Video games are TOO expensive.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2022
- Next Gen PS5 and Xbox Series X games cost 70 dollars. Is this too much for you to pay? Did you think 60 dollars was a good price? Let me know in the comments below!
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At this point most of the industry is becoming greedy and just wants our money with the unfinished releases and 70$ cost the future seems not so bright
Yea, the indie scene really is our best bet here...
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What can we do? How can we show we don’t support this? Yea speak with our wallet but sheep keep covering the cost of people who boycott. Any other idea?
@@revenge8215 there needs to be another game crash like in the early 80s because the quality of games are about as dog shit as they were then
They always wanted our money, that’s all they cared about, money.
@@idipped2521 It's a good thing I don't go out of my way to play dog shit games. I am very picky in that regard.
I come from a generation where the MSRP on a new game was $39.99 and the consoles would go on sale for $99.99 after awhile. They've priced me out of the hobby
Its sad what it's come to now
@TheMurphy ive long gave up on modern stuff. Bought a PC with an i5 and a decent little graphics card in it. Emulate everything from PS2 backwards and it runs any games I'd personally want to play from the 360 era on steam. Havent regretted it
"priced me out of the hobby" is right! That is exactly how I felt when the PS3 came out. I missed out on a whole lot of gaming until a Lyft customer literally gave me their Nintendo switch no strings attached, all because I couldn't afford those expensive ass consoles! Seriously, who the hell wants to pay $753 for a PS3 (adjusted for inflation)?!
Video Games should've never costed more than $50 imo
If only that were the case
$30
😂@@pajeetsingh
@lemmy154 what,
Nintendo Charging 70 for tears of the kingdom when the switch ain't even a next gen console is fucking crazy
It's absolutely absurd. They aren't giving us anything more than they did in 2017 with BOTW but now it costs $70??
The problem is if you want to buy a complete game will all the DLC it will likely cost you over $100 which is way higher than the typical $30-60 we normally pay.
Its unfortunate that we don't even necessarily get a whole game anymore, even for 60-70
This cost of living crisis is brutal. I can now only afford to play one game as my main one for months at a time.
Yeah, in times like these you really have to extract all the value you can. But things will turn around for us!
Same, i am usually maxing out everything that game has to offer including achievments / trophies and by the time other games that i waited for gets cheaper :).
Go play indie games they cheaper & worth it ( depends on what do you want to play ? )
Few games are truly Day 1 must play. For the most part, it is better to wait till the hype cools and the deals come. You will still enjoy them even after a year that they launched. Only Nintendo is very stingy with deals on their self published games.
I agree, almost always better to just wait for deals. The games aren't going anywhere. Thanks for watching!
I think Nintendo may start to soften on their stingy deals, at least on their 3rd party titles, with the introduction and rising competition with the Steam Deck. I've seen a lot of TH-camrs and commenters on Twitch saying they're only going to play 1st party titles on the Switch, and everything else, they're getting on the Steam Deck.
More games are day 1 must play than ever before in history. It used to just be first party titles that were that good. Now there are a ton of publishers that release games worth day 1 purchase.
A few examples: Kojima games, Bethesda games, Square games, Blizzard games, Atlus, Mitzuguchi games (Tetris Effect), GRID and Dirt games, Ace Combat, most Star Wars games, Platinum games. And the list keeps growing. New publishers like Heart Machine, the makers of FURI, the guys who made A Plague Tale...they keep popping up out of nowhere.
@@darinherrick9224 you just have to have self control, and prioritize some so as not to go broke😂. It is very easy to be moved by hype instead of reason and just want to buy everything. Too bad we can't buy more hours to be able to play all the games available.
Best thing to do is wait for the Gold/Definitive/Complete/GOTY edition. Game industry nowadays just want to dry our pockets.
Most multiplayer games now are riddled with micro transactions beyond paying the initial 60/70 bucks. There's an entire rabbit hole of controversy around using gambling tech to rope people into continually dropping money on dlc.
Exactly. That $60 on the box is only the price of entry these days, then there are all the battle passes, season passes, day one dlc, cash shops, etc. And gacha/loot box mechanics, bleh.
Let's be real though. We should not have let the video game industry grow as big as it did.
I disagree with you. Gaming is a lot better now because they are so huge. You have a lot of options for gaming now. Had it stayed like the 80's or 90's, gaming selection would have been very little.
