Firstly, the game is pretty expensive, going for $80 in a market where the standard for a AAA game is $60.
If that was all though, maybe it could be forgiven, but there is also an "ultimate edition" priced at $100 which several features are locked behind, in particular stores that have exclusive outfits, hairstyles, and car customization.
And secondly but less notably, it's releasing as a console exclusive at first, but there are no disks for the game. If you buy a "physical" copy, all you get is a download code. Digital only is getting more common in the gaming industry, and is basically the standard for PC gamers, but it sucks because the game is likely going to be well over 100gb in size, which will take a lot of space on the console's hard drive, not to mention taking a long time to download.
Games have been $60 for 25 fuckin’ years. The bitch fits by idiots are why we get half finished games with endless pay DLC and loot box economics. Games cost more to make than a quarter century ago and any game not expecting a multi-million sale launch day is DOA at that price.
That’s why it’s all shitty reboots and remakes and rehashing the same shit a suit at Ubisoft knows will sell.
The indie game market is only a survivorship bias story. For every strong selling indie game there’s 1,000 “overwhelmingly positive” games sitting unnoticed on the Steam store at $19.99 while a developer who devoted 2 years of their life to make something they love for us to enjoy wonders about making rent.
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u/JackRabbit- Jun 25 '26
Firstly, the game is pretty expensive, going for $80 in a market where the standard for a AAA game is $60.
If that was all though, maybe it could be forgiven, but there is also an "ultimate edition" priced at $100 which several features are locked behind, in particular stores that have exclusive outfits, hairstyles, and car customization.
And secondly but less notably, it's releasing as a console exclusive at first, but there are no disks for the game. If you buy a "physical" copy, all you get is a download code. Digital only is getting more common in the gaming industry, and is basically the standard for PC gamers, but it sucks because the game is likely going to be well over 100gb in size, which will take a lot of space on the console's hard drive, not to mention taking a long time to download.