I still have a huge backlog of games released in the last 30 years, so I can really easy wait for every game to go into sale. There is absolutely no need or urge for me to buy any game on release.

Im not spening $100 on a fucking video game. I dont care what game ,i don’t care what edition.

I wonder… Will Grand Theft Auto VI be the next “AAAA” game? Or have we ditched that term now since the utter failure of the first game that dared wear that title?

For $100, it better have a strip club achievement that comes with a coupon for a free actual lap dance.

It might inspire me to continue not wasting my money, and buying everything on sale, if it's worth it at all

That's why I pirste first and pay later when it's on sale for $20

This just in: rich people want to get richer by charging more for the same product.

This seems fine given the scale of the game and assuming it's not bad, but it's more worrying how it will lead to $100 shovelware five years from now. We already had Zelda at $70 (also worth it) so i could see a trend forming.

Arrrr, alexa play despacito

Just a reminder that no one's forcing you to spend $100 on the game. If enough people refuse to do so the base cost of the game will go down again. Icarus is my most recent for example, I've had it on my wish list for almost a year and a half now, because I wasn't willing to spend $35 on what that game provided. It's currently on sale on Steam for $9.

God of War 2018 is currently $20 on PSN

I got Elden ring for $30 a few months back despite the fact that it's still selling full price at 60.

If y'all are patient and wait they stopped making money on the game which means that they lower the cost to try to incentivize people to buy it.

Plus the first year of sale of a game is The Game's most important release window, because companies generally will use the first year to decide how popular it was. If enough people refuse to buy the game at their original price point it will destroy their sales metric for the first year which will make it harder on the studio to justify to their parent company that it's worth making another game, which means that they're more incentivized to lower the base cost of the game within the first year of launch.

The rate of this is significantly slowed down if everyone is just like oh okay I guess it's $100 now and then buys it anyway, have patience and hold out, especially a game like GTA 6 where they're going to gain more money off microtransactions then people actually buying the game. Honestly GTA 6 probably should have just been sold as a free to play because they operate like one

Just a reminder that you can play AAA titles until you die and never pay more than $15 per game, if you wait for a couple years and a sale.

If GTA6 is $100 for the basic copy I hope absolutely nobody buys it.

AAA games are already $90CAD here with deluxe/special editions going for $120-$160. I can't remember the last time I actually bought one of those games because most of them are trash designed to exploit the player as much as possible. There are a lot of other hobbies I'd rather drop that kind of money on that respect my time heaps more than modern games.

I think Tiny Glade is the only game I play regularly that is an actual new release. Everything else is 5+ years old because I got them on sale for good prices. Also means they're already patched up and usually perform better instead of having people pay $90+ to beta test broken garbage.

AAA games can go suck my cock and balls. I'm not playing games anymore. I got no time. No energy. No money.

Hot take, a very few games are actually worth the 100$ pricetag. The wrong studios believe their games are worth that much tho. I can see myself buying gta6 for 100 but id probably wait for a good sale lol