Your eyes do not deceive you. This really is a fabled second upload in a row on House Hexagon! There’s simply so many interesting developments going on in the gaming industry at the moment that I think should be addressed. Curious on your thoughts as ever on this one. Yes, even those who will predictably regurgitate corporate narratives to defend their favourite brand!
Sorry for asking here but a guy just fully copied your wows darkest secrer video. Is it true that he asked your permission and he is your friend like he says in the end of his video? th-cam.com/video/cZJP350-Mmo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zVL9jNPbumMF_dan
Or you can buy AAA games from years past, which tend to be way better gameplay and story-wise than modern ones, don't take up 300 GB of install space, and are actually content-complete (no microtransacitons, battle-pass, seasonal FOMO content, crappy "Twitch drops", etc.). You cough up $15 and get a good, complete game, with everything all there. Modern AAA games want you to spit out $100, then grind every single day, play all year-round for FOMO content, and then cough up an additional $5,000 in the in-game shop if you want everything. Indies and/or old games are all you need.
It’s shitty, but it’s also a genius marketing move on a company’s part because they knew streamers would be booting up lives to show their viewers the gameplay, ultimately getting a number of them with major FOMO to buy in early, as well. It’s why the industry will always be shit from here on. So many streamers and TH-camrs will sit and whine and complain about the state of things, yet eagerly go for early access copies, splurge on transactions for “content”, and basically beg to get copies for free from companies to play on day 1 so they can rake in the viewers … all while being oblivious to how they play a major part in things being the way they are now. Higher ups in companies only care about one thing: profit. Hype up a game enough and send certain content creators “swag”, and they’ll make enough to still break even … even if their game is absolute shit. Just see the new Saints Row - since we know the Saudi deal is what caused everything to crumble for the company, the profits were still okay. Not what they wanted, but they could’ve gotten by… Hype up a game, market how early access will be a whopping 5 days early, and watch them flock to it like flies on shit because they can’t go 5 days without playing the new thing everyone else is already streaming and talking about. It’s become the norm, sadly. All while TH-camrs and streamers continue to complain about those very predatory acts while pretending as if they’re just ordinary people with zero sway in these matters …
I only ever bought 2 games for 60€ (during their launch weeks because it's 2 games I know I would really like) and I think 3-4 50€ games too. But most of the time, I buy for 25 or under, whether it's a deep sale or cheap steam key. I can't imagine what goes through someone's head to go rush in and buy the latest overhyped product, especially when it's all buggy and still missing future content for the complete edition. I remember Hitman being sold like pizza slices all over the place since 2016, buying the full thing would cost probably close to 200€. Then they finally merged the reboot trilogy into one and I bought it for 40€. As for pre-orders or "early access", I have never purchased them.
I haven't bought a game at launch or even pre-ordered for years now, usually because you can get it for much cheaper even a few months down the line or because it's a lot safer to wait even a few days for confirmation it's not utterly broken or a massive disappointment. Yet I know so many people who are gonna get sucked into a scheme like this because of how powerful FOMO is.
I remember the price of 90s games being all over the place, from $50 - $90 depending on the genre & how many fx chips it had. I don't even know why Phantasy Star 4 was $90. Kirby Superstar & Chrono Trigger were about $70 but Streets of Rage 2 was the standard price. 90s era cd based games were all generally at $40. I remember buying Final Fantasy vii & Symphony of the NIght at day 1 for only $40. 2000s games were at $50, it didn't change until Xbox 360 set the industry standard at $60.
My rule of thumb that I copied from someone else a few years ago was 1 dollar per hour. So basically if I think I can get 15 hours of enjoyment, for me it's personally worth $15 bucks. So far this rule has done me good. I also keep a close eye on sales.
The last AAA game I bought at launch for full price, and pre-ordered no less, was DOOM Eternal, and I was literally like "You know what? I'm gonna quit while I'm ahead. This was a good game to pre-order, but I'm not making this gamble ever again."
people brag about the high minium wage there, but you guys pay 120 dollars for video games and 50 dollars for cigarettes and probably like 8 dollars a gallon for gas. inflation is a bitch everywhere these days. buy gold and silver and guns and ammo
I came here to comment this. Australia and New Zealand have had game prices the equivalent of $70 USD or worse since the early 2000s. Seeing some PS5 games selling for $140 NZD now ($83 USD) is highway robbery.
Smart analysis. Good thing I mostly buy games that are several years old for less than 10 bucks, or maybe 20 in some cases. There are exceptions, but I won't pay more than 60 for something that's not a bundle or whatever.
I genuinely hope companies keep using this tactic. I honestly hope they add even more gacha and mico-transactions on top of this. I love that “gamers” are getting the industry they deserve. Respect to the actually intelligent corpos for doing right by their shareholders 👏👏
Love your vids, glad to see a new age of gaming channels that are actually good! You and synthetic man give me hope for more channels that hopefully are pushing back towards the takeover and shift that has happened to the industry.
