I’ll stick to little indie-to-AA games at a lower price point and continuously making new stardew saves without actually making much progress as a break between them.
Why do you need to buy only (current title). Have you finished all this the games made? For 80 bucks you can get into a few jrpg series, that are guranteed to be good, rather than risk your luck on some aaa slop.
This is just the way it works. Things stay the way they are until someone has the balls to make a change. Once one party does, all the other parties see it as a signal that they can also raise the price.
Remember when Android phones used to be like $400-500? Apple saw the end of that, others followed their lead. To this day you can still buy very good phones for that price, but the majority of phones have moved into the $1k+ market.
Honestly I’m okay with games being priced at whatever they’re worth instead of some arbitrary fixed price based on industry norms.
I feel the need to remind everyone that when I was buying NES cartridges in 1988 and 1989 at the ripe age of like, 6, they were like 39.99$, and SNES were usually 50$, unless you wanted something fancy like Secret of Mana where the cartridge had some special snowflake chips in it and shit. Entire birthdays’ gifts were combined into a single game I could buy, once a year at most.
I don’t know of literally anything else that cost 50$ in 1989 that only cost 50$ today.
But with everything else getting god awful expensive, it’s hard to stomach yet more things getting expensive too. I’m just pointing out that gas was like, 89c a gallon at the same time, so… yeah. I just find it wild that games haven’t really gone up in price alongside everything else over the same time period, it’s kind of super unique in that regard.
That’s true, but it’s also worth noting that as the industry as a whole has grown, even physical media only costs a few bucks. And as we’ve moved away from physical media, that number is effectively zero. So there’s no increased costs as they’ve scaled, only increased profits.
The fact that there has been so much noise over $80 video games makes me question the thesis here. There are a huge number of video games out there now, it’s true, but if gamers truly gave a shit about them, I think everyone would be rather quiet about the prices from the big publishers.
All of the noise tells me that gamers will continue to prioritize big name, big dollar releases, rather than actually even glance at their backlog of Steam games. And $80 spent on games you never, ever play is not a better investment.
I’d hardly call $50 games “budget titles.” Is paying $30 for a meal at a steakhouse a budget meal just because that high-class $50 a plate reservation-only place exists?
I agree that price doesn’t equal quality, but I don’t feel so good about trying to normalize AAA $50 games as “budget titles.” And the link to the article is broken, so I am not sure what the greater context and points of the article are.
Just so you have more reference. Original link is in OP’s link, but I think they had too many tracking arguments in the URL so wayback didn’t work. Always test before going live!
Budget title is definitely a stretch, but I think that was just poor word choice - the fact that those three games are less than the typical “AAA” price of $60 I think really proves their point that gamers by and large are choosing cheaper games — it’s the industry trying to push premium priced games.
I’ve said this elsewhere before but video games are a commodity and an impulse buy. Very few people view the next video game as an essential purchase for themselves. So sure people can have them and haha about how much the cost of developing a video game has gone up till they’re blue in the face but that is not going to change how the consumer will feel at the register buying the game. If the person at the register does not feel that the price is justified they’re not going to pay it they’re going to wait for a sale, borrow it from a friend if they can get access to physical media, or pirate it.
Ale się gościu przewartościowuje. Nikomu (niestety) nie zależy na niszczeniu jego wizerunku. Fake click bajty klikają się lepiej niż zwykle click bajty. Tyle. Ten typ żeruje na ciężkiej sytuacji zyciowej wielu ludzi, żeby zmusić ich do pracy dla siebie bez umowy, bez chorobowego, z możliwością wywalenie z godziny na godzinę. A ktoś inny ma mniej wysublimowany sposob. Wszystko dla kasy, w końcu egoizm jednostek prowadzi do szczęścia ogółu. Więc obaj dalej robią swoje.
Tymczasem przedstawiciele SM nie mają sobie nic do zarzucenia, bo przecież takie rzeczy są natychmiast kasowane… www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXL6_8_sDjA tia…
@wariat@slavistapl A to ta konferencja gdzie #meta i #google były ofcjalnymi partnerami wydarzenia? To jakby policja robiła konferencję pod patronatem mafii.
Nie wiem czy taka beka, bo to nie tylko problem nękania jednego miliardera, ale też rozsiewanie faszyzmy i foliarstwa na całym świecie. Na Fb jest coraz więcej nie tylko fejków, ale też oszustw, podszywania się pod inne firmy w celu naciągania ludzi na hajs. To tego ciągła inwigilacja. Unia Europejska potrafi wymusić na portalach durne powiadomienia o ciasteczkach, ale wobec przekrętów wielkich cyberkorpo jest bezsilna.
…do których nie ma jasno określonych standardów przez UE. Jest w takich przypadkach wolna amerykanka, i mamy takie kwiatki jak podział na uzasadniony interes i zgodę, consent managery tylko z nazwy, przeklikiwanie się przez pierdylion przełączników bo “zaufani” partnerzy (dla mnie zaufani nie są, bo dane osobowe wykorzystują w bardzo nieodpowiedzialny sposób). Think about the wasted opportunity.
No a dziś po raz kolejny zawiązała się “egzotyczna” koalicja KO+TrzeciaDroga+Konfederacja tym razem w obronie interesów wielkich cyberkorpo, które Unia Europejska próbuje zmusić do płacenia za treści.
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