Imagine paying 40 quid for an nes game

overall games are the same price as decades ago and have to recoup the inflation costs..... they can either charge more or break it up into season passes and loot boxes

they choose to play smoke and mirrors into passes etc

We're not building games in assembly my dude

it wont be long til it's december in the UK, brace yourselves

indy titles can charge less but aaa need the money to show stockholders that they wont lose money investing

Game engines increase the limit on what is possible within a certain amount of effort and are the reason games prices have largely stayed consistent

how do you justify the large team sizes to make these games?

they cost money

AAA companies like to make their own engines

Simple

Indy games are just built in unity and shit like that

You dont own games anymore. You purchase access to licenses. It actually sucks because even old console games like SNES and N64 have expiration dates, the physical copies werent meant to last passed 20 years

yeah I mean with games like RD2 it cost 265 Million to make

overall id rather they just raise prices and give incremental free updates.

dude

thats more honest

i played r2d2 once for liek ten minutes, walked up into this town and some husband was drowning his wife in a horse water trough and calling her a cunt

that game is amazing

and they would be forced to put out good shit for that price or get fucked

omg @T e x it is fantastic.

@YeetshirtNinja how

They already have your money

The thing is, games companies used to live and die by their playerbase

only time i wish i had a console lol

you fucked your playerbase? epic, enjoy having no sales next quarter or next game you put out

@Scarab if you dont make a good game itll get out fast and sales will haemorrhage

"never pay more that $20 for a videogame"
those were the days

im 21

your rep will matter more like it used to

Child

dude nintendo 64 games were like 80-100$ on new releases

I never paid less than $40 for a videogame that wasnt pre-owned before steam

@Hatter except people still buy EA games

ehhhhhhhhhhhh

bf5 is tanking

its half off already

@YeetshirtNinja nah I doubt lol. Look at EA, their rep is fucked but they're still selling and making profit

bf5 is a flop hatter

Plus

The audience for EA sports games are kids in high school that like sports