Weeks after research firm IDG Consulting revealed that several publishers were considering increasing the price of their games in the next gen, God of War director Cory Barlog has said that he prefers an initial increase in game prices over ?always-on, cash-grab, microtransaction-filled hellscape that some games have become.?
According to Barlog, games need to go up in price ? an opinion shared by a significant number of fellow developers and publishers who have long said that the current AAA development and pricing models are not sustainable.

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