Capcom president Harushiro Tsujimoto claims that the prices of video games need to increase to meet ballooning development costs.

Capcom president Harushiro Tsujimoto claims that the prices of video games need to increase to meet ballooning development costs.

  • ares35@kbin.social
    118·
    1 year ago

    if you dropped game to $30 from $60, would double or more people buy it? or would too many people see the lower price and think it must be a shitty game to be ‘that low’ and pass on it?

    • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      314·
      1 year ago

      People made that point about Hollow Knight. At $15, people will assume it’s poor quality or a short game, when it actually has tons of content and is better quality than most AAA games. HK is a rare example of a game that’s too cheap.

      • DudewitbowEnglish
        282·
        1 year ago

        Imo the best example of an underpriced game is Terraria. The game stayed 10$ for the longest time, had a decade of updates(not just tiny ones), ridiculous hours of playtime and people even complained the devs were “greedy” when they increased the price of a steam sale of it(which the game is still an unbelievably good value)

        • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
          221·
          1 year ago

          Poor devs, they don’t know how to stop updating their game.

          • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            This made me laugh because I remember the “final update” was a few patches ago.

            • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
              15·
              1 year ago

              They’re actually currently working on the final final final final final final update, Every update from 1.4.0.1 through 1.4.5 were all supposed to be the final updates lol.

              “We super mean it this time guys…” - Cenx, the creative director of Terraria