Why does Just Cause 3 cost $85.00?

[moonbogg]

So, if you want to buy the whole game and experience the creative work of the whole game (something people normally expect), so far it costs $85.00 according to steam price of $60 + $25 for expansion pass. This whole idea of "release mid range content for full price now and charge them again later" nonsense has to stop. Its like game companies are taking a page out of Nvidia's playbook with selling half a product at full price. This is too expensive for a game. I thought about buying it to mess around, but I want to play the whole thing and that game is not worth $85.00! No game should cost eighty five effing dollars.
Prices like this make me want to pirate stuff. I don't blame people for pirating. I say drive the entire industry into the ground by pirating the crap out of everything. Screw them. They already said screw us, so I say screw them.
Seriously, they charge $85.00 for a damn computer VIDEO GAME and they expect people to not pirate the CRAP out of this stupid thing?

 

[ImpulsE69]

Don't.....buy....it? Besides I heard it is only so so anyway.

There are so many pretty decent to great $1-$20 games these days there is little reason to bother.

 

[Sabrewings]

Or, just wait until it's cheaper. Is it a race to play games before the next guy?

 

[RockinZ28]

So don't pay it? This is for people that need it MEOW! As long as people are buying $60 games plus another $25+ for an unknown content season pass, it will continue. As well it should.

I wait for games to hit ~$20 or less, then pick up the whole DLC package if it seems worth it when under $10. Plenty of other new and old games to keep me busy instead of paying top dollar.

GL pirating JC3 as well.

 

[TechBoyJK]

It's so so. I bought it on sale for about $20 (no DLC). I'm enjoying it, but it could be better.

 

[poofyhairguy]

A $60 dollar game in 1996 (of which I bought plenty) would be over $90 in today's dollars.

Something had to give.

 

[cbrunny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sEUrJSWOQg <-- watch this before you complain.

Just Cause 3 is well worth the price of admission. That game is freaking amazing. I've logged a bit over 40 hours in it so far. Easily the most entertaining game I've played in quite a long time.

The DLC actually looks and sounds like actual DLC, oldschool style. The video I linked above is the trailer for the first expansion which adds among many other things a jetpack-type ability. I haven't pre-ordered the expansion pack yet but I see no reason not to.

 

[cbrunny]

In addition, JC3 also uses some DX12 code apparently. It's pretty cutting edge technically as I udnerstand it. I am not 100% sure but I believe they are going to release a full DX12 client at some point, but I may be wrong on that.

As others ahve said, if you dont want to pay for it, dont. But there's a reason the price is what it is.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Yea, the only games I have paid full price for recently are FO4 and (unfortunately) Legacy of the Void. Overall though I try to get games under 20.00. I have a huge backlog of older Steam games, and a low end system, so I dont expect to be buying any AAA games for quite a while.

I dont regret paying full price for FO4, it is worth it. Think I have 200 hours in one character and 50+ in another. Legacy of the Void, OTOH, definitely was not worth it. It is even more APMish than the earlier games, and somehow I just cant identify with the Protoss(got it mostly for the SP campaign to see what happens to Kerrigan). I have had it a few weeks, and only played a level or two.

I dont really have a problem with the price of games going up. 70 or 75 dollars would seem reasonable for a high quality AAA game. I dont really like the season pass, day one DLC, and that type of thing though. I would much rather pay a bit more for a complete game at release.

 

[moonbogg]

I like the idea of waiting and buying it on sale, well after the frenzy is over. Its a $20.00 game to me. Something to screw around with for a couple hours on a weekend. Whole game with all DLC for $20 or less. I'll buy it then.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I like the idea of waiting and buying it on sale, well after the frenzy is over. Its a $20.00 game to me. Something to screw around with for a couple hours on a weekend. Whole game with all DLC for $20 or less. I'll buy it then.

Well I just looked at allkeyshop says the main game can already be had for $25. $20 is a bit low for a game that new, but I bet by the Steam summer sale you can pick up the game and DLC for around $30.

 

[frozentundra123456]

A $60 dollar game in 1996 (of which I bought plenty) would be over $90 in today's dollars.

Something had to give.

Maybe for console games. But wasn't the standard price for PC games 50 bucks until just a few years ago?

Still, like I said in the other post, I have no problem with the price going up. More the problem is the quality of the gameplay, lack of innovation (sequel after sequel), and technical bugginess.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Seriously, they charge $85.00 for a damn computer VIDEO GAME and they expect people to not pirate the CRAP out of this stupid thing?

I'm not a scurvy dog, so I just wait until the price comes down to what I'm willing to pay. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!

