I mean, let them try? I, for one, basically stopped buying new games (with the occasional exception for an indie dev). By the time the worst bugs are fixed, it'll be on sale for 50% off anyway.

And I'm mulling over never buying any of their games.

I haven't seen a single developer that thinks the current price of a game is high enough. They always cite how much it costs to make the game as the reason why they should be more expensive to buy.

And yet... Hollywood spends about the same to make a blockbuster film and movie tickets aren't $70 nor do people in the film industry say they should be higher.

Cassette Beasts was 13 bucks on Steam the other day. Sales happen 24/7 this guy is huffing his own farts.

At this point I see anything above $40 as a red flag. Free games or $60 games and I'm almost guaranteed to be treated as the product instead of the other way around.

Price it $499 and I'll still wait until it's on sale for less than $10.

Who do they think they are? An AAAA publisher? Only Ubisoft has that dubious claim.

I'm old enough to remember when Doom 64 for the N64 was $74.99. In today's money that's around $145.

I'm not saying that's reasonable, I'm just saying it used to be a lot worse in the cartridge age.

Corpo prick says "I'm considering ~~milking~~ making more money after fucking over thousands of employees, IPs and fans".

Consumers say "So what else is fucking new? See you in the discount bin".

World continues to melt into the over-manufactured cesspit the corpo pricks force it to be.

Who cares? There's 10's of thousands of high quality gaming hours across every genre already created. You don't need anything they are currently making, certainly not for years

One half of my mind wishes developers did make more money because these games are so much more effort than the games that were the same price decades ago, but the other half knows that devs don't see a dime of that hiked price.

The more something costs the more I expect from it. Baldur's Gate 3, was $60 on release. If you want that or more from me, my personal expectation is your game is if the same quality or better.

I'm not even going to wait for a sale. Because by the time a decent sale comes around an indie developer has made a better game for cheaper, and I've already bought it, and I'm playing it. Your old, overpriced game means nothing to me. There is no shortage of entertainment and the hype for these games often dies so fast you're really not missing out.

Bitch please. I ain't buyin nothin till it's on sale 60% off on steam.

Did you know that Coffee Stain Studios, the publisher behind the beloved pro-consumer Deep Rock Galactic, belongs to Embracer Group? I'm sure this mentality will lead to nothing bad happening to the monetization of this game in the long run.

Many ganes are 80€ in Europe, some even in digital format, they can fuck right off

Do it. If people want to pay high prices for brand new video games, let them pay it. I'll just do what I've always done; wait for a sale.

I've played plenty of games that would be worth 100+ easily. The problem for a studio pricing something at that though is they need some way to sell me on the game. A demo, or like, first party Nintendo quality reputation. Something. No way I pay that as a default for a piece of shit, which most things released are.

Yarr?

“Hey dude, did you try this new game?” Nope. I don’t have a six figure salary.

Controversial take but having the industry fixed at $60 only will increasingly encourage predatory models as inflation continues. Price should be reflective of the quality and content of a product, not a fixed standard.

This headline doubles as a punchline. Neat.

I think I bought Shadow of the Beast for almost that much in 1988 or 89. Of course, it came with a t-shirt and cool Roger Dean poster, which added some to the cost.

Point being, games certainly were this expensive for a long time, and I'd agree with them being that expensive again, but for the money going to vulture capitalists who'll soak me via DLC on top of that. And I won't get a Roger Dean poster, even.