During covid, i thought everyone was struggling with money, but then when PS5 and rtx 3000 were released, i saw lots of people are spending hundred or thousands higher than MSRP on overpriced good.
I think the industry learned something from this and trying to push the boundary.
Yeah, they were taught that people were willing to pay more back then. They fail to realize, however, that during that time many people had more excess funds because they weren't able to do anything because of lockdown.
i’ve always thought (especially in modem times) that sports games are a scam. they release the same exact game every year with no changes other than the roster lineups usually. and we all know that could easily be updated for free or at least for significantly less with an internet connection/DLC
Exactly. They're maximizing profits while minimizing labor and it really shows. It's a copy paste job every year.
I agree, it’s the same game every year.
Yeah fuck sports games
We just shouldn’t buy, for example I’ve got mlb the show 23, I won’t buy the next 24,25 maybe I’ll get 26 when it’s on sale
Back in the day with PS2 games, there were actual improvements with the new releases. Pro Evolution Soccer for example. But now, they do look the same for over 10 years.
I completely agree every game I've played lately is unfinished or unplayable and they try and trick us we need the latest title because we are missing out on timed exclusive events
True, i just waiting a year or 2 to play it when it gets cheaper or getting second hand copy (on consoles) from my local game store.
That’s why I hold onto the 5 older consoles i have . I have over 200 games across the ps2,ps3, Xbox 360, psp, ps4 platforms. So I almost never get bored
Awesome. Yeah buying older games for 5-10 bucks feels great.
You forgot on the PC side, about emulation and modding. Another huge way to save money. You can play old console favorites via emulation on PC, and you can revisit older titles with mods, that introduce higher fidelity graphics, or mechanics. Brutal Doom comes to mind.
Very true! That's a whole 'nother world of games open to us to play!
and sales 🙏🏻
@@Cheffory sales are a savior of wallets indeed
SHHHH. Don't say the E-word, Nintendo might hear you.
Yeah I got Batman Arkham city and Lego lord of the rings for under ten bucks
Another thing. Remember when you were younger and literally only a handful of games could keep you going for years.
I don’t really buy much games anymore unless I want to get it on a different platform because I no longer have the old version. I do want to try out other games but time and money ain’t always available
Yea it’s crazy man, everything going up in price but no one wanna pay us more money. It’s crazy out here
Exactly. These companies all want to charge us more but they don't want to give out cost of living increases or pay raises.
This is why free games, indies, and game pass are on the rise. Standard major releases are progressively becoming more unworth it. Most worth it triple A games worth the price are games like Doom Eternal and Elden Ring.
I completely agree with you. Games like valheim are $20 and provide a huge amount of fun content. Also your taste in games is excellent, Elden ring is godlike and I could replay Doom Eternal over and over forever.
There is also a lack of demos to help you decide what game you would like to invest your hard earned cash into
I want the age of demos to come back. Square enix has been doing it more recently, hopefully its a trend
I'm never paying $70 for any game. They were lucky they got $60. I'm skipping this gen with xbox and ps5. For a lot of reasons. And I've been buying new console for 30 years. But these are not worth it.
I feel you there. I say stick to your guns on this one and wait for the future price drops
Me still collecting the Xbox 360 and ps1-3 games and original Xbox
For me, it's like what you said in the video how it all really depends on the game. I used to think that a $60 game that I could sink 60 hours into was worth it, but now as I've gotten older and gotten a job and can make my own purchasing decisions, I don't really think that anymore. RE8 was $60 at launch for only about a 7-8 hour game but that experience was so memorable and fun that I thought it was worth it 100%. Plus, deals are always happening for games and you can easily pick up a great game for way less than retail price if you just do a little bit of bargain hunting. It really all just comes down to what you want to support with a full $60-70 price tag per game
Yep. I firmly believe that a 20 hour game that is an amazing experience end to end is way more worth my money than a bloated 60 hour game full of empty worlds and fetch quests. Thanks for watching!
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A used Zelda game was 40$+ in 2003, A used pokemon game was 45$ in 2006
A new console was 100$ in the year 2000
Should be 30$ for a year of playing the game and to purchase the game completely just pay an extra 30
Thats an interesting idea!
Gaming is the cheapest and most accessible it has ever been. The prices for major titles have remained consistent for the last 30 or so years, despite inflation and increasing quality. There are free phone games with more depth than any 50 dollar game from the 1980s.
