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.
You’re clearly not the target audience. Every slightly popular game has its whales. Something as popular as GTA? They’ll sell it at $100 and laugh all the way to the bank.
Look at Pokémon games, they sell like pancakes with barely an attempt at a story, minor gameplay improvements and barely running in their native hardware, their target audience will spend whatever they are told and defend the price no matter what.
Same thing here.
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.
I’d love to get some numbers on this because I could believe it’s something like MLP:FiM, the target audience being kids but the main buyers being adults who enjoyed the show (or grew up with the games, in the case of Pokémon), anyway most parents just shell out money if it gets their kids off their back for a couple hours (examples are everywhere) and they don’t even care if it’s appropriate for their kids so I wouldn’t doubt they (or any publisher at this point) could just pump the prices for a mediocre game and sell just as much as they have so far.
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.
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.
You’re clearly not the target audience. Every slightly popular game has its whales. Something as popular as GTA? They’ll sell it at $100 and laugh all the way to the bank.
Something to consider. With conversion, new games are usually $80-$100 in Canada.
People still buy them.
Meaning this game will be MORE THAN $100 Canadian and still sell like hotcakes.
Look at Pokémon games, they sell like pancakes with barely an attempt at a story, minor gameplay improvements and barely running in their native hardware, their target audience will spend whatever they are told and defend the price no matter what.
Same thing here.
Yeah but they don’t cost $100
Not yet, might follow after this stunt faces no lash back and results in profits.
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.
I’d love to get some numbers on this because I could believe it’s something like MLP:FiM, the target audience being kids but the main buyers being adults who enjoyed the show (or grew up with the games, in the case of Pokémon), anyway most parents just shell out money if it gets their kids off their back for a couple hours (examples are everywhere) and they don’t even care if it’s appropriate for their kids so I wouldn’t doubt they (or any publisher at this point) could just pump the prices for a mediocre game and sell just as much as they have so far.