"Video Game Pricing" | Kip Reacts to videogamedunkey
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- Fellow Legends, welcome! Today we dive into another excellent videogamedunkey video, this time about the history of video game pricing. I always bring up that when talking about finances in the past, that's, "back then money, that's more today." This video proves that very true. What are your thoughts on modern video game pricing? Do you think this video outlined some solid points? Do you think that video games are still too expensive for what content we're given? I absolutely loved watching this, and if you did as well then I do absolutely recommend you go and check out the original video to show some support for the source material!
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Not remaking the battle frontier in ORAS was the thing that killed my excitement for the series going forward. Having that in a game with the physical special split had me so excited for the game. They could've sold it as dlc and I still would have been happy.
The irony is that while we get remasters maybe we didnt ask for all the time like Skyrim, Last of Us etc, if companies made their old catalogues far more readily available in this digital day and age - that's basically free market research into what game to remaster next or even sequels.
Imagine being an exec looking at your old back catalogue selling like "dang, PS1 Syphon Filter is really selling big just now. Lets give it some love with Unreal 5 treatment"
One of my biggest issues with modern games, particularly PC games, is that even if the prices of those games is stable, they're requiring an insane replacement of PC parts. Not only are they unreliable out of box, but game requirements are accelerating at such an insane rate that even if you could run a new game at max 2 years ago you can't run new ones at minimum (even if it says you're more than capable of) now. The games are being made by developers for people who know what they're doing and have the money to do it rather than the average consumer.
There are lots of games I would pay for again but there is NO WAY TO... I wanted All the Armored Core games on the PC for example. But the problem with releasing old games in bundles is they often don't include popular games because of reasons or don't release them because they are obscure. Like Never has the Goemon Games been re-released on ANYTHING... So if I want to play Mystical Ninja... I have 1 of two choices... Hope my N64 is still functional and the controllers aren't too F#$%ed up and that I can find the game... Or I emulate...
This. This perfectly summarizes the issues at play.
Just a thought but maybe the AAA industry wants to keep the $60 price as it sells more copies. A $100 base price would have consumers buying less copies and the companies couldn’t shill out sub par games because the consumer would take a closer look at what they are buying. The money still wouldn’t go to the actual people making the games so…
I rate my entertainment return on investment off of movies. So at $20 for 2 hours is an ok experience. So at $60 for a game if I get more than 6 hours of enjoyment out of it I’m satisfied. Then there are games like Monster Hunter where I have almost 600 hours in world and 200+ in Rise, where I’ll happily spend $60 or $100 for the next installment.
As a 40 year old gamer, I remember brand new NES games costing $40ish, so yeah inflation. Stuff is cheaper. Also I am an old school Magic player. Haven't played in years, but I have cards that are worth a fairly decent amount. 6th edition was the most recent. Anyway I would pay fair market value for a good game.
There are people that want a collapse with no new products? We're already halfway there with half the stuff coming out being remasters/remakes.
Ah, the Pirates movie...I'm already at half-mast...you are obviously a man of culture...
about MGS4, hopefully that changes when MGS Vol 2 comes out.
For almost a decade games have increased the prices for the full games to $100 or even $1000 for all the costume DLCs in fighting games. Free DLC like No Man’s Sky is the truest love for your art that companies don’t have. If Sony rereleased PS1, PS2 and PS3 games they would make a lot of money but they would do it like MGS Master Collection since emulation and making them run much better and emulate 1080p or 4k is “too expensive” when modders and gamers have emulated the old gen games for free for years now. Making 83% of all games in existence extinct to modern audiences and the companies Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo having the audacity to claim gamers don’t use that feature as much as if they don’t see that it’s because there’s maybe 5 to 10 obscure titles at best 1 to 2 good titles you have to subscribe to be able to play. Gamers need to demand these companies either give up the rights to old games they’re unwilling to sell and have regulators have them go to the public domain to use for free or sell for pennies on the dollar since these companies don’t sell them how is it piracy? You’re not taking sales away because they’re on physical cartridges or discs you have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to even buy these games nowadays how is it these companies don’t see the benefits of having more games to sell for tiny profits? You can sell them and make money if you give a damn about making them run better look better it’s that simple.
On PS3 store there’s Armored Core 1 and Armored Core Verdict Day able to buy and download but only those two. No other PS1 PS2 or PS3 AC games on the digital market on PS4 or PS5. I know Sony has vastly less than Microsoft but come on no one’s gonna buy old games in a tiny obscure section of your stores if you have no games to buy and play.
Anyone can name tons of old games they can bring back and rerelease to make a lot of money overall the point is that we can make this ecosystem and gaming economy better but the companies want to promote new games that are increasingly more online server oriented and will one day be inaccessible and useless as a physical good sold as that but in practice it’s a subscription service not a good. So the companies that develop those types of games are in a way committing fraud since a game that requires online needs planning to have offline in the future required but they don’t spend that money either.
If the GameCube Pokemon games came to switch for $60 I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Look I paid 50 for Star Ocean Second Story R and Live a Live because it's a HD remake with fixes. I paid $80 for a collector's edition of Tales of Symphonia because that game is awesome. But personally I've only had one game have an unfinished roadmap....Jump Force. Modded it though so I still think it's fun just missed potential.
Hey Kip. The way I decide to buy a new game is, is the price worth the entertainment i might get from it.
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I spent like 300$ for thr kingdom hearts pack when 3 came out never touched it it's my retirement game