Hey, people are working. Part of the stimulus package
. Just like anything else, if the quality is there the game will sell no matter the cost. Years ago I remember paying $19.99 for Jane WWII sim or something like that. Now games are $49.99 or more. I pay the price if it looks good and well done. Look at Grand Theft Auto 2. People were lined up around the block at every retailer to get the game. Lets look at the flip side, perhaps knowing a project must sell to turn a dime, every resource is thrown at it to produce an excellent game and hopefully bug free. Generally an imaginative game that is well polished and replay value is there or online gaming with the disk is there, the price will not matter. For instance, I have COD waw. Just an all around great game. Graphics are excellent. The scenarios are well thought out and imaginative. Personally, I think COD waw is the best of the series but.......it was a very short game. Not much replay value after you have completed it because the player already knows what is coming up and what he needs to do to complete the scenario. How to overcome the short game low replay value...online gaming and frag-fest with your buds. Now your talking! So, the developers need to consider imaginative games with plenty of replay value to garner the forthcoming increase in the cost to purchase. Look at Rise of Flight, from what I see, excellent graphics and they devs are really taking their time to get it right. It will have single play with campaigns and that generates replay value and ultimately online play creates the best replay value for this game. I think future games should be designed and have a theme that lends itself to online gaming with others. I think the future of games garnishing high dollars to purchase are those that offer online gaming (look at Rock Band and Guitar Hero, both hot sellers and online, group play weather sober nor not
). As far as complexity of the games and faster hardware to run the games now, I countered by getting a very fast machine. In short, I'm ready for these games and will pay the price to play them if the quality is there along with replay value.