{"id":101636,"date":"2016-08-19T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101636"},"modified":"2016-08-19T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:59:28","slug":"how-much-should-we-be-paying-for-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101636-how-much-should-we-be-paying-for-games","title":{"rendered":"How much should we be paying for games?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the highly-contentious release of No Man’s Sky, consumers are once again asking about whether we are paying too much <\/a><\/strong>for our favourite hobby.<\/p>\n

Despite its numerous technical achievements, many are arguing that No Man’s Sky is not worthy of its $60 (R850+<\/a><\/strong>) price tag, as various other survival\/exploration games are available for a fraction<\/strong><\/a> of the cost and arguably offer more content.<\/p>\n

In contrast, games like The Witcher 3, Skyrim or Mass Effect all offer hundreds of hours of gameplay for the same price.<\/p>\n

Yes, these are RPGs and not survival\/exploration titles, but they have much bigger development teams and should cost much more to make.<\/p>\n

In fact, very rarely do we account for factors like the size of the team (compare the size of Hello Games’ original <\/a><\/strong>ten man team compared to the hundred or so<\/a><\/strong> who worked on Skyrim), how the game is being funded and who is publishing it.<\/p>\n

Speaking to RockPaperShotgun,\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>the indie team behind Brigador explained that consumers do not fully understand how much a game actually costs to make:<\/p>\n

We have spent 5 years making Brigador, if you include when we started building the engine.<\/p>\n

5 years.<\/p>\n

Much of that has been working full time, 6-7 days a week, 8+ hours a day. Even at a very conservative estimate that\u2019s over 10,000 hours of work per person, and there are 4 of us. We did not do a kickstarter, we do not have a publisher. We have funded this entire project out of pocket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Video games still offer the best “dollar to hour” value according to Get Data,<\/a><\/strong> and that’s assuming you bought the game at full price on release.<\/p>\n

This is in part because of length and replayability, and because pricing has remained virtually unchanged since the inception <\/a><\/strong>of commercial gaming, only really adapting with inflation.<\/p>\n

\"Get<\/a><\/p>\n

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How much should games cost? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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