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Got it, so wait for it in humble bundle or buy it once it sinks to $5.
With all the dlc.
But of course.
the thing while yes, inflation will make things more expensive, the more expensive things become the less folks will just spend on random entertainment. they will have to use their money more deliberately and frugally.
and the problem with games are that there are many free and cheaper alternatives. if you wanna game you can just spend less and still game and have fun.
if you wanna go to the cinema it pretty much costs what it costs so you might go less often or buy less popcorn but you won’t skip one movie because it’s more expensive than another.
you can just skip full price AAA games. buy them on sales, play games you already have, play free to play games, emulate retro games, play indie games.
BL3 was generic and forgettable. BL4 anything more than 40$ is easily forgettable. Don’t these guys know most gamers have backlogs at this point? No one has the money for this shit.
My wishlist is long and at least one game on it gets a deep discount every week. I’m busy playing games between 2€-20€.
There hasn’t been a major release that would justify paying 50€ and more for years.
Baldurs Gate 3 was the last game I got at full price and didn’t regret.
I don’t know if I will buy this game then.
Will it be yet another Borderlands game that I don’t buy until the GOTY edition goes on sale for less than $20? “It might be.”
Indeed.
Aaaaaand I’ll wait for a sale. If I consider it in the first place. Gaming is so saturated, all these days 1 buyers are fucking us over.
To these orgs, I say, bro - have you seen my backlog?
Even worse than my backlog, there are all the comfort games I play every few years and which takes me months to complete (cause some of them are fairly long like The Witcher 3) and thanks to my crappy memory, multiple choices and mods I can enjoy them as much every time
Been having that itch for witcher 3 again. What an amazing adveture
I have trouble letting 2 years go by not playing it, I can’t wait for the remake of the first one
I made it so far in that one, I think, then I practically skipped tw2 and went straight for 3 and soon became so hooked. It’s crazy how huge and dense that world is, with scenery that never looks repeated.
Ooh you should give the 2nd another chance, they f’ed up the combat (I think they wanted to copy Souls games) but the story is great and honestly it still looks fine for a 2011 game
It’s more war/politics oriented, and the story is about clearing your name and recovering memory and less about saving someone/the world
If the combat part is the issue, some mods can improve that (or make you hard to kill)
I’ll enjoy buying it in 5 years during a Steam sale.
There’s an overabundance of games out there. I can wait.
Borderlands 3 was barely worth $60 and I still waited for it to go on sale.
I bought it in Fall 2024 for like 25 bucks with all DLCs. So I’ll wait year or two with BL4 no problem, there’s plenty other games I can play. I never buy brand new games.
“Initial sales fall short of predictions”
At this point i appreciate the heads up from all the studios. Makes not buying the games much easier if you don’t even get on the hype train.
Nintendo really is the Apple of gaming.
I feel like we keep seeing this headline. “AAA studio says current prices can’t support current budgets”
I almost never buy games at $60. I buy everything on sale, and there are constantly sales and way more games than I can play. They can charge whatever they want, I personally will be paying less.
Will the market bear $80 games? Maybe. I feel like a better strategy would be to reign in scope and budget and sell games at prices most people can afford. But who knows?
Sure, it might be $80,why not? Also I might skip it. Or wait for sensible sale like $5 in a bundle. Backlog keeps expanding anyway and I doubt this will be even worth half the rrlease asking price…
I’ve been buying $80 for years thanks to being Canadian!
Now it’ll be $110!
I’d be willing to pay that. But honestly, I’ll probably wait until it’s on sale.
Have any large developers ever made small high quality games? Or is that just not sustainable? I suppose the games would have to be repayable.
I once paid $140 (just pre-pandemic inflation) for a meal with two drinks at a fancy restaurant for a friend’s bachelor party. It was delicious. At the same time, I realized that no one meal, no matter how good, was worth that price. I don’t know what the threshold is for how much I’ll pay for a single video game, but $80 is more palatable to me when the game asking for it isn’t Mario Kart.
I’d gladly pay 80 bucks for games, Ive paid way more than that in 40K, Warmahordes and Advanced Squad Leader.
If digital games would give me the same kind of “ownership”, like full access to the code and free reign to modify the rules sets as well as spreading those changes to friends and strangers I wouldn’t hesitate to spend similar amounts. However digital games, even physical on disks, has too many limitations as riders for that price to be motivated
I wish we lived in a world close to that one, and maybe someday we’ll get there. Guilty Gear Strive’s source code just got leaked in its entirety, so complete that it can just be loaded as is into the Unreal editor, and a lot of people see this as a bad thing rather than the game ascending to immortality.
