Hey look didn't I just make a post yesterday about how cheap gamers are? That raising the price of a game by a mere $10 is just too much in spite of what gamers are willing to pay for pizza? That the $10 is going to put us under a bridge living out of a cardboard box. That this attitude is what drove game companies to get creative with monetization and we ended up with loot boxes, cash shops, and battle passes? Well isn't this thread just a big fat case in point.
Look I don't want to be a dick, but sometimes you have to call things out. If an extra $10/euro is the breaking point for your budget maybe you should be investing your time in something other than gaming. Get that advanced degree, get a certification in a trade skill. Do something so that your budget is not so fragile that $10 in a month is not sending you to the poor house. Heck learn to cook so you order out pizza one time less per month. There's your $10 right there and then some. Healthier for you as well.
Again, you can literally pay $30 bucks for two months of EA Play and complete the game very casually.
Since it's a single player narrative driven adventure game, it's not going to have a lot of replayability. No reason to keep it languishing in a Library list on Steam when you can pay less than half price and play the entire thing. Hell, even if you go back and play it again over a third month, that's still only ~$45.
So even for the frugal PC gamer, this game is an affordable title. It's going on EA Play day one.
If this were a game like Diablo, based on replayability, this wouldn't be the case.
There are other considerations. Like how the increase in price of AAA is going to impact game prices as a whole. The cumulative effect. But good luck explaining this simple thing to some people.
True, they will affect prices. But I still say that just based off inflation, games' prices have to rise.
If Skyrim was 49.95 when it launched, was an expensive game to make (100 million I believe) was essentially a AAA game, then in today's $67. Now, marketers would never make a $67 price point so they would round up to $69.
This is simplified as there are other factors that would go into pricing a game but it's not just big suits trying to get their 3rd Maserati.
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Hey look didn't I just make a post yesterday about how cheap gamers are? That raising the price of a game by a mere $10 is just too much in spite of what gamers are willing to pay for pizza? That the $10 is going to put us under a bridge living out of a cardboard box. That this attitude is what drove game companies to get creative with monetization and we ended up with loot boxes, cash shops, and battle passes? Well isn't this thread just a big fat case in point.
Look I don't want to be a dick, but sometimes you have to call things out. If an extra $10/euro is the breaking point for your budget maybe you should be investing your time in something other than gaming. Get that advanced degree, get a certification in a trade skill. Do something so that your budget is not so fragile that $10 in a month is not sending you to the poor house. Heck learn to cook so you order out pizza one time less per month. There's your $10 right there and then some. Healthier for you as well.
Again, you can literally pay $30 bucks for two months of EA Play and complete the game very casually.
Since it's a single player narrative driven adventure game, it's not going to have a lot of replayability. No reason to keep it languishing in a Library list on Steam when you can pay less than half price and play the entire thing. Hell, even if you go back and play it again over a third month, that's still only ~$45.
So even for the frugal PC gamer, this game is an affordable title. It's going on EA Play day one.
If this were a game like Diablo, based on replayability, this wouldn't be the case.
There are other considerations. Like how the increase in price of AAA is going to impact game prices as a whole. The cumulative effect. But good luck explaining this simple thing to some people.
True, they will affect prices. But I still say that just based off inflation, games' prices have to rise.
If Skyrim was 49.95 when it launched, was an expensive game to make (100 million I believe) was essentially a AAA game, then in today's $67. Now, marketers would never make a $67 price point so they would round up to $69.
This is simplified as there are other factors that would go into pricing a game but it's not just big suits trying to get their 3rd Maserati.
It is that easy however. Big suits are going to use this as an excuse and most people are going to get squat. Remember Paretto? Well, now it's more like 98 : 2 . Add in the basics of human nature.
...I am not hopeful.
With that said, there's so many mods, so many HD versions of old games etc that ... I don't really want anything new. Why would I want new when I already have a "fuckton" of content? Tbh, I don't have enough time to play through it all.
If the game is day-1 on EA Play, does that mean I'll get it day-1 on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate? Since it includes EA Play. But I've always wondered if it is actual EA Play or a version of it....
1440p is becoming the standard and is only about 30% less resolution then 4k and lets you get better frames. I agree with who you replied too. If you took time to look at the size of games now vs 10 years ago, you could be shocked. UE5 games have more pixel's in the eye lashes then a full avatar from a game 5 years ago. You can buy 1tb M.2 drives for $80 bucks now and that will hold about 8-15 games. Thats the way of things now.
No. 4k resolution has 125% more pixels than 1440p resolution. So 1440p is about 56% less than 4k.
This is my most anticipated game of 2023. First one was in my top 5 SW games. So excited and so I won't watch any trailer or read anything about this game. So want everything to be a surprise.
I agree. But! There are some issues even right now:
Price: 70€ for the BASE VERSION? Nah, sorry, can't support that. Regardless of what the game might be.
Size: 155GB? You for serious? That's entirely too much. Yet another practice I am not going to support.
At today's prices, that 155GB is going to cost you $10.
I think after you pay $70 for the game and about $1000 for a gaming computer capable of running that, them asking for $10 worth of hard disk space isn't significant.
1440p is becoming the standard and is only about 30% less resolution then 4k and lets you get better frames. I agree with who you replied too. If you took time to look at the size of games now vs 10 years ago, you could be shocked. UE5 games have more pixel's in the eye lashes then a full avatar from a game 5 years ago. You can buy 1tb M.2 drives for $80 bucks now and that will hold about 8-15 games. Thats the way of things now.
No. 4k resolution has 125% more pixels than 1440p resolution. So 1440p is about 56% less than 4k.
It also isn't anywhere near the standard, just for clarity's sake. Steam's hardware survey last November showed that 65% of gamers play at 1080p, and that was only a 0.2% decrease from the previous survey. 1440p was at about 11%, and it actually lost more of its share (down 2.08%) from the previous survey than did 1080p.
This is my most anticipated game of 2023. First one was in my top 5 SW games. So excited and so I won't watch any trailer or read anything about this game. So want everything to be a surprise.
I agree. But! There are some issues even right now:
Price: 70€ for the BASE VERSION? Nah, sorry, can't support that. Regardless of what the game might be.
Size: 155GB? You for serious? That's entirely too much. Yet another practice I am not going to support.
At today's prices, that 155GB is going to cost you $10.
I think after you pay $70 for the game and about $1000 for a gaming computer capable of running that, them asking for $10 worth of hard disk space isn't significant.
Regardless. I do not plan on wasting so much on single game. Modern AAA garbage can go fuck itself. And while I don't think "Jedi: x" is garbage, it is aligned and allied with uber garbage, so it unfortunately goes in that category.
I still value resources of any kind. Even if today's bacchanalia society does not.
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Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
...I am not hopeful.
With that said, there's so many mods, so many HD versions of old games etc that ... I don't really want anything new. Why would I want new when I already have a "fuckton" of content? Tbh, I don't have enough time to play through it all.
I think after you pay $70 for the game and about $1000 for a gaming computer capable of running that, them asking for $10 worth of hard disk space isn't significant.
$10 was calculated using Crusial's PCIe 4.0 drive
https://www.newegg.com/crucial-2tb-p5-plus/p/20-156-281?Item=20-156-281&Description=&cm_re=-_-20-156-281-_-Product
I still value resources of any kind. Even if today's bacchanalia society does not.