Don't matter to me. I always wait until sales and get them for at most 30, and that's only for games I really looked forward too and it's the complete edition.
My rule of thumb that I copied from someone else a few years ago was 1 dollar per hour. So basically if I think I can get 15 hours of enjoyment, for me it's personally worth $15 bucks. So far this rule has done me good. I also keep a close eye on sales.
@@borginburkes1819 Part of the reason they're so eager to do that. They make up some nonsense about "nobody buys physical anymore" (objectively not true, around 45% of game sales are still physical, and in Japan that number is absurdly high around 65-75%) and "convenience" (personally I find no sales and the game being ripped away from me when the servers go down later VERY inconvenient).
Gaming has always been an expensive hobby so I was fine the price increase. Then I realized that most of those games are the same as the games we got for over a decade, sometimes even worse. They shouldn't expect customers to foot the bill for their bad budgeting.
Great to see more productions on the gaming channel! As many others I almost always wait for a sale and usually get those games around 20-40€ after some time. In general most AAA-Games that have been released in the past years were very uninteresting to me to put it mildly, so I never even have the thought of spending a pricetag like that on a game. And with the money you'd spend on one AAA-Game you could buy many great indie games instead.
Same, it may be my autism speaking but I cannot STAND limited-time, FOMO, battlepass, etc. content. When I buy and play a game, I want to see/experience everything it has to offer. So when I saw FO76, with *all* it's myriad of shop-exclusive content, battlepass timed FOMO content, etc. I factored it would cost both thousands of dollars, and hours upon hours of grinding to get the full game, so I dropped it about as quickly as I picked it up.
Check it, I have actively taught my young son to never pre-order and to wait for games to get cheaper. With digital availability, game prices trend downwards over time. Dont buy on impulse.
Sadly game prices used to trend downwards even faster when they were physical. Since they were taking up physical shelf space, games that weren't selling super-hot would quickly get price-slashed to encourage people to buy them and make space for newer releases. And, not to mention used copies.
$100 to play a game where all you do is follow the floating arrow indicating where you need to go and press a few buttons during a quick time event that occasionally plays during one of the many cutscenes with obnoxious characters and terrible dialogue in a badly written story. Modern gaming in a nutshell.
Honestly? I think people are idiots for even paying $70 for video games nowadays. That is way too much for some broken glitchy downloaded BS that you can't run without a high speed internet connection to install a 100 GB patch for. If you're paying $70 for _that,_ you deserve to be parted with all your money. So I'd gladly watch gaming try to charge $100 for the same broken, buggy BS and watch it collapse on itself faster than Hollywood is, right now. For me, it's Steam sales or sailing the high seas. That's it. I'm still waiting for Street Fighter VI to drop down to $40. Also, games weren't $60 until the 8th gaming generation, which was the PS4/XB1 era, which was only just 2013. So games were only $60 for less than ten years, really. They were pretty much always $50 up until then. Games also don't need to cost that much because most of them are digital now and there's no hardware to mass produce. If anything, they should be CHEAPER as digital downloads.
The problem is I think that the cost of a game has less to do with the disc it's printed on (which costs like $0.15 in materials, and $0.25 in manufacturing; it's basically nothing.) and more with the insanely hyper-inflated budget. Halo Infinite for example cost 500,000 MILLION DOLLARS. That's higher than the GDP of some entire countries. And it *really* didn't show in the game's quality or feature-set; it had LESS content, LESS weapons and gamemodes, LESS vehicles, LESS maps, etc. than previous Halo games, which were made by a team like 10% the size and a budget less than 1% of Infinite's. So the game costs $60 and has microtransactions and yadda-yadda to make up for the INSANE amount of money poured into it. It may be because stuff is too tied-up in bureaucracy these days; corporate suits getting involved in the development process slowing things down, and constantly forcing developers to do X and Y because of a focus group or whatever, requiring corporate's permission to do any small change, etc. leading to a very slow and inefficient development process that just wastes time and burns cash.
People need to learn some self control, Yeesh. I absolutely refuse to pay full price for games. It's often 6 months or longer before the sales dip enough to warrant a purchase. Besides, by that time, many of the bugs have been worked out and you'll get a better experience overall.
When you brought up the double release. I was like “I haven’t fallen for that shit yet.” Then I realized I bought Remnant 2 so I could play 3 days early. I had to work that weekend as well. Only ended up playing it one day early. Coulda bought me an extra copy of Saint Row with that $20.
And I thought I was kind of a chump. I cant say I've pre ordered anything since Gears 3. Levels of consoomer that shouldnt be possible. Good thing I plan on making games, these guys are begging to be punished.
