Ngl its gta 6 I've been waiting for this game since I was like 13. I'm now 24 with a 1 year old....I will be buying the 200$ edition if the base is 100 😂 I'm Canadian so astro bot was 89.99 😢 another 10$ price increase and it's 100 is what it is
This is where I am with streaming services. Once they got too comfortable with raising prices every so often, I jumped ship. I have movies, UA-cam, and hobbies that can entertain me for YEARRSS.
Thank god someone else said it cuz i have felt guilty and shameful with the size of my backlog. Kinda felt like i was alone in that for a looooong time.
SAME! I have no interest GTA6, but the same, my STEAM library is over 1000 games strong. I have forced myself to not buy any new games for a long while
Buying a game on launch day guarantees that you will be paying a premium price for the worst version of the product that will ever exist. Savvy gamers have learned that waiting a few months earns you discounted prices and a higher quality (fully patched) experience.
Couldn’t have said it any better. Yet a large portion of players still insist on pre-ordering/buying a game upon day one release and are surprised that the game isn’t finished or extremely buggy and glitchy. I consider it one of the most perplexing and mysterious phenomena of our entire existence as to why gamers think pre-ordering is a good idea.
I can almost guarantee we are hearing this $100 tag for a reason. That way when it actually lists for $89.99 we all think we are getting a deal. This shit is almost always deliberate in nature.
if they start hiking triple A games to 100 dollars im done with them, i mostly buy indie games nowadays so that wont be much of a loss but still 100 dollars for a video game is insane to me.
@@InfinityReptareven then, most indie and small studio games are an actual blast to play unlike most “AAA” which is just graphically impressive filler lol
Mortal Kombat was $60 back in the day, inflation alone is well over $100. Never mind how much more goes into a modern game. Or how much more content you get. Simple inflation dictates the games today are underpriced. GTA6 with all content will cost $100+
@@JT-bs8wzdo you work in the gaming industry to support that? Have you looked at profit margin gains since 2020?? 1000%!!! How much have the developers seen of that? In bonuses? And they get noooo royalties for their work and not unionized and not allowed to… inflation didn’t gaming companies at its highest. Stop defending studios and businesses.
@@JT-bs8wz Maybe we can finally drop the "linear bad" r3t@rd@tion and admit akira torimaggot's fee fees are irrelevant to videogames? That will reduce the cost as "open worlds" will no longer be mandatory, Hell, the rarity might make so that when we get one IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD.
Jake, buddy, it saddened me to hear you say that you 'aren't anything' Bro, you are the face behind the greatest gaming channel that ever existed! Great videos, honest reviews that weren't bought. You rock man! The whole gameranx channel needs a friffi medal for being as great, honest, and humble as you all are.
Agreed. Gameranx is a channel I really love and trust. They are the only gaming channel whose reviews I actually care about and one of the few channels I watch consistently. You're a legend Jake
you do know that people are SO STUPID THAT THEY WILL SPEND ANY PRICE FOR A STUPID GAME LIKE GTA 6. SO LET THEM DO IT. THEY WILL FAIL IN THE END ANY WAY
@@MichaelSchneider-w7zno, you don't want them to do it. Because if they do then every other company is going to see that and think they can do the same and then it'll be the same deal for games that you like not only ones that they are buying. It'll become normal. Just like DLC, just like micro transactions.
For the unfinished quality of the triple A games recently I would agree but this needs to be seen as a return on investment. I will be honest, I'd pay $100 for GTA 6. $100 for hundreds if not thousands of hours of entertainment? People spend half that on one cold doordash order
@ I've spent hundreds of hours on several games. The most I paid for new ones was $60. I don't want the industry to normalize a price for a base game that would be 60% higher than it currently is.
@@Chemical_Symphony Exactly this. We used to pay full price for a game and receive a complete experience. Then we normalized buying a "complete game" only to have formerly unlockable stuff charged at a premium. We need to stop this before it even starts.
I’m Canadian, games have already been unaffordably priced for us. Bumping up the USD cost means an even bigger price for us. It means I’m going back to pirating all their games.
@@JellOwned$103 converted or did you mean something else? $100 american is about $140+ CAD, after taxes it'll be more like $160+ depending on what province you live in.
It is stupid that it took Sony just Concord and Astro Bot winning GOTY to realize that we have zero interest in live-service. I mean, God of War live-service? Why would someone agree to such thing except the individuals having dollar icons pop on their eyes? How about let single player studios focus on what they are good at and just let the multiplayer ones do that? Take Arrowhead for instance.
the live service push was apparently jim Ryans doing and concords failure made Sony check everything he touched. They probably agree and think single player studios should stick with what they know
@ I sure don't doubt that. He was easily the worst part of Sony's career. But Hermen, the new CEO, said Concord was his baby and wanted it to be his Star Wars for Playstation. Not sure if he still has these thoughts but I'll know the redemption when I see actual great first party title releases in the future. It's just sad that 5 years of work from Bluepoint and Bend was completely wasted for nothing.
It was 40 for me. Ever since that price tag, I never payed more for a game. Always wait for discount. I am ok with waiting even a year. Literally just started Witcher 3. There are so many games to play.
We can’t even get AAA games that are complete for $60-$70 making it $100 when half the big budget game aren’t even fully complete upon release is asinine to the highest level.
I really don’t think bumping prices up to $100 will have the intended effect that those in corporate would be hoping for given how the financial situation for many currently is
If people ate up 70 dolors they gonna eat up 100 especially for something as big as gta like they started the trend of increasing the price to 70 that did not stop people from buying games
Usually not one to comment, but a bit of a rant. I'm in Australia and the cost of living crisis is crazy here and impacting everyone, while some of our biggest companies experience record profits. Overall, companies don't respect our hard earned money as consumers, and when they do, most of the time they succeed. In the gaming space, we always hear that they have to make it bigger and better than before, but ultimately, I believe it is publishers pushing that agenda. We've seen indie games blow up and succeed and it's pretty evident that a good game is a good game, regardless of the length, graphics etc. I may be wrong as I'm a casual gamer and not deeply involved in the industry, but it feels to me that business' set themselves growth targets based on a crystal ball projection, and our wages aren't growing to keep up and then they blame us consumers for their failures. Start by making a good game that is true to what it stands for, respect your customers hard earned money and stop being greedy.
I’ve got such a backlog of other games and games I wouldn’t mind replaying I’m good if I never get another game again. I’m definitely not paying $100 on any game. I hardly ever even pay the $70 price as I usually wait for a sale.
