Capcom Raising Prices Starting With Dragon's Dogma 2

The long-anticipated Dragon's Dogma 2 is now available for pre-order, but at a higher price than previous Capcom games.

[Duke19]

$70 is now the new standard. Anyone still claiming the industry is at $60 is kidding themselves

[SimpleSlave]

Actually, the industry is at $30 to $35 bucks throughout the year. I just got Resi 4 Remake and Jedi: Fallen Order for $30 each. You just have to exercise some patience is all.

People are too impatient. Just enjoy the backlog or a few of the indie games while the price plummets on the big titles.

[Inverno]

There's isn't a game that doesn't go down almost 20 bucks a couple months after release during a sale. 7 months later it's down to less than half price during a sale. 70 is for suckers, these publishers don't even believe in the value they set when they so easily put down prices so quickly.

[ApocalypseShadow]

You sound like me. I just bide my time until it's a price I'm willing to pay. Last Gen, I didn't buy more than 5 games at $60. Most of it was $40, $30, $20 and $15. With many indie games less than $10. And that's having enough money to buy Neo Geo priced games. I didn't then, and won't now, pay more than what I think something is worth to me.

Patience is a virtue. Just like gravity, anything that goes up, must come down eventually. Capcom and everyone else can do whatever they want. It's what I do with my money that matters.

[mkis007]

Inverno

Unless its made by nintendo. Ridiculous that botw is still standard priced talking msrp.

[Brazz]

Same here. I rarely pay fullprice on games

[Snookies12]

Plus, you get the added benefit of all the patching being finished by then! Any annoying bugs, or missing features will have been fixed up nicely by the time you find the game at a reasonable price.

[Duke19]

That doesn’t change the fact that full retail price on new games are $70. Calling this out as anything remotely unique to Capcom like this article is just misleading.

If people want to wait for price drops, sure. But that’s an entirely different topic

[Good-Smurf]

Steam sale and when in doubt, Steamunlocked are your friends.
Unless they DRM it to death obviously then its wait for deep discount for me regardless.

[Einhander1972]

SimpleSlave

This is exactly it.

To be fair this game is back burner for me anyways, This game is no where close to FF7R2 for me, heck, I want Granblue Fantasy::Relink more than this to be honest.

If I get brutally honest I could wait until it's on PS Plus.

[neutralgamer1992]

Simple

Thing is we are in the minority otherwise madden, NBA, fifa and COD would be top selling games on yearly basis

FOMO is real for so many people it’s simply unbelievable

[Elda]

If one has it like that then buy day one. Any game that I'm anticipated to play I buy day one of release may it be a $30 Indie game or a $70 AAA game.

[esherwood]

$70 is a bargain for a AAA game and I have no problem supporting companies that don’t push mt’s.

[ChasterMies]

This is the right idea. Pay what you want to pay.

[smashman98]

You're probably the smartest commenter on the internet.

[shinoff2183]

True enough. I'd rather wait. The only games I might buy brand new is something I must have asap(star ocean 2 remkae) and once in awhile a jrpg I feel might become rare. I don't wanna have to find it once it does Ala legend of heroes cold steel. The first 2 are dumb priced.

[Binarycode]

Ding Ding. Well done.

Wait for SP games to drop or second hand.

Buy only MP if you know you're going to get stuck into it and it'll last a long time.

[Gregero]

Same here. I just now got God of War Ragnarok for 35 bucks. There was no way I was gonna pay full price for a PS4 game on a PS5 so I just played other games throughout the year until GoW finally went on sale. I'll probably do the same with FFXVI when it hits 20 bucks in a few years.

[specialguest]

With the cost of everything that has gone up significantly including food, dining out, cars, rent/housing, etc, $70 for a video game is not that shocking. I came from the 8 & 16 bit era when some games were $80, so $70 isn't that drastic. Video game is not a necessity, and there's always a price cut down the line. Daily necessities like food and shelter price hikes are more painful

[shinoff2183]

Not alot seem to wanna hear this out. Games prices stayed pretty steady until recent. I'm surprised it lasted this long.

You point out the late 80s and 90s with the 8 bit 16 bit Era. On top of games being that high. Minimum wage was like 3 to 4 dollars an hour. Give or take certain years.

[CobraKai]

It’s been $70 for new games since the start of this generation.

[1nsomniac]

Only because naive people let it happen.