Didn't buy the premium version of starfield it came free with my new GPU, beat the main quest line played new game+ for a bit then just hit a point where I felt done with it not bad for a free copy but I wouldn't have paid $70 no way would I not kick myself for dropping $100 on it
I would argue that we've already had the double dip model for almost 20 years now. in 2000 you bought a base game for 60-70 bucks with most if not all the bells n whistles included, with the option to buy extra dlc content on the side. in 2023 its normal now that the basic minimum viable product version of the game without ANY bells n whistles cost 60-70 bucks, and if you want the rest of the main game its 90 -120 bucks for the "deluxe" version with all the bells n whistles that came with the 60 dollar base game 20 years ago. The "early access" gimmick is a concept the big boys lifted from the indie game scene, after the industry saw how easy it was with early access indies and the 100's of millions of dollars Star citizen raked in, despite never even delivering a finished product, to cheat people out of their money once the "early access" label was attached to a product.
Yup, exactly what happened with the new WoW expansion just recently, 49.99 euros for the base edition, and then 89.99 for the epic one that has 3 days "early access" thing. Disgusting.
We had a good run as gaming community with AAA games in the past. Now? The last good western AAA game I have played was Red Dead Redemption 2, that is 2018 release, since then seriously nothing at all made any interest to me. Wasn't there a rumor that GTA6 could cost 150$ when released? I no longer purchase any AAA game when it is released, they are too expensive and buggy, just wait 1/2 year and get it 50% off with most of the bugs fixed. Btw, awesome money suit👍
Alex, they been doing this for years mate!! This early access tactic been happening for every COD,Battlefield,NBA 2k,Assassins Creed and a bunch of other games for atleast the past decade..
You got it a little wrong. Video games prices varied but most games from the mid 90s to the mid 00s costed 50 dollars. They didn't start to cost 60 dollars until the PS3 and 360 generation.
Glad i play lesser know games made by smaller teams where the focus is on making a decent game that pl;ayers love, not greed! Rockstar, Blizzard, EA etc i botcott them all!
Well that was quite depressing , I just feel good knowing I rarely buy a AAA game , and that I don't watch any streamers especially when they play a game I appreciate coz most of the time they suck ass so it's unbearable and having way too much oldies to play to even care about waiting. Staying in the niches is good for now... but how long I dunno !
I think this is good for everyone. The people with lack of money can spend 30% less on new games by simply waiting a few days. That's a huge discount for such a small tradeoff. You know exactly what you're getting in either case, so I don't see this as a dirty tactic.
The definition of inflation is incorrect. Inflation is when new currency enters the system without a corresponding increase in productivity. Inflation is not when the price goes up. When you blow up a balloon (inflation the balloon) is does not float away because it is rising in the air. It floats away because you blow more air into it. The idea that inflation is when prices goes up is just New Speak. Increased prices is a symptom and not the cause. It has been redefined to be this because the people in charge do not want you to know they print money to buy your votes.
@@DionPanday I mean the meaning didn't even change, the technical definition of inflation never changed - people just gave it a colloquial meaning outside economics.
I strongly disagree with this comment. While inflation can of course occur from merely printing more money, as mentioned via hyperinflation, there are many forms of inflation that do not occur directly because of such. Cost push inflation comes to mind, whereby due to increases in production costs, often due to events like wars or natural disasters disrupting supply, prices can increase as businesses simply force customers to pay more as to not dent their bottom line. Also wage spirals, whereby as a result of such increased prices, workers ask for higher wages to accommodate such, which often also results in higher prices for customers in response, creating a never ending cycle. Evidently as you define such as a redefinition, you must also be aware of these. I’d be curious to hear what alternative term you’d prefer to describe such! But in so far as it relates to today, inflation is more than accurate to use.
@@HouseHexagon You can disagree with it, but you are 100% wrong. You are wrong for the same exact reason a flat earther can disagree with me on the subject on a round earth. It doesn't matter how much they disagree with me. The earth is still not flat. Inflation is when more money has entered the system. You have INFLATED the system, aka blown more cash into the system like a balloon. This is literally why we used the word inflation and deflation. You inflate when you add more money to the system. You deflate when you remove money from the system. If you want to know exactly how money is inflated. Look at loans. You do not have money. You have a IOU that is called money. Every single government lives on debt as money only exist as long as someone else has taken out a loan. Banks do not give you someone else money when they lend you money. They create a IOU that you then use as money. When you pay back the loan, all you do is to remove the IOU from circulation and thus remove money from the system. You need to look up how modern banks operate. The reason prices goes up is because the money you have are worth less than before. If you wish to sell a product, but someone has increased the money supply with 50%. You have to raise the price to match that increase in the money supply. A dollar before the increase is not worth a dollar after the increase. If you have devalued the dollar, you must ask for more dollars to actually get the real value of product you sell. If we used gold coins instead, and someone mix in 50% silver into the gold coin. You have inflated the amount of gold coins. You have more "gold coins" without actually having more gold inside of them. But if you actually want the same amount of real gold you have to raise the price. A 100% pure gold coin is not worth as much as a 50/50 gold/silver coin. This has been the definition that has existed for thousands of years. If you go to the dictionaries from 40-60 years ago you will see this definition. The definition you have given is a false definition.
