And that doesn't discount the fact that games do not exist in a vacuum, not when people are being gouged on housing, utilities, groceries, and facing one financial crisis after another. What people spend on art and entertainment generally comes after essentials.
Raising prices is selling to fewer.
Raising prices is selling to fewer.
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indie games are also going to go up in price and that's not because of executive greed it's because that's how indies are going to make enough money to live
psycho patrol R's steam discussion page is full of people complaining about the price
i am making a game for a more niche audience. fundamentally i am not going to be able to sell to a wider audience.
it doesn't change the fact that games still cost more to make (wages have increased even if they are relatively stagnant and dev teams are bigger than ever) and that games are going to cost more whether or not they are triple A
meanwhile it still costs a lot more than 30% more to develop a game than it did in 2005 so prices will go up
https://na.store.square-enix-games.com/final-fantasy-tactics--the-ivalice-chronicles--collectors-box
Now we're doing long term rentals and it's 3x the price.