Zkuq on 23 May 2013
| NiKKoM said: Nope.. Its a way to try saving gaming.. We can all whine and moan but the fact is that we ain't buying enough games for the right amount of money to maintain the level of quality we have right now.. The ROI are horrible for most companies.. You can see that in the yearly reports of them.. So accept this and keep the same high quality of games or don't accept this and enjoy less triple A quality games.. Looking at the budgets.. Why are games still at the Same retail prices of ten years ago? Its crazy.. I don't know any other industry where the retail price isn't adjusted to production costs.. |
The thing is, games cost a lot already and gamers have only so much money to spend on games. Trying to monetize the market won't suddenly increase that amount of money. I'm sure it'll increase that amount a bit but not I'm also sure it won't be very much, at least compared to the current situation. If games cost more, people will buy less games.
This isn't an issue of gamers not spending enough on games, this is an issue of publishers spending too much on developing and marketing games. Those marketing budgets are huge, even bigger than development budgets and even those are huge.