It does baffle me that goomers assume they have any form of control with the game releasing “early”. It merely proves that companies can release the already finished product whenever they damn well please and jip you up not thinking paying 30 more smackaroos is a steal. Games themselves rarely release in a playable state and aren’t even good in the first place, and mfs willingly pay for “access” for a games release. I don’t even a benefit for the gamer, you loose money to be allowed to play a unfinished product early with more micro transactions and dlc down the line, all this culminating is literally a ticking time bomb at some point… not now but at some point.
$100 on release ain’t no way did you include the dlc , limited skins pack and deluxe edition 2 day early access more like $140. Oh and your only paying for 25 hours of base gameplay since the ending to the game is dlc, oh and don’t forget to pay an additional $25 for in game items to make the game easier for you to beat and or dominate on multiplayer
Double releases are horrible for a games stories and features. Imagine getting a game spoiled on the internet because you refuse to pay an extra 30$ for the “privilege”playing a week earlier.
It annooooyyssssss me so much thay your channel doesnt grow or recieve views, but people like asmongold who literally make milllions watching other people watching other people watching other people react to trash.
each to their own but wow am i surprised at how many people care for early access lol, i thought it was a much smaller minority... just do other stuff for 5 days save ya money
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Your eyes do not deceive you. This really is a fabled second upload in a row on House Hexagon!
There’s simply so many interesting developments going on in the gaming industry at the moment that I think should be addressed.
Curious on your thoughts as ever on this one. Yes, even those who will predictably regurgitate corporate narratives to defend their favourite brand!
I like the Pokemon Colosseum music you added to the background. Nice touch.
Please tell me you're going to do a rant on Embracer cancelling the Deus Ex sequel?
Sorry for asking here but a guy just fully copied your wows darkest secrer video. Is it true that he asked your permission and he is your friend like he says in the end of his video? th-cam.com/video/cZJP350-Mmo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zVL9jNPbumMF_dan
For $30 alone, I can buy a good indie game.
Often less
You could buy all three of the Brothers in Arms games for 30$ or less lol
Or you can buy AAA games from years past, which tend to be way better gameplay and story-wise than modern ones, don't take up 300 GB of install space, and are actually content-complete (no microtransacitons, battle-pass, seasonal FOMO content, crappy "Twitch drops", etc.). You cough up $15 and get a good, complete game, with everything all there. Modern AAA games want you to spit out $100, then grind every single day, play all year-round for FOMO content, and then cough up an additional $5,000 in the in-game shop if you want everything.
Indies and/or old games are all you need.
“Great time to make money terrible time to consume are” absolute banger every person on earth needs this video
I shudder to think what that one man might have done if he hadn't been able to play 5 days early.
It’s shitty, but it’s also a genius marketing move on a company’s part because they knew streamers would be booting up lives to show their viewers the gameplay, ultimately getting a number of them with major FOMO to buy in early, as well.
It’s why the industry will always be shit from here on. So many streamers and TH-camrs will sit and whine and complain about the state of things, yet eagerly go for early access copies, splurge on transactions for “content”, and basically beg to get copies for free from
companies to play on day 1 so they can rake in the viewers … all while being oblivious to how they play a major part in things being the way they are now. Higher ups in companies only care about one thing: profit. Hype up a game enough and send certain content creators “swag”, and they’ll make enough to still break even … even if their game is absolute shit. Just see the new Saints Row - since we know the Saudi deal is what caused everything to crumble for the company, the profits were still okay. Not what they wanted, but they could’ve gotten by…
Hype up a game, market how early access will be a whopping 5 days early, and watch them flock to it like flies on shit because they can’t go 5 days without playing the new thing everyone else is already streaming and talking about. It’s become the norm, sadly. All while TH-camrs and streamers continue to complain about those very predatory acts while pretending as if they’re just ordinary people with zero sway in these matters …
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I only ever bought 2 games for 60€ (during their launch weeks because it's 2 games I know I would really like) and I think 3-4 50€ games too. But most of the time, I buy for 25 or under, whether it's a deep sale or cheap steam key. I can't imagine what goes through someone's head to go rush in and buy the latest overhyped product, especially when it's all buggy and still missing future content for the complete edition.
