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What is your opinion on games raising their price ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Vcio@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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(sorry if it's the wrong place for this kind of discussion)

Yesterday The Riftbreaker raised its price 50% for base game and 65% for dlcs. I know Steam said all devs to adjust prices(in January), but this feel more of trend where once a game gets popular the price skyrocket.

As someone who waits a game go 75% or a stable 50% discount before buying it, if i didnt buy it by then sure i ain't buying that now unless there is a massive discount (not even gonna talk about games that raise price to fake a bigger discount).

I dont want to sound cheap; I grew up with no condition to buy games and spent a lot of my internet in torrents in my youth, now i gladly pay for games but once a game raise its price i unwishlist it.

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The cost to develop has gone down, if anything. You don't need powerful hardware. You don't need expensive industry software. You don't need proprietary devkits. You can create a perfectly good game on an old laptop with Blender, Krita, Aseprite, Unity, Unreal, Godot. You can target consoles on regular hardware and regular consoles.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Tell me you don't make games without telling me you don't make games.

You can make perfectly good games, yes. But good luck making anything AAA like that. The games you're talking about are indie or niche. For example, they will have no mocap.

And even in those cases, there is a difference between "cost to start a studio" and "cost to develop a game". The costs you're talking about are the cost of getting started. Those are barrier to entry costs, not development costs. When we talk about development costs, we typically talk about everything after you have all the hardware and software you need. Studios already have those things so they barely factor into the ongoing development costs

Also you only don't need proprietary dev kits if you have no intention of doing per-platform QA. Fine for indies. Not fine for AAA

Yes, the barrier to entry has gone down; the minimum cost to ship something, anything, is lower than ever....but only by comparison to the peak cost. Even small indie studios are spending as much as studios did when making $60 NES games

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, if you want to only talk about AAA games, yeah, the cost is going up. But in general, cost has gone down.

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Unless you only one scrappy in the games made by three person dev team they really haven’t. The cost for making a game that was good in 2015 has gone down, sure. But it behooves you to show that game development in general, and yes that includes indie developers, has gone down.

A 10 person dev team in any major city is going to cost you between $500,000 and $1mill a year just to staff.

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