discussion GTA 6 will cost as much as $100

[Deleted member 66078]

Your point has one huge flaw its the many many games in recent years that are less than 5hours or even 3 hours long hellblade 2 was tossed out last year only 7hours for 100% that includes the long unskipable cut scenes forced walking parts

That is what i meant with my statement:

Of course AAA game titles have budgets like blockbuster movies nowadays - but why do many average games are in the same price range than AAA titles?

Sorry i missed to point that out that as we almost do not have a certain spent time to price ratio. And yes some titles are worth the additional spending and yes many other titles are a exploitation to have the 20th version of slithly different story but almost the same artwork for the same price for the less entertaiment time. I like to play very realistic (flight-)simulations where you pay for one(!!!) simulated entity more than for a AAA game but i did spend for each at least 10x more time than for a AAA non-online single player game.

 

[ExiledBurger]

I can't imagine myself ever spending $100 for a single game. That would eat an entire week's food budget for me.

Hell, even with Persona 3 Reload on sale for $35 right now, I'm still trying to justify spending money on it.

Other than a few select games that I'm truly interested in, nearly all "AAA" games have been pure garbage in my eyes for the past 10-15 years.

 

[Rads95]

Even if this game cost $100 will be the best selling game of all history. Just with pre-selling, it has the production covered.

 

[rocketsheep]

I think I have only twice paid more than $20 for a game, and even $20 is rare. I paid something like $30-40 for Civilization 6 with all DLC, and then I discovered it's become so complicated that it's just one big grind of making lots of boring decisions of little impact but each requiring a lot of research and just important enough you can't ignore it -- basically unplayable. Oh, and while I got Stellaris for $20, they did manage to extract quite a bit more from me for various DLCs. Each at a significant discount, of course, but I guess it adds up to something like $60 in total.
It took over a year for Hogwarts Legacy to get below my threshold of $15. I can see why one might think it's worth more, as there is a lot of content there and it's a huge time sink. But it's also weak and hollow in so many ways.
Looking forward to when Baldur's Gate 3 reaches my $20 limit, or at least gets close enough for me to become weak.

 

[jkj34]

I think I have only twice paid more than $20 for a game, and even $20 is rare. I paid something like $30-40 for Civilization 6 with all DLC, and then I discovered it's become so complicated that it's just one big grind of making lots of boring decisions of little impact but each requiring a lot of research and just important enough you can't ignore it -- basically unplayable. Oh, and while I got Stellaris for $20, they did manage to extract quite a bit more from me for various DLCs. Each at a significant discount, of course, but I guess it adds up to something like $60 in total.
It took over a year for Hogwarts Legacy to get below my threshold of $15. I can see why one might think it's worth more, as there is a lot of content there and it's a huge time sink. But it's also weak and hollow in so many ways.
Looking forward to when Baldur's Gate 3 reaches my $20 limit, or at least gets close enough for me to become weak.

You should look at humble bundle you can get alot there for $20 but games bundles are not as common as before but they are still on there just make sure its steam keys.

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Yeah i got hogwarts also i find its one of those games that has everything but that everything is also so mid just could not find the itch to keep playing.

 

[LewisCarroll]

Kinda par for the course these days ime. Lucky I don't really like that kind of game. I paid $100 for POE2 to support the dev's and to get some swag, but I didn't have to.

 

[Rukvia]

Game will be expensive, on launch, no doubt about it, but I'm betting in just 2 years or even less, we'll see another Epic Free Game where GTAVI will be the offer, a Humble Bundle with everything included for just $10, and heck, maybe even a Steam Sale of 75% off. If you are patient and don't bite in the hype, by that time, you'll be able to play it and even have an upgraded rig to play it on. That's how I got my GTAV, RDR2, base and online versions. Don't think I spent more than $15 for everything.

 

[rocketsheep]

You should look at humble bundle you can get alot there for $20 but games bundles are not as common as before but they are still on there just make sure its steam keys.

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Yeah i got hogwarts also i find its one of those games that has everything but that everything is also so mid just could not find the itch to keep playing.

Nowadays Humble bundles usually aren't worth it any more. Either they consist of trash (not even old classics), or they have minimum prices that are at best competitive but not really great bargains. Nowadays I mostly use isthereanydeal and typically end up buying on Fanatical, Steam itself, or very occasionally on greenmangaming. (I am buying quite a lot of games, usually below $5, because I typically do not have the patience to play one game for long. This is also why I am so price sensitive. Some of the games I spent most hours with are open source anyway.)

 

[AVG]

I bought GTA V 3 times.... PS3, PS4 and PC. Probably payed also 100 dollars for it in total.
But 100 in one go is much, even if it is a totally finished game.

