Price confirmed for Dark and Darker $30-$40

[Altasor]

What do you think?
https://imgur.com/RZCZ15P

[limierr]

A bit surprising as they refer on a Twitter post that the price would be « extremely affordable » in early acces but I guess everyone has it own vision.
At the same time if they extend servers, improve gameplay it could worth the price fast…

[Altasor]

Originally posted by limierr:

A bit surprising as they refer on a Twitter post that the price would be « extremely affordable » in early acces but I guess everyone has it own vision.
At the same time if they extend servers, improve gameplay it could worth the price fast…

I'll still buy it but I thought the same thing, to be honest I was expecting $20-$30

[tim.]

Really depends on how significantly the game is improved by release. It was easy to give a lot of things a pass because it was a free playtest, my level of expectations will go up significantly if i have to spend money and frankly, in my opinion, this is NOT a game with a $30 price tag in it's current state.

If they overhaul the crafting, have NPC quests (ala Tarkov), make the AI combat better, add in more floors/maps with incentives to go to them, then i'll start to view it as a product worth that much. Truthfully, they could make ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money even just making it $20 for Early Access, and maybe raising it on release. if even 100k players bought at $20 a piece, that's a cool 2 million right off the bat, and i think that's a pretty conservative number of people who would buy it.

That said, that's just my take. If they want to charge $30-40 that's their prerogative, and i'm sure a lot of people would buy it for even more than that. I probably won't buy it for that much, but it's not like it matters to them or anyone else what i do.

[Altasor]

Originally posted by tim.:

Really depends on how significantly the game is improved by release. It was easy to give a lot of things a pass because it was a free playtest, my level of expectations will go up significantly if i have to spend money and frankly, in my opinion, this is NOT a game with a $30 price tag in it's current state.

If they overhaul the crafting, have NPC quests (ala Tarkov), make the AI combat better, add in more floors/maps with incentives to go to them, then i'll start to view it as a product worth that much. Truthfully, they could make ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money even just making it $20 for Early Access, and maybe raising it on release. if even 100k players bought at $20 a piece, that's a cool 2 million right off the bat, and i think that's a pretty conservative number of people who would buy it.

That said, that's just my take. If they want to charge $30-40 that's their prerogative, and i'm sure a lot of people would buy it for even more than that. I probably won't buy it for that much, but it's not like it matters to them or anyone else what i do.

I agree i think it all depends on how they work with the money they make from the game at least i hope they make constant updates for the first year or months

[limierr]

Originally posted by Altasor:

Originally posted by limierr:

A bit surprising as they refer on a Twitter post that the price would be « extremely affordable » in early acces but I guess everyone has it own vision.
At the same time if they extend servers, improve gameplay it could worth the price fast…

I'll still buy it but I thought the same thing, to be honest I was expecting $20-$30

Personnaly my main condition are servers in all Europe otherwise it is a big no.
The game is correct but play at strict minimum at 60ms ( when I play around 10 on others game) and often get lag spike is not interesting. I could just for fun make video of rôle back which between frustration and laugh …

[Nilo]

Originally posted by limierr:

A bit surprising as they refer on a Twitter post that the price would be « extremely affordable » in early acces but I guess everyone has it own vision.
At the same time if they extend servers, improve gameplay it could worth the price fast…

to be fair most games with similar levels of popularity seem to be around $50-60, so this could definitely be considered affordable from a relative standpoint.

[limierr]

Originally posted by Yuu-chan:

Originally posted by limierr:

A bit surprising as they refer on a Twitter post that the price would be « extremely affordable » in early acces but I guess everyone has it own vision.
At the same time if they extend servers, improve gameplay it could worth the price fast…

to be fair most games with similar levels of popularity seem to be around $50-60, so this could definitely be considered affordable from a relative standpoint.

At 50-60$ it would be a big no.
Reasons are simple :
1) servers
2) lack of content.
Only games I saw with similar price in ea could be tarkov under some package And star citizen. But both have content which justify it partially.

[FlirtatiousHobo]

I mean I would probably pay the $30-$40 but I'd really hope they would polish the overall game up quite a bit before adding that price. Definitely not at that price range in its current state.

[Lowbei]

This PvP game is worth easily $40-50 based on demand. Probably go up to $60 on release once polished.

[Tristin]

$30-40? heck no man.. I'm pretty sure they're going to sell inventory slot whatnot too, which is crucial in actually playing? These guys charging like Tarkov.. I ain't buying. $30-40 +$20 is of a price of a full AAA RPG game, which takes whole lot more to develop.

[Snooze]

From what i've played, it's barely worth $15. That's an atrocious price hike for a game that's just going to foster the community to be a toxic mess.

[FlirtatiousHobo]

Originally posted by Snooze:

From what i've played, it's barely worth $15. That's an atrocious price hike for a game that's just going to foster the community to be a toxic mess.

Well in its current state I'd say it's only worth $15-20 but it's only a demo at this point.. I'm sure down the line when they polish everything it'll be worth the $30-40.. $60 is definitely pushing it.

[P.E.N.1]

too much for this kind of game 15-20 max

[Z3robo4rd]

Guys.... Guys. You are basing your valuation on your experience in a play test. More dungeons, more features, more races, skill balancing-- its all coming. Hopefully they experiment and get more creative with dungeon design. In my opinion-- this game is already worth 25$. Many early access games have been in the 30s. 30-40 dollars is not expensive. 50-60 would be, yes. 15-20 is peanut money. Honestly-- this is a team of developers, and not just one guy. They need to make enough money that would justify their time and effort. I can make 30-40 dollars in an hour and a half of work.

[Snooze]

Originally posted by Bluedude101:

Originally posted by Snooze:

From what i've played, it's barely worth $15. That's an atrocious price hike for a game that's just going to foster the community to be a toxic mess.

Well in its current state I'd say it's only worth $15-20 but it's only a demo at this point.. I'm sure down the line when they polish everything it'll be worth the $30-40.. $60 is definitely pushing it.

I don't know about that. Even polished, there are games I'd rather play instead of dropping that much. A multiplayer game is only as good as its community, and with this-

It fosters a toxic 'git gud' community. Similar to Dark Souls, but in Dark Souls, you *know* where people stand. White/Gold/blue, Red/Purple(in ds3).

You knew what you were getting into the moment you saw someone.