Man, $60/$70 is already steep for me. I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever paid full price for a game. This is one of the reasons my back log is usually a few years behind so I can get games on sale. Just platinumed RE2 RE and playing Ghost of Tsushima for the first time now.
As much as i want GTA 6 i refuse to play $100 for the standard version of that game... absolutely NOT.. no game is worth that price especially when they dont even come complete
Definitely would not spend that $100 on GTA6. Especially with 5 still making money, the micro transactions, how they screwed the pooch with the definitive trilogy edition…etc. BULLSHIT.
Developers need to stop making extremely expensive games and go back to making games fun again. If you're going to charge $100 for a game, then I'm out! I'm tired of spending my entire wallet just to play a game. Game costs are way beyond out of control and will kill the industry as more and more people can't afford games anymore! R.I.P.
These CEOs make an incomprehensibly large amount of money. They can afford to pay their employees. They just don't want to. They expect the consumer to do it. I reject the price bump on that principle. Because realistically, the percentage of that would not line the average developer's pocket THAT MUCH. Demand better unions and wages. Not the consumer to pay more
The real money maker for Rockstar will not be the offline story mode of GTA 6. They knows that they can make billions over billions with GTA 6 online and alienating an unknown portion of their potential player base for GTA online by charging more than everybody else for the story mode would be a really stupid move.
I haven't paid full price for a videogame since Baldur's Gate 3 and those ppl worked their fingers to the bone. I flat out refuse to go that hard for GTA 6
Most games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and the Nintendo 64 (N64) ranged from $50 to $60. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $90 to $110 in today's money.
This made me think of how this idea would play out: what if they released different tier game prices at different times? For example, the $100 'special edition' releases first. Two weeks later, the 'deluxe edition' at $85. Then two weeks after that the 'regular' $70 release.
A lot of people are forgetting Rockstar is double dipping by not releasing GTA6 on PC on launch so people that suffer from FOMO are going to buy on console then buying again on PC for the "better" experience
well and some people have fomo with drugs or other issues....their decision to be like that. I wait for 2028 and if gta6 is woke i still wont buy no matter the price....and i really dont care to much...its overhyped..its still only a game and be able to drive around is something thats not that insane great anymore...as it was back then at gta 3 and 4 .
I didn't even like GTA 5 that much and thought it was a downgrade from 4. A $100 price would make it a pass for me. I have more than enough in my backlog to wait years for a discount.
I think game companies going public serves to the detriment of the end product for the consumer. There’s always pressure to sell millions of copies and one strategy is to push “AAA” gaming which costs hundreds of millions which drives up the price as well. Valve had the right idea by staying private and they are a billion dollar company with only 330 employees, which is kind of mind blowing. There’s no pressure and devs (in general) and be creative and take risks.
Gaming is a crowded market and game companies are already struggling to meet sales targets at current prices. Rockstar raising their prices might be ok for them and a few others who can maintain that demand, but I can't see it going well for the rest. Most of these companies would be better off cutting their production costs and reassessing their strategies.
@@oguzgursel while that might be true GTA is one of the few that can pull that off, regardless how much a game sales is never my concern, don't need to buy any game day one especially considering it usually means more money for a less polished product anyways...
@ while that might be true GTA is one of the few that can pull that off. Regardless, game sales is never my concern, i don't need to buy any game day one specially considering that usually means paying more for a less polished product anyways...
I dont have much faith that enough people will boycott that pricing. I havent seen it happen yet in any way which is why all companies in general keep raising the cost. People keep buying
Just because we buy one game that actually brings that value doesnt mean we need to pay for every one that doesnt. Personally.... Make it a hundred bucks. Let the other studios try and fail. That's the only way they will learn and even then..... Look at the live service shit with sony.... Theyre just now realizing all these live service games were a bad idea. After how many studios in the last year alone have shut down because of live service based shenanigans.
A terrible consumer world? We literally have UA-camrs who pay thousands of dollars on games marketplace just for content. The consumers are the problem not the game companies
@@SeppukuSoup how? Ultimate team battle pass is ruining games and idiots are buying it. That's the problem not pricing of a game 🫠🫠 we can go through the cycle game company pays UA-camr to play game and buy skins or packs and then idiots will copy this and not care about gameplay because UA-cam God told them to buy it so they buy. The consumers is most definitely the problem in the game space right now
What is infuriating is that these CEOs have salaries and get bonuses that dwarf the average salary of the devs. So, is it REALLY the cost of development that is getting out of control?
Huh they are the CEO! You do understand everyone doesn’t get together and run themselves. You are one of those people who watches to much CNN. You think the boss sits at a big desk all day and does nothing. They are a reason they pay a lot for a good CEO. If they want the company to succeed
It’s already gotten to the point where I cannot justify buying a game full price. If it’s not on sale for $20 or less I’m just not getting it. Here in Canada a newly released game is $90, and with taxes it’s easily over $100. I’m more than happy to just be patient and wait for a sale.
PS5 shortages hastened my exit from the console market a few years back. Now that I'm exclusively PC and Rockstar don't seem to care much about that space I'm pretty indifferent about their pricing structure for GTA6. Ordinarily I'd jump on a GTA game but I feel like I'll either skip it or wait for sale prices in whatever decade it makes it to PC.
Bend should be rebooting Syphon Filter. With the iconic running animation and lock-on strafe shooting, Splinter Cell style stealth and a new fast and very smooth cover system
they are delusional, the price of games should not change, if they change it consumers will not buy new games and just wait for the price to crash once it does not sell, and outside of a minority most players will wait 3-6-9 month till the game is under 50 or under 40$ Developer should be focused on maximizing the value of what they are delivering VS maximizing profit out of what they have.
Here in Canada a AAA game costs $89.99, on top of that we pay tax. So after taxes the total we pay comes to $101.69 for a game. We are already paying $100 for games here. It’s ridiculous
If they charge $100, it will actually help me... I will rather go back and work on clearing my games backlog (more than 100 games)... Until the game goes on sale (down to $60) 😅😅😅
We already have $125 games in Australia, mostly for Playstation digital games, you can get them for $100 if you buy a disc version (which doesn't make since Sony!). Indiana Jones on Steam is currently $119.94. Metapor on Steam is $114.95. $100USD would be $158AUD, that would be ridiculous.
Bro most people will wait to buy them half these AAA games 3 months into their release are already discounted sometimes even up to 50% off it's insane.
