So I think it’s safe to say now whenever it comes to video game prices the genie is completely out of the bottle and if you think I’m wrong look at all of the AAA releases that have come out over the past 6 months you have Starfield $70
Diablo 4 $70 you have Suicide Squad killed the Justice League $70 and now you have the world’s first ever quadruple a game Skull and Bones $70 so this is a huge problem that started back in 2020 actually whenever take to Interactive released NBA 2K insert year
Here for $70 and since then it’s now become an industry standard for every single major Studio to release their games for $70 and I’m going to try and explain to you in this video why that’s an overall detriment to the video gaming Community now I’m really not trying to
Come off as some kind of Doomsday guy I don’t want to be the guy that sits on the street corner with a sign around his chest and says you know the world is ending repent change your ways and I know this isn’t going to matter to a
Vast majority of people who may be watching this video but I think it will because the majority of people who are buying games are regular workingclass people and this will affect them entirely because they are starting to feel like they are being priced out of the AAA game market and you may be
Saying dude $10 more big deal I don’t care I buy you know $10 worth of coffee in two days well the thing that I’m actually concerned with is the current rumors that GTA 6 is going to release with 100 $0000 price tag and once again I’m going to play devil’s advocate for
Myself here and say hey Rockstar makes very high quality games they always have so who’s to say they shouldn’t be pricing their games at $100 because we actually feel like whenever we spend $1100 we get $100 worth of content and video game quality well what I’m trying
To convey here is that the average video game executive is not going to see a huge quality difference between rock stars games and the games that they produce so what I’m trying to say by telling you that is that there is no way that zenmax the parent company to
Bethesa is going to look at Elder Scroll 6 and say the hype for this game has been there since it was announced back in 2018 we’re only going to sell this game for $70 I’m telling you there is a 0% chance of that happening zenmax may
Even sell their game for $120 who knows it seems that the industry standard can be set by just one studio and that is a very very scary thought because all it takes is one AAA Studio to drum up enough hype for their game to get a lot
Of casual fans who may not be as clued in on the video game industry and the video game Market as you or I to basically shell out $100 for a video game and then boom every video game from then on is now $100 I’m trying to convey
To you guys how much of a problem this is and you may be saying Simple Solution here just don’t buy the games for for $100 and then they won’t be able to make their games for $100 cuz they’ll see that it only hurts them in the long run
Well that doesn’t really matter to them as much because you see the hype already for GTA 6 do you think that people would not be willing to spend $100 on GTA6 there are going to be Millions upon Millions upon millions of sales for GTA
6 and if that price is set at $100 every other video game studio will see wow it’s viable to sell our games for $10000 now and the reward structure is already there especially in the dude bro gaming scene I I kind of might have coined this
Term a little bit the dude bro gaming scene I you know this is your madens your NBA 2ks your Call of Duties you know all these games that you get home from college and you hop on with your fraternity Bros and you just play co-op or you play online and you talk about
With you know maybe even people at work hey bro hit hit a 2.0 KD what that’s crazy there’s no way you liar show me show a screenshot of your KD that’s what I’m talking about with dude bro and what I’m trying to say is that they have gradually and completely changed their
Pricing model from $60 to $70 and now it’s going to stay at $70 do you know why it’s because those kind of games are going to have amazing sales every single year and we know that for a fact with the recent Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
That just came out it was the second bestselling game in 2023 which proves that if you increase the price people are going to buy a game that they already want to play no matter what and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 was probably the worst quality Call of
Duty game that has ever released so naturally you draw a line from that to other Studios and then they’re just going to keep increasing and increasing and increasing until they completely price out lower class and the middle class and the main reason reason that I actually care about this is because I
Loved a lot of the products that these Studios produced back in the day and I would absolutely love to see them get their comeuppence and then realize hey there’s something that we’re doing wrong here we need to step back and go back to what made us the great AAA game studios
That we were in the first place and if they start getting rewarded for increasing their prices and lowering their quality we’re never going to see that ever because at this point it’s very unlikely that we’re going to see another marawi another Diablo I another Batman Arkham Asylum or another
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood from all of these AAA companies who are now switching to a $70 pricing model while delivering absolute garbage on a regular and consistent basis and a lot of people wonder why I like to complain about AAA games so much on this channel and why I
Highlight Indie and smaller develop on this channel too and it’s because one is something that I used to be completely in love with I used to be completely in love with all the games that I talk so badly about nowadays bethesa up until you know Fallout 4 was my absolute
Favorite game company of all time I was The Ultimate bethesa Fan I thought all of their games were perfect and that seems to also be the sentiment of a lot of Prior fans of theirs because now we just feel shafted it’s it’s very diff difficult to describe just the disappointment that I
Felt whenever I played you know the end of Fallout 4 for the very first time or whenever I played Fallout 76 that was really the nail in the coffin for me but I know there’s a lot of people who feel the same way and there’s it’s just so
Sad to see that these wonderful old companies were completely squandered by almost nothing more than greed it’s disheartening but on the other hand games like pow world like balers Gate 3 like hell divers 2 these games that are made by smaller Studios for half the price in some cases even a
Third of the price are soaring in popularity and I think that speaks a lot to how people feel about the modern gaming industry people are very fed up with having to pay a mega premium for a absolute dog water product it’s it’s like it in any industry if a product
Starts becoming bad people are going to look for cheaper options and in some cases they find that the cheaper options are better and that’s what we’re seeing right now we are seeing a major shift in the gaming industry it is my genuine hope and belief as stupid as it may be
That the bethesa of the world the Activision blizzards of the world the Ubisoft of the world that they can actually look at the examples that balers Gate 3 that pow world that hell divers 2 is actually setting right now for them and it can change their opinion
On how they’re approaching games and it can actually make a shift in the industry that we’ve been wanting since like 2018 since they started producing these garbage games and I know it was a lot earlier than 2018 that they started doing this kind of thing but that was
Around the point that I really started to take notice of it and it’s really my hope that either the companies that we love will go back to their old ways and prod games that you know we actually want to play and we ask for but on the
Other hand it’s just as good to see smaller game studios who actually care about what the players want and what they tell them it’s so great to see them succeed and it really makes me think that we may possibly be entering another golden age of gaming where the AAA
Companies of old and the quadrupole companies of old are left by the wayside in favor of smaller Studios who just do it better better than they do but until that shift happens games are just going to keep getting more and more expensive and they’re going to keep exploiting you
For however much they can really and that’s kind of a negative note to leave this video on but I mean honestly I’m in a negative mindset while I’m you know researching and recording this video it’s just because it’s it’s such a depressing thing to see really but regardless I’m going to keep supporting
Indie developers smaller developers basically anyone who actually delivers on what they promise and make actually good games and I really think you should too because there are some real hidden gems out there that are just waiting to be uncovered but as always if you like
The video please give it a like if you want to subscribe please do that I’d really appreciate it I’ll catch all you guys in the next video later there’s a lot here to be excited about I think this could be very positive for our society
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