Price hike?

I don't think it is anything to worry about. If the market responds well then the game will stay at $45 and TFP will have picked the right number and be justified in what they did. If the market doesn't then the price will drop until it hits the right price and remain there.

There are gamers like me who only buy games on sale or after a year or two when the regular price drops. There are other gamers who don't even think about spending $45 on a game. $45 is nothing to them and anything that can provide even an hour or two of entertainment or a single fun weekend with some friends is easily worth such a price tag.

TFP believes that this next update is going to be a significant improvement to the game and that people who have thought about buying 7 Days to Die for years will finally pull the trigger. For sure, some will balk at the $45 price tag but others won't and still others won't even think twice about picking up five copies for friends so they can all play it together for a few weekends.

Originally posted by simon: OP underestimates some people. Not every one is as shallow as he thinks. Maybe The FunPimps think that most people who would buy the game already have and any one else will only be attracted if they can see past the things that most people cant and see that game play is king.

Also $45 is not the same as $60. Its nearly a third less.

Just to add to this, AAA game titles haven't been $60 ($59.99) for a few years now. They are at a minimum $69.99 and often $79.99. Prices in all areas of society have quickly been rising the last few years since 2020 and while $30 was once viewed as the fair price for an indie title it is easily within the scope of inflation that today that price is now $44.99.

7 Days to Die is not pricing itself as a AAA title. It is an indie title and has an indie price which is more than the traditional $30 of a few years back which I think some people are clinging to. Its understandable. I always get sticker shock every time I go to a fast food joint because for so many years it was about $5-$7 for a value meal depending on the restaurant and seems that pretty quickly it has changed to $9-$12.

The only way to know whether the proposed pricing is off will be to watch what happens through the rest of this year. If the price remains at $45 into 2025 then that means that it is selling well at that price and TFP chose well. If the price drops before the end of 2024 then they reached too far. But nobody knows which it is now a month before the change even happens.