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RightHandOfIkaros, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?

Why didn’t you include Sony in this image? They increased prices even before Nintendo.

remington, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 4th
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Diablo 4 season 8

Diplomjodler3, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?
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Those games are so expensive because people will pay those prices. There are plenty of cheap games to be had.

CCAirWater, do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?

Just started playing a simple isometric game called Tunic. It’s cute, and you play as a little button mashing fox creature with a sword in a language that’s gibberish as you find hidden paths in the isometric style. It’s frustrating for being so simplistic, because the hidden paths are hidden. I kinda like it so far tho. Just simple, relaxing, chill music, and cute AF artwork.

EveningPancakes,

Absolutely adored that game! It’s one of those that I wish I could replay without having remembers how I uncovered all the various secrets.

CCAirWater,

It is super, super cute. I started it on a whim and I love that it doesn’t really give ya anything. Like a souls-like game, it’s just ‘figure it out as you go’ but a cute fox and bug creatures.

rustyricotta,

Fantastic game. If you haven’t been already, you can tilt the camera slightly to get a peek at some of the hidden paths.

CCAirWater,

Yeah with the lock on button? When I figured out that holding the dodge button let me sprint, it blew my mind haha

BroBot9000, (edited ) do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?
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Buying new games is decreasing in value sharply. They are releasing broken games, overpriced and with invasive DRM.

Play games 2+ years delayed. They are completely fixed and in a playable state, reasonably priced with frequent sales and some games get their shit DRM removed for better performance.

And no. Games as a service and fomo are NOT enough to buy games on day one.

Peffse,

Doesn’t work on Nintendo, for some reason. Mario Tax expanded to anything first or second party, so the best you’ll see is $20 off new price on Mar10 for the games that came out 5 years ago. It’s like every retailer came to the agreement that Nintendo games don’t depreciate.

BroBot9000,
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You have to emulate Nintendo.

Hyphlosion,

I’d rather not. Not a fan of their business decisions.

Tattorack, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?
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That’s really not how inflation works. We’d somehow need negative inflation, which probably only exists in the nightmares of economists.

zout,

I've heard deflation is the end of the world!

FartsWithAnAccent, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?
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They don't cost $80 if I don't buy them. There are plenty of great games coming out regularly that cost way less (and there's a good chance they're also better games).

CallateCoyote,
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Right? I’ve already put more time into R.E.P.O. than most AAA games I’ve purchased in the last decade. It was $10 and is still in early access with more content coming.

The only situation where I’ll be forced into $80 is with Nintendo games I really, really want. I’ll be very discerning there though, probably only buying 2-3 a year on Switch 2. Cream of the crop. Pretty much every other publisher will drop their game prices significantly within a year. Then of course there’s also FitGirl…

madjo, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?

Until the market is unwilling or unable to pay it

Vince, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?

Taking the most naive view here, but is there any chance, increasing the price will in any way prevent more layoffs in the video game industry?

LandedGentry,

No

amino,

no, if anything it will increase them because prices going up is almost always tied to mass layoffs. austerity package and all that.

ampersandrew,
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It lowers the threshold of how many copies need to sell before a given game breaks even on its budget. It also lowers the number of copies it will sell, because some percentage of people who would have bought a game at the lower price no longer find it to be worth what they’re charging for it.

kambusha, do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?

Casper the friendly ghost

letsgo,

I played Thing on a Spring a lot but never completed it.

MSids, do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?

So many times in GTA V I had no idea how to trigger the next mission. I would probably go back to it and play through if it had some sort of indicator for how to trigger the next campaign mission.

zipzoopaboop,

Go to a mission marker on the map?

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

Some missions are characteristic-specific, but those are labeled too.

MSids,

It was a while back, but I feel like I remember trying this, switching between characters and going to their various markers on the map but nothing would happen. It was long enough ago that I can’t rule out hitting a bug or missing a required side mission, but I remember not being the only person saying this.

I was never a fan of just driving around the city causing havoc, so even short amounts of time with no missions felt like eternity.

MudMan, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?

That's... not how inflation works.

Inflation is a measure of price increase. If inflation goes down prices keep going up, just slower.

If prices go down that's deflation and its own whole separate problem.

southsamurai, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?
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Prices never go down for things like that, they only go up.

BmeBenji, do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?

All of fucking Bloodborne. Fast travel is great. Building into the narrative where you don’t tell the story directly? Fuck that.

itsgroundhogdayagain, do games w I'm sure the game prices will decrease, right guys?

If we don’t buy $80 games, they WILL put them on sale. I haven’t paid full price for a game since Horizon FW came out and it’s worked out pretty well.

EDIT: maybe not Nintendo…

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