GT:An evolution of the pricing structure of games is upon us – Pachter explains. Plus, what does he think of the Wii Mini and will Apple make a console? “They might!” he says.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Publishers are always going to look for ways to get the most money out of us. If that is more expensive games or hidden charges they will find a sneaky way of doing it
Next gen will be interesting.
Good video. There's also a pretty interesting pop fiction that came out today.
Game companies would make more money if they dropped the price back to 50$
Well, as always, I believe the GAME should reflect the cost.
Example, for all it's faults, Skyrim is worth more to me then say... RAGE.
This, of course, must be evaluated against the actual development costs, but I think variation is needed both upward and downward for games in regard to cost. Not simply little downloadables for low, low prices and then all the rest at 60.
I think we could all do with a diversified market of games, 30 dollar games, 40, upper-end games for like 80, but that blow 60 dollar games out of the water.
Just my 5,000 cents...