And, because I am of a certain age, I will share with you what The Bard's Tale cost when it came out in 1985:
That $76.95, according to various online inflation calendars, works out to about $204 today. The Canadian dollar was trading around 85 cents US through 1985, which drops the converted price down to $174 US—still am awful lot of money for a videogame.a hell of a deal
ah yes i cannot wait for yet another broken launch for $70😡
$70 and guaranteed no demo. This is how you get piracy.
Yeah well...not on pc :D
looks like i am waiting for it to go on sale then.
Maybe...they should *not* be allowed to buy Activision, one of their few competitors...
The price should fit the scope of the game. If the average player will get hundreds of hours of fun out of Starfield, then 70$ is totally fair price. Some companies want 60$ for a linear campaign where half your play time is cinematics. Even more for Ultra Mega Elite Edition.
Yeah because they get part of the share. It means a little bit extra. They’re greedy. This is why TF2 flopped. You wanted to charge people for updates and Valve wanted to send out free updates.
If so, it will decrease the sales until it goes back to normal.
Time to release Skyrim again.
I'm not surprised
I just not buy then.
the only people who are gonna spend 70 dollars on this game are console owners; i'd bet the majority of PC players will end up pirating this game because of the price
Pushing people towards Game Pass
That will only motivate people to subscribe to gamepass.
As much as I don’t like this. Actively dislike, even. Putting it mildly. I’m genuinely surprised it’s taken this long
Buy games on steam sale
...but the Creation Engine is absolutely going strong.
Nah, just marketing campaigns get more bloated.
All we need now is to get non-beta games on release fully working base features, no buggy graphics or game breaking freezes and one year spent downloading bugfixes after release to get the full non-buggy product.
Piracy it is then
Mitigation of get video games due to $70 : - For digital : buy and download less than $40 (or conversion to local currencies) - Buy used video games (physical) - You get limited-time or permanent free download - or free & open-sourced games (e.g. STK)
EVERYTHING is getting more expensive, games are just collateral
noooooo
I can't think of any more games I've bought this year that cost more than $40.
Im good with starfield at that price. 😂😂😂😂
And people aren’t paying that for unfinished horseshit. Guarantee they avoid launchers with good refunds like steam.
This is what the major sales for and if available the wishlist.
Pass
More reason to wait for sale.
Because inflation, money can buy fewer things these days.
Record profit, record sales...uhm we need to increase the price because of the costs. They are doing this to push their game pass. But in overall nothing new, their new games are already 70 like Flight Simulator.
I can wait the 6 months it takes for the price to drop
That's fine, piracy is still free.💀
70 = way less games I will be buying
Getting more expensive and less quality and less testing with failed launches.
That's why they didn't released the game this year
You mean it'll be pirated... I'm not buying shit from Microsoft...
PC players will just go pirate the game.. lets be honest.. a terrible move from Microsoft.
Let’s go back to when it was $40/50 at most. Nobody wants to buy this shit
60 bucks for unfinished titles, now 70 for the engine demo alone… i’ll just type: KEK
Just means I'll wait a couple of days and pay 40 :)
Nah thanks, I'm good I'll wait for a sale... I'm not falling for that excuse... They are just trying to make up for all that money they lost during development..
Fear3 not though every one you'll get a monthly battlepass for $8.99 a month too lmao.
Everyone understands that development cost increased as well but for some reason quality of the games ( technical especially ) decreased a lot
SkylerRozzell
All the more reason to wait for a decent sale. They'll all get cheaper eventually. I won't pay $60 as it is, $70 is right out.
I can’t wait to pay 70$ for a game that’s buggy, incomplete, and will have “free content updates” a few months after launch and to then be sold overpriced micro transactions while they finish the game. I just can’t wait
Idek what that shit is lmao
If it's a complete game with no game breaking bugs and no extra content you gotta buy then fine but doubt it
So, pay $70 for a game that's likely going to feel like it's unfinished? No thank you. I'll wait for the inevitable price drop about 6 months in if the game is any good.
I don't mind the increase... I just don't think Starfield is worth it. It looks like (production wise) a game from 2008.
I think you'd make more money charging half. Look at steam sales, we buy games we don't even end up playing when the price is right
Thanks gaming industry, now it'll cost over $100 after taxes
That's a lot of money to gamble for a Todd Howard product. I'd rather have the cash.
Games should be $120.
The issue won’t be the games like Starfield and Modern Warfare being worth $70. The issue will be the hundreds of games that aren’t worth $30 costing $70.
I rather wait 2 months and buy it at 50% off.
Crazy how they will overcharge for all this DLC/Microtransactions and still expect people to pay 70 dollars. Better get the whole game and it better fuckin work
I am fine with a price increase so long as I notice more consistently stable and optimized game products and releases. Without that the price increase feels like an insult.
cringe
Game pass release…use for a month, and cancel it….10$, boom
Considering that games have been $60 for over 15 years now, this really isn't all that surprising. My only issue is that games have become more and more inundated with microtransactions/DLC over the years. I understood that when the price of games didn't go up but now......
Why? With the piss poor launches and lacking content, companies deserve less than $60
a bigger reason to play f2p games thanks
Of course, because games make so little money, omg =\\ 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
some people
and releasing in more broke states than ever
People crying that they’ve hiked the price but what they’ve ACTUALLY done is make GamePass Ultimate more attractive. Genius.
and will ship broken🫶
Nope!
Games have been 90$ for 5 years already...
And theyre selling more and more. Gta 5 sold 10x the amount of copies san andreas sold. While the budget for the former was just over double the budget of thr latter. This is pure greed.
Xbox gotta pay the bills somehow
If you can't afford it then wait tor it to go on sale. Developers need money too that's why I don't have an issue pre-ordering if I know I'm going to enjoy the game anyway
What’s the point when it will be on gamepass for free
and they aint worth half
Surprised it took this long
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