70 usd games starting 2022

AlphaJohn said:
It is actually cheaper/better for them to buy you a game on Takealot (R/$) and ship to your home address. Do not under any circumstance send money cause tax man wants his cut, also don't DHL it, same reason.

Talking from XP as me and my brother use to buy each other games for Bdays and such.
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They damn well will buy it for free !! either online or via post !! I'm the youngest so they need to pay back for all those nuggies and dropping me in their kak as kids !!

:)
 
Huh?
AAA Games have been R1k and up for ages already.
bit late to the party
 
Beyond.Celsus said:
Huh?
AAA Games have been R1k and up for ages already.
bit late to the party
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It's getting worse. It went up to $60 and now there are games coming that's $70.

So game prices will look like this:
store.steampowered.com

Forspoken on Steam

Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
 
Solitude said:
It's getting worse. It went up to $60 and now there are games coming that's $70.

So game prices will look like this:
store.steampowered.com

Forspoken on Steam

Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Lol, the recent gameplay video of that game didn't impress me at all. No fkn way I'd pay even R700 for it
 
Solitude said:
It's getting worse. It went up to $60 and now there are games coming that's $70.

So game prices will look like this:
store.steampowered.com

Forspoken on Steam

Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Will be half that price within a year
 
Solitude said:
It's getting worse. It went up to $60 and now there are games coming that's $70.

So game prices will look like this:
store.steampowered.com

Forspoken on Steam

Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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There's no justifiable reason for us to pay nearly $90 for $70 online digital sales though. The above price is nowhere close to $70.

And considering how much worse our purchasing power parity is, the above pricing structures are criminal. Anyone who supports prices like that should be ashamed. It won't change unless hardly anyone pays those amounts.
 
Jeez, I remember when PS4 and Xbox one games were like R500-R600 pre-ordered from BT games ! was it 2014ish ? good ol days when stuff was affordable lol :)

Mind you the past few games, Cyberfail and few others have really put me off buying straight off the bat !

This brings me to my next point, when's the Christmas specials coming out ? I already sold my left nut and soul to the wife's ancestors for a PS5 next year so I'm ... poor ! and my voice sounds like I'm going through puberty again with the whole nut story !!
 
Bryn said:
There's no justifiable reason for us to pay nearly $90 for $70 online digital sales though. The above price is nowhere close to $70.

And considering how much worse our purchasing power parity is, the above pricing structures are criminal. Anyone who supports prices like that should be ashamed. It won't change unless hardly anyone pays those amounts.
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They don't
stuff like Fallout 76, Battlefield V, Latest COD release all saw significant price drops just a few months after release.

They squeeze the uniformed, fanboys and ignorant
 
Over and above the price increase, no doubt they will still have loot boxes etc.

I refuse to pay full price and frequently browse the sales on the eShop

Only exception is BoTW 2 when it drops next year (it better release next year)
 
Goosfrabba said:
Over and above the price increase, no doubt they will still have loot boxes etc.

I refuse to pay full price and frequently browse the sales on the eShop

Only exception is BoTW 2 when it drops next year (it better release next year)
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I have no issue with loot boxes as long as it is not a P2W mechanic. People will pay to look unique in games, it is a niche.

Booster packs, and all that schit… it is stupid, and consumers are stupid by supporting it.
 
I think the game industry is in a tight spot at the moment. To keep up with the worlds biggest AAA developers (and to be one) you have to pay a small army of talented people a lot of money to create something that may or may not be a hit. Arguably, this cost should probably be countered by the fact that today you have a global audience that doesn't require you to put these games on discs and ship them around the world, but with literally anyone able to release a game, there has never been so much competition either

So I think that going to $70 is a big gamble. It could turn enough people off the idea of buying the game at release (especially if its not already a huge IP) that the given studio cant feed its army and implodes. In addition, this is also contrary to the gaming-as-a-service direction that so many publishers are taking, whether we like that or not.

