Greasy Randy isn't exactly known for being not gross prior to the comment either

Yeah, inflation is a thing. But so is increasing volumes in sales with low cost distribution of the product.

After a game is made now, the only cost is distribution now, and games sell in larger volumes than ever before, making more money than ever before. A game like BL4? Even if they spent $300,000,000 making the game they only need to sell 6,000,000 copies to recoup costs at $70. BL3 has sold 18,000,000 copies. A huge profit, even if most of those sales were on sale prices. BL3 was made and advertised with a 140 million dollar budget.

I thought it would be Swen making the comment, happily surprised to see it's someone else at Larian.

I mean, extremely low hanging fruit there...

Look, you can charge whatever you want.

"Is your game worth $80 to average gamers dealing with (gestures broadly at state of world economy)?"

That is the question every studio executive needs to ask themselves.

Given the recent trends in AAA-funded projects, for the most part, that answer is "Oh, hell no."

Will Borderlands 4 be an Epic exclusive like 3? Really fighting an uphill battle there

Welp looks like it's know what the next jimquisition is going to be on.

I’ll buy this when it’s $20 with all expansions in two years.

It’s not because of Randy Bobandy here, him making an inane, alienating comment is his gimmick at this point and should be expected. It’s t because I found that if I play a game on release I end up playing the worst version of the game. And then I never play expansions because I rarely replay games and I’m not about to play an expansion to a game I haven’t played in a year without replaying the base game again.

So I buy games a year late, at half the price. I love gaming.

There once was a game that was not free
The head of the game was big Randy
He joked one day with a cheery grin
Real fans would pay the fee HUAGH

Soon may the pirates come
To snag some games and have their fun
One day, when the cracks are done
We'll take our games and go

Charge what you want but don’t be cocky about it, easy.

I didn't even buy Borderlands 3 for $60 and there's no way in hell I'd pay $80 for something similar. I spent the full price of Baldur's Gate 3 for myself and two of my friends for a total of $180. Make the game worth it and you have my money. If the development cost of games has gone up then prove it and make better games.

Bitchford wishes he could be part of something that was even near a single iota of the same quality of BG3.