p2p. I WANT predatory companies to lose money.
>>730566304GTAVI will be worth the price
>>730566304>just like you got used to $70I did not
>>730569993>unlinke you uncs we ARE actually retarded and buckbroken enough to fall for itWe know
>>730566304I have never bought a $70 game, so I suppose I did get used to it
>>730566304>like you got used to 70huh?
>>730566415>S01 infused nepobaby without monetary sense
>>730576919You are just larping though
>>730566304didn't happen, won't happen, and I only play VSlikes nowadays
>>730566304I'll get used to not affording it and not paying it.I really wanted the MGS3D remake, I can't afford it. I'm not buying it till it's <80% off.
>>730577065Anybody who is too pussy to pirate games stays cucked for life
>>730577065This is certainly b8.
>>730566304>You will get used to itNo, YOU will get used to it. I haven't bought shit in half a decade.
>>730566304everynigger racing to $100 before 2030 and I'm here still buying nothing but $10 indies and never finishing my backlog
I don't ever pay more than 40 and I still have a huge library.
I already wasn't buying $60 games. Maybe one every two years at best.I just put 200 hours into a game I paid $4 for.
>>730566304Cope with the fact that people don't really do cost/benefit analyses with videogames, it's all about hitting magic numbers that have nothing to do with the actual monetary value of those numbers.The only reason AAA got away with pricebumping to 60$ (59.99$) is because humans are shit at rounding, but even that has a limit.80$ asking price games will never be worth the associated drop in sales, which is why every company just hides more costs in shit like DLC.
>>730579272>I just put 200 hours into a game I paid $4 for.me with look outside in 2025 okay it was 30 hours but I have a job now which I feel makes them equivalentlove milking game time out of these little gems
>>730578515>>730578642By pirating games, you are committing one of the worst crimes of all: not giving your money to corporations.
>>730566304You will pay 80$You will pay 90$You will pay 100$You will pay 120$You will...
>>730566304>just like you got used to $70I didn't tholiterally only ever bought a single game with a $70 MSRP and even then that doesn't really count because I explicitly waited until it was on sale for half off before buying
>>730566304I never accepted $60 games, I just pirated everything. Enjoy paying $80 for yet another remaster.
>>730566304I was perfectly fine with 60More for special editionsAnything above that for standard editions and digital I'm not paying for, not that there has been anything lately worth paying thatThey only increased the price because they could and finally found the perfect excuse to do so
Can't remember the last time I bought a game full price that was over $50. Especially with how quickly 3rd-party companies (EA, Ubi, S-E, Konami) fire-sale their shit after a couple months.
Broke thirdies above.
Nearly as much as movie theatre popcorn
>>730566304I pirate everything. Don't care and corpos can suck my cock.
>>730566304I'm not paying anything for this shit. Make a good game, and get back to me. >>730566415>>730581427>If you don't buy the latest slop made by people who hate you who think games aren't art, and shouldn't be made to please the consumer you're indian???>>730567507The last time I paid 30 dollars for a game was Hotline Miami 2.
people wouldn't mind higher prices as much if the games seemed worth it, but they don't. graphics don't even seem to be advancing much anymore, microtransactions are getting worse even with increased price tags. i've had more fun with mods and old/indie games than anything "AAA" in the last 5-10 years.
>>730566304you paid you last game 40 + 90 worth of day one dlc.
>>730566304My certified American third-world tier frankenlaptop plays all the cheap/free old games I care about with minimal issues.I will not buy the crypto mining hardware.I will not buy the gamesI won't even buy a lunch worth more than $5 in the western commie coast, land of inflation.Suck my dick, choke on it.
>>730579393It's never not funny to see poorfags posting from their mom's work laptop about being pirates with no games to showin before some Zelda tutorial area at silky smooth 12 fps + dips
>>730582127you will pay $90 for bad gamesi hate everyone who talks about that pill bottle
>>730566415never undertsood this argument, rich people are rich BECAUSE they can take care of their money, only poorfags buy everything for absurd prices
>>730566304I've bought a total of four new games in ~14yrs, and refunded three of them. The fourth was meh. I've been playing hundreds of old games, for free.All the new garbage isn't even worth pirating.
>>730566415Wasteful spending isn't indicative of wealth, but debt.
>>730582127>>730582760take your pill bottles sisses
>>730584798take your piss bottle sillies
>AAA peaked in the 00s>declined in the 10s thanks to woke>AAA is all but dead now, market owned by indies and AA>big studios lay low and focus on ai>first AAA ai game is released in 2027>only costs $50 as development was quick and cheap>game quality is top tier, good visuals and gameplay>AAA is back for a new golden age
Booooo greedy, know nothing shareholders, boooo. Boo urns, booooo
>>730566304I cook for 6 euros a meal. 5 with below average meat but still good protein.
Who the fuck even buys games new? Just wait a couple months and it’ll be $30 somewhere.
