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GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/games@lemmy.world

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While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

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[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

He didn't say it but he wants you to RENT software not OWN it. Make no mistake, this would be BAD for consumers.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

thats what mmos are. its been done.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

That's not software. That's a service. If you can't pay, you can't expect them to be maintaining servers.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

well yup and thats what they want the games to be. a service. multiplayer diablo2 was much like an mmo but no servers needed. You could run the server and play with your friends or even open it up but everyone needed to have a copy of the game. so it has been done and they want to do it more and more.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

While I'm super into self hosting instances, that usually defeats the point of MMOs. The unfortunate truth of the matter is that the publishers of MMOs often defeat the point of their game after long enough anyhow.

All that has generally pushed me towards round based games where the only advantages are my own personal skill.