Why do developers and publishers think that if GTAVI sets the pricing higher that gamers will be ok paying more for their slop as well?
because they're greedy fucks.
>>741772214Nintendo tried it with a mario kart and it did really bad and signaled that the price hike isn't happening. Take 2 will get away with it but then someone else will try after them and it won't work again and the price will normalize again at 60.
Doesn't Nintendo already charge $90?
>>741772367Yeah but tendies are a different breed. they will pay whatever price for any turd and ask for seconds.
>>741772214I hope so because it will cause more flops Even at $70 most games flop
>>741772214Even professional settings can have their own band of idiots
GTA6 will make more money from shark cards than entire franchise make in a lifetime.
rockstar could be really funny and undercut the entire industry which could make lots of studios shut down
I do think it's crazy how little video game prices have inflated compared to everything else. That being said, nothing good has come out in over a decade to justify raising prices.
>>741773090I still have receipts of games from 20 years ago and I was shocked to see how expensive they were
can we just stop making games already
>>741772214Because gtadrones have no standards
>>741772291because they're greedy fucks and people are fucking retards.Fix'd
>>741772214because suits are out of touch jews that don't play games
>>741772214i'm a PCfag but i would legitimately not buy GTA6 until it had a sale for $80 (realistically $100 since they're locking fucking vehicle modding and tattoos behind it).$80 is insane. fuck corpos
>>741773006they're doing that but with a different method>make gta 6 $80>other devs think they can get away with it>they release $80 "AAA" slop that no one will buy
>>741772214Have you seen the people buying video games nowadays??????they'll spend double that and still buy the season pass day 1
Its not logical at all. Why do they think people will pay the same for their games as they pay for GTA? It would be like Ford and Toyota thinking people would pay as much for their cars as people pay for Ferrari and Mercedes.
>>741772214Money people are retards. I mean this with complete sincerity and without an ounce of exaggeration, the dumbest people you could ever possibly meet are in charge of sales and finance. Even the meth addicted janitor at your old high school is a sensible person compared to money people. The ones at the top may be sadistic, but they're still retarded.
>>741774054>>741772291>>741774046why anti semitic?
>>741772214because people are sheeple
Can't wait for my Latina dating simulator, bros.
>>741774527This game will trigger my ptsd
worked for Avowed and SAARfield: Rick & Morty 2 just fine
>>741774527Same.
I wouldn't buy it if it was $39.99Maybe when you retards are done beta testing and it goes on sale for $10 I might give it a look
>>741774817I'm pretty sure GTA V still has never gone under $20
You can charge anything you want for your product. You really, really can. The market will determine if it was a wise idea, however.
>>741775067Timmy gave the game out for free. Twice.
>>741775347>Get GTA V on Epic during covid>Try to install>Install fails multiple times for no reason>After an hour decided I'll just buy GTA V for $15 on sale on steam>Download it>Finished in 15 minutesThanks for the Steam ad Tim.
>>741775610Nice try Gabe.
>>741775757Your service sux. Get over it Tim. Bring Unreal and Fortnite to steam so you can make real money again.
>>741772214Unironically? Because the vidya industry often attracts the bottom performing percentiles from other industries, since nobody outside the vidya industry takes vidya seriously. They still think that it's a nerdy hobby for (man)children.The MBAs in charge of pricing for AAA studios are usually the financial management rejects of blue chip stock companies.Ergo, YES they are fucking retarded.But because vidya still makes a shit ton of money anyways regardless of their shitty decisions, since no matter how much Wall Street boomers + other outsiders look down on the industry, every single male under the age of 30 is a consumer of a video game franchise of some sort, they can afford to keep fucking it up with their borderline asinine decisions AND STILL turn a profit.So they keep doing it.
>>741772214Because normies are cattle and thus their logic is that if the cattle are ok with eating even shittier rations for the same amount of work one time they'll be ok with it forever, and it's not too far from the truth. People will push back at first but then will cave in like always and will just accept it and peer pressure others into accepting it by calling them poor for having standards.
>>741775610Sure you did Ranjit
>>741772214What did you guys expect with the ridiculous amount of inflation that's been going on.
>>741779618people put up with it for necessities, which is why companies used covid and the like as an excuse to jack up prices. it doesn't translate well when it's something you're paying for entertainment.
>>741779618How much has my wages gone up, mr Goldenstein?
>>741779618it's expected but they can't even be arsed to provide a fucking disc anymore. digital downloads = more profits for them while they still jack up prices.
>>741776952Indians can't afford steam games so they use epic. Thanks for the self report rajesh.