I remember Hitman being sold like pizza slices all over the place since 2016, buying the full thing would cost probably close to 200€. Then they finally merged the reboot trilogy into one and I bought it for 40€.
As for pre-orders or "early access", I have never purchased them.
I haven't bought a game at launch or even pre-ordered for years now, usually because you can get it for much cheaper even a few months down the line or because it's a lot safer to wait even a few days for confirmation it's not utterly broken or a massive disappointment.
Yet I know so many people who are gonna get sucked into a scheme like this because of how powerful FOMO is.
I remember the price of 90s games being all over the place, from $50 - $90 depending on the genre & how many fx chips it had. I don't even know why Phantasy Star 4 was $90. Kirby Superstar & Chrono Trigger were about $70 but Streets of Rage 2 was the standard price. 90s era cd based games were all generally at $40. I remember buying Final Fantasy vii & Symphony of the NIght at day 1 for only $40. 2000s games were at $50, it didn't change until Xbox 360 set the industry standard at $60.
Pokémon fire red when I bought it was 35 brand new.
Not even bothered. Have not bought AAA priced title on release since about 2012
Same my last was gta 5
My rule of thumb that I copied from someone else a few years ago was 1 dollar per hour. So basically if I think I can get 15 hours of enjoyment, for me it's personally worth $15 bucks. So far this rule has done me good. I also keep a close eye on sales.
The last AAA game I bought at launch for full price, and pre-ordered no less, was DOOM Eternal, and I was literally like "You know what? I'm gonna quit while I'm ahead. This was a good game to pre-order, but I'm not making this gamble ever again."
It's been this way in Australia for years. Starfield is $120 for the BASE GAME and $170 for all the DLC.
Gotta get the glorjack armour
people brag about the high minium wage there, but you guys pay 120 dollars for video games and 50 dollars for cigarettes and probably like 8 dollars a gallon for gas.
inflation is a bitch everywhere these days.
buy gold and silver and guns and ammo
I came here to comment this. Australia and New Zealand have had game prices the equivalent of $70 USD or worse since the early 2000s.
Seeing some PS5 games selling for $140 NZD now ($83 USD) is highway robbery.
Do you know anyone who buys that crap for that price? The moment it went to $70, I called it quits. Modern games suck anyway.
$120 AUD is $77 USD. Do you not know how currencies work?
Smart analysis. Good thing I mostly buy games that are several years old for less than 10 bucks, or maybe 20 in some cases. There are exceptions, but I won't pay more than 60 for something that's not a bundle or whatever.
I mostly buy games during Steam sales for like $5 at most lol.
I genuinely hope companies keep using this tactic. I honestly hope they add even more gacha and mico-transactions on top of this.
I love that “gamers” are getting the industry they deserve.
Respect to the actually intelligent corpos for doing right by their shareholders 👏👏
Loving the uploads on this channel Alex! Keep up the good work.
Love your vids, glad to see a new age of gaming channels that are actually good! You and synthetic man give me hope for more channels that hopefully are pushing back towards the takeover and shift that has happened to the industry.
Don't matter to me. I always wait until sales and get them for at most 30, and that's only for games I really looked forward too and it's the complete edition.
My rule of thumb that I copied from someone else a few years ago was 1 dollar per hour. So basically if I think I can get 15 hours of enjoyment, for me it's personally worth $15 bucks. So far this rule has done me good. I also keep a close eye on sales.
Now that games are slowly moving to digital, games will never go below launch price.
@@borginburkes1819cod games from 15 years ago still cost 40 bucks, it's absurd
@@borginburkes1819 Part of the reason they're so eager to do that. They make up some nonsense about "nobody buys physical anymore" (objectively not true, around 45% of game sales are still physical, and in Japan that number is absurdly high around 65-75%) and "convenience" (personally I find no sales and the game being ripped away from me when the servers go down later VERY inconvenient).
Great video bro, fantastic effort
Gaming has always been an expensive hobby so I was fine the price increase.
Then I realized that most of those games are the same as the games we got for over a decade, sometimes even worse.
They shouldn't expect customers to foot the bill for their bad budgeting.
Always great day getting a House of Hexagon upload 🔥
Great to see more productions on the gaming channel!
As many others I almost always wait for a sale and usually get those games around 20-40€ after some time.
In general most AAA-Games that have been released in the past years were very uninteresting to me to put it mildly, so I never even have the thought of spending a pricetag like that on a game.
And with the money you'd spend on one AAA-Game you could buy many great indie games instead.
I consider dlc cost to be part of the game as well.
So in my eyes games have been over $100 for years.