I’ve been living the Steam Sale lifestyle since I officially got into gaming in 2013. I wait patiently for games I have curiosity for to go on sale usually for $10 or less and buy them while buying 2 or 3 games I really really want at release each year (2020 was Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Serious Sam 4). Now I’ve got a backlog of over 500 games in my Steam Library and 200+ of them are games I still need to play (And that’s not including the hundreds of games I got for free off the Epic Games store every week).
Games I’m working on finishing now: Ion Fury, Metro Exodus, Control, RE7, Thumper, Evil Within and so many others.
Saving tons of money, and it looks like you're set for years there!
The Steam Sale lifestyle is the best way to live, we're always eating good after the annual summer sale
@@slowyourroll1146 indeed, I can't wait for the winter sale in a couple months
Games aren't really more expensive than they were 10 or 20 years ago in real terms, your dollars are worth less. It's actually quite amazing that they managed to stay as low as they are, it speaks volumes for the improvements in efficiency that games are so much more complex and less expensive to buy in real terms.
The comment section here doesn't want to acknowledge this fact though.
Not exactly. Australia and Canada have high prices, the audience for games has grown and games are more expensive when you factor in the other editions. But I don't understand why people don't seem to know about sales and if they do, they only think about Steam.
@@randomduck8679US dollar is worth more then your currency dog
@@colin5376 What's my currency?
@@randomduck8679 if it isnt the US dollar its less lol
These days I maybe buy 1 or 2 games at launch per year. In most cases I just wait for the discounts. Just as you mentioned, it's not worth paying 60 or 70 bucks for many games, especially those yearly franchises. The only game I payed full price for this year was Elden Ring. And ooh my was it worth it.
I agree with your method here. And you're right, if you were only going to buy 1 full price game this year, Elden Ring was the one to buy.
Thanks for watching!
I've had my Steam account for almost 15 years and have acquired over 800 games in that time, a lot from bundles where I got a few years old AAA games for less than $5. I got GTA V, Borderlands 3 and dozens of indie games for completely free from Epic games (besides dealing with their spyware launcher lol) and GOG also has given me free games and sub $3 deals on games like Homeworld.
I've been slowly working through my Steam library now that I own a Steam Deck ($400 64gb model I upgraded myself to 256gb for the cost of $19). At the rate I'm playing games, these 800 games and the occasional deal from Steam winter sales, I'll be set for a long time.
I feel like PC gaming is the budget friendly version of gaming. (especially if you sail the high seas to try games before you buy) Hell, anymore most integrated graphics can play Triple A games at 720p 60fps. You don't need a 3090 to game, most people are still using a 1060 they paid $100 for.
I agree that pc gaming can be super budget friendly! The steam deck really is all people need to jump in, especially with the dock coming. Thanks for watching the video!
I have games that I paid 60 bucks for, then didn't touch again after playing it to completion which took me 10 hours.
I bought Black Mesa for 25 and have several hundred hours and am mapping for it myself.
It's difficult to say what a game is worth because the same things have different meanings to different people.
That is very true, the idea of a non-essential purchase being "worth it" is subjective by its nature. I find that there are increasingly fewer new games that actually "feel" worth the asking price to me.
fun fact: nowadays games are the cheapest they've ever been, PS3 games costed between 40 to 50 dollars, adjusted to inflation that's between 75 to 95, well, more than cheaper, they've just always been the same, the problem isn't the price, but the lack of a reason for it to be worth it keeping the price or adjusting it to inflation
For me, I don't think it's a matter of they're "too expensive" (which they definitely are), but it's more of the problem that there are too many games constantly coming out, all which I really want to play and sometimes they come out in the same month. Because of this, I have a bunch of around 40-ish sealed games collecting dust, that I bought years ago, waiting to be played, because I simply lack the time or energy to play them all. But by far the main reason why I haven't gotten around to playing a bunch of those games, is because when Judgement remastered came out on the PS5 a couple of years ago, it made me want to get into the Yakuza series. I then proceeded to purchase every single Yakuza game that had released up until that point and since each game takes about 150 - 200 hours to 100%, because I'm one of those guys who likes to go for the platinum trophies on most games I play, then I often take a couple of months (or more) break from starting the new entry in the franchise. Currently I've only completed Both Judgement games, Zero and Kiwami 1&2. Kiwami 2 really drained me and it's been like 7 months since I completed it. The reason I haven't started Yakuza 3 yet is simply because I already own the PC version and from the little I played, it felt really janky compared to the later games in the series, hence I'm hesitant to start it on PS5. I think once I finally get the Yakuza games out of the way, I can finally make a dent into my backlog.
