we've basically come full circle with Oblivion
Oblivion was The first AAA game to have microtransactions and now Oblivion Remastered could possibly be the last AAA game to be priced at $50-60 dollars.
with the Switch 2 being a success, we could see a rise in prices for all AAA Games. to 80-90 dollars
WHEN games do inevitably become 80-100 dollars, I'll definitely be buying more Indie games
pirating games is the only way to go... they just cost too damn much for what is almost always very little actual value, in my opinion. So very few games actually hold my attention for more than a couple hours and I'm sure as shit not going to give someone $30+ for that. on the off-chance a game grips me and sucks me in then i definitely will go buy it on steam because i feel like that's fair, but i'm not going to do that if they're $90
Games were standardized to $60 back around 2005. Prior to that, games were just whatever the price that publishers decided the game should be. Chrono Trigger cost $80 USD at launch in 1995: https://fantasyanime.com/squaresoft/ctabout.htm Adjusting for inflation, that would be just shy of $170 USD now. It was not uncommon for games for the Nintendo 64 to retail for $70-80: https://retrovolve.com/n64-games-were-ridiculously-expensive-when-they-first-came-out/
Video games (particularly console and handheld games) have always been an expensive hobby. Games also haven't been adjusted for inflation in the 20 years since prices were largely standardized, which is why they have become a microtransaction hell.
Honestly, this will likely lead the the return of video game demos. Because video games were prohibitively expensive in the 80s and 90s, demos were a huge part of the culture so that you could try them out ahead of time to get a feel for if they were worth the price tag.
with the Switch 2 being a success, we could see a rise in prices for all AAA Games. to 80-90 dollars. WHEN games do inevitably become 80-100 dollars, I'll definitely be buying more Indie games
95% of modern games especially AAA titles for switch/consoles are pure, unabashed simulacra. Why pay 80 dollars for a game that is the less authentic version of things that came out 5-20 years ago?
You can always just go touch the green stuff
WHEN games do inevitably become 80-100 dollars, I'll definitely be buying more Indie games
I haven't payed full price for a game for like 5 years. They were all either on sale or pirated (unless indie)
one good thing of not feeling fear of missing out is that i never buy games on release and always grab them on the cheap a year or 2 later on a sale. There is literally way too much good games out there.
Every year, there are more games that are made than you could play through in an entire lifetime.
The entire gaming industry is propped up on a gigantic bandwagon, the idea that you have to play the new releases that other people are playing. Old games are much cheaper, sometimes even free. If everyone realized that and just dug around for what they liked, we would never have any shortage of games to play.
I already buy almost exclusively Indie Games. For 50 bucks I can still get 2-5 indie games and they just tend to be really good as well.
I don't even remember the last time I played a so-called AAA game. I guess Like A Dragon could count as AAA, but to me the production values aren't really on that level, they must be relatively cheap to make.
They shock me when I see a friend playing them at their place. It's always the same flashy bloom "realistic" graphics that look identical to any other game on the market, with token RPG elements shoved in and nothing that gives it a unique sense of style or flow. They just always look so boring to me. Like Assasin's creed 69 looks functionally the same as red dead rootin' tootin' just that one is about cowboys, one is about like, ancient greece or something.
its even better than that, the content in the 60 dollar version is literally fucking horse armor again
I don’t care I’m still going to buy Mario kart and have fun
WHEN games do inevitably become 80-100 dollars,
I'm always like, if people stopped paying that price they'd stop selling at that price. Like imagine if a new Assassin's Duty launches at $100 and sells like thirty copies. It'd be big news.
But people don't work like that. And if they did, we'd probably just see more "the game is $40 but half the content is in $60 of dlc"
I stopped buying New AAA games since Stalker 2, and started seriously pirating everything New when AC shadows came out
Like, you dont give a fuck if my PC that I paid 1500€ for 3 Years ago can run your fucking slop reskin game which is a disgrace to the franchises origins without using AI to generate frames? Well fuck you then, Im gonna pirate every single one of your games, Seed the fuck out of them (like really, in the last 3 weeks alone ive seeded like 4 TBs) and then shove your profits up your ass so far you start vomiting your own shit
And that applies to indie Titles too.
You want me to pay 3$ for a card game I cant even play on my Opensuse system from 2001 bEcAuSe dRm? Fuck you, im Pirating that shit. Fuck you Balatro for being such a fucking good game and still for some reason not taking my money.