Their games aren't worth pirating.

I stopped for years so imagine my surprise when I was seeing their games for free/extremely discounted (like $2-4) on Steam.

Still didn't buy them.

Also Ubisoft.

It means if GTA6 launches with a $100 price tag and still sells boat loads, everyone else saying they aren't even going to $80 will suddenly suffer amnesia.

I legitimately don't understand why people pay these prices. If no one buys, prices drop. Impatient rich people poisoning the well

Yeah, wasn't sims 4 with all dlc like 1 grand just a couple yeara ago?

The base price increase would still raise the total with DLC. Not including the DLC is still worth talking about, since there are plenty of ways to enjoy a game without it.

well DLC has always cost money on top of the base game so i’m not sure what your point is.

edit:

you're ignoring that if you buy all DLCs you get much more content compared to old $60 games. If you want to look at this fairly you need to come up with some way of quantifying the content involved which is not easy to do.

I do agree that some DLCs are clearly designed as money grabs (like most premium/gold launch editions). But i disagree with lumping all DLC into that category, especially bigger expansions that release a year or more later.

Yep, we are on to AAAAA games now.

I don’t think one ever came out. Microsoft closed their studio to make them.

At least with video games we don't have to buy them to live.

Speak for yourself

*Sony's little experiment, wild that people keep forgetting that TLoU Part 1 did this first.

For a remaster no less.

I'm afraid most proctologists would disagree with you on that..