The debate continues to get angry on the internet about whether high -end video games, and especially the largest budget games, need higher price cards. This time, the culprit is Matthew Ball of Epyllion Analysis Company, who commented in the status of the 2025 video game reported that “some gamers hope GTA 6 will cost $ 80- $ 100. [in the USA]Break the barrier of $ 70 and help the title $ 50 to transfer to $ 60, $ 60 to $ 70, $ 70 to $ 80, etc.
Selected by VGC, these comments have now been circulated on social media and has attracted the extremely polarized blend of feedback that you can expect. Among the chipped people, the Publishing Director of Larian’s Michael John, who made a familiar argument that the common price for games like GTA is not necessarily higher than today when you consider economic inflation, and acknowledges that prepaid price does not only explain our devastation.
There is an excerpt from the article VGC with the caption “You should not say this loudly !!!!”
“This is not the reason why the industry is in Shit now, but it is an uncomfortable truth,” he continued. “On the other hand, the responsibility for a game developer is to ensure that the game they show to live according to that promise and that investment from the player.”
Another user oppose that while GTA 6 can get rid of such a walk, that is not likely to be true for most games. “It is really a problem,” the Douse replied, adding that digital distribution has long removed the competitions of the game’s usability imposed by traditional retailers. “We are at a strange time that retail does not identify output & content, but now no one,” he continued. “There is no standard. It is difficult to analyze. It’s a ‘wild western region’. The problem is that perhaps Rockstar is sufficiently influenced to set a new law. And for others will sink or swim?”
The Hope made similar arguments in August last year to meet Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws, commenting on the potential price increase that “people just wait for GTA6 to do it LOL.”
I have combined some of my own thoughts in that last article, but now I will summarize: Yes, the cost/price ratio for the games of the GTA size seems unhealthy, but those who benefit from the price increase are not necessarily the developers of the company (rather than mentioning rental in groups in places with less labor protection)
Prepaying prices may mean that publishers do not have to use money from making money from other money making games, such as micro -hunting operations underground or completely, but when the Douse admits, publishers cannot earn more money. Whatever cost to start, GTA 6 will not doubt when launching with a new reincarnation of GTA Online, with all the seasonal DLC elements you expect.
Wash it with the anti-chair observation of the bench that the publishers of the “Triple-A” publishers have long locked themselves into an understanding of their art that requires them to challenge gravity. The furniture and prosperity must always shine more, more glossy, more realistic; The space must always be bigger and richer with technology investment programs; The numbers must always go up. The industry’s commitment to AI, also known as Fancy automation software, is one of many efforts to solve the problem that you can only use a lot of people to create products of this scale, saying that it is not a positive effort to damage the workforce.
I doubt that many developers, even relatively high-end people at companies like Taken-Two, are also very liked to stay away from this thought, but the most way of saying, if not the biggest of their audience now insisted on it to be taught in this way in my marketing. Sometimes I think that the only way to escape from traffic is a type of collapse of the whole industry, which is widely reset, although the more constructive choice is probably stop thinking about the “industry” completely stopped.
