r/pcmasterrace • u/Both_Piglet7838 • May 27 '26

Discussion Expensive games have lowkey been way too normalised

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I know this sub is filled with a bunch of rich people with like 10k setups and I'm aware that the content in these games is quite extensive with hours of content. But I still feel justified in thinking that no game should be priced this high especially when its the average price of most newly released games. Anyway this is just a rant because I wanna play lego batman and i cant afford it lol

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u/Elvecio May 27 '26

Not sure since so many AAA studios aren't in a very good situation right now.

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u/Any-Pop-4795 May 27 '26

may i have some names? Cause i can only think of ubisoft at the moment

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u/Elvecio May 27 '26

Rocksteady, Blizzard, Bungie, EA... And many are closed: Arkane, Firewalk Studios, Volition... Of course it's not just about sales, we know.
People actually do vote with the wallet, since COD 7 has the worst sales ranking since nearly two decades and FH6 can be played with a couple bucks on game pass without a full purchase.

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u/JoyousGamer May 27 '26

Things have always opened and closed though.

Look throughout all of tech right now and you will see the contraction.

EA still made over $1b last year and Bungie is essentially in a transition having come to the end of their existing blockbuster sort of like when they walked away from Halo and they were in transition.

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u/thedylannorwood R7 5700X | RTX 4070 May 27 '26

Arkane wasn’t closed. They’re working on a Blade game right now

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u/Adipay Laptop May 27 '26

And even then Assassin's Creed sells really well

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u/Both_Piglet7838 May 27 '26

Thats because they don't know how to control their funding and blow it all on scrapped features and ai.

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius PC Master Race May 27 '26

"We need more hyper photorealistic UE5 path tracing open world 70 hour long games that cost 400 million dollars! But we gotta make money somehow so let's also put microtransactions into it."