I'm so excited for this game.
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What a world we live in, where cheaper games are seen as less quality because the theory of capitalism has conditioned us to believe higher quality = higher price.
New franchise needs to build a following first. The lower price point will get more people to try it. I'm sold already, but there's a ton of people who have no idea what this game is still and won't until it releases. I hope it's as good as it looks, and I hope it succeeds and leads to more.
$50 should still be the norm.
I refuse to ever pay $70 for a game
If it's a game I'm going to get hundreds, or sometimes thousands of hours from, then I'll pay more. If you look at price per hour spent on entertainment, it's hard to compare. However, you often have to wade through a bunch of shitty overpriced games to find those gems.
Okay, back to EU4 now ;)
I'm kind of in a different boat with this. I'm paying for quality, not quantity. Especially since I don't have as much free time as I did 20 years ago.
So if I can play through a phenomenal story within a couple months over a 20 hour game (which usually takes me 30 hours) at the height of the hype when people are still talking about it, I love it. Give me efficient storytelling.
In fact, if it's something longer, it kind makes me rethink it whether I want to pay full price. Why rush?
I am the same. Game could take 60 hours to complete, and 50 of them are dogshit. Then it’s not a fun game. It’s all about the overall quality of the entire experience.
I would gladly pay $100 for Subnautica 2 if they could pull off another amazing adventure. Would do the same for another Larian studio game.
I will only do this for games I know I will like, from studios I want to support.
I literally will wait until a sale ends to buy a game made by Yoko Taro or FromSoftware at full price.
Sits back in porch chair, Back in my day you could get a fully complete console game wið online multiplayer and all ð bells and whistles, for just ÞIRTY DOLLARS
Should probably tell inflation to stop being a thing, then.
To me, $70 is a reasonable price based on what bread costs now, but the minimum wage needs to like, triple.
The focus on freemium games and whales may even be driven by America’s wealth gap.
🙏There🙏is🙏no🙏inflation🙏only🙏price🙏gouging🙏
Moderate Inflation (around the 2% target) is necessary for the current economical system to function. It incentivizes people to either invest or spend their money instead of sitting on it.
I'm not sure we share the same definition of price gouging.
Seems to me like they've just upped the price $10 with each successive generation of consoles.