On a recent episode of the Pachter Factor, Michael Pachter laid out the real reason why the price of games is increasing and it's not because development costs have gone up.
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Turned based Phantasy Star and Shinning Force remain at the top of my list of Sega IPs that need to return. At the very least I'd take a Shining Force collection that has 1,2,3, CD and the Game Gear entries.
I don't trust Sega to do a proper comeback. The games will be just remastered and/or monetized to death.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
huh... completely forgot about this guy.
Yeah $70 dollars is ridiculous, mainly because they are not making better games, they are making the same games and just charging more, these new titles have nothing going on that was not in the $60 buck game... it's just a cash grab, and that's a dam shame..
If the game had better physics's and more things going on, better destruction, longer story ( meaning the game lasted more then 6 hours to beat) had more enemies far better effects, then I would be all for it..
But to pay more for the same game, which is what these studios are doing, that's a hell no.... Complete Epic Fail..
For once Pachter is actually right...
I do find that I won't purchase a £69.99 game at all...2 weeks after launch it drops in price anyway! Just makes you feel stupid when you buy early, it's like they think we are suckers who have no self control.
Believe it or not...Pachter actually predicted that Xbox would purchase Bethesda a years before they Xbox bought them.
There is a certain truth to what he says... it's just the way he says it.