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Abandon the FOMO completely. I do not reward shitty behavior. Destiny 2's launch was the end of that. Let other people pay top dollar to playtest it and work all the wrinkles out. Let all the DLC come out and the game GOTY edition if it's that good. Let others buy that. THEN, when they are going to launch the sequel, all of that pap will be sold at basement-level prices. Maybe wait a bit longer if it was really popular.

I'm playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 right now. ;-)

I don't see any price change for that game looking at the price history (USD). It's possible you're seeing an adjustment in exchange rates which would only see an increase in certain currencies.

As for what I think, I generally just ignore base prices and only buy games when they are a price I'm willing to pay for what they provide.

Just don't buy them, they are not going anywhere. Wait for a decent sale.

@Vcio@lemmy.world for me, it just means that I'm not going to pick it up longer. I'll wait until the price drops to a dollar amount that makes sense to me.

Inflation means things cost more. Games and other things will continue to rise in price.

If your not comfortable paying the price of a game, then the best thing is to wait for prices to start falling or for a sale.

It's bound to happen, but not every game needs to be bought at launch, the game will still be available for purchase at a later date.

If a game costs what I'm willing to pay for it, I buy it, if it doesn't, I check G2A, if still not, wishlist and wait for sale. They can do what they like with prices but I've got my pain limit.

Apart from From Software stuff, I will buy all of those.

The last time games were increased in price I was in grade school, 50 to 60, a 10 dollar increase. I wrote a letter to nintendo actually and got a response basically saying costs were up in the nicest way you could to a child.

That was well over 15 years ago, so the extra 10 they tacked on was honestly coming eventually. Everything else in life is getting expensive so of course it was only a matter of time until it reached this part of our lives, its really basic economics.

A comparison to keep in mind is also that we were still buying physical copies of games when the last increase happened, now we are strictly digital for a large majority of purchases while this next increase has happened.

But luckily this increase in price seems to be a trend only taken on by AAA companies, which are hit and miss in their titles lately imo, so most will be on sale in a year and you won't ever have to pay 70 unless you are really into that title. Most indie companies are pricing their games at around 30-40 dollars right out of the gate and honestly have more of the spirit of what video games should be.

It's unavoidable. Not only are player expectations for bigger and better looking games getting higher every year, but games are also becoming more expensive to make due to bigger teams and global economic inflation. Luckily I think indie games will continue to exist at a range of prices, but I expect them to get a bit more expensive too because inflation affects everything.

I’m completely done with that crap. Games becoming €80 while they’re either mediocre, lots of bug/ glitches or flat out unplayable.

I rather wait for a heavy sale or well - the instance I’m on should say enough.

Feel like in the future games going to be €100 normally and €120 deluxe etc.

I paid $70 for majoras mask at Walmart back in 2001, if anything games have become immensely cheaper taking into account inflation.

When a games been sitting in my wishlist for a while it's usually there for a reason. Sometimes it's just that I have a glut of other games to play in that genre, sometimes I'm waiting for the game to improve. But usually it's because I've looked at the game and said "I don't think it's worth that price" and am waiting for it to fall to something I consider reasonable. Obviously, a price hike isn't going to help it reach that point.

I looked at Riftbreaker's steam DB page and it looks like it was only some countries who got a price spike, so I'm guessing it was some sort of currency re-balancing. You know, the Ruble is weak so prices relative to the Dollar went up or whatever. All that being said my first point stands, if I didn't want to buy a game at price X , I'm going to want to buy it even less at X * 1.5, regardless of what's happening in international money markets.

The price of games hasn't gone up in decades. We're only just starting to see games that cost $70 instead of $60.

The cost to develop games, on the other hand, has gone way, way, way up.

Think about it in "cost per megabyte". Players have been getting more and more content - not playable hours, but content that needs to be created by a human - for the same amount of money. While developers have larger and larger staff, with more and more demands... For the same amount of money.

There's a reason live-service and freemium games are becoming the monetization scheme of choice.

Cost of games needs to go up or we'll just see more and more exploitative monetization.

Let me also add that $60 for 20 hours of entertainment is one of the best deals there is. And the best games give a lot more than 20 hours of gameplay. Books are about the only thing that comes close

Look at steam DB. Many games move the prices around up down constantly. Even higher than their previous plateau. It's all about creating urgency for sales.

That depends on:

1. If the game is in Early access, the price is justified to change as it becomes more fleshed out.
2. If the game gets a massive update (Such as Quake II recently) a price raise feels justified.
3. Also, none of this applies if the game goes over 60$, you should never pay more than 60$ because of a price raise. But, these are all just my opinions.

I don't pay sticker price and I don't pay more than the historical low. So I'll just wait longer if a game does that, or end up not buying it at all as other games catch my interest. I have games that have been on my wishlist for years that I've had to go and clean out.

All I'm going to say is that it's nice being able to patiently wait to play games... Might have to wait a few months to a year but by then you'll get it on sale with hopefully a few patches in and bugs being worked out by then.