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Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
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Charging 70 dollars USD for barely 40 USD of content and everyone knows. The only people I know intent on buying all the latest stuff are people into steamer culture, aka trying to be a streamer or interact with them and follow their trends.
This is completely relative, and different for everyone... But I have a hard time backing up statements like this given that it costs nearly $20 to go to the movie theater and watch a 90 minute movie. If I can get like 40-150 hours from a $70 game... That's really not that bad in terms of value. In my opinion.
I think we have been a little bit spoiled (that isn't to say that video game publishers aren't greedy corporations that over charge to increase their profit margins, of course they do and fuck them for it).
But you can get hundreds of hours from a f2p game, so that's the competition $70 games have. Then there's older triple a titles that are cheaper, and there's so many that it's not possible to have played all of them. Then epic giveaways, game bundles, indies, etc.
And price increases push more consumers away from impulse purchases. And that can lead to them becoming patient gamers once they see not buying at release isn't a big deal.
Sure... But the existence of f2p games doesn't really affect how much I personally value an hour's worth of video game entertainment.
It should also be noted that companies don't make f2p games out of the kindness of their hearts, they are making money somehow, and if it's not through microtransactions, then you are the product.
Paid games hasn't kept them from not having aggressive microtransactions themselves and sometimes worse. And there's so many sources of games now beyond big publishers. The gaming landscape just isn't the same as in the past that it can get away with setting whatever price they want and expect to turn a profit. The old hour of value stance isn't as relevant, and is more likely to lead to bombs even amongst triple A publishers with their vast marketing budgets with that attitude. There's way more options now that people don't have to settle.
Nope. All video games are bad, overpriced etc. same with movies as tv shows.
And we all have the right to the creative work of others. So pirate everything. That’ll fix it! /s