Same, it may be my autism speaking but I cannot STAND limited-time, FOMO, battlepass, etc. content. When I buy and play a game, I want to see/experience everything it has to offer. So when I saw FO76, with *all* it's myriad of shop-exclusive content, battlepass timed FOMO content, etc. I factored it would cost both thousands of dollars, and hours upon hours of grinding to get the full game, so I dropped it about as quickly as I picked it up.
You're a smart man, Alex. Cheers for another upload pal.
I always buy about 2 years after launch on eBay for $10
yep, same. Or even cheaper digital sometimes. 'gg . deals' is my favorite. I got Titanfall 2 for $3 today from a keyshop.
I pirate
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Where does Alex find all these suits?
Some of these games aren't even worth it
Games are just not worth it in general nowdays
Check it, I have actively taught my young son to never pre-order and to wait for games to get cheaper.
With digital availability, game prices trend downwards over time. Dont buy on impulse.
Sadly game prices used to trend downwards even faster when they were physical. Since they were taking up physical shelf space, games that weren't selling super-hot would quickly get price-slashed to encourage people to buy them and make space for newer releases. And, not to mention used copies.
if a game drops 30 dollars in price within a week, it was never worth the 70 dollars it ended up being
$100 to play a game where all you do is follow the floating arrow indicating where you need to go and press a few buttons during a quick time event that occasionally plays during one of the many cutscenes with obnoxious characters and terrible dialogue in a badly written story. Modern gaming in a nutshell.
This man deserves a million subs...
Doesn't matter for me, i will never pay more than 20€ for a single game, i will just wait until the price decreases
Honestly? I think people are idiots for even paying $70 for video games nowadays. That is way too much for some broken glitchy downloaded BS that you can't run without a high speed internet connection to install a 100 GB patch for. If you're paying $70 for _that,_ you deserve to be parted with all your money. So I'd gladly watch gaming try to charge $100 for the same broken, buggy BS and watch it collapse on itself faster than Hollywood is, right now.
For me, it's Steam sales or sailing the high seas. That's it. I'm still waiting for Street Fighter VI to drop down to $40.
Also, games weren't $60 until the 8th gaming generation, which was the PS4/XB1 era, which was only just 2013. So games were only $60 for less than ten years, really. They were pretty much always $50 up until then. Games also don't need to cost that much because most of them are digital now and there's no hardware to mass produce. If anything, they should be CHEAPER as digital downloads.
The problem is I think that the cost of a game has less to do with the disc it's printed on (which costs like $0.15 in materials, and $0.25 in manufacturing; it's basically nothing.) and more with the insanely hyper-inflated budget. Halo Infinite for example cost 500,000 MILLION DOLLARS. That's higher than the GDP of some entire countries. And it *really* didn't show in the game's quality or feature-set; it had LESS content, LESS weapons and gamemodes, LESS vehicles, LESS maps, etc. than previous Halo games, which were made by a team like 10% the size and a budget less than 1% of Infinite's. So the game costs $60 and has microtransactions and yadda-yadda to make up for the INSANE amount of money poured into it.
It may be because stuff is too tied-up in bureaucracy these days; corporate suits getting involved in the development process slowing things down, and constantly forcing developers to do X and Y because of a focus group or whatever, requiring corporate's permission to do any small change, etc. leading to a very slow and inefficient development process that just wastes time and burns cash.
Commenting to boost the algorithm cuz you always make fire videos.
People need to learn some self control, Yeesh. I absolutely refuse to pay full price for games. It's often 6 months or longer before the sales dip enough to warrant a purchase. Besides, by that time, many of the bugs have been worked out and you'll get a better experience overall.
When you brought up the double release. I was like “I haven’t fallen for that shit yet.” Then I realized I bought Remnant 2 so I could play 3 days early. I had to work that weekend as well. Only ended up playing it one day early. Coulda bought me an extra copy of Saint Row with that $20.
It is like people forgot about Deus ex’s augment your preorder
I remember Square Enix tried early access with Mankind Divided and caught all kinds of hell for it. Times have changed sadly...
This is the reason why i play games 2 or 3 years later on sale.
well this aged like wine
And I thought I was kind of a chump. I cant say I've pre ordered anything since Gears 3. Levels of consoomer that shouldnt be possible. Good thing I plan on making games, these guys are begging to be punished.
Didn't buy the premium version of starfield it came free with my new GPU, beat the main quest line played new game+ for a bit then just hit a point where I felt done with it not bad for a free copy but I wouldn't have paid $70 no way would I not kick myself for dropping $100 on it
Almost everyone on game pass who could play for "free"... day 1 paid 30 for premium upgrade to play 5 days early too
Remember, remember - don't buy preoders.