I absolutely love how much power we hold as consumers in the gaming industry. We absolutely won’t stand for being ripped off, or having garbage shoved down our throats. You make a crap game and charge a bunch for it?? That’s fine. Animal well exists. Inscryption exists. We’ll play those
I mean, I completely agree with you, but the reality is that there are consumers that just buy stuff out of spite, and they end up harming the rest of us that want quality.
Well games cost 80 euros already here in Greece , which is about 85 dollars. With a 800 euros salary. Which is crazy that a game here costs 1/10 of the salary.
For every person who says this 10 more will just buy it at full price and then buy micro transactions. It’s sad but true. They really could get away with it.
If you haven't noticed they are killing the second hand used game market by phasing out disks, so games that are $100 new will take 10 years to get down to $50 or less. It's already happening with $60 games that have been out for ever.
The problem is the precedent that would be setting for every other game in the industry where they don't put in the work to justify a $100 base price. And you think that price increase is going to go to pay increases for the ground floor devs? No, it's going to go right into the CEO's pocket so he can buy his 3rd yacht. It's ridiculous. Please don't normalize this price.
I don’t think gamers would be okay with base games costing $100; companies aren’t able to sell deluxe version with lots of extras at that price point. I could see gamers buying games at $75-$80 for all future purchases. Games costing $100 would be too much of an increase during the current economic cycle.
I dunno, when games went from $60 to $70 I stopped buying as many games. Any higher and I won't buy any. I have to put a limit on it somewhere. That's how they get you, they want to charge $100 but they know the jump from $70 to $100 will be hard to swallow. So they raise it $5-$10 every 6-8 months till they get to their target price. It's not food so they can do what they want, but it's probably in their best interests not to try it.
Deluxe editions generally sell more than standard editions. People will spend more money if they really like the game and you dangle some cosmetic, early access or dlc treats. Some ppl also would rather buy dlc/season passes up front, so that's another reason.
Netflix came close to shutting down because of a to aggressive rate hike. If prices need to come up then it needs to be done slowly. No way would I buy GTA 6 for a hundred bucks. Zero percent chance I would do that. Not that I cannot afford it. But the principal of the thing would prevent me.
Games weren’t saturating the market as it is now. There is much more competition. Any single player game being sold at $143 today would be an instant flop.
Claiming this when the majority of people have lost buying power due to greed flation when they used to have enough money to be happily living instead of barely surviving just screams lack of understanding the current situation.
@@stygiansage2661 The point is that gaming was an expensive hobby, even 40 years ago. I can assure you these games were not considered “cheap” in the mid 80s, especially to the working class. My mother, who worked 3 jobs back then, could only afford a couple a year for me, so it took quite a while to build up a library of a dozen or so games. With so few I would replay them over and over again.
No way they make it $100 rockstar said their planning on making 3 billion in the first year they will not make that if it’s 100 it’ll be $70 for the standard
If $100 becomes the norm im definitely good on not buying a game day one. I already pulled back once they went to $70 and to this day only ever bought 2 games at that price (dead island 2 & mk1). Now a days with these games going on sale so quickly if your willing to wait and my insane backlog i think im good. Also with something like gamespass theres no reason to.
I remember way back, I paid $70 for the first Turok on the N64. I was pretty young when I bought that, but looking back, that’s just nuts. Now, I tend to always wait for sales before I buy games. Additionally, there’s just too many bugs in games at launch, so it’s a win win in my mind to wait a few months to wait for the price to go down and most of the bugs be worked out.
The funny thing is everybody is saying they won’t buy it, but when it comes out and it is $100 ppl are gonna still buy it. $40 extra for a base game is crazy. It’s bad enough when the “next gen” games come out the GB will be so big we gonna have to buy an external hard drive.
I remember going to my local Game shop and thinking £35 was a high price for a game I dont get it, as obviously on paper, charging $100 for a base game would make more money, but when you take into account the amount of people who simply cant afford that, or just refuse to pay that much out of principle, the profit increase wouldnt even be worth it
Could gta6 be WORTH $100 for some people? Sure. I’ve played some games (gta5 for one) across 3 console gens. Ultimately spending more than the original $60 even with sales. But if a great game is worth $100 then a garbage half bake should be worth $40. WE set the price. WE tell publishers what is acceptable. Personally, I’ll play my backlog and wait for a sale unless trustworthy reviews indicate a game is worth the price shortly after launch.
I live in Bend Oregon so I'm always cheering on the Bend Studio. I remember when they first started, one of my neighbors was working on Syphon Filter for them. It was kinda cool hearing the insider baseball.
It is pretty incredible that my parents spent 50 bucks on Mortal Kombat for the Genesis, and yet it only went to 60/70 a few years ago. Feels like costs for many other items have doubled or more in that timeframe.
as many mentioned already, i have a huge backlog that can keep me entertained for a very long time, any price higher than $80 will be immediately "wait for sale"
I remember joking about this with a friend a year ago saying “ I’m preordering as soon as it comes on the store idc if it’s 200 dollars” little did I know
As a Canadian our prices range from $89.99 - $93.49 for most standard editions before tax, which at this point has really made all my friends besides the most die hard "gotta play something new now" people essentially stop buying most games. For me, I've got a big enough backlog that I could never buy a new game & be happy. I won't do that because I'm excited to play some upcoming releases, but it's made me take pause & decide to not buy or wait to buy many games that I would otherwise be willing to throw down for. The price increase for us was especially bad as our dollar was on par with USA for the PS4 era which meant we've gone from $60 to $90 effectively in the same period that USA only went up $10. I know this is also the case for many other countries as well.
This is why disc consoles is important because eventually you can walk into a store and get it used for cheaper you can’t do that if everything is online !
I'm personally alright with paid headstarts providing they're not longer than a few days/a week but also cosmetics are the obvious addition they could use to beef up the interest in a higher bracket. That being said it's often a slippery slope and in a few years time games would start removing the lower $ tiers. I can't see myself ever buying a game that expensive anyway unless it was a collector's edition with physical extras.
Ways you can avoid paying full price for games but be able to play them, especially if they hit $100. - GameFly - Borrow from a friend (if possible, not so easy with digital games these days) - Local libraries depending on where you live. More rural areas might not have a game selection at all or might not compare to urban libraries These are some ideas, but regardless the possibility of $100 for a game is unreal. I’m totally ok with my backlog, waiting for sales and the previously mentioned ideas.