 

[futurefields]

its a joke, they are just greedy

all these companies got jealous when Valve started making tons of cash on Steam and Blizzard on WoW

they all want Valve and WoW esque revenues

 

[moonbogg]

Well I just looked at allkeyshop says the main game can already be had for $25. $20 is a bit low for a game that new, but I bet by the Steam summer sale you can pick up the game and DLC for around $30.

I could live with $30.00. Not bad.

I'm not a scurvy dog, so I just wait until the price comes down to what I'm willing to pay. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!

RARR!!! Why are you yelling! No one is pirating anything I was just expressing ANGER!
RUFF!
SNARL!!
GRRUUFFFF!

 

[poofyhairguy]

I could live with $30.00. Not bad.

Yeah that is my best guess, something like $33 by summer sale. Of course that is all speculation based on how other AAA games have dropped price on Steam in the past.

 

[futurefields]

Just Cause is AAA?

 

[sweenish]

How is this a topic when CoD has "cost" $110 for years?

 

[Slew Foot]

They see people dish out thousands on some crap B- freemium app, that they know they can get away with it.

 

[zinfamous]

A $60 dollar game in 1996 (of which I bought plenty) would be over $90 in today's dollars.

Something had to give.

I don't recall $60 games in 1997--unless you are talking upmarked prices for import exclusives. That was the height of PS1, still SNES era, where your AAA first release was $45-50.

I wasn't buying many PC games at that time, but I'm pretty sure the first time I saw $60 games standard was the PS3/X360 era, by which time I was well into PC primarily. I think it was still quite rare the $60 PS2/XBox game, no?

 

[poofyhairguy]

I don't recall $60 games in 1997--unless you are talking upmarked prices for import exclusives.

The best Nintendo AAA console games were up to and over $60 during the SNES and N64 era. Cheaper games really weren't a thing until the Cd-based consoles, and then it really took the PS1 Greatest Hits series to get them anywhere near what we expect for old games nowadays.

In 1995 I bought Donkey Kong Country for $60 new. In 1996 I bought Super Mario RPG and Super Mario 64 for $60 new. Heck I remember N64 Turok was $70.

Here is a chart from 1992:

 

[Zenoth]

I don't recall $60 games in 1997--unless you are talking upmarked prices for import exclusives. That was the height of PS1, still SNES era, where your AAA first release was $45-50.

I wasn't buying many PC games at that time, but I'm pretty sure the first time I saw $60 games standard was the PS3/X360 era, by which time I was well into PC primarily. I think it was still quite rare the $60 PS2/XBox game, no?

I wouldn't be able to tell how much it was in U.S. dollars, but here in Canada back in the 1990s our brand new console games were definitely $50 to $60, sometimes more. The most expensive game I ever bought brand new was the SNES version of Killer Instinct at Future Shop, which cost me $110 with taxes (it came with the OST CD and I suppose it wasn't free, lol). Also I remember Star Fox on the N64 costing me around $80 I believe with taxes (that one came in a bigger-than-usual retail box that also included the Rumble Pack). They were not common, however, at those prices. Still, the "normal" price was well around $50 to $60, both for cartridge and CD-Rom games. I do remember paying $60 or so for a brand new (day one release purchase) Metal Gear Solid 2 on the PS2 (which was in 2001).

Then again, that's in Canadian dollars.

 

[zinfamous]

The best Nintendo AAA console games were up to and over $60 during the SNES and N64 era. Cheaper games really weren't a thing until the Cd-based consoles, and then it really took the PS1 Greatest Hits series to get them anywhere near what we expect for old games nowadays.

In 1995 I bought Donkey Kong Country for $60 new. In 1996 I bought Super Mario RPG and Super Mario 64 for $60 new. Heck I remember N64 Turok was $70.

Here is a chart from 1992:

that is one weird chart. I sure as shit know that FF II was not $70. Also, wasn't that 93 or 94?

I did pay $80 for Street Fighter 2, but that is only because it was the un-censored Japanese import, with the Famicon adapter (we paid $15 for the adapter, iirc--so $65 for SF2 cartridge, and only because we wanted to play it some 5 months before the US release.

Is that Australia or Canada dollars or something?

 

[Jaepheth]

Just 'cause

:awe:

 

[poofyhairguy]

that is one weird chart. I sure as shit know that FF II was not $70. Also, wasn't that 93 or 94?

FF2 came out in in 1991 actually. I don't remember its price, I never owned it, but I paid $60 for Final Fantasy 3 years later. Don't take my word for it though:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/why-retail-console-games-have-never-been-cheaper-historically/

That article has much better charts:

Cartridges were always expensive. I can understand though if you remember the CD consoles having cheaper games, because that was true: