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some developers "hope" the next installment in the GTA franchise will be priced at $80–$100

Management are NOT DEVELOPERS.

Executives are NOT DEVELOPERS.

Shareholders are NOT DEVELOPERS.

I'm loving the balls on studios. Yesterday we had "experts" suggesting it might cost 100 bux, and today it's already the beggining of a trend. And the game isn't even out. In fact, we only have the trailer for the game and they're already predicting prices.

My prediction is yes, they'll ask 100$ and more, and yes, people will pay it.

But the nerve, I swear. "Yeah, our games have gotten sloppier every year. And yes, we fired tens of thousands solely for profit reasons. But line must go up, so you better start paying"

Looks like PatientGamers' membership numbers will be on the rise soon.

I don't even buy a game when it's 70...

At 80 there is no fucking way...

90, are they crazy? Never!

100? Lulz, go fuck yourself lunatic

Fuck you.

Thats a no from me dawg

Ubisoft I've just had an idea to win players back

Just a reminder that you can play AAA titles until you die and never pay more than $15 per game, if you wait for a couple years and a sale.

Just a reminder that no one's forcing you to spend $100 on the game. If enough people refuse to do so the base cost of the game will go down again. Icarus is my most recent for example, I've had it on my wish list for almost a year and a half now, because I wasn't willing to spend $35 on what that game provided. It's currently on sale on Steam for $9.

God of War 2018 is currently $20 on PSN

I got Elden ring for $30 a few months back despite the fact that it's still selling full price at 60.

If y'all are patient and wait they stopped making money on the game which means that they lower the cost to try to incentivize people to buy it.

Plus the first year of sale of a game is The Game's most important release window, because companies generally will use the first year to decide how popular it was. If enough people refuse to buy the game at their original price point it will destroy their sales metric for the first year which will make it harder on the studio to justify to their parent company that it's worth making another game, which means that they're more incentivized to lower the base cost of the game within the first year of launch.

The rate of this is significantly slowed down if everyone is just like oh okay I guess it's $100 now and then buys it anyway, have patience and hold out, especially a game like GTA 6 where they're going to gain more money off microtransactions then people actually buying the game. Honestly GTA 6 probably should have just been sold as a free to play because they operate like one

Playing lots of RPGs and Jrpgs has trained my Patience. I never buy a game at full price, regardless of how much I want it. I simply wait for a sale until it's below 35 euro.

Hot take, a very few games are actually worth the 100$ pricetag. The wrong studios believe their games are worth that much tho. I can see myself buying gta6 for 100 but id probably wait for a good sale lol

Why do they always say developers instead of publishers?

It might inspire me to continue not wasting my money, and buying everything on sale, if it's worth it at all

They can price them at €200 for all I care. I’ll only will buy them when they are at €20 anyway.

It'll inspire me to never buy it...until of course it goes on sale for $20 a year later.

It'll make calculating steam sale prices quite easy, won't it?

I'm not paying if its not below $30, why would i pay for $100? GTA 5 is already disappointing i'm pretty sure they chop even more thing up and make most content online only. $100 is already rm450 in my country and that's almost 1/3 of minimum wages, I'll continue to be stingy and spend my money on better stuff.

They deserve piracy.

Im not spening $100 on a fucking video game. I dont care what game ,i don’t care what edition.

AAA games can go suck my cock and balls. I'm not playing games anymore. I got no time. No energy. No money.

This just in: rich people want to get richer by charging more for the same product.

Heck make them $250, i'm not buying them even at $70.

If a game is over $30 it needs to be damn good to get me to buy it.

For $15 you can have endless hours or fun with Balatro

For $100, it better have a strip club achievement that comes with a coupon for a free actual lap dance.

AAA developers will inspire me to not buy their shit.

Lol, I'll just wait until it's on sale for 5 bucks. I'm patient enough.

People pay $1200 for an iPhone. I'm sure they'll pay the $100 for a game. How? I'm not sure but they always seem to.

Personally, I don't but I am never the trend setter.

If they do it, it would unfortunately still sell like hotcakes, being one of the most anticipated games of the past decade.

That's why I pirste first and pay later when it's on sale for $20

And this is precicely why I mostly play indie titles made by individuals or small teams that are sold for under 10 bucks. Fuck this noise.

how incredibly american to phrase learning they can get away with fleecing people for $40 more as being "inspired".

I wonder… Will Grand Theft Auto VI be the next “AAAA” game? Or have we ditched that term now since the utter failure of the first game that dared wear that title?

if it's higher than $60, R* can lick my taint.

in fact, if the online is as ridden with issues as 5's online has been, I'll probably just pirate it. Why would I want to pay $60+ just so I can get squeezed for even more money via microtransactions; and having to pay even more for a mod menu, just to exist in a server without being hassled? Fuck that with a rusty fork.

Remember when Apple released the $1000 phone and it was a big thing?

Eventually this will be the normal.