My first thoughts? "Wait a minute...
I DIDN'T create this thread..."
I thought I'd blacked out, hacked OCF, and painstakingly recreated every post of an argument I'd already exhausted.
I've got nothing to add except you've all been brainwashed by the combined forces of marketing and PR firms.
You're doing nothing but regurgitating the same nonsense they came up with while out at a convention down in the Cayman Islands... high as falcons.
"OH GOD won't someone think of the poor, destitute, trillion-dollar gaming industry!"
I mean listen to yourselves:
"Derrrr... Well it's actually worth WAY more than $70 since I'm getting over 876 hours of joy out of it..."
No human being on this planet actually thinks like that. That is NOT some original idea that popped into your head.
Do you even know who first said that? JIM RYAN... CEO of f'n SONY back in 2020.
Ryan wouldn't discuss first-party pricing, particularly for premium titles
www.gamesradar.com
It wasn't HIS original idea either. It's what his PR firm told him to say to get you to swallow this b.s..
...and swallow it you did!
Here's Nintendo's own take on it where they essentially back-up what I said about price gouging in Europe and use that as a defense for jacking up the price of Zelda!
"It's actually a fairly common pricing model either here or in Europe or other parts of the world, where the pricing may vary depending on the game itself."
Nintendo of America CEO Doug Bowser granted a rare interview to Associated Press, presumably as part of promotional duties prior to the February 17 opening of its Super Nintendo World theme park at Universal Studios Hollywood. In an article published on March 13, AP News journalist Greg Keller...
www.techpowerup.com
I am NOT making this up. The entire European price fixing system would be... and IS illegal in America. Or do you not recall when music stores got in trouble for it back in the day?
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/11/...s-settle-federal-case-on-cd-price-fixing.html
Also his argument about the price being based on "What the game has to offer" is absurd. Did Mario Kart have nothing to offer? Mario Odyssey or Galaxy have nothing to offer? Zelda? Metroid Dread? Animal Crossing? SUPER SMASH BROTHERS ULTIMATE?!?! Nothing to offer at all in any of those?
CLEARLY he's charging $70 because he waited to see if the other game companies would get in trouble for it and now he's taking his swing at the bat.
If gaming is worth more based on how many hours of play a game has... then don't all of you owe the Skyrim and Oblivion developers a LOT of money? Hell... if it's worth more by the hour then why don't you PAY more? Why not go down to Humble Bundle and jack-up the price to $300 per game?
Didn't like my chess analogy? What about strategy games then? Why isn't Civ VI $150?
Why isn't Microsoft's Flight simulator $3000? You can actually learn to fly an ENTIRE FLEET OF REAL PLANES in it.
Why? Because it's a moronic argument. That's why.
And what angers me so much about it is that I spent the first half of my life sitting in corporate meetings listening to absolute jackasses come up with exactly these kinds of arguments. And the most bizarre thing in the world is that it always worked because people are gullible sheep.
If I said it... you'd never believe me. But if Phil Spencer says it: "Gee I dunno guys... I think this man has a point."
Wake... t.f.... UP. You've been played.