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: I'm beginning to think that simply raising the base price of the game is the
: best solution moving forward. It's amazing we have had the $60 price point
: for as long as we have. Bumping it up to $70 could probably solve so much,
: and have little negative effect in the long run as people get used to the
: price. We're essentially already paying more than $60 bucks for our games
: when we buy special editions and DLC anyway.
It wouldn't be a popular solution, but considering that game prices have been on the decline in inflation-adjusted terms (in the U.S., at least), it is a reasonable one. I mean, look at how much game prices have dropped since the early 90s:
Even with DLC added on you're only talking about reaching the lower to mid-tier price range of 16-bit era games. And before anyone mentions the higher costs of cartridges, let's not forget that the sticker prices on Sega-CD, TurboGrafx-CD, and early PS1 games usually retailed for $50-60 unadjusted. And of course game development costs have increased by several orders of magnitude since the early 90s. An early SNES game may have cost less than $100k to develop, but a modern game can run $20-40M, not including advertising costs.
Honestly, I think DLC is the only thing that's keeping retail costs for games down over time. It's also a low-cost, high-margin product. Finally, it's optional, and I think publishers might stick with the $60 retail cost plus an optional $20-30 of DLC instead of simply bumping the retail cost of the game and then releasing the DLC for free. Many gamers already forget the basic economic reality of inflation and think $60 is "too much" even though games have gotten incredibly more complex and have far more content and longer playthrough lengths than old NES & SNES games did. Best to do what 343i is doing and have the major DLC (map packs and the like) for free and compensate with microtransactions (say, $1 for a weapon or armor skin or $2 for an armor permutation, but nothing that would affect gameplay, however slight). It would ruffle the fewest feathers.
Of course, the above chart may not hold for other countries/regions (I know there's been negligible effective inflation in Japan over the past 15 years or so).
On H5 Req Packs... | GrimBrother One | 6/17/15 12:30 am |
Re: On H5 Req Packs... | Grizzlei | 6/17/15 12:40 am |
Exactly. *NM* | GrimBrother One | 6/17/15 12:57 am |
One other thing | Grizzlei | 6/17/15 1:13 am |
Re: On H5 Req Packs... | zofinda | 6/17/15 8:08 am |
This sucks... | munky-058 | 6/17/15 1:28 am |
Re: This sucks... | GrimBrother One | 6/17/15 1:41 am |
No, it fucking doesn't. | Azo 'Galvat | 6/17/15 8:39 am |
Re: No, it fucking doesn't. | Cody Miller | 6/19/15 2:03 pm |
Re: No, it fucking doesn't. | Azo 'Galvat | 6/20/15 12:25 am |
Nope. | profhalo | 6/17/15 9:45 am |
Re: Nope. | Apollo | 6/17/15 10:39 am |
Re: Nope. | zofinda | 6/17/15 11:03 am |
Re: Nope. | zofinda | 6/17/15 11:28 am |
Re: Nope. | Bounce-A-Gon | 6/17/15 11:21 am |
More $$$ does not = more skill. | Revenant1988 | 6/17/15 11:28 am |
Re: More $$$ does not = more skill. | General Vagueness | 6/17/15 4:38 pm |
THIS. | Louis Wu | 6/19/15 11:34 am |
Re: THIS. | Cody Miller | 6/19/15 1:59 pm |
Re: THIS. | Louis Wu | 6/19/15 2:06 pm |
Re: THIS. | Cody Miller | 6/19/15 2:13 pm |
Re: THIS. | Louis Wu | 6/19/15 2:25 pm |
Re: THIS. | The BS Police | 6/19/15 8:09 pm |
Re: THIS. | munky-058 | 6/20/15 3:07 am |
Re: THIS. | Cody Miller | 6/22/15 2:14 am |
Re: THIS. | The BS Police | 6/22/15 3:48 pm |
Re: Game Prices. | Gravemind | 6/20/15 7:18 pm |
Re: Game Prices. | General Vagueness | 6/21/15 1:48 pm |
Re: THIS. | Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316) | 6/19/15 2:35 pm |
Not THIS | profhalo | 6/19/15 2:58 pm |
Re: Not THIS | uberfoop | 6/19/15 3:12 pm |
Re: Not THIS | General Vagueness | 6/19/15 3:13 pm |
Re: Not THIS | Louis Wu | 6/19/15 4:35 pm |
Re: Not THIS | profhalo | 6/20/15 10:43 am |
Re: Not THIS | Vincent | 6/20/15 12:26 pm |
+1 *NM* | Bounce-A-Gon | 6/20/15 7:39 pm |
-1 | profhalo | 6/21/15 4:02 pm |
Re: -1 | Vincent | 6/21/15 6:30 pm |
Re: -1 | profhalo | 6/22/15 8:46 am |
Re: -1 | Louis Wu | 6/22/15 10:41 am |
Re: -1 | profhalo | 6/22/15 1:24 pm |
Re: -1 | avatarofchaos | 6/22/15 1:42 pm |
Re: -1 | profhalo | 6/22/15 4:30 pm |
Re: -1 | The BS Police | 6/22/15 4:43 pm |
Re: -1 | avatarofchaos | 6/22/15 5:03 pm |
Re: -1 | General Vagueness | 6/21/15 7:36 pm |
Re: -1 | thebruce0 | 6/22/15 11:08 am |
Re: -1 | avatarofchaos | 6/22/15 9:13 am |
This is a good post | Vincent | 6/22/15 9:53 am |
Refreshing post | profhalo | 6/22/15 1:39 pm |
Re: Refreshing post | avatarofchaos | 6/22/15 2:12 pm |
Re: -1 | General Vagueness | 6/23/15 1:43 pm |
Clarifications | profhalo | 6/17/15 12:08 pm |
Re: Clarifications | ChrisTheeCrappy | 6/17/15 12:16 pm |
You are right. | profhalo | 6/17/15 1:05 pm |
Oh, and... | Louis Wu | 6/19/15 11:41 am |
Re: Clarifications | kidtsunami | 6/17/15 10:40 pm |
Re: Clarifications | The Loot | 6/18/15 5:46 pm |
a fallacy is will always be a fallacy *NM* | Bounce-A-Gon | 6/18/15 5:58 pm |
Re: Clarifications | Louis Wu | 6/19/15 11:39 am |
Re: Nope. | Cody Miller | 6/19/15 2:08 pm |
Re: Nope. | General Vagueness | 6/19/15 3:11 pm |
Re: Nope. | hunt3r | 6/19/15 6:03 pm |
Re: On H5 Req Packs... | General Vagueness | 6/17/15 4:14 pm |
Unanswered Req questions... | munky-058 | 6/18/15 9:30 am |
Everytime I see the topic of REQ packages | The BS Police | 6/22/15 4:49 pm |
+7 | Grizzlei | 6/22/15 5:00 pm |
Are you allowed to skip +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 and +6? *NM* | MacGyver10 | 6/22/15 6:02 pm |
Who's gonna stop me? | Grizzlei | 6/22/15 6:05 pm |
Re: Who's gonna stop me? | MacGyver10 | 6/22/15 6:18 pm |
haha *NM* | Grizzlei | 6/22/15 6:20 pm |
We're trying to help you. *NM* | Quirel | 6/22/15 6:18 pm |
This *NM* | Apollo | 6/22/15 9:09 pm |
Nice | profhalo | 6/23/15 8:27 am |
Re: Nice | The BS Police | 6/24/15 12:34 am |