I don’t even remember the last time i payed full price for a video game. 60$ is already an insane price especially knowing there will be a significant price drop in a years time. To think that a game that costs 100$ will still cost 50$ years later when it’s on sale for 50% off, I just won’t buy it until the set it down to the price that it’s actually worth. Which, let’s be real, is 30-45$ for ANY game. Or y’know, free on the high seas 🏴☠️
What devastates me more than the fact that they were working on live service titles this whole time is that all of that time and work is just in the trash, meaning it could legitimately be till the PS6 when we actually see their next released titles with how long development is now. A lot of people are reminding people that Sony actually gives their studios quite a bit of autonomy so don’t assume these projects were forced upon these studios…. But I just cannot fathom why Bluepoint would be individually enticed by the prospect of a live service God of War. It just sounds unbelievable to me!
if there was ONE game you would happily blow $100+ dollars on, what would it be?
Zero
none
Bloodborne 2 for $5,000
Ngl its gta 6 I've been waiting for this game since I was like 13. I'm now 24 with a 1 year old....I will be buying the 200$ edition if the base is 100 😂 I'm Canadian so astro bot was 89.99 😢 another 10$ price increase and it's 100 is what it is
anything Fromsoft
I built such a backlog, if games get to 100 or anywhere near, I will be working on my backlog for YEEARRSS
This is where I am with streaming services. Once they got too comfortable with raising prices every so often, I jumped ship. I have movies, UA-cam, and hobbies that can entertain me for YEARRSS.
Thank god someone else said it cuz i have felt guilty and shameful with the size of my backlog. Kinda felt like i was alone in that for a looooong time.
SAME! I have no interest GTA6, but the same, my STEAM library is over 1000 games strong. I have forced myself to not buy any new games for a long while
backlogs shouldn't be a thing.. Gaming is a fun hobby not a chore
@@CygnusX-11well people got to put food on the table and do other things right? so saying that backlogs shouldn't exist doesn t make sense
Buying a game on launch day guarantees that you will be paying a premium price for the worst version of the product that will ever exist. Savvy gamers have learned that waiting a few months earns you discounted prices and a higher quality (fully patched) experience.
As an assassins creed unity fan, this rings true 😂😂
That's so true, just look at Cyberpunk at launch vs 3 months, 6 months, a year later, and even today. You always benefit from waiting!
Couldn’t have said it any better. Yet a large portion of players still insist on pre-ordering/buying a game upon day one release and are surprised that the game isn’t finished or extremely buggy and glitchy. I consider it one of the most perplexing and mysterious phenomena of our entire existence as to why gamers think pre-ordering is a good idea.
@@tylermontoya408 fomo
Rational thinking has entered the chat. Thank you.
I can almost guarantee we are hearing this $100 tag for a reason. That way when it actually lists for $89.99 we all think we are getting a deal. This shit is almost always deliberate in nature.
Yup
And we will all be "ungrateful" for not accepting the "very good deal"...
Damn
Indie games at the $20-30 price range looking real good if AAA goes to $100...
Hopefully indie games won’t start increasing to $50-$60 😂
if they start hiking triple A games to 100 dollars im done with them, i mostly buy indie games nowadays so that wont be much of a loss but still 100 dollars for a video game is insane to me.
@@James_Ketchum87 I agree bro. I’ve always been against pirating games, but…..hmmmm
@@InfinityReptareven then, most indie and small studio games are an actual blast to play unlike most “AAA” which is just graphically impressive filler lol
@@InfinityReptar They will eventually, its called inflation
If $100 games become the norm. Im just gonna bow out on modern games. Im happy with what I have access to at this point
That and piracy would keep me busy the rest of my life.
100% my dude, any real gamer has a huge backlog, if games go upto $100. We should all just play our backlogs.
If buying new age games isn't "owning" then piracy isn't "stealing"
I mean, after a while they wont be 100 anymore but i get your point
u can pirate the game if u have pc
I miss the days when you purchased a complete game for $50, and it came with a manual, and sometimes a neat addition like a bonus disc.
Mortal Kombat was $60 back in the day, inflation alone is well over $100.
Never mind how much more goes into a modern game. Or how much more content you get.
Simple inflation dictates the games today are underpriced.
GTA6 with all content will cost $100+
@@JT-bs8wzdo you work in the gaming industry to support that? Have you looked at profit margin gains since 2020?? 1000%!!! How much have the developers seen of that? In bonuses? And they get noooo royalties for their work and not unionized and not allowed to… inflation didn’t gaming companies at its highest. Stop defending studios and businesses.
@@JT-bs8wz Maybe we can finally drop the "linear bad" r3t@rd@tion and admit akira torimaggot's fee fees are irrelevant to videogames?
That will reduce the cost as "open worlds" will no longer be mandatory, Hell, the rarity might make so that when we get one IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD.
I miss the maps and posters too
emphasis on the complete, cause nothing is complete now its just.....a broken version
70 usd already translates to 125 for us in Australia. 100 would be about 175. I am not spending that much on a game, that can f** right off
Random question. How much is a gallon/quart of milk in Australia?
I’m Canadian and thinking pretty much the same thing. Most games are $90 here…
@@TacoMan99we do not understand that weird talk here. We do the metric system lol.
$175 for a new game is insane!
@TacoMan99 in Aus we got 1litre, 1.25 and 2litres, depending on the store they range from about $3 to $5
Jake, buddy, it saddened me to hear you say that you 'aren't anything'
Bro, you are the face behind the greatest gaming channel that ever existed!
Great videos, honest reviews that weren't bought. You rock man!
The whole gameranx channel needs a friffi medal for being as great, honest, and humble as you all are.
*friggin lmao
Agreed. Gameranx is a channel I really love and trust. They are the only gaming channel whose reviews I actually care about and one of the few channels I watch consistently. You're a legend Jake
I third that
A friffi medal lol
I will not pay 80$, let alone 100$
And that my friend, is responsible handling of money from you part.
Which is funny because games often teach that ability.
Dear game industry, I don’t want any of your live service games.
