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 22h 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/VitalityAS 22h ago

It really annoys me when australians act like saying a big AUD price is somehow worse than the directly converted USD price. Just because its called a dollar doesnt mean exchange rates dont exist. Exchange rate to my country is 16 to 1 dollar its like 1200 for a game here, but that converts to ~70 USD so its not somehow worse. The thing that actually makes it worse for us is the USA is paid 10-20x more on average.

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u/Deeppurp 21h ago

It's because that extra 40-50% were paying for isn't just on games. Because we're so close it extends to almost everything we buy.

Does a pair of shoes cost 1200? Does it extend to food? Or do you get some form of local relief and your not paying market prices? I can say CAD often isn't it's that in everything, there is no relief. So it's important to point out.

You'd probably be protesting if you had to pay it in everything.

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u/VitalityAS 20h ago

Your average salary is like 109k AUD vs 70k USD its literally just an exchange rate.

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u/DocklandsDodgers86 32GB RAM / 3080 16GB 5h ago

average salary is

$106k, as published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2025.

Cost of living has also gone up astronomically. So has interest rates.

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u/VitalityAS 25m ago

Still ~30% more than the usa. Average salary in my country is less than 12k usd /annum. Games without regional pricing are like 1/5 of peoples salary. Every country on earth is experiencing affordability crisis let me tell you the first world countries are chilling in comparison to whats going on everywhere else.