Prices for games hasn't increased for a very long time, while the prices of developing games has increased massively. Crunch time has become a larger and larger practices in the game development industry, and gamedeveloper programmers is amongst the lowest paid type of programmers that are. And I'm sure the same is true for other types of gamedevelopers too. Mid-sized game development companies has practically become history.
So yeah, if anything, games and dlc is way too cheap as it is now.
Dlc, add-ones and loot boxes is a way for game developers to try and avoid increasing game prices.
Loot boxes is predatory as sh*t, but otherwise the complaining is a bit silly given the state of the market.
A lot of people is predicting another
video game crash. But that could very well just be alarmism. The market might very well adapt, before we reach that point.
There wont be another crash.
Just those certain studios wont see much interest in their future releases.
I mean at this point i think if Bioware was shut down the majority that would be upset 10 years ago would be applauding it in 2019.
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Dude, he has like over 1m subscribers. How many of those do you think play BlizzEnt games?
How many of those 1 million do you think ever played starcraft brood war
Im gonna say probably less than 5000 being realistic
Its a guy who makes aninations on a youtube channel. Hes gonna get subs but if you think even 10% of his base has an interest in playing RTS you are deluding yourself
Don't want it. Don't buy it.
Don't attack people for wanting money in a world where money is required to survive.
You have no duty to support them, and they have no duty to make it affordable for you.
How will poor activison blizzard survive!!!
Also extra credits is a fucking chump.
Oh no i play the Axis team in a shooter that makes us nornalize Nazi idology
He said that.
Nevermind the entertiee existence of Nintendo refutes his trash tier video nevermind the overwhelmingly MOCKING he faced in his comments for this idiotic video.
Lets not pretend microtransaction filled games made fames better. Those games filled with them are by and far the worst dogshit to disgrace gaming in the last decade
Fallout 76
Anthem
Destiny 2 under activison
Call of duty
Battlefield
Star wars battlefront
Shadows of war
Fallout 4 season pass
Bethesdas "creation club"
Wolfenstein youngblood
Rage 2
All Blizzard Games
Vast majority of ubisoft games
And lets not forget blizzard does it in EVERY GAME but this blizzard curated flash skin for $10 is somehow different.
No its just blizzard being blizzard
You know who doesnt subsidise costs and try to defend it
Larian- cdprojekt- remedy- obsideon entertainment- I.D. Fromsoftware and several pro consumer ones who call out the industry bullshit as greed.
You think 30$ for hundreds of new textures is expensive?
There are LoL and CS:GO skins for hundreds of dollars that people buy. People spend hundreds of dollars on cosmetics in WoW (Race/faction changes + mounts) in addition to the mandatory monthly fee + expansions
And don't get me started on the whales in mobile games.
You already said its yourself. WoW cosmetics
Same company
Just because one thing is more aggregious than others doesnt mitigate it when a company is taking the piss for another quick money grab
And lets not act like this flash skin is any major effort considering the artistic talent Blizzard has at their disposal.
You know what else $10 can get you in 2019. Witcher 1/2/3 on holiday sales.
Anyway im sure viktor wants to send another open love letter to Carbot directed at me so kll wait as ive said my piece.
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For those about to whine im off topic
No i couldnt be more on topic.
Because you are going to get little bite sized purchasable content all over reforged when it comes out and as long as they can milk you after that
If you think blizzard is going to make a brand new RTS game from the ground up which is exactly what wc3 is since its not a resolution upscale.
Well...
The writing is on the wall with a mobile diablo game on the horizon and all of Starcraft 2s great little $30 skinpacks /voicepacks it sells these days