I’ll enjoy buying it in 5 years during a Steam sale.
There’s an overabundance of games out there. I can wait.
I feel like we keep seeing this headline. “AAA studio says current prices can’t support current budgets”
I almost never buy games at $60. I buy everything on sale, and there are constantly sales and way more games than I can play. They can charge whatever they want, I personally will be paying less.
Will the market bear $80 games? Maybe. I feel like a better strategy would be to reign in scope and budget and sell games at prices most people can afford. But who knows?
BL3 was generic and forgettable. BL4 anything more than 40$ is easily forgettable. Don’t these guys know most gamers have backlogs at this point? No one has the money for this shit.
My wishlist is long and at least one game on it gets a deep discount every week. I’m busy playing games between 2€-20€.
There hasn’t been a major release that would justify paying 50€ and more for years.
Baldurs Gate 3 was the last game I got at full price and didn’t regret.
I don’t know if I will buy this game then.
Will it be yet another Borderlands game that I don’t buy until the GOTY edition goes on sale for less than $20? “It might be.”
Indeed.
Borderlands 3 was barely worth $60 and I still waited for it to go on sale.
I bought it in Fall 2024 for like 25 bucks with all DLCs. So I’ll wait year or two with BL4 no problem, there’s plenty other games I can play. I never buy brand new games.
I’ve paid money like that when I could see the effort and love thwt went into the game. I kinda saw that in BL2, but nothing in the series since comes even close.
They’ll probably start it at $80 and be prepared to drop it down if sales are lower than expected. So gamers can tell them that the $80 price point is not ok by being patient and holding off on the purchase.
They’ll still have plenty of people buy it for that shit price if only because they’ll give it free to a bunch of streamers and fomo will get the viewers.
But are getting argyle gun skins?
I once paid $140 (just pre-pandemic inflation) for a meal with two drinks at a fancy restaurant for a friend’s bachelor party. It was delicious. At the same time, I realized that no one meal, no matter how good, was worth that price. I don’t know what the threshold is for how much I’ll pay for a single video game, but $80 is more palatable to me when the game asking for it isn’t Mario Kart.
