EA undecided on next-gen pricing

I cant believe it is so much more expensive to buy games in the UK than compared to america... Lucky Yanks! ;)

It's ok EA we will decide FOR YOU on next-gen pricing since we have the power to obliterate you by not buying games from you day-1 if they're more than $60+Tax. We vote with our wallets. I bought Crysis 2 Limited Edition brand new & sealed for $25 on eBay. SUCK IT EA!!!

I had to laugh when I saw the $69 dollars statement as I knew it was a mistake. $59 dollars per game is a stretch currently in this gen for me.  This has been the only generation of consoles that I've bought less than 100 games and I've been there since day one.  Every other generation of consoles when I've owned a specific console I've owned  at least 200 plus games by the end of that generation. I don't believe in buying a game I'm not going to keep.  For me that's troubling, I've always seen games as an investment in the past and that changed with the PS3 and Xbox 360. 

I think games should hover around the £30-35 price range and anything else the players can always pay for with DLC.

I really believe that once games, either for console or PC, reach $70+ USD, I will find new ways to occupy my time. Games are like the dollar menu at most fast food chains. They don't get any better entertainment wise, so they stay at that price point. Sure games look a bit better with each tech advance, but underneath they feel the same. I just don't get the same fulfillment as those games of the late 80's, to early 90's. 

I'm not so worried about the pricing... are they just going to keep shipping the yearly updates disguised as new titles for yet another generation?

well. 80$ is the average now. 

season pass. and all that jazz. so lame. 

The PS4 has thoroughly impressed me, but EA has thoroughly brought me back to the reality of todays market.  As much as my game selection will dwindle (based on personal interest only, not platform restrictions).  I may just have to do as someone else suggested.. jump to PC and support Steam sales until further notice.

i wonder how much their games would sell if it was the only one above $60

"The second reason Taneja said he believes EA will succeed on future-generation platforms is due to the company's existing technology smoothly scaling to the new systems. "

"The architecture of the consoles is based on standard PC components and technology. So our own investment in our backend engine?and our libraries, our tools, will very smoothly run on these and make it easier for us to innovate to the new console technologies themselves,"

"What used to take months in the past, will now take days."

So with the above in mind, we can expect the cost of Next Gen games to actually decrease? given that game development will be much easier.

What am i thinking? dont be f**king stupid!

I personally boycott all of the games that need additional DLC. 

In fact, I either buy the full version (or the most complete version) of those games or don't buy them at all.

And this is why people pirate games. Because they can't afford to pay over 60 dollars for a game with 3 hour single player mode, with 90% of the focus for multiplayer bullshit.

$66 (after tax in my state) is the very reason i went to gamefly in the first place.  i refuse to pay that much for games that don't offer much in total play value.  i sure as shit won't pay over $70 for a game unless it has a proven track record like GTA.

Why not just go to $100? Or maybe 150? EA is capable of anything when it comes to money. The opposite when it comes to their costumers - take more, give less...

You know, you could always send an email to CFO Blake Jorgensen saying you're not interested in playing 69.99, or 59.99, or even 49.99. Just saying.

I think EA should start to think how to sell those games in the first place.

No lessons learned from MOH Warfighter?

EA can do what they want, but I"m not going beyond $60. in fact, I haven't paid more than $50 the last two years. I wait for retail deals and coupons. I get a lot of the best games for $20--$40 and all I have to do is wait a month from release.

Yeah, $59 is already asking too much. People will start buying LESS games if the price goes up.  Most of these guys are trying to drive out the retail market and get consumers to buy digital product.

SCEA games will not go up, but they do not speak for other developers. This happened on the PS1 for awhile where their games were $39.99 new while other companies had them set at $49.99.

Not going to pay anymore that 59.99 for a game. I don't like paying that much. I feel that most games these days over charge for the content. Most games now only offer 4 to 6 hours of play. A total waste of money compared to those we use to get that offered hours of play at a fraction of the cost.

Answer, whatever fuck they can get away with.

Here it comes, $69.99 games.  Meaning after sales taxes in my state a game will cost $74.19.

And there I go, to my PC, where I only exclusively buy games on Steam during sales.

Imagine people making $8 bucks an hour at crummy jobs, working 8 hours a day.  After a full day of work they wouldn't be able to afford a new console game.  The industry should be ashamed of itself.

TPB here I come

Since you will be putting microtransactions into every game (because it's being "embraced by the community"), maybe you should lower the cost of the base price of the game to entice us into actually getting it in the first place.

Undecided on price, how about this EA? Put whatever you want on it and then watch me not buy it.