Bitchford wishes he could be part of something that was even near a single iota of the same quality of BG3.

I didn't even buy Borderlands 3 for $60 and there's no way in hell I'd pay $80 for something similar. I spent the full price of Baldur's Gate 3 for myself and two of my friends for a total of $180. Make the game worth it and you have my money. If the development cost of games has gone up then prove it and make better games.

Charge what you want but don’t be cocky about it, easy.

There once was a game that was not free
The head of the game was big Randy
He joked one day with a cheery grin
Real fans would pay the fee HUAGH

Soon may the pirates come
To snag some games and have their fun
One day, when the cracks are done
We'll take our games and go

I’ll buy this when it’s $20 with all expansions in two years.

It’s not because of Randy Bobandy here, him making an inane, alienating comment is his gimmick at this point and should be expected. It’s t because I found that if I play a game on release I end up playing the worst version of the game. And then I never play expansions because I rarely replay games and I’m not about to play an expansion to a game I haven’t played in a year without replaying the base game again.

So I buy games a year late, at half the price. I love gaming.

Look, you can charge whatever you want.

"Is your game worth $80 to average gamers dealing with (gestures broadly at state of world economy)?"

That is the question every studio executive needs to ask themselves.

Given the recent trends in AAA-funded projects, for the most part, that answer is "Oh, hell no."

We need piracy guides for linux users as well, brother/sister

I mean, extremely low hanging fruit there...

Exactly. They can charge $200 if they want to but it doesn't mean people are going to buy at that price. The price point needs to be where people are okay paying for it and I don't see it happening at $80. Okay, I lied a bit, I see it happening for some games but not for BL4.

I thought BL3 tanked so I'm pretty surprised they think they can charge this month. Did it review poorly and still sell well??

Yeah, inflation is a thing. But so is increasing volumes in sales with low cost distribution of the product.

After a game is made now, the only cost is distribution now, and games sell in larger volumes than ever before, making more money than ever before. A game like BL4? Even if they spent $300,000,000 making the game they only need to sell 6,000,000 copies to recoup costs at $70. BL3 has sold 18,000,000 copies. A huge profit, even if most of those sales were on sale prices. BL3 was made and advertised with a 140 million dollar budget.

How do you know for certain without seeing gameplay or trying it? No one knows what's in the game except the devs.

What if it's OG borderlands and there's no battle pass or microtransactions.

This is more of a don't pre order type thing.

Greasy Randy isn't exactly known for being not gross prior to the comment either

Love doing this with modern atlus games. Cant wait to buy the "royal golden reloaded remaster collection" edition for $20 from a used/third party retailer.

What if it's OG borderlands and there's no battle pass or microtransactions.

Ha, good joke

Every Corporate asshole: "Give me all your money, you don't need to eat, sleep, or live. If you don't, you're not cool like me!"

So sick of dropping asshole companies because of idiots constantly pushing this garbage. Oh well.

"But I was trained in management school to think of people as nothing more than numbers! It's not my fault!" - corpo piece of shit.

If Ubisoft can convince themselves that Skull and Bones was the first "quadruple A game" and worth $70, then I doubt most studio execs can pull their heads out their ass for long enough to properly ask themselves that. Studios have completely lost touch with what people actually want and are willing to pay.

Not to mention, all of the dlc that'll inevitably be released, following every other borderlands game pattern. Wonder what they'll try to set the prices of those at