New game prices these days

[Allen]

$50 used to be an expensive game. Now they're coming out at $70. That ♥♥♥♥ cray. Whats going on

[Allen]

Also dlcs are getting pretty common. if a game comes out with dlcs at the same time isn't that pretty much just not selling the full game. A $70 game with $25 worth of dlcs. Back in my day it would be part of the game and the game would cost $50 :P

[ReBoot]

Vote with your wallet: don't buy expensive stuff. Wait for sales, wait for complete packages. Vote with your wallet!

[Donitsi]

Wait for sales then. Simple and easy.

[Allen]

ReBoot původně napsal:

Vote with your wallet: don't buy expensive stuff. Wait for sales, wait for complete packages. Vote with your wallet!

Tulipunahapero původně napsal:

Wait for sales then. Simple and easy.

Of course waiting for sales would be a good idea. I agree Reboot, that makes sense.

[Charlie]

Vote with your wallet, or buy somewhere were the game is cheaper. AC Unity is £49 on Uplay, got it off G2A for £27. Good saving.

[Satoru]

When accounting for inflation games have never been cheaper

[WhiteKnight77]

What is cray? Is it anything like crayfish?

[Charlie]

Tatsuya Hiroki (HU) původně napsal:

maybe because producing technology has become much more sophisticated and thus more expensive too?

True, however I don't think these game publishers realize that if they lower the prices of the games they will sell more units and that will make up for selling the game at a lower price point.

[Satoru]

GhostMotleyX původně napsal:

Tatsuya Hiroki (HU) původně napsal:

maybe because producing technology has become much more sophisticated and thus more expensive too?

True, however I don't think these game publishers realize that if they lower the prices of the games they will sell more units and that will make up for selling the game at a lower price point.

1) Games have never been cheaper when accounting for inflation

2) Reducing price does not necessarily correlate with increased sales to justify that price decrease

3) Games are expensive to make

[Charlie]

Satoru původně napsal:

GhostMotleyX původně napsal:

True, however I don't think these game publishers realize that if they lower the prices of the games they will sell more units and that will make up for selling the game at a lower price point.

1) Games have never been cheaper when accounting for inflation

2) Reducing price does not necessarily correlate with increased sales to justify that price decrease

3) Games are expensive to make

I never said anything about inflation, while it might be a true statement it isn't relevant, the point here is we want games to be cheaper, and there are alot of good reasons for doing this. Cheaper games would be good for the consumer ''Reducing price does not necessarily correlate with increased sales to justify that price decrease'' this statement is true, however when a game is cheaper it does sell more units and in many cases this makes up for the lower price. On the Xbox 360 in the US Skyrim's initial launch price was $49 and Battlefield 3's launch price was $59. Skyrim sold more copies worldwide than BF3 at a cheaper price point. There are other examples you can look at on VGChartZ, also keep in mind I am only accounting for Xbox 360 sales in the US, globally the figures are even more impressive.
''Games are expensive to make'' This statement is also true, but games also make a lot of money, many argue that they make more money than is needed so they could actually drop the price to make it more accessible. A AAA game and a blockbuster movie both cost roughly the same amount of money to make, however a movie ticket is about 1/4 - 1/6 the price of a video game and games usually make a larger profit margin than movies, this is yet another reason why people think games should be cheaper. And finally, one of the biggest reasons why people say games are expensive is because if you live outside the US you get screwed for buying games, companies cannot seem to do currency conversion correctly, and if you live outside the US you get ripped off for pretty much any electronic device/digital media.

And look at Steam Sales, the games become a lot cheaper and they sell loads, the while reason we have sales is so they can move units quickly, companies should strive to make their products as cheap as possible as it exposes more people to the product and the consumer saves more money. There is no disadvantage to lowering the price of the game, doing so means the consumer wins, and that is never a bad thing.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

GhostMotleyX původně napsal:

- holy rant batman -

What's the problem? Just wait for a sale if you find the prices too high. Premium experiences comes with premium price tags, this isn't the android app store or iOS store, where games are a bunch of match 3 gems that takes a day to make.

Modern games worth anything takes years to make with budgets in the 100,000 to 1,000,000+ USD, how will the devs make their money back pricing the game too low?

Also your comparison is massively flawed, the movie industry is much more established and much more widespread than then entirety of the gaming industry.

[Charlie]

­­­­­­Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel původně napsal:

GhostMotleyX původně napsal:

- holy rant batman -

What's the problem? Just wait for a sale if you find the prices too high. Premium experiences comes with premium price tags, this isn't the android app store or iOS store.

Waiting for a sale can take ages, it doesn't really bother me about the game prices but the reasons I have listed are what a lot of people say, I usually buy newer games of G2A, much cheaper and I've never had a bad key. G2A is like the most legit CD Key site aswell, I recently got Murdered Soul Suspect and AC Unity.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

GhostMotleyX původně napsal:

­­­­­­Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel původně napsal:

What's the problem? Just wait for a sale if you find the prices too high. Premium experiences comes with premium price tags, this isn't the android app store or iOS store.

Waiting for a sale can take ages, it doesn't really bother me about the game prices but the reasons I have listed are what a lot of people say, I usually buy newer games of G2A, much cheaper and I've never had a bad key. G2A is like the most legit CD Key site aswell, I recently got Murdered Soul Suspect and AC Unity.

So what's the problem? You get to buy shady keys for cheap and the world keeps spinning where devs can charge whatever they want for games. It's a free market after all.

[Charlie]

­­­­­­Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel původně napsal:

So what's the problem? You get to buy shady keys for cheap and the world keeps spinning where devs can charge whatever they want for games. It's a free market after all.

Read what I previously said

''Waiting for a sale can take ages, (key words) it doesn't really bother me about the game prices but the reasons I have listed are what a lot of people say (key words over), I usually buy newer games of ♥♥♥, much cheaper and I've never had a bad key. ♥♥♥ is like the most legit CD Key site aswell, I recently got Murdered Soul Suspect and AC Unity.''

Also G2A isn't shady, people sell their CD keys on the site or G2A will but batches of keys and sell them, don't forget G2A is also sponsored by a lot of people/

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

GhostMotleyX původně napsal:

­­­­­­Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel původně napsal:

So what's the problem? You get to buy shady keys for cheap and the world keeps spinning where devs can charge whatever they want for games. It's a free market after all.

Read what I previously said

''Waiting for a sale can take ages, (key words) it doesn't really bother me about the game prices but the reasons I have listed are what a lot of people say (key words over), I usually buy newer games of ♥♥♥, much cheaper and I've never had a bad key. ♥♥♥ is like the most legit CD Key site aswell, I recently got Murdered Soul Suspect and AC Unity.''

Also G2A isn't shady, people sell their CD keys on the site or G2A will but batches of keys and sell them, don't forget G2A is also sponsored by a lot of people/

Sorry buddy, if steam censor's the store, it's shady, end of story. Here's a few that aren't shady ; amazon, greenmangaming. Oh what you do you know, they aren't censored.