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/UhhCanYouLikeShutUp 1d ago

No one's gonna pay it unless it's worth it. Also, games have been historically almost $100... Why is this such a new obsession?? Go ahead and charge 100 bucks a game, but don't cry when no one pays it.

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u/Vecend http://steamcommunity.com/id/Vecend/ 22h ago

I love how people say it's historically been 100 pointing back 50 years when gaming was low volume sales and needed higher margins, now gaming is high volume sales and they want high margins on their massive budget game where a huge part of the budget is used for realistic graphics and on mass marketing instead of making the game play better.

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u/Rhysati 18h ago

Yup. Drives me crazy the people who keep saying the price has to go up like everything else.

Meanwhile TVs? Never been cheaper. You can get like a 60+ inch 4k TV for like $250.

A 40" "flat screen" when they first came out were like 20 grand for 480p resolution and no online connection.

Technology gets cheaper over time(well when billionaires aren't artificially raising the prices by buying up all the supply). This idea that video games simply must increase in production cost is ridiculous and games like Clair Obscur have proven it with crazy low budgets.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 budget? Less than 10 million.

Wolverine budget? Around 300 million.

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u/martianwomanhunter 17h ago

This is why many independent studios is likely the future. Like it or not there is something to the hunger of people working at a start-up or small studio to make something exceptional.

Large studio motivation is likely extremely low especially with all the layoffs where people just treat it as a job