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Pro-tip: Broke people don't buy more expensive shit.

Who the fuck is asking a giant bank what they think about the price of anything?!

because the fucking bank surely has a sensible idea of a videogames price for the sake of the people who buy them and know what a good videogame is

Thats incredible stupid or is it just me? 🤔

F**k Bank of America

reagan strikes again

That's nice sweetie

A single product raising its price doesn’t help an industry, it harms a consumer and frames it as progress

Counterpoint: You're a bank that stands to gain from the fleecing of consumerd, so maybe fuck your opinion on what is reasonably costed.

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ask bank of america how its company is doing

Who gives a fuck what Bank of America has to say on games? It’s been pretty much shown that $80 games, let alone $70 is not helping the industry, it’s not helping the devs, it’s not made games better.

Who asked them?? BofA? More like bofa deez nuts!! 😂🤣

what a strange take for a bank, amiright?

Quickly reaching a point where the amount of time a game takes to develop is equal to the amount of time we have to wait for it to reach a reasonable price

80 dollars for a deluxe edition that is complete with no bugs and a ton of gameplay? Maybe. 80 dollars because a bank wants games more expensive? Fuck off.

My thing is, if they want to whine about the inflation-adjusted prices from the 90s, they need to understand we paid that price in the 90s for ownership of one copy of the game, not for a damn license that can end when they say so.

Hell of a price for renting permission to play the beta version of a game! Modern DLC always makes that never the final price

Bakn of America don't know shit

During lockdown someone in the next town burned down a Bank Of America and the community largely replied on social media with the consensus of "hell yeah", apropos of nothing

Thats awesome. I havent ever checked if it can be done but considering that Ion Fury was made on build it would be cool if it could run on a 96' PC.

Thats really sick! Having a game thats not only lightweight but also can even start on such an old pc is wild.

I wish i didnt throw away my 486 last time i moved... i would totally play nethack on it.

That is a pretty good game, Ive gotten the chance to play it a couple times and had fun when I did. Bomb rush cyberfunk, crow country and the big catch (at least the demo, full game not out) also are all super cool games that are out there.

I'll just wait until it's free on Epic Game Store, tyvm

I already refuse to buy any game priced above 60. So fuck that.

Omg i thought this was a parody article.... Just no. Keep banks out of art

Might help the suits bank accounts. I know I'm already at my limit with new game prices. $80+ for a new game? Get out of here. Unless its a deluxe or collectors edition a new game just isn't worth that much.

More reason to pirate the game

I can wait for the Steam sale.

yeah no beside prob the rush of people waiting for years on GTA 6 not many will buy it if its bad

If there are no microtransactions or paid DLCs in it then... ...actually, no, still too high.

Not if nobody buys it, but go off.

Pro-tip: Don't trust banks. Bank of America received significant U.S. government bailouts during the 2008–2009 financial crisis.

I am not paying more than 10 dollars for this game if I ever buy it

Why the fuck is a bank being asked about video games

Ahhh, yes, trickle-down-gamernomics.

I'm not taking advice from a fucking bank.

Well I guess that's settled then, thanks Bank of America!

Of course a bank says this

Its been a while since ive been interested in any AAA game. Its all overpriced slop. Why pay $80 for an experience thats as wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle? When i can pay $5-$30 on a game created by a small, passionate team that isnt trying to make a game that does everything.

Its ok. Im not buying it regardless. Gta 5 and by extension gta online is the most profitable single piece of entertainment ever. They know they dont need to do this and theyd still make billions. But thats not enough for these leeches. Infinite growth and profit is the only goal. At all costs.

Damn—the rich 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 don’t know how real people operate in the real world, huh…

lol ok, I just won't buy it then? Here's the thing: I can wait them out for a sale when it's $20 if I still care. Hell I have a dozen other games on my wishlist waiting for a deep enough sale for me to consider it a fair trade for my money.

The more I see these dumbass comments the more I wish the game fails out of pure spite against these "people"

Why does a bank care about the price of luxury products

I thought the Bank of America was associated with banking not game development, shit the fuck up

file this one away for any dumb ass that thinks gta is somehow culturally subversive.

That reminds me of this yu-gi-oh trap card.

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$20 on Steam best we can do

Counterpoint: It's in every banker's best interest to jump face first into a wood mulcher

evil bank says raise prices more news at 11

I literally have thousands of free games I got over the years I think I'll save $80

BofA needs to mind their own business

Greedy wanker, I mean banker, wants more money.

It's a game about ripping people off...

