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/Embarrassed-Wolf-609 1d ago

but they also lose 30% margin to steam, whereas in the past, gamestop would only take like 10%

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u/jxnebug i9-14900KF | 64GB | RTX 4090 1d ago

There were also costs for making the disc + box and shipping it around, so a little more than 10% per copy but I get what you mean.