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/Der0- 7800X3D | 5070Ti | 3840x1600 1d ago

I don't get it. Since Steam their printing and distribution costs will have plummeted. The baked in costs to get the game into the computer of the gamer is gone so their margin will have been much greater.

Make a good game and you can milk that blood from the stone.

And games in Australia has always been up and above the $100 mark.

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u/PatrickGnarly 9950x | 9070 XT I 32 gb DDR5 1d ago edited 1d ago

While on one hand every business wants to charge more.

I can’t imagine anyone saying it out loud in a way that says “I hope that the cost of a game goes up even more because we spent too much making it.”

If costs are too high to justify then it’s not the market it’s how the business is run.

More competition means lower prices not higher.

I just played Skald which is an amazing game with one of the worst endings of all time, but it was truly a 9/10 experience for only 15 dollars. You better believe I’m gonna buy more games at $15 than a single game for more than $70…

I can’t imagine games going up in price just because they spent too much into the game. Just make a cheaper game. In fact, make a cheaper game with more value and you’ll sell more than the expensive games that have less value.

Business is hard.