Incredibly Expensive Video Games Are Not Necessary And Contribute To Job Losses, Exec Says

Well they ditched regional pricing so they only made video games not scam in USA and few countries in Europe, additionally world economy is very bad people cannot even buy eggs in America duck yeah even after Trump made America great again lol so they expect people to happily pay $100. You'll clearly lose customers so it would ruin the video game companies for not making a sell as you'll even cry for $40. Some will continue to buy games at discounts but this becoming a personal issue therefore just like how people stopped buying games because of Denuvo as they only buy from GOG anymore this price will make people stop buying to make a stand. Enough is enough. Learn your place. People can survive without your product but you cannot exist without customers. If you won't sell fairly you'll buy your doom. :DDD

Better to have 20 expert cooks in the kitchen than 2000 incompetent ones. Cheaper too. And when a project doesn't quite work out, it's not as much of a catastrophe.

After all, many beloved series began as smaller scale games that only got popular later on, through word of mouth or after a number of sequels. Not every game will be a hit on its first try, but that doesn't mean it'll never happen. Look at Fire Emblem, it took them 13 games from the NES to the 3DS before it actually became popular. That success would never have happened if the first game had cost 200 million dollars to make.

Apparently much of the reason that video games become incredibly expensive is because of mismanagement.

Jason Schreier writes:

Most alarmingly, games are growing more expensive because of rampant mismanagement — because of companies chasing trends, making bad bets and lacking a clear creative vision. Inefficient workflows, technological shifts and insecure executives can all be the cause of wasted time, which equates to higher budgets.

There’s the feature that gets canceled because the CEO’s teenage kid didn’t like it, or the level that everyone knows is going to get axed but that they all have to keep working on because the cancellation hasn’t officially been communicated yet. Or maybe it already has been canceled and nobody told the audio team.

It’s worth noting that video games do need ample iteration to be good, and some of the most successful games have been the result of so-called “wasted” work. Cuts and cancellations are not always a mistake. But there are also countless examples of teams of hundreds floundering in pre-production as they try to figure out what a game’s “core loop” will actually look like. That might seem like welcomed news for workers who get to relax for a while - until crunch time comes along and there’s no more leeway for the game to slip.

There is also a pretty good video breaking it down you can find here.

"Folks accept uncritically that games are too expensive to make without asking why the suits who are literally in charge of how much things cost aren't in charge of how much things cost"

"Guess what class of [expletives] are to blame" "has anyone asked them why games are too expensive to make but executives aren't too expensive to pay"

Maybe it is time to turn the spotlight more on the management, and for the games media to start asking questions regarding the failure of management of unsuccessful games, and how they will improve management in the future.

It sounds like companies would do better making a smaller concept that is fun, and then building on that if it is successful.

Some companies have let employees work on their own pet projects during company time, using company resources, on paid time. It is a certain percentage of their workday that they get to spend on this. Some excellent games have come out of people working on what they find fun, and this approach might also be good.

And there it is, the truth, keep prices below $70, best $50 if you want people to keep buying your stuff, otherwise it will be in the bargain bin before it is bought up.