• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

$70 is the New $60: Ubisoft on AAA Game Pricing Going Forward

AsRock said:
Not when you don't own any of them any more. And by time all the added content they ask way more than $60 for them.
Click to expand...
End user ownership doesn't have anything to do with the initial cost of developing the game itself. Whether you have a disc in your possession or you rely on Steam for everything, you are still beholden to some launcher or other form of authentication which could be shut off at any time. One could, however, argue the cost of this relatively new type of digital distribution compared to the cost of oldschool physical distribution. Rather than manufacturing hundreds of thousands, or millions of discs, or some other type of media such as a cartridge, you now have digital distribution where the cost of manufacturing physical media has shifted to the cost of bandwidth and keeping the distribution servers online. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that digital distribution is cheaper, but there are many other factors at play such as inflation as the most obvious one. Even back in the PS1 era, new games retailed for $50 a pop. That's slightly over $90 in today's terms.

People can whine about greedy publishers all they want, but it is an undeniable fact that the dollar is simply worth less than it was 20 years ago when games still cost $50. Take that with the growing cost and complexity of developing these games, and suddenly the increase to $70 doesn't seem so bad. My problem, as I said before, was all the added costs on top of purchasing the base game initially, with day one DLC being the worst offender.
 
Ubisoft went on my do not buy list after dealing with their support. The NFT and DLC access removal further cemented my position. In fact, I'm contemplating going the Skull and Bones route for the games I have on their platform and outright delete the account.
 
only 1/3 minimum wage in my country!! definitely buying it thx ubisoft!!!
 
gQx said:
only 1/3 minimum wage in my country!! definitely buying it thx ubisoft!!!
Click to expand...

No offense, but should buying games be priority for anyone who earns only that much...?

AsRock said:
Not when you don't own any of them any more. And by time all the added content they ask way more than $60 for them.
Click to expand...

Do I not? Steam is debatable, but GoG? My Cyberpunk 2077 is mine, so is Witcher 3, so are both Pathfinders. Official offline installers, yo.
 
Easo said:
No offense, but should buying games be priority for anyone who earns only that much...?



Do I not? Steam is debatable, but GoG? My Cyberpunk 2077 is mine, so is Witcher 3, so are both Pathfinders. Official offline installers, yo.
Click to expand...

GOG being the only place ?, and not asking $70 $80 $100+.

hat said:
End user ownership doesn't have anything to do with the initial cost of developing the game itself. Whether you have a disc in your possession or you rely on Steam for everything, you are still beholden to some launcher or other form of authentication which could be shut off at any time. One could, however, argue the cost of this relatively new type of digital distribution compared to the cost of oldschool physical distribution. Rather than manufacturing hundreds of thousands, or millions of discs, or some other type of media such as a cartridge, you now have digital distribution where the cost of manufacturing physical media has shifted to the cost of bandwidth and keeping the distribution servers online. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that digital distribution is cheaper, but there are many other factors at play such as inflation as the most obvious one. Even back in the PS1 era, new games retailed for $50 a pop. That's slightly over $90 in today's terms.

People can whine about greedy publishers all they want, but it is an undeniable fact that the dollar is simply worth less than it was 20 years ago when games still cost $50. Take that with the growing cost and complexity of developing these games, and suddenly the increase to $70 doesn't seem so bad. My problem, as I said before, was all the added costs on top of purchasing the base game initially, with day one DLC being the worst offender.
Click to expand...

haha, more like people are dumb enough to put up with it, just like right to repair people are only now realizing they don't really own most of there items and starting to push back on this BS.

Then they have the balls to complain about having to take services away because it's costing to much and they win and you lose every time, as long as it the change don't effect them they don't give a flying uck about disabling content which you might of payed a lot for.
 
AsRock said:
GOG being the only place ?, and not asking $70 $80 $100+.
Click to expand...

How much do you think I paid for my Wrath of the Righteous? It was not 60 EUR, nor was it less. Season passes and DLC's are a thing on GoG too.
 
Easo said:
How much do you think I paid for my Wrath of the Righteous? It was not 60 EUR, nor was it less. Season passes and DLC's are a thing on GoG too.
Click to expand...
Good points. However, it should be said, most "premium" titles are sub $70 and the DLC thing is not the predatory kind of thing like it is on other platforms.
 
Fasola said:
Ubisoft went on my do not buy list after dealing with their support. The NFT and DLC access removal further cemented my position. In fact, I'm contemplating going the Skull and Bones route for the games I have on their platform and outright delete the account.
Click to expand...
Darn right. All Ubisoft releases are high seas exclusives as far as I'm concerned after the DLC removal.
 
Easo said:
How much do you think I paid for my Wrath of the Righteous? It was not 60 EUR, nor was it less. Season passes and DLC's are a thing on GoG too.
Click to expand...

But you own them....
 
AsRock said:
But you own them....
Click to expand...
Exactly - but it was about the fact that even on GoG you can very very easily pay more than 60 units of cash.
 
Easo said:
Exactly - but it was about the fact that even on GoG you can very very easily pay more than 60 units of cash.
Click to expand...
But unlike the comptition, with the sole exception being Steam, you get what you pay for on GOG. You get actual value for your money.
 
lexluthermiester said:
But unlike the comptition, with the sole exception being Steam, you get what you pay for on GOG. You get actual value for your money.
Click to expand...
Ehh, it also is kinda questionable if it came to pass what would EU do and actually what EU thinks about this kind of "ownership".
 
Easo said:
Ehh, it also is kinda questionable if it came to pass what would EU do and actually what EU thinks about this kind of "ownership".
Click to expand...
From what I understand, EU law fully supports it. The ideal of ownership of what one pays for is a protected value in most of the EU.
 
lexluthermiester said:
From what I understand, EU law fully supports it. The ideal of ownership of what one pays for is a protected value in most of the EU.
Click to expand...
So basically Valve would be forced to concede. Probably something like "you cannot remove the ability to play the games people have paid for no matter what was your legal jargon", or create offline installers.
 
Easo said:
So basically Valve would be forced to concede. Probably something like "you cannot remove the ability to play the games people have paid for no matter what was your legal jargon", or create offline installers.
Click to expand...
That about sums it up. Enforcing the law for software distribution is complicated.
 
Easo said:
No offense, but should buying games be priority for anyone who earns only that much...?



Do I not? Steam is debatable, but GoG? My Cyberpunk 2077 is mine, so is Witcher 3, so are both Pathfinders. Official offline installers, yo.
Click to expand...
digital market bro. they adjust it for currencies usually(and sensibly) but big firms don't really care when they have whole other market they can impose their 70$ selling just for their name and earn tons of it. and you are right owning a home or car so expensive right now in my country still you can't stop breathing cause some group decided to siphon whole country's resources for themselves
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top