Path: local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:59:59 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Switching to a higher price Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:59:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-NJisBUA8UiqKRZ5tsdcelvzgoy4cGxbkNuGEhPqycfVUoHBP2/m/r1+V846nn/YCSec6xAEUVZqOgcx!EPbd43xGQiJOEJNFTfArbtn5xh/q2qHz9J5s/GZuYmpnabLI0HrlH1b5zvaFjV9Xsse7CIKp X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2201 On Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:44:00 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson 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.