Dev complains about people buying games at discounted price

[Don]

https://www.vg247.com/2021/04/18/days-g ... g-podcast/

It sounds similar to the argument against piracy, except this is about people buying games on sales, because that's totally like piracy when they sell a game for $10 because no one was willing to buy it at the full price.

[Eric]

I mean honestly it just sounds like salt. AAA games that answer to those major publishers have to have major results, they don't wanna break even, they want to make bank/sell systems.

You don't really see Indie developers crying about selling 1 million copies of their game for $5 when the profits are split between like 5-7 guys heh.

[Zeus]

Borderlands, Katamari 1, and Arkham Asylum should have taught the industry the value in tiered pricing. Indie games selling at $10-20 like hotcakes (hello, Meat Boy and Blaster Master Zero) should have driven that point home.

But, alas, they have not learned

[Eric]

In fact they raised the price this generation to $70 games. It's rough out in these streets.

[Don]

They always say it's not expensive accounted for inflation but it's not like it's written in blood on a stone tablet that games are supposed to sell for $50 plus inflation adjusted value.

I think when you get into $70 plus DLCs you're talking about money comparable to spending a good deal on a mobile games, which are pretty good quality and generally don't have issues where you don't know what you're getting due to their F2P nature, while even reputable games at $70 can be a pretty big gamble. Yes sometimes spending money changes the experience a lot in a mobile game but generally speaking spending just gets you more power/convenience, and it's not like it suddenly unlocks a mode you can't do. It just means you might actually start winning in that mode.