Price

[Hermit]

Why is a 6 year old game $60?

[mbrowne999]

Why not?

[Krash Megiddo]

You're right, the price could be $120 after 6 years of upgrades and new content.

[Pizzaheart]

Why is netflix so expensive! It's been out for 15 years!

[Fienyx]

Really gets me when people complain about games being $60. Everything keeps going up in price except video games. Video games have been $60 for decades. People need to get paid, $60 isn't that much for the amount of time they could possibly entertain the customer. Especially for an indie developer that has now 2 games to pay their employees and bills to keep their studio going. Then you also need to remember that there have been 6 years of additional development, making the game a much improved experience over the original release.

[Dirak2012]

Because we have big FREE updates every few months.

[DeadOrAlive]

Originally posted by Wanna Cigarette?:

Why is a 6 year old game $60?

just wait for the next discount if you dont like to spend 60 bugs.
i think i payed like 24,90 or similar...

you could check out YT-videos 1st if you just think about to buy nms.
those videos will show you the best way how BIG nms is in 2022...

btw ... ive since bought it for the xbox too, but havent had time to play it there yet ;-)

[SotiCoto]

Originally posted by Fienyx:

Really gets me when people complain about games being $60. Everything keeps going up in price except video games. Video games have been $60 for decades.

Was gonna say that games have never been 60... but then realised it was in dollars and I'm used to thinking in pounds sterling.

Still though, games have got more expensive over time. Part of that is the inability to get second hand games any more though. But back in the early 90s I remember the most expensive games being around £30 brand new... and I could get them for under £10 if I found used copies.
On the flipside, now we have Steam Sales... but still, I'd be wary of any game with a "60" against it

Not that those amounts of money mean as much to me now as when I was a kid back in the 90s. I still refuse to pay over £20 for most games though.

[Antaiir]

Better question: why has a x year old game still x _year_ old issues, while it receives updates every few _weeks_?

[Buttflap]

"businesses need to make money"

Increasing the price of games due to mismanagement while cost of production is rapidly on the decline says otherwise. So many more tools to not have to build from the ground up, no discs to deal with, distribution is outsourced most of the time. The $70 AAA increase has no grounds when we're still being served platters full of ♥♥♥♥ and expected to keep paying for DLC for the next few years while they get the game up to par.

NMS is not part of the above rant... but AAA games. Hello Games is still considered Indie. NMS made enough off their launch and multiple soft relaunches that they could live well for decades not to mention the health of the community and how overly abundant their support is. It's all well deserved, look at my game hours, but that is why Sean can confidently say all they're working for the near future is NMS. And now the next big project. There's a reason why NMS is considered one of the best come backs ever.

Complaints against AAA devs/publishers and the price increase are well founded especially when every game coming out also has manipulative cash shops and battle passes which have all been normalized... mainly due to apologists saying it's ok.

[DeadOrAlive]

Originally posted by SotiCoto:

I still refuse to pay over £20 for most games though.

same here...
but now i buy often games with the steam-discount i never play, just thinking i could play them some day ;-)
in queue: cyber punk, red dead redemption, age of empires IV, and and and... and i still have new games in my wishlist ;-)

back to the original post...
after playing nms more than 340 hours i still not would pay 60 (because i dont like a lot of things in nms).

im happy YT is there, so i often check out playthroughs from different games, to imagine its worth to buy for me or not.

[MarStrMind]

Originally posted by Wanna Cigarette?:

Why is a 6 year old game $60?

You like to work for free and without any pay, yes?

[NZ.Zero]

Because it's not a 6 year old game.
Only small parts of it are 6 years old, large parts are 2021/2022.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Fienyx:

Really gets me when people complain about games being $60. Everything keeps going up in price except video games. Video games have been $60 for decades. People need to get paid, $60 isn't that much for the amount of time they could possibly entertain the customer. Especially for an indie developer that has now 2 games to pay their employees and bills to keep their studio going. Then you also need to remember that there have been 6 years of additional development, making the game a much improved experience over the original release.

Exactly. In the early 90's, I was still playing console games, which were about $30, roughly $60.00 today.

And while console games had a hardware cost back then, there was no possibility of a software upgrade back then.

The amount of upgrades that NMS has given me for free is the thing that most perplexes me now.

[Lindy Bomber]

Normally a game this old would be $20 for the base game and have 3 DCLs for $20 and a "complete package for $60. NMS gives you all the DCLs free so the base game is the "complete".

The game goes on sale frequently for 50% off so most new players only pay $30.

[gNg]

I never buy games at full price either...except for this one. It went on sale the week after but nearly 2000 hours later, I reckon I got more than my money's worth.