Comment on Expedition 33 Dev Confirms $50 Price Is Correct, '30+ Hours of Main Game'

HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• turtletracks@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I refuse to ever pay $70 for a game

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If it’s a game I’m going to get hundreds, or sometimes thousands of hours from, then I’ll pay more. If you look at price per hour spent on entertainment, it’s hard to compare. However, you often have to wade through a bunch of shitty overpriced games to find those gems.

    Okay, back to EU4 now ;)

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    • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m kind of in a different boat with this. I’m paying for quality, not quantity. Especially since I don’t have as much free time as I did 20 years ago.

      So if I can play through a phenomenal story within a couple months over a 20 hour game (which usually takes me 30 hours) at the height of the hype when people are still talking about it, I love it. Give me efficient storytelling.

      In fact, if it’s something longer, it kind makes me rethink it whether I want to pay full price. Why rush?

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      • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I am the same. Game could take 60 hours to complete, and 50 of them are dogshit. Then it’s not a fun game. It’s all about the overall quality of the entire experience.

        I would gladly pay $100 for Subnautica 2 if they could pull off another amazing adventure. Would do the same for another Larian studio game.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I will only do this for games I know I will like, from studios I want to support.

    I literally will wait until a sale ends to buy a game from Yoko Taro or FromSoftware.

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sits back in porch chair, Back in my day you could get a fully complete console game wið online multiplayer and all ð bells and whistles, for just ÞIRTY DOLLARS

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      hell yeah, þorn and eð user in the wild!

      alþough I stand by the opinion þat þe voiced-voicless distinction between þorn and eð is someþing superimposed onto English later on, as eð and þorn were used interchangeably for a time and it was more a question of time period raþer þan voicedness

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Should probably tell inflation to stop being a thing, then.

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  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    🙏There🙏is🙏no🙏inflation🙏only🙏price🙏gouging🙏

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    • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Moderate Inflation (around the 2% target) is necessary for the current economical system to function. It incentivizes people to either invest or spend their money instead of sitting on it.

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not sure we share the same definition of price gouging.

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    • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Seems to me like they’ve just upped the price $10 with each successive generation of consoles.

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      • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Games have been around 60 dollars for over 39 years now. Not sure what you’re on about. If they had gone up 10 bucks with each console generation they would be like 150 at this point.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To me, $70 is a reasonable price based on what bread costs now, but the minimum wage needs to like, triple.

    The focus on freemium games and whales may even be driven by America’s wealth gap.

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