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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Switching to a higher price
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:00:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:59 this Sunday (GMT):
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:44:00 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Side note:
>
> Apparently the Switch 2 version of "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the
> Wild" (which will be a 'complete' version) will costs $90. I guess
> that once you set the 'new standard' price at $70, you might as well
> go for broke and up the price of the game everyone actually wants
> (even if it is almost ten years old by now) at $90.
>
> AS I said, I'm not totally against the price hike; it's been a long
> time coming and normalizing at this higher rate might make some
> publishers
>
>       [Not the Ubisofts or EAs or Take Twos or 
>        ActiMicroBethesdaVisionSofts; I mean the smaller 
>        publishers that may still prioritize quality games 
>        over revenue-at-any-cost]
>
>             reconsider things like MTX, F2P or live-service nonsense
> designed to endlessly vaccuum cash out of player's pockets because
> it's the only way to remain solvent.
>
>
> Still, $90 is quite a jump. Especially for a game that's been released
> on at least two previous platforms already. That's getting to
> Bethesda-level of audience-milking.


To be fair, did /anyone/ really play the Wii U version?
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