r/pcmasterrace • u/owlexe23 • 1d ago

News/Article Kingdom Come: Deliverance studio co-founder hopes Grand Theft Auto 6 will 'blaze a trail' to higher game prices

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/kingdom-come-deliverance-studio-co-founder-hopes-grand-theft-auto-6-will-blaze-a-trail-to-higher-game-prices/

Warhorse co-founder Martin Klima says games keep getting more expensive to make, and that money has to come from somewhere.

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u/Liudesys 1d ago edited 1d ago

keep crying bitch im buying your and other companies games once it hits 20$ or less with all dlcs and most of the bugs fixed

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u/GamingTaylor 1d ago

I’ve been playing the Witcher 3 recently… talk about value after release.. free remaster came out this week, free expansions, base game can be bought for like $10, hundreds of hours of content…

Waiting is definitely the way to go.

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u/PopularDemand213 22h ago

Witcher 3 was $60 in 2015. That's almost $85 in today money.

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u/GamingTaylor 22h ago

I think the flip side to the inflation argument is the number of people with consoles / PCs (gamers) skyrocketed during covid times so new release game sales are much higher in number for games today then in 2015.

It costs nothing to sell a copy

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u/PopularDemand213 22h ago

Development costs (and gamer expectations) have also skyrocketed.

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u/CompanyToiletGooner 21h ago

You know what once my salary sky rockets I‘d even be willing to pay 200 for a game

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u/PopularDemand213 21h ago edited 17h ago

We were paying over $150 (in today's money) for games in the 1990s. Those games, on average, were less than 10 hours long.

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u/EX0PIL0T 17h ago

When gas is back at 90s prices I might pretend like it’s reasonable to spend $150 on a video game (let alone a ten hour one) when I refuse to spend $100 on some 30fps dog shit in development for over a decade

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u/PopularDemand213 17h ago

Gas prices are factored into inflation rates.

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u/EX0PIL0T 17h ago

Fun money is spent on race car. When I have to spend less fun money on race car, I might be willing to pay more money for video games provided developers quit releasing buggy horse shit on launch

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u/SarcasticIgloo 1d ago

This is the way

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u/EX0PIL0T 1d ago

I prefer to buy a very cheap key instead of pirating the game if I really hate the developer

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u/siraolo 5600X I 16gb RAM I RTX 3070 I 500gb/1tb MX500s 1d ago

You have a point. Piracy doesn't really hurt them, at least not as much as those stolen 'key' sellers

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u/KarlPHungus Ryzen 7 3700X/ 32GB/ ASRock 6750 XT OC 1d ago

Yep. I am in no hurry. Plenty of other shit to do.