One guy once said: It's just works
Wow we have been blessed with another new video
The "I want it and I want it NOW" generation deserve all they get .. sadly they'll get the sane gamers amongst us screwed. :|
I would argue that we've already had the double dip model for almost 20 years now.
in 2000 you bought a base game for 60-70 bucks with most if not all the bells n whistles included, with the option to buy extra dlc content on the side.
in 2023 its normal now that the basic minimum viable product version of the game without ANY bells n whistles cost 60-70 bucks, and if you want the rest of the main game its 90 -120 bucks for the "deluxe" version with all the bells n whistles that came with the 60 dollar base game 20 years ago.
The "early access" gimmick is a concept the big boys lifted from the indie game scene, after the industry saw how easy it was with early access indies and the 100's of millions of dollars Star citizen raked in, despite never even delivering a finished product, to cheat people out of their money once the "early access" label was attached to a product.
Video games back in 2000 didn't 60-70$, they cost 50$ which was the standard until the PS3 and 360.
So the solution is either stop buying overpriced garbage or start sailing the Black Pearl?
I was thinking the same as alex at the end. Good time to make money, bad times for consuming art.
everyone i knew played starfield on day 1
expect one small thing, they pirated it. It had like 10k shares on first day alone
gamepass
Eww gamepass costs money. I downloaded a repack of the early access build but haven't even installed it yet.
i'm so glad piracy is an option for pc players
Luckily I'm aware of these greedy corporate tactics thx to Alex 👍
The double release and use of hype is used a lot by Activision whit the series of call of duty, reason of why we have 4 games that are identical.
I wouldn't play Starfield for free lol.
They have to pay me to play that no mans sky ripoff of a game
What bothers me:
Games release in a broken state. Logical conclusion: Let's buy the games even earlier for more money.
Genuinely hope the AAA western game market crashes
Yup, exactly what happened with the new WoW expansion just recently, 49.99 euros for the base edition, and then 89.99 for the epic one that has 3 days "early access" thing. Disgusting.
We had a good run as gaming community with AAA games in the past.
Now? The last good western AAA game I have played was Red Dead Redemption 2, that is 2018 release, since then seriously nothing at all made any interest to me.
Wasn't there a rumor that GTA6 could cost 150$ when released?
I no longer purchase any AAA game when it is released, they are too expensive and buggy, just wait 1/2 year and get it 50% off with most of the bugs fixed.
Btw, awesome money suit👍
Alex, they been doing this for years mate!! This early access tactic been happening for every COD,Battlefield,NBA 2k,Assassins Creed and a bunch of other games for atleast the past decade..
I'd rather pay that money for classic retro games that will appreciate in value. same fuckin price
Damn, at least CoD hasn't fully done that yet, they do offer the early access (to campaign) for digital pre-orders at any priced versions.
So I can boil this down to an equation. (Hype / Quality x Inflation Rate x Rate of Addiction)
Yeah, I'll still wait 1-2 years for that 50% off or so. The only game I've bought on release was Skyrim and I still play it.
I'll be waiting for the next video on REMAKE'S. 💰📈
You guyz don't have a 100$?
It's like the price for a burger in 2024!
It's players fault.
Switzerland: Deflation my currency get Value
Gamers: spend money dont care
When you said double release the first thing that came to mind was Pokémon that did it first if we REALLY think about it.
Damn, so happy I haven't played games in years.
You got it a little wrong. Video games prices varied but most games from the mid 90s to the mid 00s costed 50 dollars. They didn't start to cost 60 dollars until the PS3 and 360 generation.
Glad i play lesser know games made by smaller teams where the focus is on making a decent game that pl;ayers love, not greed! Rockstar, Blizzard, EA etc i botcott them all!
Well that was quite depressing , I just feel good knowing I rarely buy a AAA game , and that I don't watch any streamers especially when they play a game I appreciate coz most of the time they suck ass so it's unbearable and having way too much oldies to play to even care about waiting. Staying in the niches is good for now... but how long I dunno !
Only suckers pre-order and buy day one
I wish this video had more views
Inflation sucks
Gaming sucks nowadays sadly 😢
There's Who buy early acces, then, there's me, Who buy from the "used games" from the shop, my economy is what It is 😂
I'm a buy at a heavily reduced price unless it's something I can't wait on like elden ring that was the exception to the rule.
Yarr Harr Harr It's a pirate's life for me....
Nice video Alex! I would like to hear your thoughts on the release of Baldurs Gate? Could make an interesting video.
ok, piracy welcome back
The game budgets have got higher but the games are more shit and lower quality
I think this is good for everyone. The people with lack of money can spend 30% less on new games by simply waiting a few days. That's a huge discount for such a small tradeoff. You know exactly what you're getting in either case, so I don't see this as a dirty tactic.
Loved the video. One gripe: Games aren't art.
16:49 kneepads 😂
The definition of inflation is incorrect.
Inflation is when new currency enters the system without a corresponding increase in productivity. Inflation is not when the price goes up. When you blow up a balloon (inflation the balloon) is does not float away because it is rising in the air. It floats away because you blow more air into it.
