Thread : 3h ago.
Accourt : 2 days.

You were waiting for your moment, weren’t you ?

And then you have Clair Obscure: Expedition 33, an AA indy gem that goes for what, 50€ ?

80€ games are a symptom of the marketing cancer that plagues modern AAA games. No need for a 1000 person team, what they need is passion for the medium, and a dedicated team that isn’t impeded by executive greed.

Ok, blocked.

Just kidding. Debate is good, but unfortunately some of them is done in bad faith, either just for trolling, or because the oposing side just has no intention of even considering your arguments.
In both case, blocking is justified.

I counted 3 of them.

Problem is that by doing that you are basically telling them “my answer is better than yours”. That not yours to decide, and that’s the reason you get downvoted despite having a part of what OP was searching for.

Just think of the obnoxious kid that’d boast for having half a point more than you did. You basically did the internet equivalent.

I added a break 😆

While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments? They are not incorrect, it just makes you look like an ass.

Is it still asking for root password everywhere ?

Instance name too.

Truly the dark ages…

$60 in 1992 is about $135 in April 2025, inflation included.

Sure games became more complex, but tools became more powerfull, and so did computers.

In 1992 you often had to code your own engine, which amounted for a good chunk of the development cost. They had to do that using a ressource envelope magnitudes smaller than what we have today. Heck, a jpeg screencap of the original Mario game is bigger than the whole original game itself. Let’s not forget that games where physical, which had to be included in the final price.

Todays devs often uses off the shelf engines, tools that automate some of the tedious task, like making trees (Speedtree) and asset reuse is done on an industrial level, there are even marketplaces for that. Moreover, game distribution changed to be mostly digital, you don’t need to factor the medium price into the asked price.

You cannot really compare 1992 dev costs with modern ones. The whole way games are done changed way too much for that.

Moreover, the market has grown way beyond what is was then. The required profit per copy sold is a lot smaller than it was then, and thus should be accojnted for.

Honesty, I don’t see a AAA needing to have more than $60-70 atm, and I think this bump in price is entirely due to the ever increasing marketing cost, more than the game development.

Hey! Pope down the puns a bit.

You just had to wait 2 more hours for that.

My dad uses LibreOffice for years, still call it OpenOffice 😂.

You mean OwnCloud, don’t you?