To be honest, if I was only going to play one franchise forever, it would be either the yakuza games or the Legend of Heroes, so I think you've made a great choice there! I'm currently playing judgment for the first time and loving it! Also I highly recommend playing yakuza 3, it's pretty clunky but imo it has one of the better stories in the series. (I've played yakuza 0-7 multiple times each lol)
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This is why I'm glad there's now a fairly large pool of games that launch at less than $70, because they serve as a good benchmark. It helps me look at a new game and say "This is kinda one-dimensional, it only has the features of like a $30 or $40 game", and then even if I have the money I'll wait until it falls to that price just as a matter of principle.
Great mindset to have with this. My favorite game ever only cost $20 when it came to steam and I've played it hundreds of hours, so I can't see the value in these new titles at $70.
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I like to use gamepass (if game is there) to test if its worth it to buy and if it is i am playing on gamepass or waiting until it gets cheaper and buying disk to a collection and continues progress on disk version.
As a brazilian, i can’t buy food after buying a game because a single game costs about 1 third of the minimal salary
That...is a real shame. I wish there was more fair regional pricing.
I just wait 2-4 years. Got to run from spoilers but I pay $10 bucks for a used game. Or I pick one to two games a year.
Patience really pays off in gaming! I'm also playing older games for a while and waiting for the newer ones to go on big sales
You didn't mention Gamefly as a rental service. I have been with them since the beginning and have literally played hundreds of games for a set price per month subscription. Using that and Gamepass, I'm good to go...☺
Great point! Gamefly completely slipped my mind. And that again is another point toward the consoles that have disc drives, saves a lot of money over time.
My question is why digital games are expensive when they dont have import it anywhere even if the game is banned in a region it just have to simply remove it from the regional server
Haha! All they are doing is pushing people to wait for the game to go on sale. I stopped buying new 5 years ago. Wait for a good sale and you can get them for $25 and sometimes with all the dlc included
Yep. The game isn't going anywhere, and the price is only going to go down.
Any steam mega sale enthusiasts in the chat? :D
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Me thinking of getting a ps5 and then realising the console is 600 and the games are 70
Ouch.
It's a buyer's market nobody can play all games in their life u just gotta buy a couple u enjoy and stick to them
This is why I'm pro subscription services. Especially when you get day 1 releases. Hundreds of games for 1 year costs 2 big triple AAA games. It's a no brainer and the option to buy games on discount is fantastic. Everyone wins ... the gamers, developers and corporations like Sony and Microsoft.
Yeah. It's also way less frustrating when a game isn't that good if you didn't actually have to pay $60-$70 for it. You can just uninstall and install another game
It’s funny hearing this cause I pay way more for games that are older but I only buy the games I’ve always wanted. I’m also working two jobs one is in a retro game store.
I wanna play and complete full Resident Evil series but I'm from India and each game costs more than 3000 ruppes atleast and it's too expensive which i can't afford
Yeah, it's too bad everything costs so much now. Even used games have gone up in some cases, which is unfortunate. I remember buying games for $5 USD or something back in the day, now I see used games going for $30 USD.
*Dope ass channel, I've subbed. This is when having a big game collection has its benefit. I can simply wait till the new game comes down in price since I have a ton of games to go through and enjoy, so I'd be in no rush.*
Thank you!
That's very true; there are always multiple sides to any argument. Being able to wait for a couple years and paying a fraction of a game's cost is a great feeling. You get the same game everyone else got but for a much better value.
If games become any more expensive, people will just pack in the hobby and call it quits.
this was actually good agree with everything
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed what I had to say!
When a Sonic game is even reaching $70 now you know it’s getting out of hand
Yeah that's honestly just out of line imo.
Indie games on steam have kept me entertained for a long time now. They usually cost 5£ - 30£ depending on the game. And ive gotten 50 - 100 hours out of most of them. For example I bought Valheim for 7£ and enjoyed it alot. 😊
This is why buy I 8-10 years old games during sales on steam or driffle..
They're probably insanely cheap by then, good deal!
60$ for game is so unfair for me. My country average salary is 300$ a month not to mention rent, food, electric. Now they sell them for 70$ this is so unfair 😢
That's really unfortunate :(
I wish companies would take that into account and have sensible regional pricing.
