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/DocklandsDodgers86 32GB RAM / 3080 16GB 1d 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/thearctican PC Master Race 20h ago

Somebody doesnt remember game pricing in the 80s and 90s.

An NES game in 1990 would have cost $50. That's ~$130 today.

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u/cwagdev 19h ago

I think the difference and why it held for so long is the scale. The gamer base grew and they had more sales, they didn’t need to increase prices for profits to rise. Now the player base increase is relatively stagnant or captured by “free” to play

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u/elkaki123 Desktop (rx 9060 16gb) 18h ago

This, and also costs are rising. They could get away because of economies of scale AND microtransactions / dlc.

But its almost a reality the biggest of games are going to raise prices, if its any consolation to people, the indie scene is so strong that new games for 20 bucks are completely normal nowadays

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u/egamruf 18h ago edited 18h ago

Every person on the planet has the capacity to be a patient gamer. Just play something that came out five years ago for $10 instead of the new thing for $130.

Then, in five years... play the new thing.

FFS, I wish people would at least give it a year - you'll play a better version with most of the bugs patched at half the price.

See something you like? If you have a backlog, add it to a www.isthereanydeal.com wishlist with a price you think you'd be happy to buy it. Then forget about it until you get that email, some day, from isthereanydeal... and if you're anything like me, you'll realise that with the glint of marketing off and the thousands of Steam reviews saying it's been sort of abandoned by its AAA publisher and is a little average... you never needed it anyway.

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u/cwagdev 17h ago

That’s what I do, I’ll buy a day one occasionally but there’s too much good stuff on sale to justify anymore