What made Civ VII so expensive?

[strategic_panda]

For Civilization VI, including all the DLCs, I spent around $200–300 in total because I bought each of them at launch.

Now, the base version of Civ VII with two minor DLCs costs more than half of that.

I'm wondering why it's so expensive. Has the development cost increased that much?
If so, what exactly justifies it?


After playing Humankind, Millennia, and Ara: History Untold, I feel there's nothing new in Civ 7.

As a big fan of the Civilization series, I would still buy the game, but this time, not at launch. I'll wait for a sale price.

[sprenkledavid]

Publicado originalmente por strategic_panda:

Today, I have watched a youtube video, playing Civ VII.
I was quite shocked knowing that the game is almost same for Humankind.

Weird. I've been watching lots of early access game play, and Civ 7 doesn't seem to play very much like Humankind--it seems to play very much a Civ series game. There is the superficial similarity of civ-switching upon an era change, but even that seems to be implemented in a far more sophisticated fashion than in Humankind.

[strategic_panda]

Publicado originalmente por sprenkledavid:

Publicado originalmente por strategic_panda:

Today, I have watched a youtube video, playing Civ VII.
I was quite shocked knowing that the game is almost same for Humankind.

Weird. I've been watching lots of early access game play, and Civ 7 doesn't seem to play very much like Humankind--it seems to play very much a Civ series game. There is the superficial similarity of civ-switching upon an era change, but even that seems to be implemented in a far more sophisticated fashion than in Humankind.

I feel there are only superficial changes.
How people feel are different. Good luck and enjoy Civ VII.

I would probably buy the game anyway, maybe when it's on sales this time though.

[termilyn]

About choked on my coffee when I saw $99 for deluxe then clicked on it anyway

[Mile]

I guess I will just wait for a huge sale, CIV 5 is hard to beat when the pricing of 6 and 7 is just outrageous...

[grumble]

Publicado originalmente por Mile:

I guess I will just wait for a huge sale, CIV 5 is hard to beat when the pricing of 6 and 7 is just outrageous...

I love Civ 6 and playing it has cost me much less than one penny per hour.

That is fabulous value.

The price of Civ 7 looks reasonable to me - unless, of course, it turns out to be really unenjoyable (which is unlikely)

[anthur]

Game is too expensive. If you can wait you will get a game with less bugs, more features and some DLC on top for less money.

[𝔓𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔶]

I bought the CV IV, CV V, CV VI and I usually buy the most complete versions, and I have the CV VII on my wish list, but after seeing the prices of this CV VII my wish is gone, I think the prices are too high and kind of absurd to be honest, I'll wait for them to fall by half even if I have to wait forever

[Megalithik]

Shareholders who keep demanding each quarter be better than the last means cutting costs and upping the prices.
Just wait for a sale do you really NEED to play Civ VII the day it releases? Buying games release daymeans you pay the most amount of money for the crappiest smallest version of the game. Sad facts of the state of AAA gaming.

[strategic_panda]

Publicado originalmente por 𝔓𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔶:

I bought the CV IV, CV V, CV VI and I usually buy the most complete versions, and I have the CV VII on my wish list, but after seeing the prices of this CV VII my wish is gone, I think the prices are too high and kind of absurd to be honest, I'll wait for them to fall by half even if I have to wait forever

I feel the same way.

Normally, I don't really care about game prices, but this time, considering the content of the game (which is almost identical to Humankind and Millennia with no real innovation), I feel like this pricing is an insult to long-time fans of the series.

As a form of protest, I think we should at least refrain from buying at full price.

[Meshawa]

One thing also to be fair, games were like 40-50$ back in the early 2000s, that would amount today 70-80$, we have to factor in inflation as the cost of stuff went up. Only issue though is that the increase in pay from then hasnt caught up with inflation to the most part which makes it sting more than then.

[GreyWolf]

Because of greed. 70 for base game, 100 for Deluxe version with some skins and extra leaders, its ridiculous.

[King_Kiff]

greed pure and simple, it's not a hard or complex game to develop compared to most modern games.

[naughtymoi]

Publicado originalmente por strategic_panda:

For Civilization VI, including all the DLCs, I spent around $200–300 in total because I bought each of them at launch.

Now, the base version of Civ VII with two minor DLCs costs more than half of that.

I'm wondering why it's so expensive. Has the development cost increased that much?
If so, what exactly justifies it?


After playing Humankind, Millennia, and Ara: History Untold, I feel there's nothing new in Civ 7.

As a big fan of the Civilization series, I would still buy the game, but this time, not at launch. I'll wait for a sale price.

Greed and buyers gullibility.

[Violetls]

I stop buying Civs since it sold with DLCs, I hate this way to sell a game, cuz I will not have a completed game to play if I dont buy the DLCs.

[strategic_panda]

DLC is a tricky concept—on one hand, it can be seen as additional content, but on the other, it might just mean the base game was incomplete to begin with.

Expansion packs that significantly change the game? Sure, I can understand charging for those.

But the launch-day DLC this time is clearly designed to make players feel like they're missing out. The base game alone feels incomplete, and that’s just bad DLC practice.