The War Report
NewNewYork
These publishers are worse than record labels/movie studios. 
Belgium and Hawaii declare loot boxes as gambling UPDATE: More States Join In
This non sensical ass shyt
Gtfoh
AlphaOne
OFT XI E Squad
Good fukk them. Government needs to step in
Half these games don’t even work online on release date. releasing half assed games and getting away with it.
Half these games don’t even work online on release date. releasing half assed games and getting away with it.
Camammal
Half Man Half Mammal
that's because they could get away with it back then....there were no fighting games on the home console market at all, sf2 was so wildly popular in the arcades ppl (myself included) would pay a premium for a nearly perfect arcade port because it literally did not exist anywhere else. There are too many games and cheaper options on the market now to justify buying a $100 game that's likely a sequal to a game that came out a year prior. It just would not work.
This is why DLC is so important to devs now because you can sell a $100+ game without people going to the store and seeing that price tag. They see this game at a very reasonable price of $60 but wait you can get this ultra Black hawk edition later on if you want for just $30...you play the game and realize all your friends are playing maps that you can't access and then you buy into that $100 game they originally wanted you to buy. It's quite simple
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Camammal
Half Man Half Mammal
It wasn't just SF though.
That looks Canadian, snes games weren't that much around my parts. Some were $70 but that's about it but again they could get away with these prices back then. There were not nearly as much gaming options and competition back then
I don't even know the relevance of prices from over a decade ago. The entire industry has changed since then.
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
alot of that shyt is in the game and youre just paying extra to access it
like these games with season passes.... those map packs n shyt are all on the disc
these game are fukking finessing the fukk out of us
If i get a game of the year edition at launch for 80 dollars i can live with that
But the average broke consumer in America cannot.
3rd world gaming coming to an end.
Making me pay extra for content on disc and calling it deluxe shoukd be a crime.
ORDER_66
Demon Time coming 2024
huh? not all games do this shyt
i think people remember capcom doing it but honestly most companies don't because making people download shyt is FAR safer for them and prevents them from releasing broken as fukk games
often times, the game ships the most safe/stale version possible now. that's why people are often trying to figure out what the fukk is going on with the day 1 updates. its an asscovering
And gamers are willing to pay, that's why it's going to keep happening.
It's astouning how many times I've seen the argument of "well, games are getting more and more expensive" being used to justify shady practices and I'm just sitting over here like Big Worm:
Gamers truly don't recognize how much power they have as a consumer. They quite literally set the trends. If a certain business model is successful, it becomes the standard, if it doesn't, it's swept under the rug to make room for the newest plan. They complain about what's happening yet when it's all said and done, they'll buy whatever a publisher has to offer. On day one, no less.
itsyoung!!
Veteran
sounds like a personal issue to the companies that make AAA titles
maybe if they focused on the game actually being good the hype would sell it self
especially now with platforms like Twitch , if a big streamer thinks the game is fun and enjoyable and has LASTING content (most AAA titles you play for a week or two and be done with it, and that is their actual failure. No longevity.) then people will buy it, in millions. Good independent games get rewarded with sales. AAA titles arent selling because people have been seeing through the marketing and now can see the game before htye play it (via youtube or twitch) and the game play doesnt match the hype created by the companies.
The company that does this will receive even more backlash. Too many successful games out here $20-40 or even free to play (league of legends/DOTA 2) for someone to be that stupid to attempt that in 2017.
itsyoung!!
Veteran
It wasn't just SF though.
Economy was way healthier then as well
not comparable. Mafukkas could be a full time employee at Macy's and still get a house when these prices was around 
My mom bought Mortal Kombat on Sega Genesis for $75. In 1993. Games were regularly priced between 49.99 and 64.99 dollars. In 1993. That's 25 years ago. Physical media (CDs, games, DVDs) are one of the few segments of consumer goods where the savings produced through innovation and efficiency are passed on to the consumer.
The fact that you can pick up GTA 5 at the same cost you could Super Mario World is a blessing.
Game companies know these price point are a psychological line. If the games increase in price then so too will the consoles. People aren't ready to pay more than 399-499 for a console. People aren't ready for $125 games.
DLC and microtransactions come into play because these are "optional." If you don't want it, don't buy it is their logic. It also extends the life of the game. This can offset rising development costs. If you limit DLC and microtransactions the publishers are going to test that line eventually. Right now a portion of the gaming community chooses to subsidize costs. If DLC and microtransactions are jettisoned everyone is going to pay the price.
Full disclosure, I hate day one DLC, nickle and dime scumbaggery and selling you piece by piece what should have been a whole game at launch. It sucks. But I get why they do it. They see it as a compromise.