Google strawman.
Look, I don’t mean to be a dick but unless your reading comprehension is abysmal you’re purposefully misunderstanding my point.
Like I said,
That’s very different than deciding to increase the price arbitrarily in the middle of developing an early access title that’s been in development for 5 years, and isn’t releasing officially yet.
I’m okay with how Minecraft did things. Same with titles like BG3, Hades, Shovel Knight, and countless others. This is different, and if you can’t understand that after I laid it out twice for you then it’s clear you’re not arguing in good faith.
Again, there’s literally no reason for you to believe that this price increase somehow means you’ll never have to pay for dlc. Have you never heard of Factorio?
And for the record, like with your Minecraft example, I’m not against devs charging less for Early Access versions, alphas, betas, etc, and charging more for the finished product when it fully launches. That’s a very common practice, in fact it’s the standard.
That’s very different than deciding to increase the price arbitrarily in the middle of developing an early access title that’s been in development for 5 years, and isn’t releasing officially yet.
Nope, they decided to accept purchases for a game that isn’t finished, and in doing so promised that one day it would be. If they stop now they’ll just be scammers.
They should do what Larian did. Release the game in EA, develop the game with those new purchases helping to keep things going, then release it when it’s complete. No artificially changing the price, no bs.
And in what world has what we’ve gotten from free Satisfactory updates constituted would-be paid dlc? Or are you just using hypotheticals that aren’t relevant?
Hence why you release a new product. You can’t indefinitely make income from one thing until the end of time.
You can charge more for a new product, as you can actually scale for inflation when you have to make it from the ground up. After all, the tools and manpower it required cost more now. So you can charge more.
But asking for more money for a product that was made half a decade prior, that didn’t cost what it costs now since inflation wasn’t where it is now, isn’t the answer.
Listen, as a general rule of thumb, if even EA and Activision won’t go there, maybe you shouldn’t either.
I wrote is elsewhere but I’ll write it again here:
Inflation affects physical goods because you need to make the product from the ground up every single time. Those materials cost money, and rise with inflation, so making the product from scratch each time gradually costs more as time goes on. Hence why they need to raise the price of the finished product - otherwise they'd literally lose money on each sale.
Digital goods don’t work this way, once the product has been made it can freely be distributed without having to be remade again and again.
Yes, it costs money to patch and update. But that’s not comparable to rebuilding the product from the ground up like with physical goods.
Maybe games as a service shouldn’t be a thing then. Just a thought.
By that logic any game that gets updated should have its price increase. No Mans Sky should cost like $100.
Gross, and they even used the “inflation” excuse the Factorio devs used, despite it literally not applying to existing digital goods.
Not even EA would try to increase the price of a half decade old game…
Edit: And wow, putting it on sale right before a price increase? Sounds like fomo to me.
I mean I live in CT, and technically I have wolves and bears, but neither are going to appear under my toilet paper
I’ve never been more glad that I don’t live in Australia than right now
Eh, the inflation argument never moved me for a variety of reasons. But either way, if that’s true then the first part of my comment applies.
Depends on if the publisher is scummy or not. BG3 and Elden Ring were $60.
Even then tho, this game was $60 back in 2010. Releasing for the same price 14 years later is insane, not even EA would pull that.
A 14 year old game releases at full price. God Nintendo is the worst