How's the Denuvo cracking going?I'm enjoying $0.
>>730585540>only costs $50 as development was quick and cheapAhahahahahaaa......
>>730566304>there are devs who still charge this much for a game>instead of making the initial entry price low or f2p and charging money for cosmetics and other in-game itemswhy hasnt the industry learned from mobile devs?
>>730566304Elden ring is the only game in the last decade I've spent over 40 on. I am missing out on nothing.
>>730586046Because they don’t want to make a live service model like gacha. What a stupid fucking question.
>>730566304There are only 2 games I bought for more than €40.>AOE4 which I played with friends>EU5 which is the best launch Paradox has ever had
>>730566304the most I have spent on a video game is currently converted to $42 USD and it was the first game I refunded
>>730585540Kek. AI is complete ass and can't be integrated into a production pipeline unless the project is already so completely off the rails that you were better off just hiring better devs and managers.It's placeholder material at best and even for that purpose it doesn't fit in as well as generic asset libraries and royalty free shit.
>>730586046Why not both?
>>730566304other than digimon it's been a few years since I bought a game
>>730586960>because they dont want to succeed, you silly goosesounds about right
>>730586046Because F2P slop is basically like Indian scam mail.It's all shoestring budget slop that aims to subsidize itself by finding the tiny percentage of the population with ZERO impulse control and an addictive personality.F2P genuinely does not work for actual games unless they become gacha and run their gameplay component into the ground.
I have bought one game since prices went over $60, and even then I used GMG to get it back below $60.
I haven't bought a game in 11 years now, and I'm not even kidding.
I end up buying games on sale because I have other hobbies to take up my time.
I have never paid $70 dollars for game. I almost never paid $60
>>730566304>You will get used to itlast game i bought full proce was Factorio:SA and that's only because i know it won't go on sale.i'll never buy full price.i'll never buy AAA slop.I'll never buy over $20>butno. suck my fucking dick
Nothing changed if you purchase wisely.$80 msrp is really $60-65 if you go phys.Retailer competition is still a thing.
I'm getting used to $40 games by buying from Japan
>>730566304I haven't spent more than 20 euros for a game in the last decade. The way the industry goes, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
>>730566382This. Any 70$ game was discounted to 40 or less after not that long.
>>730566304I'll spend a few hundred christmas bucks on gacha girls but I'll never spend 70 or 80 on AAA sloppa
everyone here saying they haven't spent over 20 dollars on games are pretty bad at lying.
no
>>730595208It's true though. I usually don't care about the latest flavor of the month games and if I do I'll pirate and if I can't pirate I just play some of the shit I've been putting off.This ain't some brag, shit's sometimes too expensive for me
I buy a lot of games on a pre-release discount on fanatical
I've not paid for a full AAA game in like a decade.
>>730595401>It's true though.you're really bad at this
>>730566304>That's like half a lunch.I know this is a bait thread but I feed myself on 10 bucks a day, if not less
>>730595650kys
>>730566304i'm going back to old games i can emulate honestly. fuck new gaymes
>>730566304no thanks, bro
>>730595208just checked and you are right, i did buy a $60 dollar release once. it was the orange box, back in 2007
>>730566304>enter thread>all this shitpostinglisten pal, I'm not about to spend EIGHTY FUCKING DOLLARS on a license for entertainment media that is devoid of artistic integrity and was effectively designed by committee with an assembly line mentality. this industry can get fucked.all the good games have already been released. there is nothing new worth playing, with rare exception.
I'm not buying Indie slop just because poor people can't afford real videogames
>>730566304Daily reminder that Nintendo is responsible for this.
>he payed for playering games
>>730595996>all the good games have already been releasedpost 10(ten)
>>730566304I'll happily pay 80€ for a good game if it means the game is finished and has no live service insertion garbage.I would've paid 80€ for TotK if it had been priced that. There are only like 2 good games in the AAA sphere per year anyway.
>>730566304$70 made me realize buying games for $60 wasn't even worth it even though I only bought a few and enjoyed most. I can wait
>>730566821This
The real reason videogames went to shit is poor people. If you can't afford videogames just don't buy them. Nobody cares about you special snowflakes.
>>730566382This. I only buy games on sale. Most games are so homogenized I dont even feel a need to buy a new one. I just started playing Rune Factory 4 and it was included in my monthly fee bullshit that I need to play the games I want tomplay with the boys
>>730570773Did 2025 see even a single decent AAA release? no, Nintendo isn't AAA
>>730566304I won't. I've literally been playing old games since the piss5 and shitny started this and everyone else followed suit.I sincerely hope gta6 flops too, but I know consoomer normalfaggots will make sure it's successful and cope and convince themselves it's not flaming dogshit, even though we've all seen it is. This medium deserves nothing less than total collapse.
>>730566304I've never paid a single $ for a game
>>730566304I just pirate everything, it's so easy these days.>>730590169>>730589903>>730589797Based