 

[Dobermann]

Let's be frank here... IF (very big if) they sell you a game for 100 bucks and you get the complete package. Sure. But as it is customary in the fucking gaming industry. You will have micro transactions (cars, skins, weapons, online?), DLCs etc... pushing it easily beyond 150, 200, 300 bucks. It is never enough. The answer is not higher prices, the answer is lowering the scope, cutting the fat. Less marketing budget, less useless departments, less content creep, less specialised devs, more generalists. Less corpo bullshit, more creative endeavour.

The moment the games industry became the new thing for the suits, this is when budgets blew up and new job titles like monetization specialists entered the fray. Ridiculous.

 

[angband]

As far as I remember, the only game that I bought within the first year of release was Fallout 4, and that was only because I was able to get a pretty decent employee discount on it. Other than that, I have always waited at least two years. Not only does the price come down in that time, but bugfixes and mods get released and you get a more stable game right out of the (virtual) box.

 

[MattShizzle]

Seriously. anyone who would spend that much should go to a mental hospital.

 

[jkj34]

Nowadays Humble bundles usually aren't worth it any more. Either they consist of trash (not even old classics), or they have minimum prices that are at best competitive but not really great bargains. Nowadays I mostly use isthereanydeal and typically end up buying on Fanatical, Steam itself, or very occasionally on greenmangaming. (I am buying quite a lot of games, usually below $5, because I typically do not have the patience to play one game for long. This is also why I am so price sensitive. Some of the games I spent most hours with are open source anyway.)

You should keep a eye out though last june i got all the batman arkham games for like $15 on gog. now if you are talking about there sub plan or single game pile yeah both are very bad that sub plan needs alot of work.

Let's be frank here... IF (very big if) they sell you a game for 100 bucks and you get the complete package. Sure. But as it is customary in the fucking gaming industry. You will have micro transactions (cars, skins, weapons, online?), DLCs etc... pushing it easily beyond 150, 200, 300 bucks. It is never enough. The answer is not higher prices, the answer is lowering the scope, cutting the fat. Less marketing budget, less useless departments, less content creep, less specialised devs, more generalists. Less corpo bullshit, more creative endeavour.

The moment the games industry became the new thing for the suits, this is when budgets blew up and new job titles like monetization specialists entered the fray. Ridiculous.

Remember when ubisoft had so many microtransaction they apologized back in 2020? tom clancy breakpoint was the game if i remember correctly.

They removed alot then "re evaluated" there games now 5 years later are about to go bankrupt do too greed ironic.

 

[rocketsheep]

You should keep a eye out though last june i got all the batman arkham games for like $15 on gog. now if you are talking about there sub plan or single game pile yeah both are very bad that sub plan needs alot of work.

I have been keeping an eye out ever since Humble Bundle started, and initially bought many of them. Now for several years nothing. Their subscription makes little sense for me because it almost never includes games I want to have. (In part because I suck at action games. In the widest sense. I even gave up the tutorial of The Witcher 1 because I couldn't cope with the controls. Doom remake has no setting that allows me to survive a couple of minutes. Which is strange because I actually have fun playing original Doom with the easiest settings. I think I have never finished the first level of that, but that's mostly because I find action games boring even if they are not too frustrating.) As to GOG -- I mostly stopped using it because they are no longer supporting Linux, getting Windows games to run outside Steam is a hassle, and I really prefer it when games run smoothly on the Steam Deck.

 

[CornLewder]

I'll wait until it costs 15€ in the sale, as with all the games I buy. Approximately how many years would that be?

 

[jkj34]

I'll wait until it costs 15€ in the sale, as with all the games I buy. Approximately how many years would that be?

Well it took 7 years for gta 5 to be free on epic games for a month...

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[Raodos455]

and they wonder why piracy is coming back, if greedy CEOs lose money we all win, why would anyone pay money for games that are worse than 10 or 20 years old games, even graphics are starting to look better in older games

 

[MattShizzle]

You'd think by now they could use AI, actors, etc to make it look almost indistinguishable from reality by now. Talking about mainstream - as there isn't the problem from moron legislators for those with AI like loli porn - or perhaps even standard porn.

 

[kakarottooalgo]

What's even the point of a GTA without offensive humour?
It's GTA so of course it will break every sales record (even with the inflated price tag) and get praised to hell and back on reviews (fucking sellouts), but is it even going to be fun? Do you guys play GTA for the incredible worldbuilding and profound storytelling? it was always good because of the low-brow comedy and senseless violence

 

[Romalous]

they can keep it i am not paying €100 for a game ever again i did it once with Starfield to get early access and it was a pile of garbage i will stick to playing older games and indie titles i enjoy them more anyway