Bro for real man :( I ain’t buying any new games man I’ll jus stick to what I have
I wont buy a game if its over $20. It makes no sense for lines of code to sell for $50-80. Its just ridiculous.
I say stick to your guns on that. If that's the price you feel games are worth it, more power to you.
Seen a few of your videos now and gotta say i really like the style. To-the-point but enough depth and well written. Keep it up :)
Thank you, glad you enjoy them!
@@realtayo42 :D
I pay $100 for AAA games that are not even worth half that price. The videogame industry will collapse
Thanks so much for covering this
Thanks for watching this!
I just bought Mark of the Ninja (first time playing it!), Inside & Limbo all on sale & I'm having a blast!
Gotta say it's more fun then some of these $60 games that's been coming out lately.
That's great! There are plenty of games like those that aren't huge AAA games that are honestly more fun and a better value. Glad you found something you really like!
I fully agree. Great vid :)
Unfortunately every time minimum wage goes up regardless of if you employ minimum-wage workers are not you have to raise your prices because the people who do employee minimum wage workers raise their prices so that the people buying their product to... Manufacture computers on an assembly line for instance have to raise their prices to make that money back...
$70 is actually very generous anymore and companies don't make as much as you think that's why they're all trying scummy tactics... It's either that or charge $80 to $90 for most video games... That's actually probably lowballing it
EA made 5 billion dollars last year on the back of repacked assets in a wide spread of yearly sports games. That's not the case everywhere, sure, but it is the case often enough that it breaks the illusion of those games actually costing more to make.
@@realtayo42 ok when it comes to ea I agree they are just a bad company that is power hungry.... but most companies aren't ea...
Me and my friends sometimes share steam acc when the game we want is not available on family sharing.
That's another way to do it!
A game like Genshin never gets boring its very interesting and the fact that they update the game every 2-3 months with new versions and characters just makes you buying a ps4 worth it.instead like gta you gotta buy more cds for each new version
As an ex gamestop employee and you want one of those yearly games, my honest advice to you and stick to last years then switch to he next one after it becomes "last year" because then it drop significantly in price
Definitely the way to go for people that do want that yearly update. It's absurd to buy it for full price every year
I was, what you'd call, a mature gamer. I started playing games around 1977 when I was 6 and pretty much stopped, around 2013ish. I still played games afterwards but drastically reduced the time played. I still play now and again, but not much.
When I started playing games, here in the UK, I'd go down to the store and the games, for my BBC Micro were about £2 or so. It was the old cassette cases, about 4.25 × 2.75 × 0.6 inches. I think it was when Elite came out, back in 1984 when it was a big box, filled with loads of literature. That continued through the CD age and when digital downloads came along it pretty much stopped.
I'm just shocked not just by the prices, downloading data for astronomical costs, but all the loot boxes and DLC. But what's worse that both is that these greedy companies won't even finish their games. They'll just release them, many that are still in alpha testing and expect the customers to buy they 'work in progress' crap.
I was a musician. An album today, you can pick up for around £10. _'Top Gun: Maverick'_ costs £5 on Amazon. That's a fraction of the cost of video games. Albums and movies have infinite replay value whereas games don't. Other than the disgusting costs, the indoctrination in video games, along with women getting in on the scene and f*cking up franchises (as they're doing with the woke movie industry) has pushed me away from having anything to do with them.
I've just no interest. People are SERIOUSLY being ripped off by the gaming industry. The time it takes good musician to make an album along with a good movie, is really no different to a video game. It's just blatant rip-off profiteering from the gaming companies and the reason they're charging so much is because the public pay the stupid costs because they're utterly and totally addicted to them. In the latter years of playing games, I'd play on Steam and download their _'under £4'_ games. Most of the time I'd go on eBay or another CD key company and buy them there at a much more reduced cost than on Steam. I don't think I've paid anything more than £7 or so.
You have to be mad to pay £70+ for a video game, especially when it's unfinished, not tested properly, full of bugs and the stupid price they charge. So, yup, I'll continue to be avoiding games. It's a pity. I heard they're making Dragon's Dogma 2, as I loved Dragon's Dogma, but with the cost they'll charge and no doubt it being 100% woke, I'll pass.
70$ for a half broken game with is 53% filled with bugs
53% might be a little low lol
In My Series S,my digital games i play are just 6 USD-worth (Old Gen Games) and only the Most expensive new games are just up to 20USD.
