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Kyrick 19 Jul @ 6:37am
Just a rant (not Steam's fault)
Just wanted to rant about game prices in general:
I remember when I could buy a brand new game for £30-£40 15 years back.

Just had a scan through the store, I've upgraded my PC a bit and wanted to try out some new games to push my new hardware.

YTActualF is the new Doom £70? Oblivion, a remaster of a 20 year old game priced at £50, Stella Blade £55 etc... RDR2...£60!? It's 6 years old man!

It's only going to continue to creep higher and higher.
On top of this I've heard the rumours GTA6, new Elder Scrolls (2 of the biggest hyped games in recent history) and Nintendo are trying to push for £80+ in the future.

When do gamers, both PC and consoles alike, actually give these publishers the finger and stop buying at premium prices?
I know a good handful of people will wait until they are on sale and I don't mind that, (I snagged a few games over the sale and the most I paid for a game was £35) but it's the principal of charging ridiculous prices for games that are poorly optimized (Dragons Dogma 2) remasters of oldschool games (Dark Souls, Oblivion as mentioned) and the yearly releases of sports games?

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! This ♥♥♥♥♥ annoying! :steamfacepalm:
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Ben Lubar 19 Jul @ 6:45am 
Games have always been available at a variety of prices and I don't see that changing in the near future.

I haven't bought a game that cost significantly more than $30 in... well, ever. Lots of very good games available for a reasonable price.
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GobboKirk 19 Jul @ 6:51am 
"Gamers" aren't a united group in any shape or form.
Even the small % of us using forums are hardly ever on the same page, most just go on and buy what they seem to like.
"We" accepted GPU prices doubling, "we" will accept this as well.
Yeah sometimes we get some small victories when enough complain, but just like SWBG2 with their insane micro transactions, it just kept going, just a bit slower.
Tldr; "We" kinda get what we want in the end....
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Kyrick 19 Jul @ 6:52am 
Originally posted by Ben Lubar:
Games have always been available at a variety of prices and I don't see that changing in the near future.

I haven't bought a game that cost significantly more than $30 in... well, ever. Lots of very good games available for a reasonable price.

Yeah I understand and fully agree, :steamthumbsup: my concern is that once enough games start hitting the £70 mark it will become the norm.
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GobboKirk 19 Jul @ 6:55am 
Originally posted by Kyrick:
Originally posted by Ben Lubar:
Games have always been available at a variety of prices and I don't see that changing in the near future.

I haven't bought a game that cost significantly more than $30 in... well, ever. Lots of very good games available for a reasonable price.

Yeah I understand and fully agree, :steamthumbsup: my concern is that once enough games start hitting the £70 mark it will become the norm.
It will, inflation aside, it will go up to what ever people are willing to pay.
Going to have to come with blackjack and hookers soon for me when it reaches the $100 mark though :P
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lolschrauber 19 Jul @ 6:56am 
Prices weren't as low as you think for many games. I remember buying Mario Party on N64 and it was vastly more expensive than other N64 games at the time, propably due to the fact that it's a first party game, too.

It's similar now, cheaper games exist, but not when big publishers are behind them bleeding everyone dry.

I do agree that old remasters aren't worth as much as they are asking for, at least that's my opinion. Something like Metroid Prime remastered being priced at 40 seemed fair to me. I wouldn't have bought it at 60.

Old games not reducing in price is just...normal somehow. That's propably just a tactic so they can advertise with huge discounts and create fomo with sales.
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Crazy Tiger 19 Jul @ 7:00am 
Originally posted by Kyrick:
When do gamers, both PC and consoles alike, actually give these publishers the finger and stop buying at premium prices?
It looks like you're assuming other people have the same issue with pricing as you have. Reality will show you that's not the case.

Other people will spend their money how they like. :conwayshrug:

Originally posted by Kyrick:
Yeah I understand and fully agree, :steamthumbsup: my concern is that once enough games start hitting the £70 mark it will become the norm.
It already *is* the norm for AAA titles and such.

It's not a surprise that prices slowly are going up over the decades. Happens to all industries, gaming isn't exempt of that.

I'm a patient gamer, I'll wait til a game gets the price I'm willing to pay. And if a game never reaches that point, I simply won't buy it. Don't see the issue. :conwayshrug:
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TGC> The Games Collector 19 Jul @ 7:08am 
well, at least most of those games still go on a sale.

Heck, even CoD games go for 50% discounts now.

If you can wait for it, the games are generally cheaper than their official full price.
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Kiryn 19 Jul @ 7:09am 
Originally posted by Kyrick:
When do gamers, both PC and consoles alike, actually give these publishers the finger and stop buying at premium prices?:

There's always been a vocal "Games aren't worth <whatever current 'normal' AAA price is>! I won't pay more than half that!" crowd on game forums. They were there for the 10-15 years that $60 was the norm, the were there for $50. . . and there weren't really big forum crowds before that. They're not a big enough crowd to actually 'give the publishers the finger' enough to actually have them notice. Millions of other people will continue buying games.


I also notice you mentioning prices in GBP (sorry, don't know how to keyboard the pound symbol :D). Another aspect of the price change for you could be currency exchange rates. I remember Way Back In The Day, it was more like $2 = 1 GBP, with that shifting over time. So if it's gradually gone towards a 1:1 ratio, your prices would have gone up faster than ours here in the US.

For us, AAA games were $60 for the PS3 & PS4 eras. They moved up to $70 2-3 years ago, once they stopped making cross-gen PS4/PS5 games. So for me, games have gone up $10 over 15-20 years, not bad at all.
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