• absquatulate@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I’m loving the balls on studios. Yesterday we had “experts” suggesting it might cost 100 bux, and today it’s already the beggining of a trend. And the game isn’t even out. In fact, we only have the trailer for the game and they’re already predicting prices.

    My prediction is yes, they’ll ask 100$ and more, and yes, people will pay it.

    But the nerve, I swear. “Yeah, our games have gotten sloppier every year. And yes, we fired tens of thousands solely for profit reasons. But line must go up, so you better start paying”

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      16 days ago

      Do you really think people will buy it? I’ve played most of the GTAs, but I’m not about to spend 100 dollars on a video game.

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            16 days ago

            Not yet, might follow after this stunt faces no lash back and results in profits.

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              I don’t know though you’ve got to consider your target audience and their income method. The income method for the target audience of pokemon games is asking their parents.

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        There’s enough people in what I assume to be big gaming communities, like active and paying and stuff, that are defending this, citing that other stuff got more expensive, too… and somehow not many agree that incomes have not risen proportionally. Them temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

        Somehow I think that most people defending this kind of crap are too young to actually have a first-hand feeling of how much prices for everything have risen.

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      16 days ago

      Honestly this could all be a campaign from Rockstar to get ahead of higher pricing. They throw out $100 to some random people and let them run with it, so when they announce a $80/$90 price tag everyone bregurdingly goes along with it.

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        16 days ago

        That’s what I’m thinking. Get the fanbase used to seeing 100+, and then suddenly an 80$ game will feel like a bargain lol

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        16 days ago

        I honestly believe it, these test the water kind of leaks, more like intentionally invisible marketing to see the reactions