Facts…those games are for hard core gamers with no job and no social life
you and Gameranx are literally the only people I trust to not clickbait GTA 6 videos at this point.
lol, he is gameranx
Gameranx and Jake are the same people
@@ThwipThwipBoom Don’t forget falcon
He’s part of gameranx this is just his personal opinion page
Well, these two honest bloggers praised StarFaill🤣
Please, people, don't fall for this. Just wait for a sale - you don't need instant gratification this badly. Spending this money normalizes the price.
you do know that people are SO STUPID THAT THEY WILL SPEND ANY PRICE FOR A STUPID GAME LIKE GTA 6. SO LET THEM DO IT. THEY WILL FAIL IN THE END ANY WAY
@@MichaelSchneider-w7zno, you don't want them to do it. Because if they do then every other company is going to see that and think they can do the same and then it'll be the same deal for games that you like not only ones that they are buying. It'll become normal. Just like DLC, just like micro transactions.
For the unfinished quality of the triple A games recently I would agree but this needs to be seen as a return on investment. I will be honest, I'd pay $100 for GTA 6. $100 for hundreds if not thousands of hours of entertainment? People spend half that on one cold doordash order
@ I've spent hundreds of hours on several games. The most I paid for new ones was $60. I don't want the industry to normalize a price for a base game that would be 60% higher than it currently is.
@@Chemical_Symphony Exactly this. We used to pay full price for a game and receive a complete experience. Then we normalized buying a "complete game" only to have formerly unlockable stuff charged at a premium.
We need to stop this before it even starts.
I’m Canadian, games have already been unaffordably priced for us. Bumping up the USD cost means an even bigger price for us. It means I’m going back to pirating all their games.
For real $100 is insane I’m unwilling to pay $70 I won’t play it for a decade
With taxes it's ~103$ CAD for the base version. Deluxe and Ultimate are around 125$ /150$ , fucking insane.
I stopped buying new games. Cant justify spending 100+ after tax for them and now every company calls their game sales a failure lol
@@JellOwned$103 converted or did you mean something else? $100 american is about $140+ CAD, after taxes it'll be more like $160+ depending on what province you live in.
Arr!
It is stupid that it took Sony just Concord and Astro Bot winning GOTY to realize that we have zero interest in live-service. I mean, God of War live-service? Why would someone agree to such thing except the individuals having dollar icons pop on their eyes?
How about let single player studios focus on what they are good at and just let the multiplayer ones do that? Take Arrowhead for instance.
amen
the live service push was apparently jim Ryans doing and concords failure made Sony check everything he touched.
They probably agree and think single player studios should stick with what they know
@ I sure don't doubt that. He was easily the worst part of Sony's career. But Hermen, the new CEO, said Concord was his baby and wanted it to be his Star Wars for Playstation.
Not sure if he still has these thoughts but I'll know the redemption when I see actual great first party title releases in the future.
It's just sad that 5 years of work from Bluepoint and Bend was completely wasted for nothing.
Just you saying “I mean, god of war live service?” Made me laugh, it truly is a laughably bad idea
Hell yeah
Meanwhile Arizona is still selling their drinks for $0.99 🤣🤣😆😂
When I see them, I always pick their drink over others too.
🐐 😂
If games goes to $100, the games industry can burn for all I care.
Cudnt agree with you more
It was 40 for me. Ever since that price tag, I never payed more for a game. Always wait for discount. I am ok with waiting even a year. Literally just started Witcher 3. There are so many games to play.
@@garymorris1you aren’t very bright are you? 🙂 (the question is rhetorical)
@ dude not to be mean. I just can’t see myself having an thought provoking debate with you. Have a good day.
@garymorris1 lmao another fake rich guy trying to impress strangers online. waste your money if its priced at 100 then, no one cares weird guy.
If they charge 100 for base game I'm not buying
Wait for a sale
Complete edition later
Buy used at much lower price
Have fun missing out, Mr. Goldsmith!
Don't blame you
That will make sense but pretty sure there will be idiots that will buy it
@@swallowedinthesea11 There are far more important things and he will have fun he doesn’t need games to be happy or enjoy life
We can’t even get AAA games that are complete for $60-$70 making it $100 when half the big budget game aren’t even fully complete upon release is asinine to the highest level.
I really don’t think bumping prices up to $100 will have the intended effect that those in corporate would be hoping for given how the financial situation for many currently is
If people ate up 70 dolors they gonna eat up 100 especially for something as big as gta like they started the trend of increasing the price to 70 that did not stop people from buying games
Even if I was loaded I wouldn’t spend $100 on a video game it’s just not worth it
Just hoping it’s 70 but time will tell though feel if they keep talking about it they are giving them ideas
@@______________________-___ agreed I didn’t even like GTA5 all that much I would wait until the game was eventually $20 in like 5-10 years to play it
Yeah it will lead to everyone just waiting a month or two for discounts or longer
Usually not one to comment, but a bit of a rant. I'm in Australia and the cost of living crisis is crazy here and impacting everyone, while some of our biggest companies experience record profits. Overall, companies don't respect our hard earned money as consumers, and when they do, most of the time they succeed. In the gaming space, we always hear that they have to make it bigger and better than before, but ultimately, I believe it is publishers pushing that agenda. We've seen indie games blow up and succeed and it's pretty evident that a good game is a good game, regardless of the length, graphics etc. I may be wrong as I'm a casual gamer and not deeply involved in the industry, but it feels to me that business' set themselves growth targets based on a crystal ball projection, and our wages aren't growing to keep up and then they blame us consumers for their failures. Start by making a good game that is true to what it stands for, respect your customers hard earned money and stop being greedy.
Them: AI allows us to cut back on spending.
Also Them: Game prices must go up!
I’ve got such a backlog of other games and games I wouldn’t mind replaying I’m good if I never get another game again. I’m definitely not paying $100 on any game. I hardly ever even pay the $70 price as I usually wait for a sale.
I only picked up totk when it was $30 at Walmart.
Same here. I even largely stopped paying attention to new releases.
Baldurs gate was the last full price I paid, can’t remember before that. Especially digital I’m never paying a premium
Man, $60/$70 is already steep for me. I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever paid full price for a game. This is one of the reasons my back log is usually a few years behind so I can get games on sale. Just platinumed RE2 RE and playing Ghost of Tsushima for the first time now.
same, I'd rather wait for a 70% sale, I have better things to spend my money on.
ghost of tsushima was amazing, i just got the platinum yesterday. 10/10 game and platnium
Same here. I would say 60 is my limit. It still blows my mind how old switch games are still going for 50 or 60 bucks.
As much as i want GTA 6 i refuse to play $100 for the standard version of that game... absolutely NOT.. no game is worth that price especially when they dont even come complete
Definitely would not spend that $100 on GTA6. Especially with 5 still making money, the micro transactions, how they screwed the pooch with the definitive trilogy edition…etc. BULLSHIT.