Whoever at Bank of America said that probably doesnt play video games or has no idea how games work. Also, this is just so they can line their pockets more.

I don't give a single shit about what a bank has to say on the matter.

Can't wait to live my best Jack Sparrow/Monkey D. Luffy life on this game though, for what it's worth Arrrr, it looks like a fun game at least, matey

if they weren’t morons they would make it $20 since GTA will make bank off of micro transactions anyways. the biggest net will catch the most whales, and the whales will be more interested in whaling when more other fish are in the net. they are hamstringing their own product with business brain

...then who told Nintendo to do it? they did it first. and we all said "nintendo doing this is gonna make everyone do it"

Who asked for a bank's opinion? Tell them to crawl back in their hole, and that we'll just keep pirating new releases until prices go down.

Does it make sense to stick a hand in an oven? No? Neither does charging $80 for AAA games in the current economy.

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Good luck with that. I'll be waiting for the sales two years later happily playing my backlog in the meantime.

Also banks: “If you do sex work, have boobs in your video games, or draw boobs, we will prevent you from paying rent or buying groceries.”

I'd trust a library's input more than a bank

lol no it fucking wouldn't.

I'm already on the fence about picking up GTA 6 at launch at this point and this would pretty much kill any chance of me picking it up within its first year of launch. Hell I'd probably just wait for a PC release and a Steam sale in 2030 out of spite.

The video game industry is dead. GTA 6 is the only thing keeping fans around a console at all. Go ahead lol. I’ve been looking to a reason to just get rid of the whole fucking console.

Not to mention every big game has to do everything. I wouldnt be too surprised if gta 6 launches with a skill tree and survival crafting elements.

"Selling thing at expensive price would help al of us!" Says vendor of thing

BofA them can suck on them nuts. No one wants to RP in swamp-ass floribama - if it ever flops out, anyway.

Peoples don't even realize that with day one DLC and season pass, most of them are already paying more than 80 buck for a game XD

No GTA for me, I guess. I’ve been waiting this long… but…

Get ready to rebrand as Take-None Interactive because that's how much of my money they'll get

I'm simply stating that games are 90 dollars in Canada. 90CAD. @kropolis.bsky.social is a mutual that I'm conversing with.

That's nice. I wish I had a little more self-control. I've been slowly reducing the number of new games that I buy, but I would like to get to a point where everything I get is at least 6-12 months old

A lot of Switch 2 games are above 100 bucks now haha

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Why is a bank chiming in on this in the first place and why a piece being ran with it like this is worthwhile discussion

Is this an Onion headline???

How about you make your game not be so expensive that it needs to be 80 dollars? Not that it matters. GTA will sell well at 80 dollars for a while sure, it won’t sell nearly as good as it would have were it cheaper

No way that is way too much for a game! It's just delusional to think that'd help anyone much less the video game industry I mean maybe the suits until the game reaches the high seas.

absolutely the fuck not

If this bullshit is any more than $60 it will kill rockstar dead

Counter-offer: I'll buy it for 20 bucks a year after launch.

Ain't going to buy it before a Steam sale anyway.

Does anyone know why the fuck BoA is being considered remotely credible on this? Last I checked they haven't released anything since, uh, ever. Is there some kind of investing link I'm not aware of?

the sheer delusion! corpos are incapable of understanding that exceptional games are the exception.

The games industry makes record profits every year. The issue is not the money. The issue is that the people who hoard it. The payout to Bobby Kotick would have funded Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin for 17 years. But he got paid, and they closed.

Banks are enemies of the people. Don't forget.

They should do the funniest fucking thing and make it $50.

Burger King thinks that Serta should charge more for mattresses.

Hadn't it been statically proven that the $70 has hurt game sales as a whole? Yes GTA will sell. But no other game is GTA

Why the fuck are we humoring a bank's opinion on an industry they don't know shit about? Like seriously, what the fuck are we doing here?

Should everyone who works for Bank of America be murdered? Inquiring minds wish to know

BOFA can suck my ass

Lul fuck off bankers

Who's asking the bank? Who gives a shit?

Shit ain't even coming to PC on launch.

Banco tem mais que se foder

And we all know that no matter how high they jack the selling price up, the one thing they'll never do is reduce the amount post-launch monetization that they've gotten so good at doing.

Frequently voted worst company in the world thinks awful idea for consumers is good.

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Yeah waiting on a steam sale for this one

This is why we hate BOA

I really hope this game sucks so much shit, that no one buys it when it launches on PC a year later 😘

Why are we parroting the financial opinions of a fucking bank?