Absolutely moronic thread for many reasons. So let's go over them: 30 years ago games were a lot more niche, the audiences were much smaller and you had to charge premium to break even but there were SO many more costs within just publishing a game than there are now. - ThreadSky

jukek.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Absolutely moronic thread for many reasons.
So let's go over them:
30 years ago games were a lot more niche, the audiences were much smaller and you had to charge premium to break even but there were SO many more costs within just publishing a game than there are now.

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I have no patience for this. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time retailed for $59.95 in November, 1998. That's $117.27 today.

You're dramatically underpaying for games right now. In fact, AAA studios are killing themselves with big bet live-service disasters and microtransactions to cover costs.

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jukek.bsky.social•36 days ago

Let's look inside the Zelda cartridge!
This thing is practically a small computer on its own, look at all these parts, look at the fucking 32 megabytes of RAM inside this thing, for the time? This is stupidly expensive.

jukek.bsky.social•36 days ago

So we have the cartridge- then we have the costs of logistics, you have to pay to get these things from point A to B across the whole world, then you have to get them on the shelves and split revenue with the retailer. In modern day, these barriers are completely gone in the all digital world!

jukek.bsky.social•36 days ago

Because gamers signed a contract- we get the short end of the stick, we no longer get physical goods, games are licenses that can be revoked and taken away from digital libraries at any point but publishers got to completely cut out the costs of distribution (besides the revenue split).

jukek.bsky.social•36 days ago

So- here we have a game that will potentially cost 80 dollars, let's take a glance at borderlands 3 shall we? Which comes with a season pass that costs another 60 bucks, and a second season pass that costs another 40. This rounds out to over 160 dollars in total for a "complete" product.

jukek.bsky.social•36 days ago

We are already paying more for "mainstream" games than what people used to 30 years ago, as games are sold piece meal or bundled with microtransactions
Here is my take about rising costs of "development", I didn't ask for photorealistic graphics, I didn't ask for managerial incompetence leading to-

jukek.bsky.social•36 days ago

huge swaths of the game being completely reworked, leading to massive costs increases within the studio. That's not my issue as the end recipient of the product. Especially knowing that coming from the AAA branch of the industry, it will be a half finished product.

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