You ARE somebody Jake. You’re the guy who owes us pizza.
Owes me a hell of a lot of pizza 🍕 think we need to collect on this now it's a big debt now. 😂
@@everythinginbetween4440 Just think the day jake retires he sends pizza to all his subscribers that would be so wholsome
There’s a picture of Jake on my local pizza shops wall that says “this man is NOT good for it.”
Developers need to stop making extremely expensive games and go back to making games fun again. If you're going to charge $100 for a game, then I'm out! I'm tired of spending my entire wallet just to play a game. Game costs are way beyond out of control and will kill the industry as more and more people can't afford games anymore! R.I.P.
These CEOs make an incomprehensibly large amount of money. They can afford to pay their employees. They just don't want to. They expect the consumer to do it. I reject the price bump on that principle. Because realistically, the percentage of that would not line the average developer's pocket THAT MUCH. Demand better unions and wages. Not the consumer to pay more
This is called liberal Propaganda. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
This is the correct answer. In every industry, CEOs are the reason things are so expensive.
Nope I won’t spend 100$ on the base game, I will not be a part of a bad trend that will lead the industry into more gouging.
Thank you.
The real money maker for Rockstar will not be the offline story mode of GTA 6. They knows that they can make billions over billions with GTA 6 online and alienating an unknown portion of their potential player base for GTA online by charging more than everybody else for the story mode would be a really stupid move.
Remember when people couldn’t afford eggs a few months ago but now we’re talking about 100 dollar video games?
What’s your point? Both are outrageous
@ it wasn’t a riddle
I haven't paid full price for a videogame since Baldur's Gate 3 and those ppl worked their fingers to the bone. I flat out refuse to go that hard for GTA 6
I agreed so hard I bought bg3 twice. First on steam when it was in early access then a second time on Xbox to play on TV
dont forget your ps6 to play it aswell
Most games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and the Nintendo 64 (N64) ranged from $50 to $60. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $90 to $110 in today's money.
Because Rockstar games are lazily hashed together falling apart games...on which no developers ever worked their as$ off. What is wrong with you?
@ gta 5 was a mess at launch for the ps3, have you got pink or green hair?
This made me think of how this idea would play out: what if they released different tier game prices at different times? For example, the $100 'special edition' releases first. Two weeks later, the 'deluxe edition' at $85. Then two weeks after that the 'regular' $70 release.
A lot of people are forgetting Rockstar is double dipping by not releasing GTA6 on PC on launch so people that suffer from FOMO are going to buy on console then buying again on PC for the "better" experience
Yep I did that with GTA5 and RDR 2 never doing that again
well and some people have fomo with drugs or other issues....their decision to be like that.
I wait for 2028 and if gta6 is woke i still wont buy no matter the price....and i really dont care to much...its overhyped..its still only a game and be able to drive around is something thats not that insane great anymore...as it was back then at gta 3 and 4 .
Eh, I won't even buy it most likely. I got bored of 5 so fast.
they charge $100 for GTAVI and i will specifically wait till it comes to PC and then I'm saying "Arr Matey"
and don't forget buy again for the next version of Xbox and PS6
I didn't even like GTA 5 that much and thought it was a downgrade from 4. A $100 price would make it a pass for me. I have more than enough in my backlog to wait years for a discount.
I think game companies going public serves to the detriment of the end product for the consumer. There’s always pressure to sell millions of copies and one strategy is to push “AAA” gaming which costs hundreds of millions which drives up the price as well.
Valve had the right idea by staying private and they are a billion dollar company with only 330 employees, which is kind of mind blowing. There’s no pressure and devs (in general) and be creative and take risks.
Gaming is a crowded market and game companies are already struggling to meet sales targets at current prices. Rockstar raising their prices might be ok for them and a few others who can maintain that demand, but I can't see it going well for the rest. Most of these companies would be better off cutting their production costs and reassessing their strategies.
I can only speak for myself but i wouldn't buy ANY game for that price
20 million first day sales - (you + 23 people) who liked this comment 😂
@@oguzgursel while that might be true GTA is one of the few that can pull that off, regardless how much a game sales is never my concern, don't need to buy any game day one especially considering it usually means more money for a less polished product anyways...
@ while that might be true GTA is one of the few that can pull that off. Regardless, game sales is never my concern, i don't need to buy any game day one specially considering that usually means paying more for a less polished product anyways...
I don't know why anyone was surprised 😂 I knew the minute everyone hyped up the first trailer. They are going to charge 100 for the base edition.
If gta 6 comes out $100 this will be a vote with your wallet situation. And if we don’t then we will be in a terrible new consumer world
I dont have much faith that enough people will boycott that pricing. I havent seen it happen yet in any way which is why all companies in general keep raising the cost. People keep buying
Just because we buy one game that actually brings that value doesnt mean we need to pay for every one that doesnt. Personally.... Make it a hundred bucks. Let the other studios try and fail. That's the only way they will learn and even then..... Look at the live service shit with sony.... Theyre just now realizing all these live service games were a bad idea. After how many studios in the last year alone have shut down because of live service based shenanigans.
A terrible consumer world? We literally have UA-camrs who pay thousands of dollars on games marketplace just for content. The consumers are the problem not the game companies
@@spoonsz That's such a stupid take
@@SeppukuSoup how? Ultimate team battle pass is ruining games and idiots are buying it. That's the problem not pricing of a game 🫠🫠 we can go through the cycle game company pays UA-camr to play game and buy skins or packs and then idiots will copy this and not care about gameplay because UA-cam God told them to buy it so they buy. The consumers is most definitely the problem in the game space right now
What is infuriating is that these CEOs have salaries and get bonuses that dwarf the average salary of the devs. So, is it REALLY the cost of development that is getting out of control?
Huh they are the CEO! You do understand everyone doesn’t get together and run themselves. You are one of those people who watches to much CNN. You think the boss sits at a big desk all day and does nothing.
They are a reason they pay a lot for a good CEO. If they want the company to succeed
It’s already gotten to the point where I cannot justify buying a game full price. If it’s not on sale for $20 or less I’m just not getting it. Here in Canada a newly released game is $90, and with taxes it’s easily over $100. I’m more than happy to just be patient and wait for a sale.
PS5 shortages hastened my exit from the console market a few years back. Now that I'm exclusively PC and Rockstar don't seem to care much about that space I'm pretty indifferent about their pricing structure for GTA6. Ordinarily I'd jump on a GTA game but I feel like I'll either skip it or wait for sale prices in whatever decade it makes it to PC.