The reason we now have inflated prices is that they can now put a sale label on it and sell it for £50.

It’s the people with no spine that accept the ridiculous narrative to begin with. Ignoring the blatant facts of how profitable the industry is.

Cant blame Capcom for it though. They kept it real for longer than most the others. They’ve just seen how weak people are and decided they might as well finally join in or get left behind.

[maniacmayhem]

Yes, let's not even bother to consider that the cost of developing games are almost if not more than a big budget Hollywood movie.

The fact that they kept games this low while everything else has been raised is a blessing. But these companies can't sustain that for long, which is why we're seeing more dev doors closing and more companies laying off employees.

[1nsomniac]

Yes it’s not the norm, but when companies are stating it was possible for them to make their entire AAA tier development costs back in 24 hours when charging £50.

They have naive people like you bent over a barrel and you’re loving it!

Every generation they’ve attempted to increase prices and failed. I know, I’ve lived through it. Because they’ve been called out. But guess what?? they’ve continued to make games for decades. I guess they made them with unicorn tears and high hopes. It’s just this generation of kids are stupid. They just accept it all.

[maniacmayhem]

Everything you said let's me know you have no clue on what is actually happening in the real world.

There's a reason why we're getting nothing but sequel after sequel of known IPs instead of new IPs, there's a reason why games are going service based, there's a reason why once independent studios are being bought by publishers, there's a reason why studios are not hitting their yearly profit goals and why there's unprecedented mass layoffs across the industry.

It's a gamble releasing a game in the market nowadays. Especially a new game up against titans like a CoD or anything remotely similar. Just ask Immortals of Aveum.

The cost of making games a decade ago is no where near what it is now and the examples I left above shows this. This industry held on as long as it could but it's just not sustainable at the price in retail.

You would be completely insane to think, in this market that games, while everything else is raising, would stay the same as it did years and years ago.

[1nsomniac]

It’s called growing perpetuity. Look it up.

These companies aren’t making less money. They’re making more money. Just not enough growing year on year profit for the shareholders.

[TheEroica]

70 bucks for the most expensive version in the worst possible shape.... Enjoy! I usually pay no more than 20 for a game.

[RhinoGamer88]

Just make sure they playtest and bug-fix it for launch. More money = higher expectations!

[Chocoburger]

Absolutely this! Over the past decade games have been released increasingly buggy and unfinished. If companies want to increase the price then they also must increase the Quality Assurance period to make sure games are released in a completed state.

Otherwise no sale. Stop pre-ordering games, and stop supporting companies releasing unfinished games.

[isarai]

AAA games, mid tier have been just fine. And I pre-order all the time, but I've been gaming long enough to know when to avoid doing so. I wanted Cyberpunk 3077 so bad, but never pre-ordered cause I smelled that BS from a mile away.

[isarai]

CAPCOM or really the vast majority of Japanese developed games don't seem to be plagued with the same issue. I really wouldn't lump them in with the likes of EA/ACTIVISION/UBISOFT/MS

[RhinoGamer88]

Well the original DD, even with the updates, had that strange endgame logic bug that screwed me. I could not recover from it...even with my saves. Ps4 game.

[purple101]

Where is pragmata.

Give me pragmata

NOW

Last we heard : https://youtu.be/h4Q7Q8e3M0...

[Einhander1972]

Yea, I want to see more of that, I really liked the original trailer.

From that first show i am also waiting to hear more on Slitterhead too.

[Rainbowcookie]

Last I heard is the game was put on hold indefinitely.

[SimpleSlave]

What's that? Are you saying that we'll be able to Buy it at $30 bucks a month later or on any of the holidays throughout the year?

NOOICE!!! 👍

[Vengeance1138]

$94.99 standard edition cost in Canada.

[clevernickname]

Yeah, only impatient fools or fanbois buy games at full price.

[isarai]

Or just people with enough disposable income 🤷‍♂️

[anast]

Your image is great, Cookie Monster is good people.

[VersusDMC]

That's digital only. The physical stays 89.99.

Don't have proof for dragon's dogma 2 but P3R is 93.49 digital and 89.99 physical.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Some games on Steam have hit $110 for standard in Australia, that's a big jump from $70, I can tolerate a jump to $80, but you're smoking something when it hits $110. I tend to wait for sales anyway, but even old games like Cyberpunk have just increased in price too (should have got it when it hit $30 on sale earlier this year, then got the DLC later).

