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Game Makers Need To Understand No One Wants To Pay Full Price For An Old Game

Major publishers setting an unfair price for old titles is a greedy step that could hurt the game's reception and needs to be demoralized.

VersusDMC246d ago

How is rift apart an old game?

mudakoshaka245d ago

It came out over 2 years ago. Just because it just released on PC, it does not justify chagring full price as if it was brand-new on the market.

VersusDMC245d ago

Then might as well put every first party Switch game on the thumbnail then as they are still 60.

The article should have concentrated on past gen ports...using current gen ports just muddies the issue and makes you look like deranged person that just wants everything cheaper.

EvertonFC245d ago

Disagree, that's like Sony saying "hey, we already made GoW for PS5 we shall ONLY charge £10 on PC"
What business would fu*king do that, think about what would you really do? I already know the answer.

Schriefer9245d ago (Edited 245d ago )

I don’t have a PS5 so when their exclusives release they are worth full price because they are new to me and have extra PC features. Video games studios are businesses they run on money. We believe they love us and want to give us the world but they actually just want to make money, so they attempt to make something they believe is worth so much money and if we agree we pay that price.

Mr_Writer85245d ago (Edited 245d ago )

"It came out over 2 years ago."

On PS5. Of which it has had many price cuts in sales.

"Just because it just released on PC, it does not justify chagring full price"

It's a new product on that platform. It requires work, time and money to port.

PC players want these games, then they need to put their money where their mouths are.

Eonjay245d ago

This doesn't make sense. Yes the game is 2 years old and it won't set the world on fire in sales. And given the money they probably invested into the port, the price probably reflects that. Oh and they might want to make small profit as well to motivate them to continue to port their games to PC.

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mudakoshaka245d ago

Yes! The same goes for Switch games. That is why I sold my Switch 2 years ago.

gold_drake245d ago

true, but it works for them. as long as people buy them, this will not change.

nintendo banks on nostalgia
and rockstar on the hype.

and their games always sell in the millions.

Abear21245d ago

Nintendo and Rockstar make the best games, that’s why they sell millions

Yui_Suzumiya245d ago

Frontwing makes the best games but I doubt many here have heard of those Gods

IMissJimRyan245d ago

Well, if that's the only way to play that game on that platform, I don't know why, in a capitalist system where even products with zero marginal costs are used for profit, they should charge too much less.

If you sell, let's say an old version of Pac-Man is understandable that you shouldn't ask for full price. But if your game is a still modern one or at least a collection of 3 or more aging games, I think it's fair to charge $50, $60 or $70 in today's world. It's the only way to access that game without buying an old, and sometimes everpriced, hardware.

NotoriousWhiz245d ago

Are old movies cheaper than new movies?
Are old songs cheaper than new songs?

VersusDMC245d ago

No to both.

A 4k release of robocop will be the same price or more than a new movie 4k release.

A remastered album will be the same price as a new album.

Digitally it's all a wash as every song is on YouTube or subscriptions and movies on subscriptions as well.

Christopher245d ago

***Are old movies cheaper than new movies? ***

A month ago the latest F&F movie was $25. Now it's $20. It will likely get as low as $15 in the end when not on sale. So, yeah?

NotoriousWhiz245d ago

And then there's Guardians of the galaxy which is currently selling for $20 for blu ray and that came out in 2014.

shinoff2183245d ago

Actually sometimes old movies and songs are cheaper.

Gardenia245d ago

You think they don't know? Gaming has become first about money, after that comes graphic, gameplay, fun and last creativity. It used to be the other way around I remember.

franwex245d ago

It’s always been about money first.

1nsomniac245d ago (Edited 245d ago )

No it’s not. A lot of us come from an era where we built our own fully fledged expansion packs for games and released them on forums. Purely on the basis of we wanted other people to play them and have fun with them. With not a single thought of charging a penny for them. The highest accolade would be getting them listed in the highest ranked list. No one stole them, no one sold them.

You could easily pick up brand new (complete) games between £15-£30 as well.

Soulsborne244d ago

Yeah by selling a fully developed, tested and fun product, not season pass, twitch drops, amazon prime, content ripped apart for the sake of xpacs or future dlcs, no mobile gamers overtaking the industry, theres always been cash grabs but nothing like now at all.

franwex244d ago

You can still do MODS bro. There’s plenty of free ones. The base game still has to be purchased.

You could’ve made mods on quake, as long as you bought the game.

You could also do the RPG maker scene, but to make your own RPGs you still had to buy the program.

I get that you could get that software for free and make expansions and mods, but the original developers still preferred that one pay for the license.

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15 PS3 Games That Would Absolutely Shine as PS5 Remakes

GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."

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kenpachi16d ago

You left out The Darkness games bring those back

fan_of_gaming15d ago

The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that

Yi-Long15d ago

Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.

Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.

A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.

Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.

fan_of_gaming15d ago

Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC

purple10115d ago

God damn I love motorstorm so much

At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version

In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that

Skuletor15d ago

Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.

CrimsonWing6915d ago

I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.

Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.

fan_of_gaming15d ago

Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.

Inverno15d ago

I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.

fan_of_gaming15d ago

Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.

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For just $6 you can play the Red Dead Redemption port on Xbox and PS5

Rockstar Games’ shiny new Red Dead Redemption port is now on GTA+, and you can play it while claiming some tasty GTA Online benefits.

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Profchaos29d ago

Rockstar still strying to make GTA plus work
Should be $6 for the rdr game on sale not 6 bucks for a months playtime

Exvalos29d ago (Edited 29d ago )

I hear ya, 49.99 or whatever the price on that game is, is a bit stiff seeing as it's just a port.

anast29d ago

Why would anyone rent this game?

jznrpg29d ago

One of my favorite games from PS3 generation. I have the remaster as there was a buy 2 get 1 free deal a while back but the price they are charging for the port is way too high although not surprising at all.

CobraKai29d ago

Still tryna milk a dried up cow

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Red Dead Redemption Title Update 1.04 Notes (PS4 / Switch)

Improvements have been made to the stability of the game

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OtterX45d ago

I still think this release was a big waste of time. I would have been a day 1 purchaser if they had redone the game w RDR2 graphics. I still own my PS3 copy, so don't see the point in picking this up if it's minimally improved.

CobraKai45d ago

I bought the game cheaper than the remaster on 360. There’s no reason in releasing the game at that price with so little improvements if any.

Profchaos45d ago

It's nice to have it as a handheld game I guess if you travel a lot but yes the ps5 release was a joke

kaos8945d ago

It plays at 60 fps on PS5 and a higher res if you value that.

OtterX45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

Yea, PS3 graphics at 60fps and 4k doesn't warrant the price. It was severely disappointing considering they already created so many of the assets north of the San Luis River (New Austin) in RDR2 and could have reused a lot of things, or reworked things bc they are the same area at different times in a fairly close history. It's friggin' Rockstar - you know they have the money and resources to have done it.

jznrpg29d ago

I like that I can play the game on current generation console but it would have been nice if they did more to make it look better.

Profchaos45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

They should have released the game in its current state not the state it launched in. Obvious we all wanted this to be a expansion to rdr 2 given that the original map was already remade in the game lots of people though this was just going to be added in later as paid DLC.

Now the game runs at 4k 60 fps on ps5 and can be brought on sale it's actually worth playing.

At launch the game was priced far to high and was a ps360 era game that couldn't run at 60 fps.

I'm in no way a frame rate snob I defended games like tears of the kingdom in the past for being 30 fps experiences but rdr was a joke at launch