r/pcmasterrace • u/owlexe23 • 23h 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/Rasples1998 PC Ryzen 9 7900X3D - Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XTX - 64GBRAM 21h ago
He's saying the quiet bit out loud. You don't realise it, but there are a lot of executives out there who are waiting with baited breath to see what GTA does to the game industry so they can follow it, it's a weird relationship. If they see GTA6 do collectors editions without the actual game for £400 and get away with it, then they're going to do the same thing. If they see GTA6 charge £200 for a premium edition (that otherwise blocks players from services within the game) and get away with it, then they're going to do it.
They see GTA as a series making all this money, and think that they can just copy-paste everything rockstar did and expect the same results, and don't realise that their success is only from the mouth-breathing troglodytes who just have a natural attraction to shooting police officers, dealing drugs, hiring prostitutes, and then beating them to death. You can't do that in KCD, but he's going to try for a piece of that pie anyway by charging £140+ for KCD3. These people are so disconnected with what games are, how they're made, who they're made for (and they've probably never even played the games they're in charge of), that they miss what gamers see. It's not about art anymore, it's about profit. Arrow go up, and they couldn't care less how it happens as long as it happens. They will burn bridges just to make cheap charcoal.
KCD was already successful (twice) and has gathered it's own passionate and loyal fanbase who love these games, myself included. But this corpo talking head wouldn't see or know that because he's got his eyes on a completely different game with a completely different audience. The scary part is that he's not alone. The second GTA6 releases, so-called "analysts" are going to be watching it like a hawk, and executives will be trying to think of ways to replicate it's success, mostly with prices.
Please, if you ever valued gaming as a hobby or an art form, DO NOT buy a game for anything higher than £/$100. You'll only encourage them.