Nowadays i don't play more than 2 games because those games are live services that constantly have new seasons and expansions.
Rarely i play any other live service game or even a single player game.
If done correctly, live service games really present a great value to gamers. The constant new content and updates keep it engaging, and the best part is the great live service games are generally free!
I am ( well used to be ) a Console gamer, now spending £70 on a game is just not a good choice, I just got rid of my Series X and just stick to PC game I already have on Steam. Pricing people out, unless you have a lot of spare cash or you raid your parents Credit Card. I'm 51 and retired with 2 kids and Wife, I have other things to spend £70 on.
I usually wait till a year or more for a game to slash its price! For instance, Callisto Protocol PS5 brand new release last year was 89.99! Now a year later, the game price dropped various times. From 59.99, 54.99, 39.99, 29.99 and just now 19.99!!!
Patience saves a lot of money
@@realtayo42 I hardly ever pay any games for full price, knowingly it would have a price drop at some point in the year. I paid 54.99 for CP on February 2023. Then at the year end… surprisingly, it dropped all the way to 19.99.
A smart man once said:
just fukin pirate them lol
Must have been albert einstein
salute from brazil, good video and editing
Thank you!
Depends on if got game pass or game pass ultimate and are they having sale certain games from certain game makers but yes like star field deluxe edition with tons of add-ones around 100 dollars without game pass or game pass ultimate same if don’t have ps plus for ea and 2k sports.
A lot of games that I want to play are in the ps plus collection and they keep adding like 30 every month. So I will just stick with that for the time being. The only thing that sucks about this system is that they can take suddenly removed the games. But even that barely happens
Those subscription services can be a great value!
Thanks to Xbox Game Pass, Epic Game Store, Prime Gaming, PS Plus Premium, I don't really need to buy full priced games unless it's something like a Nintendo first party exclusive or something I really want like Sonic Frontiers but even then I can usually wait to get these games on sale anyways since I have so many games to contend with already.
Yep. There are a lot of ways to save money on games these days, which is great because I'm not looking to pay $70 every time I want to play a new game.
Yeah they're just kind of ripping people off now on gaming with PS5 it's just freaking expensive as heck for video games nowadays
I agree games are expensive and some will cost over 100 dollars or more with in game purchases and more an not including price of system just to play
I’m using Xbox One s right now because it’s cheaper for me especially with prices right now Xbox series x is 500 dollars
I might just get a cheap tablet for games if prices are going to continue to be high how can anyone afford to play games with the high prices
Triple-A games back in the day were like $60 and DLC was like $10-$15 with a ton of content now they're $70 and that's just for the regular standard edition. Games w preorder benefits/bonus content range from like $100-$130 which is absolutely ridiculous and most games these days have some sort of battlepass/seasons which imo has ruined gaming. Everything is going up in price except our wages.
Here's an example: NBA 2k24
Kobe Bryant Standard edition: $70
Black Mamba Edition: $100
25th Anniversary edition $150
Then you got the season pass (regular $10 and hall of fame $20)
Last but not least the in game currency known as VC
5,000 VC - $1.99
15,000 VC - $4.99
35,000 VC - $9.99
75,000 VC - $19.99
200,000 VC - $49.99
450,000 VC - $99.99
....$150 for a yearly sports game...? Plus a season pass. Even I'm a little shocked haha
Brand new PC games used to be like £10($15) cheaper than the console version so £30 here. Now they've gone all the way up to £50 to match the console version alongside the general price increase. Then steam sales have gotten terrible, you used to be able to get a big AAA game for £5 a couple years after release, not anymore.
Yea I find that much of the time, buying AAA games at anywhere near full price ($70 for me here in the US) is not worth it. I'm pretty much waiting for a lot of games to hit $30 or less on sales before I think about picking them up.
To be fair the standard practice for a while was that pc ports released months or even a year after the console version compared to the same day nowadays so it made more sense for it to reduce in price more quickly. Not justifying £60 games just explaining why those sales happened sooner.
When Sony and their partners like 2K enforced the $70 price tag for “next gen” back in 2020 I knew there was no going back from it. Devs are now constantly milking that extra $10 out of you just for simple performance enhancements that Xbox first party has been providing for free. Almost no 3rd party developer now is using Xbox Smart Delivery because they want that next gen tax income. Why should they sell their game for $60 on Xbox or PC with free upgrades and $70 on PS5? They will obviously want same prices everywhere and the highest possible. It sucks and honestly Sony is mainly to blame for this.
