It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal

Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by iaaan on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:27PM (#31633579)

I feel like we're well past due for some kind of price hike on AAA video games. Games were $60 when I was a kid, and inexplicably, they still are, for the most part.

Unfortunately, since investors have figured out that the subscription model extracts the most profit possible, I have a feeling we're going to be seeing more and more of that rather than a simple price increase.

Wouldn't surprise me if we even see Steam unveil something like Xbox Game Pass for their marketplace within the next few years. Maybe the worst part is the fact that you no longer actually own anything when all you're paying for is a subscription, but that's more or less how Steam already works, minus the recurring payments.

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by wetpaws on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:30PM (#31633603)

People keep saying games should cost more, and yet games routinely gross orders of magnitude more than in the past due to sugnificantly expanded market.

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Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal by nightski on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:48PM (#31633755)

The market has been rapidly expanding for a long time, hence less need to increase prices. That plus if you include special, gold, ultimate editions, dlc packs, microtransactions, etc prices have been going up.

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