Pather - "Subscription fee, F2P & microtransaction is going to happen"

[Slimebeast]

RolStoppable said:

Slimebeast said:

RolStoppable said:

Which would mean that most games are too expensive today, even though they cost multiple times more to make than in the past. The current business model definitely is broken and the measures that companies are trying to take aren't going to improve the situation for them.

Sometimes I get the impression that these publishers think that people absolutely need them, as if people couldn't live without video games. Why else would they show such anti-consumer behavior?

What do u mean anti-consumer behaviour? The consumer is always unhappy, always whine and bitch. Because people are selfish and their mindset is
"I'm not giving them even one inch, I'll always demand cheaper even though gaming is my life and I could spend so much more, but they don't have to know that lol".

There's the DRM stuff they put in PC games that hurts the gamers who actually buy the game more than the pirates. Companies are complaining about the used games market instead of realizing that it's their fault that people sell their games back so quickly. What used to be complete games in the past are now sold in pieces in form of DLC that comes out in the month of the game's release. Sometimes the content is actually already on the disc, but has to be unlocked by paying an additional fee. Many companies have no intention to make games that people want to keep, instead they want to squeeze as much money out of consumers as possible, as soon as possible.

I disagree on the notion that the consumer is always unhappy. If that were true, nobody would recommend games to other people.

Well, you have some valid points but you also have a few bad points lol.