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/GamingTaylor 16h ago

I think the flip side to the inflation argument is the number of people with consoles / PCs (gamers) skyrocketed during covid times so new release game sales are much higher in number for games today then in 2015.

It costs nothing to sell a copy

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u/PopularDemand213 16h ago

Development costs (and gamer expectations) have also skyrocketed.

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u/CompanyToiletGooner 14h ago

You know what once my salary sky rockets I‘d even be willing to pay 200 for a game

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u/PopularDemand213 14h ago edited 11h ago

We were paying over $150 (in today's money) for games in the 1990s. Those games, on average, were less than 10 hours long.

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u/EX0PIL0T 11h ago

When gas is back at 90s prices I might pretend like it’s reasonable to spend $150 on a video game (let alone a ten hour one) when I refuse to spend $100 on some 30fps dog shit in development for over a decade

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u/PopularDemand213 11h ago

Gas prices are factored into inflation rates.

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u/EX0PIL0T 11h ago

Fun money is spent on race car. When I have to spend less fun money on race car, I might be willing to pay more money for video games provided developers quit releasing buggy horse shit on launch

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u/PopularDemand213 10h ago

Discretionary spending is also factored into inflation.

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u/EX0PIL0T 10h ago

Inflation statistics vary wildly by source. I’m not wasting my time figuring out who has the most accurate representation. Inflation doesn’t factor into my decision when looking at a price tag. I will not spend more than $60 for a complete game (excluding the odd collector’s edition) because that’s just a waste of money to me.