Why are people saying fighterz is expensive?

[finlcounter43]

last year the price for season pass and xenoverse 2 wass $100, and fighterz looks sooo goood and was soo fuuun, and its $95 with pass. Games were always expensive anyways.

[neilencio]

Xenoverse 2's base game was $50 ("price history[www.steamprices.com]) and its season pass contains 4 DLC packs that provided much more content (additional quests, costumes, 9 characters) than FighterZ pack's 8 additional DLC characters.

And as this thread points out, there's a little bit of oddity with regional pricing that makes the FighterZ base game much more expensive for people in places that normally get reduced pricing.

I still think Dragon Ball FighterZ is worth the asking price because it's Dragon Ball and because the game looks hella fun, but some people have a valid reason for thinking that it's expensive, and that should be fine provided that they don't use the price as an excuse to be jerks (because in the end, it's really up to the publishers to decide how much their game is worth, and the game is neither a commodity nor forced onto people.)

P.S.

People's perspectives are probably also colored by the respective games' treatment of DLC characters. Xenoverse 2's base game had at least 60-70 characters available, so not having 9 additional DLC characters doesn't feel like much of a loss. FighterZ, on the other hand, will probably have somewhere north of 20 characters, which makes the base game feel much more gutted if 8 of those are locked behind the DLC paywall.

[DUCKER]

It all depends...

This game will be dead 3 days after release... Kinda expensive.
This game will have active player base in all regions long after release...It's cheap.

[Oku]

Ultimately this game is pricey, as are most fighting games that release in this era of gaming. But at least we don't have to buy multiple copies of the game just to get updates.

[strike478]

If movelists will remain so short It wont be worth it.

[dokoham]

Xenoverse 2 is bored - -

[carlins]

So,you basically are saying that 100$ isnt expensive? Also,xenoverse 2 with season pass wasnt 100$. Actually,ive never seen in my entire life a 100$ game. FighterZ its good,but its sooo expensive and the specs are RIDICULOUSLY exaggerated.

[Oku]

FighterZ is 60. Dlc is optional not mandatory

[strike478]

Originally posted by Stamps:

FighterZ is 60. Dlc is optional not mandatory

Some peoples dont like to start their adventure with the game knowing that soon after release their version will be lacking extra content.
Also peoples who want to be competitive very much have to try out each character by themselves and usually also program them in training to master countering their moves.

[Oku]

Originally posted by strike478:

Some peoples dont like to start their adventure with the game knowing that soon after release their version will be lacking extra content.
Also peoples who want to be competitive very much have to try out each character by themselves and usually also program them in training to master countering their moves.

Be honest, how many people complaining about the price are actually going to play on a competitive level, the only people that I've seen complain have no idea with how fighting games have been handling themselves.

The casual fighting game players do not have to buy the DLC, if they feel that their experience in playing the game will be lessened by the pricetag + DLC content, then they probably will have a ♥♥♥♥ time on release. The answer to the problem these people are having is to buy the game when everything releases altogether in some sort of bundle at a discounted price about a year or so after the initial release.

There is nothing wrong with the pricing of DBFighterZ.

[strike478]

Originally posted by Stamps:

There is nothing wrong with the pricing of DBFighterZ.

except the pricing.

[Oku]

Originally posted by strike478:

Originally posted by Stamps:

There is nothing wrong with the pricing of DBFighterZ.

except the pricing.

That's only an issue for people who aren't already expecting this from fighting games.

[strike478]

Originally posted by Stamps:

Originally posted by strike478:

except the pricing.

That's only an issue for people who aren't already expecting this from fighting games.

If you see yourselve with yellow eyes in morning even if you starting to expect your livier to stop working that expectation has little chance of saving your depleted organ.
Commonness of overpricing doesnt makes overpaying less harmfull for wallet.

[Sonicfanx1]

We're currently judging the game purely on what we know of it right now. We've got 18 characters announced (SSJB Goku and Vegeta included). We're immediately assuming we're buying the game that has 18 characters.

It shouldn't be the fact. ASW has a very healthy roster of games under their belt. I trust them to deliver an honest product.

I think it's the fact that the other editions cost ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS.

Seeing as we're getting 8 characters, that's like $5 per character.

So yeah, the game is quite expensive if you want the DLC characters as well.

[R2015]

Replying to the original query: because it is.

At launch XV2 cost US$/€ 49.99 base, 74.99 with the season pass (or £ 39.99 / 59.99). Just about every fighting game has had similar pricing, from Tekken 7 to Marvel vs Capcom:Infinite.

Very few games have a standard price tag of $/€ 59.99 and those are titles whose wealth of contents is in a whole different league. Very few games also cost as much on PC as on consoles, as is the case with this FighterZ.

Pre-order bonus also ranks as one of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I've seen in a long while.

Next, some will come and say we're lucky we're getting this game 'this cheap'...

[Kai]

There is this thing called regional pricing. Some Publishers do regional pricing, most dont. So thoses games which are not regionally priced, they are redicilously expensive for those countries/regions including the Season pass/Gold/Deluxe edition and all that bs. Nobody wants to take the blame as to who decides the price on steam, the companies or devs or Steam itself, as Tekken is priced well, but not DBZF. This game is not regionally priced and so, people from these regions will have to find other means to play the game.