I'm not motivated to drop $70 (or even $60 really) on many big games these days because:
1) They are still released in crappy states - hello Cyberpunk2077, Assassins Creed whatever, etc. etc. because the goal is to make $x a pop QUICKLY, not to release quality product. I'm fundamentally against this way of business.
2) I have a HUGE library of games to play either on Gamepass, or sitting in my Stream Library untouched when I bought them on sale last year. Gamepass is around R1800 a year, basically the price of 2 new games at launch at $70 (less actually) and it gives me 300+ games, including way more than 2 day-1 releases that I've played this years so far. Apparently Sony are going to release there version of it soon because its been so successful. I recently bought 5 small/indie games for under R350 on Steams Autumn sale that I'm looking forward to playing when I can find the damn time.
3) If we're talking about big IP's a lot of their formula is not really new or mind blowing. Again Assassins Creed is great but the amount of bloat, grind, and subtle pushing to get me to pay even more money to unlock faster levelling, a seasons pass etc. is a turn-off.

So ja for $70 it needs to be amazing. It has to be a well known IP or an incredibly respected developer (are there any of those left?) and a project that's been hyped to the moon to get me to buy it on day one at full price, in the current market. And even then, I probably wont.
 
I think we all agree here is that Xbox/PS and whatever console brand you have is that the revenue generated is not of the consoles, so with new consoles ( next gen ) higher prices mean higher prices in games.

Consoles are sold at a loss, plus here in SA our rand isn't all that great atm, and prices are ballooned ( Shipping costs/Marketing etc )

So it will only get more expensive :( over time.
 
Markd said:
I'm not motivated to drop $70 (or even $60 really) on many big games these days because:
1) They are still released in crappy states - hello Cyberpunk2077, Assassins Creed whatever, etc. etc. because the goal is to make $x a pop QUICKLY, not to release quality product. I'm fundamentally against this way of business.
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Bar Unity's launch I have not seen much of an Issue with Assassins Creed games. Then again I wait at least a year before I start their "adventure's" as they always add loads of DLC during the 1st year and its better to buy a GOTY/Gold/Delux Edition that include said content.

Markd said:
2) I have a HUGE library of games to play either on Gamepass, or sitting in my Stream Library untouched when I bought them on sale last year. Gamepass is around R1800 a year, basically the price of 2 new games at launch at $70 (less actually) and it gives me 300+ games, including way more than 2 day-1 releases that I've played this years so far. Apparently Sony are going to release there version of it soon because its been so successful. I recently bought 5 small/indie games for under R350 on Steams Autumn sale that I'm looking forward to playing when I can find the damn time.
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Ditto

PS: Don't forget Humble Choice, Ubisoft Plus, EA Play & PlayStation Now either. GamePass is not the only "Game" In town.

Markd said:
3) If we're talking about big IP's a lot of their formula is not really new or mind blowing. Again Assassins Creed is great but the amount of bloat, grind, and subtle pushing to get me to pay even more money to unlock faster levelling, a seasons pass etc. is a turn-off.
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I don't mind the "bloat", in fact I love it. For me its better than the 8 hour games that you play once and chuck onto the pile. I am now on day 4 (14 hours per day) Of Assassins Creed Odyssey. Playing only the DLC's cause when I installed the game I did not install Season Pass so only played the main game. I also love the fact that they have an option for people that don't wanna play the game (Helix Store where you can by the matts) I have yet to buy a thing on it.

Markd said:
So ja for $70 it needs to be amazing. It has to be a well known IP or an incredibly respected developer (are there any of those left?) and a project that's been hyped to the moon to get me to buy it on day one at full price, in the current market. And even then, I probably wont.
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Only time I will ever pay $70 for a game is when its a "Complete collection" that includes at least 3-4 games or large DLC's, I don't have and wanna play. Anything else I'll wait for the sale. :D
 
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