It's really unfortunate that we don't seem to be getting any more quality in game for that extra $10. I think the fact that a game as massive as elden ring was still $60 says it all
Even the new ps4 game COD MW2 2022 is 70 dollars its ridiculous.
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Thank you!
The only game i bought in 2023 was TOTK. I havent bought a gane since. I usually buy every Yakuza/LAD, but at £60 on steam after ive always paid £40 or less on sale, is just not happening. Ive been priced out haha, probably for the best.
Buying used games is awsome. My average game cost $11. Tired of people pretending the only way to get a game is to pay full price.
Definitely agree with you. I basically only buy used games off ebay when I get physical games at this point.
For me I'd rather have a game be enjoyable & short than long & boring or repetitive. With that said I've done the math & games are currently the cheapest they've ever been when factoring in inflation, but the issue is even if we're older now our disposable income isn't nearly as much as it was about a decade or so ago. Also the other issue is there's never been as many interesting games coming out, so my trick has been en to be thoughtful with each purchase like you've mentioned & to focus on beating gsmes I already own. Of course I've been buying more than I can play when they go on very cheap prices, but I understand I've been both lucky & smart with when I buy games.
At the end of the day I love Elden Ring & played it for 136 hours so far, but I'd say Sifu's 38 hours were a better value if prices were the same (they're not). My reason is I know I'll replay Sifu more in the future as it's very repayable for me. Same reason my favorite game is DKC which I can beat in 2 hours these days, but I've played it almost yearly since release.
It all comes down to thoughtfully buying games that you know you'll love. I think you're spot on here.
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Earthbound for the SNES was $70 in 1995 when I brought it from Toys R Us in 1995. I was 11 years old and I loved games like Earthbound and I was not rich obviously I did chores around the house and I was lucky to have an allowance and my grandma took me to get the game. I’m just saying I had to chose which games to buy. I couldn’t buy every game back in the day that I thought about playing but today there are subscription services we didn’t have in the 90s, there’s emulation if you have a pc or a modded console and people still complain about $70 games. I get it money is not infinite but you have to make choices. You have to say to yourself which games do I like to play? Which games are important to me? Which games can I buy and afford to play? Then buy those games you can’t play every single game also there isn’t enough time to play every single game that comes out. It’s really just about saying hey which games do I love? Which games do I enjoy? And then saying well I’m gonna play these games. I’m also a huge Zelda fan, I’ve played Tears of the Kingdom for hundreds of hours and I’m still playing it. I paid well over $70 for ToTK when you consider that I brought the Zelda OLED, the collector’s edition and a physical copy of the game itself. But I didn’t buy other games because I love Zelda games so yeah that’s just my 2023 gaming status. I still love Zelda games. I’ve played Earthbound on Switch online and I still have my old copy of Earthbound from back in the day. But I can’t play every game that comes out I just make choices on games I want to play the most…games like Zelda.
You can also borrow games from the library. :)
Really? I've actually never heard of that
They started the price creep with the last gen consoles. It's got out of control, DLC expansions are nearing the same price as a full release, "microtransactions" aren't micro and every game seems to have a battle/season pass to gouge more money out of you. We'll no doubt see another price hike with the next generation, so instead of $70 dollars it'll be a $100 dollars per game.
It's absurd, i wait for games to go on sale now because i refuse to pay $70 dollars for something i know will be broken on day one.
Yep, buying a games months later for half the price with all the patches is the best way to do it these days
I totally stopped paying for subscription for PlayStation and EA subscription and even stop paying for their games. I might see a deal for about five bucks the most, and I’ll buy it because that’s how much I get games for on a PC. About five dollars to $10 each. And it’s because all this woke crap going on and banning countries.
Games which are Decade old are also priced at $20
It's nice to just buy them for a few bucks on Ebay or something.
Mostly Certain Japanese devs and Activision do that.
Makes me wonder if that will change post ABK Approval as Xbox does drop the price on their games. On Sales mind you, not regular price.
I like to own stuff and see it in the flesh so to speak. So no to streaming and mostly no to digital. Unless it's super dirt cheap.
The classic way. Im mostly on steam but for my switch I buy 100% of my games physically.
Prices for games have gone up so high I almost wanna stop gaming now. I am not supporting these greedy corporations anymore.
I just wait until they are on sale and constantly check out key websites. Also game pass is a great tool for playing expensive games.
