80 USD it's a fair price

[Todd]

The new price for AAA games is justified due to production costs of modern games

[Shinneh]

lol

[deezus]

It is cheaper today to make games than ever before. AAA companies just don't bother trying to control their costs anymore and pass their waste and greed onto consumers.

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but it's $70 usd

[Soren]

about as fair as the american health care system.
As much as i enjoy the game, its not a fair price.

[Caduryn]

I am waiting on the Day GTA 6 releases... THAT will be a true meltdown.

[Chacheya1G]

Originally posted by Todd:

The new price for AAA games is justified due to production costs of modern games

No, it's not. 50 is the max any of the modern AAA sloppa can get away with.

[Hardwyn "Boogaloo" Doe]

With no physical manufacturing or distribution costs $80 is ridiculous

[Karballus]

Microsoft bot detected.

[StuartAce]

Even if that was true, its not our fault as consumers.

Besides its just karma for the fact they used to charge us 50, 60, even 70 bucks 20+ years ago for some 16bit and 32bit games when a 1mil dev budget back then was big budget.

[xwize]

microtransactions on top?

[GrinningSinner9]

I am not paying $70 or $80 for a video game that will be less than half that next year.
Patience is a virtue, and a money saver!

[Grisu]

Todd, you may be right.

if it was 16x the detail.

So sorry, it is not.

[Swamp Fox]

Justified, sure.

Accepted by consumers, nay.

Consumers win. They wasted like 50 million dollars on this game.

[Many-Named]

Originally posted by deezus:

It is cheaper today to make games than ever before. AAA companies just don't bother trying to control their costs anymore and pass their waste and greed onto consumers.

This. Also, big money went into gaming during the pandemic and now wants big returns.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Todd:

The new price for AAA games is justified due to production costs of modern games

Then why are smaller teams able to make games like Clair Obscur and sell them at a fraction of the cost?