If the biggest game of the decade charges $100, every triple A game will charge the same, and other games will probably be more expensive as well, and in most cases it'll be more money for the same steadily decreasing quality, at least in the triple A market.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What makes you think other games will be able to get away with $100 when plenty of them are having a tough time getting away with $70?

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because Rockstar is going to do it and sell a gorillion copies, so it's basically a guarantee that everyone else will jump on the opportunity. And once every game is $100, what are people going to do, stop buying video games? I find that unlikely anymore. They'll bitch and complain about it and sales might drop a little on average but studios will survive. And now we have a new price floor set forever.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think yes, people will stop buying video games (at that price). There are very few games that carry the demand that GTA does, and customers have shown with the likes of Suicide Squad that they won't just buy anything that marketing tells them to. Meanwhile, customers are very aware of the options available to them for free.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You've got more faith in the purchasing public than I do, then. I've been watching them buy a new copy of the same COD slop every year for a fresh $60 basically since I've been old enough to buy my own video games.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

People like what they like, and the core of CoD hasn't changed enough to dissuade people, in general, yet it still has bad years where it doesn't do as well as it did this year.