Wait. Wasn’t the whole point of competition to bring prices down?
Plus you’d think that with distribution costs, shelving costs, CD stamping costs and printing manuals, they’d already be cutting our costs… but it’s not about us.
That “did” cut our costs. Like the first year. The next year that’d be a net increase of 0%, and you can’t have numbers not go up every year
looks up
shakes head
goes back to Balatro
Ooh, a two pair
Lol I pirated a game the other day just because the company was charging full price for a remaster.
On the one hand, games have stayed the same price for a long time, well below the rate of inflation.
On the other, wages have also stayed well below inflation for a long time. I don’t expect they’ll see the growth they want when a game purchase takes a larger and larger bite out of someone’s paycheck.
It’s a good example for how inflation isn’t something constant that affects everything equally. Game development costs are mostly wages, if wages stay below inflation then development costs stay below inflation unless teams get larger, and especially game development is known for paying rather low wages.
Development, yes. Executives, the sky is the limit.
Especially when you have a great success, like laying off tonnes of your employees, which Embracer has been leading the charge on.
Beyond £55? They cost £55 now?!
That’s a significant portion of the cost of a brand new console! That’s two weeks worth of electricity for my house! That’s 6 months worth of my mobile phone service! Jesus wept.
I’m not paying more than £40 for a video game, and at that price it had better be a GREAT game.
I mostly wait until they’re in the £20-30 range anyway, even if that means waiting for sales. I’m not in a rush, I’ve got plenty of other games I can play in the mean time after all.
Your mobile service is incredibly cheap
Not OP, but also from the UK. I pay £8 per month for 5 gigs of internet traffic and unlimited everything else. Last month I used less than 1 gig… I can probably switch to a £6 tariff with just 2 gigs, but I use closer to 5 from time to time and don’t want to switch back and forth all the time. For £25 I can get unlimited traffic.
Just sail the high seas.
Very often games are mediocre and/ or not even fully finished which results in a buggy mess,
Very often games are mediocre and/ or not even fully finished which results in a buggy mess,
AAA trash, sure
Indie games are often 10-20 USD and totally worth the moneySadly indie games more and more scratch on the 45€ mark and it sucks.