[Games1st]

I can wait.

[Crows90]

Sure whatever...these companies can try to sell it to me higher...I won't bite.

[CrimsonWing69]

Raising prices? This is the f*cking standard MSRP. It’s crazy they haven’t gone to the stupid $70 standard until now.

[TiredGamer]

It’s inevitable. Inflation and soaring development costs only lead to one path.

[Seafort]

Lower sales.

[TiredGamer]

I remember being in disbelief when R-Type for the Turbografx retailed for $69.99 in 1990…. That’s $165 in today’s dollars…. for a 512KB arcade shooter made by a dozen people….. mind blown.

The “dollar” cost of items will never be static. It is the nature of economic growth that leads to inflation. Inflation, on its own, is not entirely a bad thing if it increases at a steady rate commensurate with GDP growth. But to think that the dollar can lose value yet the cost of goods (games) remains static is foolish.

[VersusDMC]

Why did Capcom raise the prices on this game? It is a cult classic at best with ok sales. They should have done it on RE4.

Now Dragon's Dogma 2 has to deal with the 70$ backlash articles for when a developer releases their first 70$ game.

[Minute Man 721]

Bring back $40 price tag.....

PS1 days

[Einhander1972]

I'd be happy if they just brought back "Greatest Hits"

[ghostrider32]

With prices going up, they better not release anything buggy and unfinished.

[Lionsguard]

I've been waiting for this game for over 10 years and the trailers look incredible, pretty much everything I ever wanted. I don't care if its $100.

[Droppedez]

Good job Capcom, you turned a 60 dollar sale that I would have paid as a preorder into 30 bucks if you are lucky

[Firebird360]

Normally I wait for sales. But ive wanted DD2 for years. This is a day one purchase for me.

[Jingsing]

I can wait years until I buy a game, It isn't going anywhere. I recommend people do the same. However the cynical take would be that this is also a push to make people take on subscriptions by pricing individual purchases out of the market. That being said if you run the numbers most people only buy 5-10 games a year and not at full retail. That still works out better than paying for continued subscription access long term.

[anast]

Day 1 without microtransactions day 100 with microtransactions.

[TheEnigma313]

I haven't bought a$70 game yet. Just wait a few months, and it'll be half off.

[Ironmike]

I could be wrong but I thought orginal was supposed to just okay

[Goozex]

From software 60.00

[maniacmayhem]

It's funny to see everyone now express concern for high price tags on games and now giving out advice to wait for price drops or sales weeks or months later, way after an initial release.

I remember the slogan "support the dev" not long ago as some type of clap back when gamers would express how they would wait for games to appear on Game Pass.

Now it's time to wonder if services are actually a good thing to subscribe to considering how expensive everything is and how little you get.

[TriniOutsider]

Well, 79.99 and 89.99 are now the standard prices for us here living in Canada.

[shaenoide]

What the point in buying single player games (often half broken)at full price day one when you can wait a promotion at 50% one month or two later.

[Zenzuu]

Nothing new.

The average game prices for here in Australia is roughly between $90 to $100 dollars, and it has been this way since the PS2 era.

[antikbaka]

buying on 25-50% sale is new standard

[Agent75]

Probably the biggest debate in the gaming, the price of games. But even consoles and controllers etc. have been at eye watering prices for X amount of years now. I was there when Mega Drive and Super Nintendo games clocked in at £50+. Older gamers will remember games on tapes for under £10 (Commodore 64 and Spectrum etc.). Moving to consoles, games clocked in at £30+. Nintendo 64 games topped £70 in the late 1990s. Still, if you think these prices are worth it, crack on. Few people have mentioned playing a backlog of games and let prices stew for a while until they drop in price. Some people wait until a console generation has ended then they jump in and pick it all up cheap. It's pushing it going over £40 and you tend to find Nintendo's games don't really drop in price much (Switch games). Been at this lark for around 40 years. It's worth sitting back and let games drop it price.

[Knightofelemia]

Capcom raising prices figured it would happen was just wondering when. I just want more info on Pragmata I am hyped for that game but its like it fell off the radar after it was announced.

[vTuro24]

Translation: Wait for Capcom sales slightly longer starting with Dragon's Dogma 2.

[RhinoGamer88]

Frankly, $69.99 is fair but give us a sweet pre-order deal...not just the base game.

[jznrpg]

Single player games like this are worth it imo. The first game gave me a ton of play time.