Devs want players to pay $70+ for their pre-release games! Oh, and at the same time, they want us to assist them in debugging their code and in some cases fixing bugs for them! I think the greed has gone to their heads and their wallets!
There appears to be no end to the price hikes in games. Two of the biggest releases of the year want us to pay extra to play them early – but is that even ethical? A pre-premiere, an early premiere, and a proper premiere are all ways to swindle us out of our free time.
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- Forza Motorsport – 5 days
- Starfield – 5 days
- Mortal Kombat 1 – 5 days
- Diablo IV – 4 days
- Lies of P – 3 days
A total of five AAA titles are listed above (except for Lies of P, which is still an AAA game), i.e. games with a high budget, whose execution (presumably) is of the highest quality. The bolded number next to the names shows an increasingly spreading, but still fairly new business model that will soon land on our SSD drives. One appeared just over a month ago. A technique for monetizing or – in simpler terms – converting something into money. Here, we are referring to exploiting human impatience and the desire to discover new things in order to increase profits.
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