http://www.mcvuk.com/news/35209/Publishers-need-70-games-pricetag-says-Deering
£70 fucking quid? How can I put this?
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£70 fucking quid? How can I put this?
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Oh get lost Deering
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I would give up gaming I think if this actually happened. Also, there are lots of parents out there who haven't got that sort of money to keep thier kids in many games, maybe 3 a year? Fucking greed, thats all it is. If its taking too long to develop games, work fucking faster!
Even game development isn't free from curruption, and yaknow when the xbox 540's come out along with our Ps4 and nintendo Azz the games will take another price hike.
What we should do for a very long time is keep our recent consoles and learn how to work them as efficiently as possible so games are cheaper to make instead of hopping aboard the bandwagon for a new console ever couple years.
What we should do for a very long time is keep our recent consoles and learn how to work them as efficiently as possible so games are cheaper to make instead of hopping aboard the bandwagon for a new console ever couple years.
Well, let's see. I go to see a movie, my choice is Indie Darling of the Month and Rehashed Blockbuster Sequel That Cost $200 Million Dollars To Make. Both cost the same to see. I go to purchase or rent them when they come out on DVD. Still the same price.
Deering. Stop being a douchenozzle and take a long walk off a short pier. I'm not paying more beause the gaming industry decided to put breast physics ahead of story and game play. No fucking way. Maybe if you put a good story in there with those bouncing mounds you'd sell more copies and make more money!
Deering. Stop being a douchenozzle and take a long walk off a short pier. I'm not paying more beause the gaming industry decided to put breast physics ahead of story and game play. No fucking way. Maybe if you put a good story in there with those bouncing mounds you'd sell more copies and make more money!
Ha that would backfire in a big way, nobody will pay $200 AUD (if my maths is correct) for a game that used to cost less than half that, not unless we get a lot in return.
If graphics are pushing the cost of games up as I hear so often then stop spending so much time working on them, we can tell what we are looking at, thats good enough for me.
If graphics are pushing the cost of games up as I hear so often then stop spending so much time working on them, we can tell what we are looking at, thats good enough for me.
Let's see, 70 GBP is... $115.42 USD. That's absolutely ridiculous to charge for a "AAA" game, even if the game somehow manages to be good enough to warrant the price.
What this wonderful man said, plus mods and patches and better controls.johnman said:
Viva la PC!
Wait wait, am I reading this right? He's asking to practically DOUBLE the price of games? Even though companies have been cutting their costs with Digital Distribution? Maybe they should stop wasting development time on useless and minor improvementrs such as ever more advanced physics engines and cut development costs that way. If they go through with the increase, I'll firmly refuse to buy any game at such a price and will gladly pirate it. I'm sure that some of the "Crusaders of Justice" found on this board will jump on me for the previous statement, but if publishers try to rob me blind, I'll gladly do the same...
If that happened I would just go pre-owned or pirate games entirely.
Massive rip off.
I will put the pricing into perspective for you. £70 is insane for a game on its own. £70 is the price of a Guitar Hero game that comes with a plastic guitar and it is also £10 more expensive than a game's special edition, which usually retail for £60.L3m0n_L1m3 said:
Massive rip off.
Well... Thank god I plan on waiting till at least next year to get that, assuming I manage to get bored of borderlands in that time... Whcih I'm hoping is god damn unlikely. On the other hand, there's no way in hell they can be suprised if it gets pirated, so they MIGHT learn from it.
In the article the guy writes, "Before there can be as many successful blockbuster games as there were in the past, games have to be produced in a more efficient fashion."
That's a great idea! Be more efficient, cut back on extraneous things such as DRM and gratuitous graphics and focus on producing a good game!
He then goes on to say, ?In order to price these games at a level where they would support an industry [as strongly as] they did ten years ago, they?d have to be sold at £70." Wait, WHAT?! I thought you were talking about 'efficiency', but all of a sudden you've turned that into 'throw more money at the problem'. Fucking genious - evidently his idea of efficiency is getting more cash from the same work simply by charging more, rather than revolutionising the industry in any way :/
Fail.
Edit: Of course, he could be on our side, saying that the £70 pricetag results only from the current cost of producing AAA games and that the industry needs to become more efficient in order to continue without becoming seriously unsustainable in the future. In which case it's a poorly worded, mis-represented article that should be warning the developers, not us. Which is fine by me.
That's a great idea! Be more efficient, cut back on extraneous things such as DRM and gratuitous graphics and focus on producing a good game!
He then goes on to say, ?In order to price these games at a level where they would support an industry [as strongly as] they did ten years ago, they?d have to be sold at £70." Wait, WHAT?! I thought you were talking about 'efficiency', but all of a sudden you've turned that into 'throw more money at the problem'. Fucking genious - evidently his idea of efficiency is getting more cash from the same work simply by charging more, rather than revolutionising the industry in any way :/
Fail.
Edit: Of course, he could be on our side, saying that the £70 pricetag results only from the current cost of producing AAA games and that the industry needs to become more efficient in order to continue without becoming seriously unsustainable in the future. In which case it's a poorly worded, mis-represented article that should be warning the developers, not us. Which is fine by me.