Do we raise the price of video games? Or do we live with microtransactions

Do we raise the price of video games? Or do we live with microtransactions

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I don't buy AAA garbage that hemorrhages half of their budget on advertising, so I don't care.

It's as if fun is subjective or something.. Maybe the guy in the quote was asking why a certain game's gameplay was good, and got nothing but fun as a response.

False equivalence, microtransactions aren't added because they need to offset cheaper initial prices simply because literal casino tactics are the better cost-effective way of making money.

That said, a higher price would still be hugely superior to microtransactions, but it won't happen because now games are "services" aka gambling and abusive nickle and diming parlors.

then why aren't all games free to play?

I'll just buy them later if you raise the price. Your paradigm assumes that the majority people buy video games when they are a peak price.

That's exactly what they are in the mobile market and we are already seeing many PC games moving to free to play models.

pro tip: neither

There is literally nothing wrong with microtransactions as long as it's purely for cosmetics

Raise the price and keep the micro transactions to just make people butthurt is the only acceptable answer.
Only a redditor would say otherwise.

You are what the industry calls a useful idiot.

>he unironically pays to post on 4chink

>wanting to solve a stupid fucking captcha every time you post

What a cuck

>solve a captcha
>what is legacy?

thanks for correcting the record, Sup Forumsedditor.

Both

Microtransactions and lootboxes need to die.

>raise the price of micro transactions
>corporate jews still want more
>keep micro transactions

Games as a service is not a bad thing. Even if the game is comparatively bare bones at launch, regular major updates are a great way to spark discussions and get people playing again.
>Siege
>Splatoon 2
>ARMS
>TF2 (though it's not really regular anymore)

Don't buy AAA shit.

You put less money into advertising

>AAA garbage that hemorrhages half of their budget on advertising
But you're fine with the Switch and all that Nintendo crap

How about neither. How about we cut the marketing budget in half for starters. Then we'll see how much profit they make off the 3 million x 60 dollar copies sold.

Neither. Companies that do that shit are not in the red. They just want more money because they can.

Proposition three: stop the blockbuster hyper-budget bullshit and let next gen scale back accordingly so that every project doesn't become a potential suicide for anyone but the richest.

Maybe they should try making cheaper games.

TF2 does the opposite of support your point, the game was destroyed by Valve over the years. It's unrecognizable trash at this point from what it used to be. It has been unplayably bad since 2010 and it's only gotten worse.

Sounds like a falasy

I wouldn't mind if this "service" shit strictly stayed in f2p multiplayer games, but it didn't and now we have lootboxes in fucking fully priced singleplayer games.
That's why accepting this kind of shit is stupid, publishers will always push as hard as possible as long and there's money to be made.

Neither. AAA game development needs to die.

Neither. Go neck yourself shill.

Add 3rd option of: spend less on game dev

It wasn't the best example but a game surviving long enough to get regular threads over a decade later is pretty impressive. I knew saying overwatch would garner a worse response.
I don't support loot boxes or micro transactions, honestly I shouldn't have replied to that guy. I just like when games get dripfed content, especially if that helps keep development costs down.

You just have to click "I'm not a faggot robot" and done.

>Also lurk moar

>but a game surviving long enough to get regular threads over a decade later is pretty impressive
Not for a valve game, you can still find games in HLDM, TFC, and CS 1.6 fairly easily, the same won't be true of TF2 when it's as old as they are, because its fucking shit and because Valve keeps trying to turn it into a modern disposable game everyone will forget about the moment it stops getting updates rather than the long lasting stand alone multiplayer game it was originally designed to be.

neither you dumbfuck, you stop spending so much on marketing just because "hollywood does it", when the only reason hollywood does that is money laundering/tax evasion
the vidya industry, whose primary shareholders are retarded, has yet to figure this out, and wastes billions overpaying idiots who shouldn't even have jobs.