Bought a ps4 for rdr2 as amazing as it was it would have been even better experiencing everything for the first time on PC.
Yeah i finally moved up to pc too. No more consoles.
YUP, not buying into the double dip or a console without any releases. rockstar can choke on their greed
Bend should be rebooting Syphon Filter. With the iconic running animation and lock-on strafe shooting, Splinter Cell style stealth and a new fast and very smooth cover system
Exactly! It fits the Sony brand! And that market is so wide open! Splinter Cell is dead…Metal Gear is no where to be found.
they are delusional, the price of games should not change, if they change it consumers will not buy new games and just wait for the price to crash once it does not sell, and outside of a minority most players will wait 3-6-9 month till the game is under 50 or under 40$ Developer should be focused on maximizing the value of what they are delivering VS maximizing profit out of what they have.
My take away from the disastrous launch of Battlefield 2042. Is buy the game i want exactly 1 year after release.
Damn in that case in Australia, it would be almost $160! 😢
Yep, our dollar ain't worth fuckin' shit in USD right now. I just got charged $80AUD for an account to use an American QR code service a single time 😵
@takoshihitsamaru4675 That's sux man 😞
Brazil... R$600 here :/ which is a lot!
Here in Canada a AAA game costs $89.99, on top of that we pay tax. So after taxes the total we pay comes to $101.69 for a game. We are already paying $100 for games here. It’s ridiculous
thank inflation and greed
in Brazil, we pay 350, our minimum wage is 1.500 😢😢😂😂😂
PlayStation selling the PS5 PRO disc drive sold separately and new all digital Xbox series x. Coincidence don't think so.
7:47 THUMBNAIL! 😂
If they charge $100, it will actually help me...
I will rather go back and work on clearing my games backlog (more than 100 games)...
Until the game goes on sale (down to $60) 😅😅😅
We already have $125 games in Australia, mostly for Playstation digital games, you can get them for $100 if you buy a disc version (which doesn't make since Sony!). Indiana Jones on Steam is currently $119.94. Metapor on Steam is $114.95. $100USD would be $158AUD, that would be ridiculous.
Yea no thanks Rockstar, I probably won't be picking that up if that is the case.
Your mom will get it for you don't worry
Bro most people will wait to buy them half these AAA games 3 months into their release are already discounted sometimes even up to 50% off it's insane.
In Canada is like $79.99 standard game and deluxe or premium almost $150,$200
I absolutely love how much power we hold as consumers in the gaming industry.
We absolutely won’t stand for being ripped off, or having garbage shoved down our throats.
You make a crap game and charge a bunch for it?? That’s fine. Animal well exists. Inscryption exists. We’ll play those
Except games like madden and fifa make so much money every year and I would consider those games ripping the customers off.
This comment has to be irony
lol what world do you live in
I mean the consumers have ruined video games by showing video game companies we care more about marketplace than the game
I mean, I completely agree with you, but the reality is that there are consumers that just buy stuff out of spite, and they end up harming the rest of us that want quality.
Sony raised the price to 70 and they wasted millions on live service.
Okay mark my words I absolutely guarantee they will NOT charge above $/£70 for the base game no matter what people try and say 👍
Hey Jake! Video request idea for you - liked to hear your thoughts on video game movies and TV shows (maybe even animations)
A better idea-video of him buying us all pizza FINALLY
I buy very few games on day one. I am perfectly happy waiting for sales. I played Guardians of the Galaxy over Christmas, and I only paid $12 for it
I got that game FREE from the Epic Game Store 😁
Well games cost 80 euros already here in Greece , which is about 85 dollars. With a 800 euros salary. Which is crazy that a game here costs 1/10 of the salary.
Yea um im not buying that game for $100 ever.
And first lol
I agree $70 is already too much
For every person who says this 10 more will just buy it at full price and then buy micro transactions. It’s sad but true. They really could get away with it.
I will gladly wait for a sale if it’s $100. Haven’t had a new GTA game in over a decade, I can wait lol
If you haven't noticed they are killing the second hand used game market by phasing out disks, so games that are $100 new will take 10 years to get down to $50 or less. It's already happening with $60 games that have been out for ever.
@@michaelpollock3029they might not even be referring to second hand used games? They might also be referring to waiting until GTA6 goes on sale
Wait for a sale
Buy the complete edition later
Buy used at much lower price
Options Exist!
Haha yeah till the next game, aaaand the next one, and the next one…. Ya see the pattern here?
I don’t think gta 7 would come, so those are pretty good options. To the clearance section!
@@bapattack5706 so? It's better than buying overpriced buggy broken games
@@Frrolon saves our wallet
The problem is the precedent that would be setting for every other game in the industry where they don't put in the work to justify a $100 base price. And you think that price increase is going to go to pay increases for the ground floor devs? No, it's going to go right into the CEO's pocket so he can buy his 3rd yacht.
It's ridiculous.
Please don't normalize this price.
2:05 me too Jake.. me too😂
In every business if it's growing, customers always pay the price, it happens in every part of our lives unfortunately.
The thing is, majority of the money will go to the publisher not the devs.
I don’t think gamers would be okay with base games costing $100; companies aren’t able to sell deluxe version with lots of extras at that price point.
I could see gamers buying games at $75-$80 for all future purchases. Games costing $100 would be too much of an increase during the current economic cycle.
I dunno, when games went from $60 to $70 I stopped buying as many games. Any higher and I won't buy any. I have to put a limit on it somewhere. That's how they get you, they want to charge $100 but they know the jump from $70 to $100 will be hard to swallow. So they raise it $5-$10 every 6-8 months till they get to their target price. It's not food so they can do what they want, but it's probably in their best interests not to try it.
$100 games in ANY economical climate would me hard.
Deluxe editions generally sell more than standard editions. People will spend more money if they really like the game and you dangle some cosmetic, early access or dlc treats. Some ppl also would rather buy dlc/season passes up front, so that's another reason.
Netflix came close to shutting down because of a to aggressive rate hike. If prices need to come up then it needs to be done slowly. No way would I buy GTA 6 for a hundred bucks. Zero percent chance I would do that. Not that I cannot afford it. But the principal of the thing would prevent me.
The original NES Legend of Zelda would be $143 in today’s USD and it was made by 7 people. Crazy to think about how things have changed.
Totally agree. Pay to play.
