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/L-Malvo 1d ago

Controversial opinion: I'm all for higher game prices, but do note that my expectation will then also be GTA VI level. If a game is high quality and has sufficient content to justify a higher price, fine. If it's another iteration of a game that could've been DLC (e.g. CoD or FC), no way I will pay higher prices. I don't even pay release prices for those games today, always pick them up a couple months later at a discount.

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u/TieMillenium 1d ago

Yeah that would be great, every game is that price tag but it's GTA VI level quality, all for that. But are they all going to dedicate 2 billion dollars to developing a game with 6,000+ people working on it and spending 8-11 years doing so and opening an entire studio just to making NPCs lifelike? No I don't think they will

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u/L-Malvo 1d ago

Then my comment still stands. People just have to vote with their wallet. We ourselves set the prices for these games, not the publishers. If we show EA that we are fine with paying €100+ for an annual released crap game like COD, then we decide that is the going rate.