lock2k
Banned
They are businesses, they don't have personalities. They have stockholders and have to make money. If they don't they will invest elsewhere and you will have less games to play. Due to inflation and rising costs of development, we are all paying one way or another. There is no free lunch.
You cannot just ignore the real price of game production, the consumer is paying no matter what. You either pay up front and make a healthy ecosystem or you force them to make you pay later or with hidden costs.
- Outsourcing - moving jobs to low paying countries.
- Loot crates - and no not all games have them and they are becoming less popular and sometimes illegal.
- Quality - ship games incomplete and buggy. Fallout 76
- Game length - Just put less in the game, sell more later as DLC
- Price - come games are not full price, they are cheaper to produce. We hade $40/50 releases this last gen. We have $20 indie games.
- Remasters/Special ed - recoup costs with extra releases
- Kill the resell market with physical- MS thought of this, want it to come real?
- Digital market - more profit, no resale
The fact that I paid more for some games in the 1980s than now is just staggering. Those game probably took 40 people 18 months to make versus hundreds of people for three years. Since I want more games being made and want more people in games development, I want to pay for my games. $70 is completely reasonable for a 10-40+ hours of entertainment IMO. Everyone has the option to not buy on release day and let the competitive nature of the market drive prices down.
Maybe I'm just a "moron", but at least I'm not a child who doesn't understand economics.
Where did I say they're not businesses? You completely misunderstood everything I said. Sigh. I was a business owner twice and I work for a large automotive company as a matter of fact. I know how businesses work and I don't give a flying fuck if their costs are bigger - I don't even play AAA games that much.
They are businesses, I'm a consumer, just like they're entitled to increase prices I'm entitled to tell them "fuck off, I won't buy it".
What I said is that many people have a hard on for businesses and even if the business rapes their mother and kidnaps their child or some other fuckery they will still defend the companies no matter what.
I have no idea why you felt personally offended by what I wrote by putting "moron" on quotation marks. Keep in mind that I live in Brazil (aka Moronland, where people will buy anything, for any price, no matter what, no matter how, no matter when).