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millionaire says thing that is easily affordable to them is a good deal, news at 11
Naturally he'd say that, its easy to be careful spending money when the PS5 has no games to buy.
They are definitely a steal. If your game is 70 or 80 dollars I'm stealing it
Read this in Rodney dangerfield’s voice.
"No respect for me at all"
The industry is making a mistake if it forces everyone down this path.
Audiences have a limited income and will not spend above budget for gaming, their spending is already saturated, they don't have more money to spend.
The title is correct but it's not a positive thing like he frames it. All raising prices is going to do is force audiences to choose between games, meaning they buy fewer games. It will shrink the size of the industry by crushing the companies that people choose not to buy from in order to afford the higher priced games.
There will be fewer games and fewer professionals in the industry as a result. Talent and skill will be lost permanently.
My most unnecessarily doomer take on the subject:
The industry recognises that things cannot continue as they are, and is shifting to making video games more of a rich (or at least well off) person's hobby. This price increase will coincide with attempts to crack down on piracy as much as possible and will also attempt to patent more video game gameplay, and sue indie developers out of existence. As we've seen with this Palworld lawsuit, the big companies will probably start trying to eliminate the competition as much as possible, and rely on a legal system that still treats video games as "pac man, but with fancier graphics." Additionally, If the big publishers refuse to allow indie games on their systems, or take huge portions of the sales, it will result in indie games having far less reach, pretty much being limited only to PC.
I know this doesn't all really flow very well, it's my most doomer take, not my most coherent or reasonable take.
To properly monopolise this industry they will have to find a way to prevent indies from existing at low cost altogether. The best method I can think of to do that is to go after the engines. Forcing indies into developing their games from scratch without a comfortable engine that already exists as the foundation.
I do think this is mostly about consolidating and monopolising within the industry though. Capitalism is at work doing what it always does, consolidating industries into fewer and fewer companies.
All raising prices is going to do is force audiences to choose between games, meaning they buy fewer games.
maybe a shift of consumer indulgence to indie? I feel like this hurts mid-budget games specifically.
maybe a shift of consumer indulgence to indie? I feel like this hurts mid-budget games specifically.
Yes. Medium studios will drop out of existence as they get bullied out of the market. Either they'll be swallowed into the big publishers doing AAA titles at high prices or they'll break up into indies selling low priced games.
Yeah but think of the AI !
All the games I play are a steal
Oh ho oh ho a pirates life for me ☠️ 🏴☠️
Uhhh hello? Based department? You're gonna wanna check out this comrade
Going up to $70 after 15+ years of $60? Fine, whatever, annoying because imo the economics of the video game industry mean games should cost less money in absolute terms but it’s fine. I’m not gonna whine about it.
$80 less than 5 years after that? Ridiculous. $90 after less than 5 years like Nintendo is trying to do is fucking insanity.
It's a steal alright: the game publishers are stealing from the gamers. The gamers!
I see they didn’t learn from “people should get a second job to afford a PS3”.
five-hundred ninety nine US dollars
Deadass the last time I bought a $60 game full price was like... Dark Souls III nearly 10 years ago (:aware:)? Even the few times I've bought AAA games on release since then I've always got something like a 5-10% discount on Fanatical or similar stores
I know some people get really upset at the idea of pirating indies but even $20 feels like a lot of money to spend on a video game I'm not sure if I'll like and play all the way through. 80? Forget about it.
i don't really understand the moralizing about pirating indie games. like, piracy is not stealing. i was not going to buy it. i am more likely to buy a game after pirating it bc i realized i liked it.
I'm pretty sure its small business brainworms
ah yea that makes sense
especially since this argument is usually used for indie games that did quite well or had high budgets. i dont think the creator of stardew valley is gonna miss my $10 that much.
it's small business cult shit
if i didn't pirate whatever i wasn't going to pay for it either, there's too much other stuff to do for free
Every game should have a demo, even just to check if the game runs well or not in your pc/deck.
if you have a pot of money set aside you can use steam's 2-hour refund thing for this, even if you're just gonna pirate it afterwards
I wonder if that's had a hand in devs not bothering to make separate demos
former playstation exec should take a long walk off a short pier
I can't hear youuuu! 
I guess I'll carefully choose to not spend my money on your garbage lol
i steal $80 games
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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