Gaming is cheaper now than its ever been before

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I thought this video was relevant to the "devs should lower costs" arguments.

Modern games are more complex and take much more manpower to create, yet we are paying much less for them, and everyday another fanboy gets on the Internet and complains about these companies charging too much or "raping" him.

Gamers are spoiled beyond belief, and all they keep shouting is "give me more for less"

:stopitslime: shame on you dudes. The Internet fanboy will be the death of gaming, and the gaming "journalist" does nothing but fan the flames.
 
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I'm on the cut-costs bandwagon but I'm also ok with raising prices, personally. Both solutions are fine.

The truth is gamers ARE spoiled. Supply is kind of bigger than demand at this point. So many people want to make games and not enough people are willing to pay 60-70 per game to play. We've got too many great games to buy more at full price. Our cups runneth over. Something's gotta give.
 

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The "cut costs" idea is just unrealistic.

Even angry birds cost more to make and took more manpower than that $80 genesis game.

Even if most devs cut their costs and move torwards low budget games, they still have lower profitability than ever before.

The games industry generates billions upon billions of dollars, but due to piracy, retail, used games, middlemen, etc. The people who deserve the money(devs) are not getting their fair share. Either there needs to be a way to shift that money to their pockets or they need to raise prices accross the board.
 

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The "cut costs" idea is just unrealistic.

Even angry birds cost more to make and took more manpower than that $80 genesis game.

Even if most devs cut their costs and move torwards low budget games, they still have lower profitability than ever before.

The games industry generates billions upon billions of dollars, but due to piracy, retail, used games, middlemen. The people who deserve the money(devs) are not getting their fair share. Either there needs to be a way to shift that money to their pockets or they need to raise prices accross the board.

Man Technology is so in abundance now nobody want to hear that. You have indie developers (Steam) with million dollars less budget than EA making better games. The prices just reflecting the saturation of the market.
 

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The entire game industry is broke. You have companies complaining about piracy or people complaining about their prices but they offer the same games year in and out for the same price.

No reason for Madden to be 60 evey year the past decade or an Game controller to be 60 every year of a system life because it doesn't make sense. You have Microsoft packing a corny as kinect with a system that nobody cares about. Sony played it smart and chose consumers first.

People not complaining about the prices but the arguments these companies are having is retarded and doesn't make sense.
 

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Man Technology is so in abundance now nobody want to hear that. You have indie developers (Steam) with million dollars less budget than EA making better games. The prices just reflecting the saturation of the market.

Indie devs are subject to the same problems. We applaud the FEW that break through. But in reality they are having the same budget problems as the rest of the industry.

You say indie games are better than EA, yet come this Christmas you will be buying battlefield 4 and watch dogs like the rest of us.

Your selfish attitude is killing the games we want to play. "Indies indies, cut costs" is just an easy cop out, an oversimplification of the issue, that just kicks the can down the road until we get to the point where gaming as we once knew it won't exist anymore.

Gamers don't understand that by protesting progressive change, they are actually promoting degressive change.
 

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Indie devs are subject to the same problems. We applaud the FEW that break through. But in reality they are having the same budget problems as the rest of the industry.

You say indie games are better than EA, yet come this Christmas you will be buying battlefield 4 and watch dogs like the rest of us.

Your selfish attitude is killing the games we want to play. "Indies indies, cut costs" is just an easy cop out, an oversimplification of the issue, that just kicks the can down the road until we get to the point where gaming as we once knew it won't exist anymore.

Gamers don't understand that by protesting progressive change, they are actually promoting degressive change.

I didn't say Indie games were better than EA. I said they made some better games with less than a multi million dollar budget.

How am I selfish because I don't believe the bullshyt these companies are putting out. It is a capitalistic country and if your product not sellling look your self in the dam mirror.

Just because you can't make money you want to charge me more and I am selfish for complaining but then offer limitations on my own purchase. You dudes are clowns and sheep. Same guys that can buy anything a company releases because you are all fan boys.
 

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How come the PC gaming industry is emerging again. These console developers is BS breh. Majority of them uses the same game engines across the board which is less of the cost and they complaining. Like really?

Make some better games and holla at me. You never see RockStar complaining because they make awesome games or 2KSports complaing.
 

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I didn't say Indie games were better than EA. I said they made some better games with less than a multi million dollar budget.

How am I selfish because I don't believe the bullshyt these companies are putting out. It is a capitalistic country and if your product not sellling look your self in the dam mirror.

Just because you can't make money you want to charge me more and I am selfish for complaining but then offer limitations on my own purchase. You dudes are clowns and sheep. Same guys that can buy anything a company releases because you are all fan boys.

wait??...so because I have money and i can buy whatever i want im a fan boy?:rudy::facepalm::smh:
 

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wait??...so because I have money and i can buy whatever i want im a fan boy?:rudy::facepalm::smh:

No but trying to justify there argument makes you one. If you have money free to you but if you are trying to justify boosting prices when I don't see it or the majority of the people than its all B.S
 
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