>>741780021Not their fault your employer fucked you over
>>741772214I genuinely don't care because I'm not paying for a video game period
>>741772367Here in EU their "top tier" games are 70€. Smaller games like Starfox for example are 50€. Not sure how those translate to burgermoney but I know it's not that different.
only morons pay for what they can have for free
After the news of half the game content being locked behind the $100 paywall and the fact that "physical" editions won't even have a fucking disk, I'm passing on this slop. Fucking greedy corpo jew-rats.
they worked on it for 10 years and it cost a couple of billion to develop. not comparable to some low effort ubislop and the like
>>741772214just because I'm willing to spend 80 bucks on the biggest and best game in the world, doesn't mean I'm gonna do the same for other companies suck a dick
>>741772214Yeah the next Gears of God: Black Ops of the Kingdom is totally worth the same as the next GTA. I don't even like GTA and I can see why it can charge more than the other AAAs, anyone following their pricing is in for a rude awakening.
>>741773878>wewho is we anon?which company you work for?
>>741772214If the people running the industry knew what they were doing, the industry wouldn't be imploding.
>>741772214>tendo tried it and it didn’t really work out so they stopped it>gta6 will try it and it will very likely work out>AAA game no one gives a shit about will try it and it will flop>the industry doesn’t try it again because they’re not R*there, that’s what’s gonna happen. who cares
rockstar games are the only thing I have no problem paying full release day price for. people know it's a premium product, they'll pay a premium price no problem
>>741779618>inflation>but your salary doesn't keep upshut up retard
>>741784327sure you dont have a problem shill
>>741784325>the industry doesn’t try it again because they’re not R*This is only the future if the retards who don't understand that their customers are actual people (mostly guys) who are making a cost-benefit analysis get removed. Who has the power to remove the retards? The retards.The western AAA industry is going to continue making retarded decisions until they implode. Same with the rest of the US economy until people realize that the flow is taxes -> agencies -> proxies -> BlackRock -> company leadership.
>>741772214Nothing more than >That's just the price games are nowThe alternative is if R* set it at 60 it outright cock blocks any publisher trying to charge more because the comparison with a cheaper and better game would now exist.Remember the shitflingjng that happened when Silksong released?Exact same situation, indie devs were hoping SS raised the standard so they could sell their asset flips for 30, cried like bitches when they didnt do that.
>>741784364I bought Halo 3 and Modern Warfare 2 for an inflation adjusted $95 of current year money mowing lawns for 8 dollars an hour. 80 dollars for a good game seems reasonable to me, I spend that much on McDonald's in a week and I make 15x per hour vs what I made back then. If anything we're getting a great deal.
>>741785257You should probably cut back on the McDonald's.
>consumer spending is getting tighter and tighter>third party devs increasing prices further which will reduce game sales across the boardgo for it my dude
>>741784327you telling me people won't spend 80 dollars on Directive 8020 because they spend 80 dollars on GTA6?
>>741774157I think there's a special kind of madness that infects those people who think that you can predict human behaviour with a mechanical flowchart. Include more graphics and action = wider audience = more sales etc. You see it among historical communists, modern businessmen and incompetent managers and teachers.
>>741772291False:It's because the average modern gamer is a literal sub-human and will happily pay for it while belittling those that don't.
r*s target audience are players whose parents still buy their games so it doesn't matter
>>741772214psychological technique called "anchoring"
>>741779618Now discount the part belonging to distribution logistics being literally solved
>>741772214Games can't just keep getting cheaper like they have over the past 30 years, it's unsustainable.
>>741785757>consumer spending tighteningLmao. One of the most popular games is a fucking anime girl horse game that people dump thousands of dollars into to play on their phone. 80 bucks for an actual good AAA game is peanuts in the modern world.
>>741774152Businessmen do not operate on logic in any way. It is pure greed and no normal person can easily comprehend how someone that deranged thinks.
>>741785185>Remember the shitflingjng that happened when Silksong released?One of the biggest mask off moments the industry has ever had
>>741785997So where did all the people who were supposed to buy the higher priced PS5 go?
>>741772214I so badly hope that this game underperforms but I also doubt it will
>>741772214I ain't spending more than $70 on AAA games.I ain't spending more than $35 on AA games.I ain't spending more than $18 on big indie games.I ain't spending more than $9 on small indie games.
>>741786151It won't. it's the one goyslop goycattle can't refuse.
>>741772214Because that is the truth? Watch it, it will happen. You'll come back here in a year and people will be calling you poor if you don't want to spend 120 USD on a game.
>>741781251Starfox is also 49.99 in the west I believe.
Games are flopping like never before after going to $70, dev layoffs left and right, studios shutting down. PLEASE price more trash slop at 80
>>741785997Not everyone is a gacha obsessed slave though.
>>741785997>that people dump thousands of dollars into to play on their phone>peopleYou think you're sly?The only thing the juden did right was giving these people a name
>>741786451im trans tho
>>741776316I know a guy that works for rockstar 40 year old failed english lit major who wanted to be a TV/Movie writer who ended up being part of the team responsible to make NPCs and the world feel "alive"fag doesn't even play games outside of literal gay indie shit and friendslop. The last GTA he played was 2 on ps2 when we were in highschool.