The idea that inflation is when prices goes up is just New Speak. Increased prices is a symptom and not the cause. It has been redefined to be this because the people in charge do not want you to know they print money to buy your votes.
The meaning of words change over time, who knew?
@@DionPanday I mean the meaning didn't even change, the technical definition of inflation never changed - people just gave it a colloquial meaning outside economics.
I strongly disagree with this comment.
While inflation can of course occur from merely printing more money, as mentioned via hyperinflation, there are many forms of inflation that do not occur directly because of such.
Cost push inflation comes to mind, whereby due to increases in production costs, often due to events like wars or natural disasters disrupting supply, prices can increase as businesses simply force customers to pay more as to not dent their bottom line.
Also wage spirals, whereby as a result of such increased prices, workers ask for higher wages to accommodate such, which often also results in higher prices for customers in response, creating a never ending cycle.
Evidently as you define such as a redefinition, you must also be aware of these. I’d be curious to hear what alternative term you’d prefer to describe such! But in so far as it relates to today, inflation is more than accurate to use.
@@HouseHexagon You can disagree with it, but you are 100% wrong. You are wrong for the same exact reason a flat earther can disagree with me on the subject on a round earth. It doesn't matter how much they disagree with me. The earth is still not flat.
Inflation is when more money has entered the system. You have INFLATED the system, aka blown more cash into the system like a balloon. This is literally why we used the word inflation and deflation. You inflate when you add more money to the system. You deflate when you remove money from the system.
If you want to know exactly how money is inflated. Look at loans. You do not have money. You have a IOU that is called money. Every single government lives on debt as money only exist as long as someone else has taken out a loan. Banks do not give you someone else money when they lend you money. They create a IOU that you then use as money. When you pay back the loan, all you do is to remove the IOU from circulation and thus remove money from the system.
You need to look up how modern banks operate.
The reason prices goes up is because the money you have are worth less than before.
If you wish to sell a product, but someone has increased the money supply with 50%. You have to raise the price to match that increase in the money supply. A dollar before the increase is not worth a dollar after the increase. If you have devalued the dollar, you must ask for more dollars to actually get the real value of product you sell.
If we used gold coins instead, and someone mix in 50% silver into the gold coin. You have inflated the amount of gold coins. You have more "gold coins" without actually having more gold inside of them.
But if you actually want the same amount of real gold you have to raise the price. A 100% pure gold coin is not worth as much as a 50/50 gold/silver coin.
This has been the definition that has existed for thousands of years. If you go to the dictionaries from 40-60 years ago you will see this definition. The definition you have given is a false definition.
@@DionPanday Apart from that this is not just a change in meaning. This is literally manipulation of language in order to lie.
Nice video !
Jokes on you. Unless I really like/want the game, I always buy them when there's a deal
$10 $50 $100 How about I'm not paying at all? haha
It does baffle me that goomers assume they have any form of control with the game releasing “early”. It merely proves that companies can release the already finished product whenever they damn well please and jip you up not thinking paying 30 more smackaroos is a steal. Games themselves rarely release in a playable state and aren’t even good in the first place, and mfs willingly pay for “access” for a games release. I don’t even a benefit for the gamer, you loose money to be allowed to play a unfinished product early with more micro transactions and dlc down the line, all this culminating is literally a ticking time bomb at some point… not now but at some point.
Thank god for piracy.
Expensive disappointing new games, too damn much! These impatient fanboys are insane! 👁️👁️
$100 on release ain’t no way did you include the dlc , limited skins pack and deluxe edition 2 day early access more like $140. Oh and your only paying for 25 hours of base gameplay since the ending to the game is dlc, oh and don’t forget to pay an additional $25 for in game items to make the game easier for you to beat and or dominate on multiplayer
Double releases are horrible for a games stories and features. Imagine getting a game spoiled on the internet because you refuse to pay an extra 30$ for the “privilege”playing a week earlier.
Double release? By that definition 2k been doing triple releases 😂
Why don't you use this account anymore?
He quit "gooming"
watch saints row reboot: not a review endining, he said to not hide your way from the dystopian world and go out there and do it anyway.
It annooooyyssssss me so much thay your channel doesnt grow or recieve views, but people like asmongold who literally make milllions watching other people watching other people watching other people react to trash.
If you buy early access, you should be publicly shamed
+ don't worry we are in Ww3
Evriting will be worst
i hope jrpgs don't follow this trend
each to their own but wow am i surprised at how many people care for early access lol, i thought it was a much smaller minority... just do other stuff for 5 days save ya money
Dude here are you?
Gamers are largely low impulse control. They deserve this abuse for it too bad for the minority of game players who also have to deal with it