Why are PC Gamers paying $60 now?

[Mutedperson]

burning_phoneix said:

Mutedperson said:

I myself would have to say the amount of time that goes into making this gen of games. The textures alone would take 2 or 3 times longer to make now then 5 or 6 years ago. The amount of coding and all the other stuff im not going to do into it but i will say this.......Play a shooter,rpg whatever from years back and then play one from the same series. Im sure you will see a huge diff, not just in graphics but also in phyz,AI, and shear size of the game data alone. I look at it like this, 10 years ago i could buy a soda for 50 cents........now same crap same size and more than twice the price. At least the games you pay 10 dollars more for give you more most of the time.

Look at Starcraft II's graphics. They're nowhere near the cutting edge of graphics today (and I like Blizzard for that, keeps the game playing even on low end computers). There's no reason a game like Crysis can sell for 50$ and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Starcraft II (two VERY VERY anticiapated titles that will guarantee millions in sales) HAVE to sell at 60$ to make up their development costs.

Crysis is a few years old right now. So when it was made games were 50 bucks and Crysis 2 is prob going to be 60. Idk why people think nothing is ever going to go up in price. The only sad thing here is pc gamers cant trade/buy used games at Eb and gamestop. I think starcraft 2 is going to be $180 to play the whole game, 3 races 3 games that IS messed up unless i read it wrong awhile back.