Xbox first party titles expected to hit $80 USD this holiday; Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.

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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

$80 on release day. $60 a month later. $40 a year later. $20 a year after that.

What you're paying for isn't the game, its the hype. An enormous component of a modern AAA game's budget is just advertising. That's what your $80 is going towards. You're paying to have people tell you to buy it.

Even assuming you don't feel like pirating... Just be patient, play something that came out a few years ago, wait for the next Steam Sale, and own the game for pennies on the dollar.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I agree with the first paragraph, not the ones after

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://mainleaf.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-market-a-video-game/#elementor-toc__heading-anchor-0

    As a rule of thumb, you're looking at 25-50% of a AAA game's budget going to advertising. So a $40 game becomes an $80 game in large part because the publisher is putting out $10Ms-$100Ms just to raise name recognition and build hype.

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