Games weren’t saturating the market as it is now. There is much more competition. Any single player game being sold at $143 today would be an instant flop.
Claiming this when the majority of people have lost buying power due to greed flation when they used to have enough money to be happily living instead of barely surviving just screams lack of understanding the current situation.
@@stygiansage2661 The point is that gaming was an expensive hobby, even 40 years ago. I can assure you these games were not considered “cheap” in the mid 80s, especially to the working class. My mother, who worked 3 jobs back then, could only afford a couple a year for me, so it took quite a while to build up a library of a dozen or so games. With so few I would replay them over and over again.
I'm not paying that price. No chance.
No way they make it $100 rockstar said their planning on making 3 billion in the first year they will not make that if it’s 100 it’ll be $70 for the standard
I never been more sure a game is gonna suck… I know rockstar doesn’t miss often but I’ve really got a bad feeling about GTA 6
If $100 becomes the norm im definitely good on not buying a game day one. I already pulled back once they went to $70 and to this day only ever bought 2 games at that price (dead island 2 & mk1). Now a days with these games going on sale so quickly if your willing to wait and my insane backlog i think im good. Also with something like gamespass theres no reason to.
I love how greed is running the world and not only does nobody seem to care, they defend it.
Yeah welcome to the stupid milenium where people don’t care what they spend I say make it a thousand why stop there nobody cares lol
@ for real lmao
I remember way back, I paid $70 for the first Turok on the N64. I was pretty young when I bought that, but looking back, that’s just nuts. Now, I tend to always wait for sales before I buy games. Additionally, there’s just too many bugs in games at launch, so it’s a win win in my mind to wait a few months to wait for the price to go down and most of the bugs be worked out.
The funny thing is everybody is saying they won’t buy it, but when it comes out and it is $100 ppl are gonna still buy it. $40 extra for a base game is crazy. It’s bad enough when the “next gen” games come out the GB will be so big we gonna have to buy an external hard drive.
Go ahead and charge $100. I am happy to wait for natural depreciation and a sale.
I remember going to my local Game shop and thinking £35 was a high price for a game
I dont get it, as obviously on paper, charging $100 for a base game would make more money, but when you take into account the amount of people who simply cant afford that, or just refuse to pay that much out of principle, the profit increase wouldnt even be worth it
Could gta6 be WORTH $100 for some people? Sure. I’ve played some games (gta5 for one) across 3 console gens. Ultimately spending more than the original $60 even with sales. But if a great game is worth $100 then a garbage half bake should be worth $40. WE set the price. WE tell publishers what is acceptable. Personally, I’ll play my backlog and wait for a sale unless trustworthy reviews indicate a game is worth the price shortly after launch.
I live in Bend Oregon so I'm always cheering on the Bend Studio. I remember when they first started, one of my neighbors was working on Syphon Filter for them. It was kinda cool hearing the insider baseball.
It is pretty incredible that my parents spent 50 bucks on Mortal Kombat for the Genesis, and yet it only went to 60/70 a few years ago. Feels like costs for many other items have doubled or more in that timeframe.
We are going from video game and a pizza to videogame or a pizza.
as many mentioned already, i have a huge backlog that can keep me entertained for a very long time, any price higher than $80 will be immediately "wait for sale"
So happy you made a Letterboxd. We need more movie content on here
For a really good VR game I understand
I remember joking about this with a friend a year ago saying “ I’m preordering as soon as it comes on the store idc if it’s 200 dollars” little did I know
Triple A standard version games are already now $93 (before tax) in Canada
As a Canadian our prices range from $89.99 - $93.49 for most standard editions before tax, which at this point has really made all my friends besides the most die hard "gotta play something new now" people essentially stop buying most games.
For me, I've got a big enough backlog that I could never buy a new game & be happy. I won't do that because I'm excited to play some upcoming releases, but it's made me take pause & decide to not buy or wait to buy many games that I would otherwise be willing to throw down for.
The price increase for us was especially bad as our dollar was on par with USA for the PS4 era which meant we've gone from $60 to $90 effectively in the same period that USA only went up $10. I know this is also the case for many other countries as well.
I’d just wait for the game on sell lol I do it for ALL games since 2018. I’m 42 I’m not losing sleep over this video game shit.
This is why disc consoles is important because eventually you can walk into a store and get it used for cheaper you can’t do that if everything is online !
I'm personally alright with paid headstarts providing they're not longer than a few days/a week but also cosmetics are the obvious addition they could use to beef up the interest in a higher bracket. That being said it's often a slippery slope and in a few years time games would start removing the lower $ tiers. I can't see myself ever buying a game that expensive anyway unless it was a collector's edition with physical extras.
ANY GAMES COSTING $100 HAD BETTER HAVE EVERY FUTURE ADD ON PACKS ALREADY INCLUDED ON THE PHYSICAL DISCS. NO MORE BUYING ADDITIONAL CONTENT. 😎
The best part is physical copies are becoming less of a thing and a price increase happens at the same time...
If its truly a massive gamechanger etc then although I don't like to set the precedent for this price I could understand it in this case.
Ways you can avoid paying full price for games but be able to play them, especially if they hit $100.
- GameFly
- Borrow from a friend (if possible, not so easy with digital games these days)
- Local libraries depending on where you live. More rural areas might not have a game selection at all or might not compare to urban libraries
These are some ideas, but regardless the possibility of $100 for a game is unreal. I’m totally ok with my backlog, waiting for sales and the previously mentioned ideas.
i cant even remember the last time ive bought a game for full price... 30 usd tops (maybe another 30 usd for dlc down the road)
I’ve gotten use to waiting 5 or more years to play a game… for a lot a reasons, bug fixes, general reviews, and price topping the list
I don’t even remember the last time i payed full price for a video game. 60$ is already an insane price especially knowing there will be a significant price drop in a years time. To think that a game that costs 100$ will still cost 50$ years later when it’s on sale for 50% off, I just won’t buy it until the set it down to the price that it’s actually worth. Which, let’s be real, is 30-45$ for ANY game. Or y’know, free on the high seas 🏴☠️
What devastates me more than the fact that they were working on live service titles this whole time is that all of that time and work is just in the trash, meaning it could legitimately be till the PS6 when we actually see their next released titles with how long development is now.
A lot of people are reminding people that Sony actually gives their studios quite a bit of autonomy so don’t assume these projects were forced upon these studios…. But I just cannot fathom why Bluepoint would be individually enticed by the prospect of a live service God of War. It just sounds unbelievable to me!