I agree, patience and game pass are wallet saviors. Also you have great taste chad narukami
The prices are fine depending on the game. I'm not expecting it to be movie price or something when there is much more value than a movie.
I think the depending on the game part is important. I believe there are plenty of games that are worth it, and many more that aren't
And that’s why pirating exists 😊
Greetings captain jack
I never pay more than €25 for a game. period. If they are more expensive and I want to play them I download them via torrent.
Need for speed unbound costs 80 euros on the Xbox store here in Italy. It’s insane. 70 would be ridiculous already but 80? That’s almost double what games were at 10 years ago. I remember when they were 50 or maybe 60. It’s getting out of hand.
Holy cow, 80 euros?! That's insane! I have to question if a game is worth it at 60, 80 is a whole different level. Crazy
@@realtayo42 Yep, and I wasn’t aware before but I just realized it’s only available on PS5 and Xbox one x so I can’t get it anyway lmao. So I’m gonna have to spend 500 before I can spend 80. Nice
„Luckily“ I don‘t have the time to play more than a three or four a year anyways…
I always wait. Reviews to avoid paying an arm and a leg for disappointment, massive sales on games a few years old, patches that make them better, so of course initially bad releases as well, dlc not yet released but when later included still a lot cheaper... All reasons to wait. No reason to rush, because this way, you can buy WAY more games that are just as good now as they were a year ago, and probably better than they were at release. I've spent a ton less on games than I used to, played a lot MORE actually, and STILL somehow ended up with a backlog, long wish list, and big collection of games. It just only cost me a fraction of what it used to cost me, so I also save a lot more money to buy... well, my forest cabin, food for my rescue dogs, a totally off grid second home in the mountains in another country,... And I'm not even kidding. Coming from hardly being able to pay rent for a city appartment that got me depressed and miserable. Sure, I made a lot more changes in my life than JUST my insane gaming budget of the past of course, but it plays a massive role in this.
I just saw a local gamestore promoting a new NFS game. A racing game, at 80€. As if we don't have plenty of options to play racing games that are just as good if not better, for 5€ if we want, and play this one when it dropped to 20€ if we really want it just because everyone who is made out of money has already moved on to the next hype train.
Wow, you really have a good head about this. You're absolutely right that games will be just as good a couple years later as they are at release, if not better with content additions and patches. It sounds like you've been able to use your money to accomplish some great things, hats off to you!
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Living in a 3rd world shithole, i couldn't, and wouldn't get a game console, cuz not only it's taking space and time for the *sole* reason of playing games, the shipping price made it a lot more preferrable to play on pc than any other devices. Especially, my most hated of all, mobile.
Thats a great point. Consoles exist just for leisure but a pc can both play games and make you money. Thanks for watching!
Developers saying that's because of "the optimisating every engine is getting harder"
So, street fighter 6 is already cost $61 (for the lame edition ofc) and $114 for ultimate edition. Not even a pre-order. And uhh even $60 for the game without a solid story mode (yeah the "story" mode everyone call here is a world tour it is literally a copy of star rail but even worse with awful graphics and yet lagging on rtx3060) is way too expensive. The top sales are speaking tho, sf6 have lost top positions in 1 week.
Almost every fifa game falls down to $30-40 after few months of launch. At that price it makes sense to buy every 3 years or so.
Yeah id say half price and keeping it for a couple years is a good deal. Thanks for watching!
If you don't care about roster updates you could just buy a cheap copy of Fifa 19 on Switch, I'm fairly certain that the game is exactly the same as buying Fifa 23 Legacy Edition.
I can't even afford to get a gaming system
The consoles have gotten very expensive...
Heh, he never mentioned sailing the seven seas to be an alternative way of saving money…..
You know what.. I done hade enough of these Cats playing Monopoly GO Irl..
1. You gotta drop a whole duffel bag for the console smh..
2. You gotta drop Another Bag For the Subscription on that console
3. You gotta drop ANOTHER bag For the game you want
4. you gotta Drop ANOTHER one for In game subscriptions
5. You gotta drop an Even bigger Bag Just to Get extra Storage for games 💀💀
6. You gotta drop ANOTHER ONE on game accessories
7. And finally you gotta do it all over again because news Console come out ,new games new everything.
8. not to mention you have to pay for necessities smh..
I only buy some exclusives and games that my PC can't handle. I pirate the rest.