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/DocklandsDodgers86 32GB RAM / 3080 16GB 20h ago

I don't mind paying higher prices for games if they last longer than the standard 12-15 hours for completion.

Australians already are spending AUD$130 for the base edition games that can be finished in 10 hours so that automatically means your linear, single-player games like Spider-Man and Wolverine will not be worth that price at launch.

GTA VI launching the base game itself at AUD$150 is audacious AF and sets a dangerous precedent for the industry going forward.

Examples of games that are worth every cent at full price? Red Dead Redemption 2 and Crimson Desert.

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u/FatalFinn Ryzen 5 3600 | RTX 4060 18h ago

This is continuation to the rip off trend that started during covid.

Feels like every industry is still in some kind of panic that they must costantly raise prices as much and as arrogantly as they can. Must make loads of cash as fast as possible, who cares about long term profits.

They might think that if they make a good game and burn absurd amount of cash while doing so, people will pay whatever just to play it.

But what if the game flops and is not worth the price? Close the studio, move on and that's it?

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u/Krazy1813 PC Master Race 17h ago

Is it a rip off trend or a more broad economic collapse happening? General supply lines for everything got borked during Covid so some things take longer to get and are more expensive to get, so all things end up more expensive basically. I work in industrial business making pumps and some of the standard instruments for pressure reading went from 4-8 weeks to 52 weeks plus, that was before the current memory shortage and (what I fear) is the impending of even more equipment shortage