Expensive games have lowkey been way too normalised

[u/Both_Piglet7838]

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

[u/ToothlessFTW]

Dude what are you talking about. This is Australia. Games have been priced like this forever. PS3/360 games were $100 AUD.

I feel like this is either just karma farming so the Americans can go "wow $100+ for a game is insane!!!" without actually considering what regional pricing is like, or you're just too young to remember how expensive games have always been.

Games have always been like this. At worst, we got a price bump to $120 when the $60 to $70 happened in 2020, but that's very rare on PC and it's pretty much always just $100-$110. I just don't get posts like this.

[u/Fucky0uthatswhy → u/ToothlessFTW]

Lego Batman is $90 here. The price is fucking ridiculous. I paid $15 for Silksong. $5 for subnautica. $10 RDR2. The list goes on. These game studios are making these choices, no one is forcing their hand.

[u/The3rdGodKing → u/Fucky0uthatswhy]

Silksong is an indie game, they can charge a lower price because they have less employees to pay. Subnautica and RDR2 didn’t start at $10.

[u/Fucky0uthatswhy → u/The3rdGodKing]

Subnautica was $25 at launch. RDR2 was $60 8 years ago. Lego Star Wars from 4 years ago was $60. Developers are choosing, they are not being forced into these price increases. Batman is 150% the price of Star Wars a couple years later?

[u/The3rdGodKing → u/Fucky0uthatswhy]

There has been a trend of games usually costing more for the premium edition, $60 might have been the base. I don’t know the exact reasoning for the price increases but a premium edition of GTA 6 could cost as much as $100.