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The entire launch feels like a cash grab. $80 for game downloads?
by cluckindan 2y ago
The entire launch feels like a cash grab. $80 for game downloads?
- Woshiwuja 2y ago[dead]
- theshrike79 2y agoThe digital edition of Baldur's Gate 3 is 80€, nothing has changed. More like Nintendo has caught up to the pricing of other companies.
- fortyseven 2y agoWell that's okay, then!
- pjmlp 2y agoI still remeber getting games at 300 escudos, back in the 1980s. Direct conversion to euros would be about 1.50 €, adding the inflaction to 2025, would be about 10 € if being generous. Playstation 2 titles were already quite expensive hence why so many gamers started only buying 2nd hand, or getting them at local libraries, workarounds that digital distribution has killed. What will change is that studios will keep getting closed, because most people cannot afford more than one or two games a year at that price level.
- theshrike79 2y agoGames are suffering with the same issues as movies: the missing middle. There are indie games with 1-5 devs doing it on a shoestring budget. Sometimes they hit big, sometimes they still need a day job. These can be sold for any price, since any income is still income. Then there are the AAAAA games with 500 people making it on a $100M+ budget. And these MUST make money or they can bankrupt the whole studio. Some are massive franchises (CoD, GTA) and can ask any price and people will STILL preorder the most expensive set. But there are very very few if any mid-price games. Some Paradox strategy games perhaps?
- crtasm 2y agoIt's always been €60 on steam (and often discounted to €48) https://steamdb.info/app/1086940/ https://steamdb.info/app/1086940/