Yah but the amount of shit games charging 3 dollars is insane. Really dragging down the median.
I just started waiting as long as I needed to, years if necessary, for the games I want to drop down on a sale to under $20. I really don’t care how long I have to wait. There’s enough games out there now to keep me busy.
Best example of this is the borderlands franchise. Wait a year or two and get the game + dlc for 80% off.
Aka the market has rejected your overpriced bullshit. Adapt or die. Welcome to the free market.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a mega corporation and previously had the winning formula. You adapt to meet evolving market demand or you die.
These c suites got too comfy doing everything to only please their shareholders. They forgot that pleasing their consumers wasn’t optional. We are your money supply. If you lose us, it all comes crashing down.
tbh i can buy a game for 30-60~ usd,but preferably i want them to be cheaper + it makes buying more games easier.
tbh i can buy a game for 30-60~ usd,but preferably i want them to be cheaper + it makes buying more games easier.
I like some Indy titles but I’m getting sick of the side scrollers
No it’s the users that are the problem get more jobs idiots
I don’t have the time anymore, the price isn’t really the factor. Anything new has to compete with my existing library and backlog, and other things on my wishlist. It’s a problem that’s only going to get worse, games aren’t really aging out of relevance at the rate they used to.
…until GTA6 comes out, then all bets are off.
Because youre overinflated executive and managerial budgets dont justify the fucking price when games like Hollow Knight, Jump Ship, and Stardew Valley are 10x better.
And if I DO want a triple A game, I wait a couple of years and then for a Steam sale.
i almost never buy games on steam anymore…Even on the steam sales. The sales are a poor immitation of the great values that they were 10+ years ago.
I subscribe to Humble Monthly and, eventually, get almost every game I’ve ever wanted.
I don’t even do humble monthly anymore. They’ve had periods of months and months where I don’t get anything I want to play or some obscure game that isn’t interesting. Its cheaper just to get the monthly bundle when I do see a game I want. Humble monthly was more than worth it maybe 10 years back.
i mean… you can pause your month and skip the shit you have no interest in…
For me I’ve had to do it for more than 5 or 6 months so to me pausing isn’t worth the time.
yeah, if you’re interests are super narrow then yeah it wouldnt be good for you.
Would be interesting to see the stats for revenue by game, price by volume. If someone charges 300 for a game that no one bought. Then it shouldn’t count, hypothetically.
I work in market research. Data at this level of granularity (price band view) is extremely expensive.
Around 300K per year and that would also likely only include a few retailers GameStop, BestBuy, Walmart. I don’t remember off the top of my head, but I believe Steam data wouldn’t be included.
It’s very likely Valve doesn’t share the full dataset with anyone. Maybe partial data with some of their biggest partners.
25 bucks? That‘s cute. AAA studios are charging $80 for remakes or $250 for DLC packages. They‘re out of their minds.
Each year there are only a few new AAA games that are worth full price. People be buying indie or older games on discount.
Why buy new bugged COD when you can pick up fixed up No Mans Sky?
No Man’s Sky released at AAA prices and was a pile of dog shit. Feel like there are other games you could’ve picked…
I chose NMS cause it is a perfect representation of AAA project that was dogshit on release but got fixed up to a promised game much later in it’s life. It fits like a glove into “don’t buy unfinished crap on release” category.
