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[Aguero9320]

Nope. Can afford, not stupid though. GamePass and sales for me.

Waiting for AC Valhalla plus dlc to drop below $30. Don't care when that is.

Last gen I got suckered into three preorders, disappointed with them all - The Division, RDR2 and Borderlands 3. Realised I would have enjoyed all of them more at a more reasonable price. Cannot imagine paying $70 for Ratchet & Clank, as much as I love those games. #waitforsale.

 

[The_Mike]

Why are you poor? Just get money lol

 

[Sander Cohen]

Well, our wonderful sellers here in are selling Demon's Souls for 150 BAM at least (92$). That's funny. I could think of exactly 1 game I would be ready to buy for that price day 1 and that's GTA VI.

 

[digitaltrance]

$70 for a license? No. Physical copy if I really want it, yes.

 

[ZippyTheOtter]

Not a fan, but I'll pay the admission fee for things I'm excited about.

The rest will wait for the bargain bin.

So I'm only slightly the problem

 

[FatKingBallman]

Well, it was inevitable. Anyway, in my country when someone goes into a cinema, they at least spend 100$ on tickets, food and what not for a 2 hours movie. So, games at 70$ are still good i guess.

 

[hroerekr]

I wonder the effect on the industry. People are less likely to impulse buy as it gets too expensive. Waiting for a sale? The aggressive launch buzz and marketing effect phases out over time and many don't even bother.
Big popular game types (your cinematic 3rd person open world experience) will be fine. But other franchises can hurt from it.
We will see how Ratchet PS5 performs.

 

[NeonDelta]

depends on the game for me. i really want Ratchet and Clank but i cant see myself paying £70 for it and i dont want to pay £60 for Sackboy

 

[Orutisu Furio]

Now that our hobby is about to get more expensive, will you all go along?

Personally, I rarely if ever paid $60 for a game - I almost always wait for a sale. So, $70? Nah.

Very few games released in any calendar year are rarely worth their full retail price, especially with the current state of modern gaming development promoting nonstop microtransactions, "season passes", "battle passes", and all other sorts of nonsense that in my opinion severely take away from gaming as a medium for entertainment or story telling.

Looking back in the last decade of my overall game purchases — I rarely purchased games at their full retail price unless I was confident enough I was going to receive something worth it to me or something I knew I really wanted to be involved in. Maybe twice a year I purchased a game at full retail price, if that.

Spending $59.99 US on a video game was already rare for me, and the idea of now spending $69.99 today — given everything I have just stated, is almost laughable unless it is something totally stellar, which isn't common these days as far as I am concerned. How often do we get a God of War, or a good Halo, a good Zelda, or an Uncharted? Once every few years.