Computer game prices skyrocket to $ 70, and gamers are nervous

Square Enix has announced in a precedent-setting move that its two new games will be available on PC platforms, but the price will be the same as that of next-generation consoles

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14/12/2021

Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 23:45 Updated: 23:51

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Over the past week, Square Enix has made a precedent-setting move in the industry, announcing that its next two games, the Final Fantasy VII and Forspoken game remakes, will hit PCs on Epic Games and Sets platforms, but for the first time they will "boast" a $ 70-per-pc price tag. Which to this day has mostly commanded the next-generation console players.

Currently, the standard for the big AAA games was about $ 60 per game in its standard version, but the rise in game prices has already begun with the new generation of consoles, the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X \ S.

The reason for the same price increase provided by the distributors is that as time goes on, the game development process becomes more and more complicated, and the development costs not only become cheaper but also increase due to the use of modern and newer technologies.

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Forspoken and Final Fantasy VII Remake will arrive on the PC for $ 70

Forspoken (Photo: Official Website, Square Enix)

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, who served as chairman of Sony's gaming division, claimed several months before the launch of the new-generation consoles that today the economic model on which they are based today becomes less lucrative for them as long as distributors price the games at $ 60, while development processes only continued. complex and more expensive. and argued that the length of the games be shortened, or the consumer could expect an increase in prices.

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, CEO of Take-Two has previously claimed in an interview on the subject "the new price matches the quality of experience", and this is a modest increase in price relative to the quality of the game Which the same player eventually gets. The same statement was made about games like NBA 2K21, and was among the first titles whose next-generation version cost about $ 70 the new generation, while the previous-generation version remained at the base price of $ 60.

Games like FIFA and Voice of Duty have also raised their prices for next-generation consoles, it seems that it was Square Enix that decided to set this initial precedent in the industry and price its new games under the new price tag and prick more PCs too - a precedent that PC gamers do not Satisfied with it at all.

NBA 2K21 was one of the first games to experience a price increase with the launch of the new generation of consoles

NBA 2K21 (Photo: Official Website, 2K)

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Although PC gamers usually find it much easier to get discounts on games on different platforms through various and legitimate promotions or CDKEYS stores, there are still quite a few users who purchase games on the day of their launch, and this is a price jump that can affect players' consumption habits.

As of this writing, Epic Games has removed the prices of the Final Fantasy VII remake from its platform, and it is unclear whether Square Enix intends to keep those prices or change them in the future.

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