That really doesn’t make sense unless Steam has increased the fee charged per purchase.

It’s not like economies of scale and recouped capital investments haven’t lowered the price of manufacturing optical disc media over the last few decades. And it’s not like digital downloads eliminate the cost of manufacturing copies of the game and shipping them to retailers and consumers.

But physical manufacturing costs have decreased. It is cheaper by orders of magnitude to manufacture optical discw now than it was 15 years ago. And with digital downloads, there are no manufacturing or shipping costs at all.

You’re absolutely right, economists don’t care about working class people, however you fail to realize that this is a bad thing. The economy is absolutely spiraling down the drain for normal people.

Yes. But that doesn’t necessarily make the idea of releasing free monthly updates for 6 years a sound business strategy.

The difference is the video game industry has shifted significantly in terms of what it takes to create a game and sell it. In 2000 the developer/publishers would be lucky to make 25% off a game sale due to distribution and retail profits. Now they’re making 70% selling on Steam, for instance. That’s drastically…

It was released five years ago and the last update was two years ago. I question how much inflation effects something which is not subject to cost pressure.

All of these are fine justifications on paper. But then you have to realize the video games is a multi-billion dollar a year industry where CEO’s of large companies can give themselves bonus cheques in the 9 figure range.  In another few years the industry will cross that threshold into a trillion dollars.  Inflation…

With so SOOOO many people defending this, I look forward to the big companies following suit.  Now instead of 7+ year old games getting cheaper, they’ll just keep raising the price to “account for inflation”.

Does seem like a particularly odd move for a game that has been regularly on sale, and for as little as 2€. Who’s going to buy that at full price, let alone an increased full price?

Considering that the developer also, among other things, doesn’t think statutory rape should be a thing, and thinks if no violence occurred then it wasn’t rape...yeah, using a Notch quote is right up this garbage human’s alley.

I can’t think of any other game that has done this so it’s a bit premature to consider this a trend. Games sometimes get more expensive when leaving early access but Factorio left early access in 2020. I can’t think of any other game that received a price hike after it’s 1.0 release.

Again, the weird thing isn’t that this game costs $35. The weird thing is that the developers raised its price after it being out for almost 7 years. Raising a game’s price after its release is very unusual.

It’s been 60 far longer than 360:era.

This finally motivated me to just remove it from my wishlist. I didn’t know that the not going on sale thing was a dev policy, otherwise I never would have added it in the first place. I rarely pay more than $20 for any game (that’s what patience is for), so if I wasn’t gonna buy this for $30, I’m sure as shit not…

I have no real opinion for or against that price hike (or the game itself), but I just noticed that the developers use a quote from Notch of Minecraft fame and subsequent Twitter infamity as testimonial on the Steam page.

Okay, but couldn’t they cut like the top execs pay? Its not like they are so tight on money that they need to layoff people. But they still did layoff people.

I dont know if I’m for or against this. I mean, a game this old shouldn’t be getting an increase, you cant just coast on 1 title and expect to keep making good money on it. But at the same time it is a smaller dev, so I get it.

But, the game already exists. Its not like its being developed during inflation. 

Its not like they are hemorrhaging money or anything. The company numbers are solid from what a commenter has posted. If anything the Top execs are paid too much still.

What is the logic behind increasing the price of games or game systems recently? It’s not inflation its greedy.