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[AkiKishi]

Just reading Amazon UK and apparently the new CoD will retail at £55 , the previous one retailed at £45. Do you think DA3's price will go up ? Or in light of Mass Effect 3/Dragon Age 2 will it be lucky to get sold at £39.99 ? Mass Effect 3 dropped sharply within 20 days on Amazon UK.

[Zexiv]

I'd not relate the price increase to previous titles. I get where you're going but if they decided to drop the price I'm afraid it would result in a shorter development life cycle. (cutting back on development cost to make up for the lower target price) One thing the series really doesn't need is to have back to back games come out that are feeling rushed once it's released to the fans.

[MichaelStuart]

Like anything, DA3 is only worth what your willing to pay for it.
I would pay about £40 at most, £30 if I had to by DLC.

[Dwarva]

I suspect it will be a RRP of around £39.99 with outlets deciding how much they actually want to discount it. I just hope they don't go the way of Skryim and charge an obscene amount for the collectors edition.

[byzantine horse]

Also price depends on platform, console games tend to be more expensive, for example in Sweden a console game can range from 500 to 600 kr on release (about 50-60 €) while the same PC game usually costs between 300 and 400 kr (about 30-40 €). Same elsewhere as well iirc, Amazon most notably.

But what would I pay? As I play on PC I'd pay up to 40 € without much thought, but a steeper price will cause me to wait and point the binoculars on post-release reviews.

[MEBengal2008]

BobSmith101 wrote...

Just reading Amazon UK and apparently the new CoD will retail at £55 , the previous one retailed at £45. Do you think DA3's price will go up ? Or in light of Mass Effect 3/Dragon Age 2 will it be lucky to get sold at £39.99 ? Mass Effect 3 dropped sharply within 20 days on Amazon UK.

The standard rate that stores are charging for a new PC or console game. You pay the price of what the expected retail price will be, which my estimate would be around $59.99 when initially released.

I just hope they give something to those of us who pre-order the game.

[Rorschachinstein]

Pre-order would be 59.99$ with Gamestop giving me a clunky downloadable helmet with lame stats.

[Atakuma]

In America it will be $59.99 across all platforms.

[Dakota Strider]

I hope they sell it for a price that allows them to make enough profit to have the incentive to keep making rpg's.

More than 30 years ago, brand new computer games cost about $40-$50. The average price of gasoline in the USA was about 95 cents a gallon. The cost to see a movie in a theater was just above $4 a person. Now gasoline exceeds $4 a gallon in many places. Seeing a movie can cost $10 a person. Considering how much the quality of computer games have risen in the last three decades, and how much the cost of everything else has increased in price, I think the cost of a computer game is one of the best values out there. As long as the company is not cutting corners to produce the game, and is putting in the package, what it promises, I am willing to pay what is needed so they will be able to stay in business.

[Tommyspa]

I'll get it when it is probably $45, which will probably be a week or so after release on amazon from non amazon sellers or buy it off of half. It'll be 45 so soon because the internet already hates it, lol.

[r3dKrypt0nite]

If its anything like DA2 played then I should get paid for suffering though it.

[Aggie Punbot]

Tree fitty.

[Direwolf0294]

What ever the price is anywhere else in the world down under it'll go for $99.99 for the Xbox and PS3 versions, $89.99 for the PC version and it might possibly go as high as $110.00 in select stores.

[OMTING52601]

I wouldn't be picking up DA 3 for fifty bucks, that's for sure. While, right now, it seems like the DA team is a bit more receptive and more interested and engaged with their fans/consumers, after DA 2 and ME 3, I just can't go big bucks in on a BW title, not on good faith, at this time. And I actually like DA 2 - despite it's many lackluster, IMO, qualities. There were just parts of DA 2 I really, really loved.

[Realmzmaster]

I was just leafing through an old copy of Computer Gaming World (March 1993). The MSRP for Ultima 7 and Wizardry 7 was $59.95. Ultima VIII MSRP was $79.95 in CGW July 1994 issue. The average MSRP came in at $59.95 which is roughly the same price now. The difference is that you got more feelies for your money. Everything from cloth maps , miniature cars to thick manuals that tried to explain everything.

[Maria Caliban]

$59.99. $79.99 for Collector's Edition.

[Sister Goldring]

I will happily pay whatever the asking price is for DA3, but if they added a toolset I would willing pay twice the cost of the usual AAA title.

I really want a toolset.

[AkiKishi]

Avejajed wrote...

I have never in my life noticed a difference in price on any major first day release in the US. - Excepting Ultimate Editions, Special Editions, etc.

Also, it's absurd to me to think that you should have to pay less for a game because you didn't like the last one and you think you're not going to like this one either. I have an idea. Don't buy it. There you go.

What did the last CoD retail for ? 

Well I doubt I'll pay £55 for CoD It's probably worth it though. On the other hand I resent greatly being charged £39.99 only to find out I need to unlock some other stuff already on the disk for an aditional cost. That's when I tend to wait for a game to drop in price to a point I feel like paying.

It only took 19 days on Amazon UK for ME3 to be cheaper with the extra DLC cost included , than it was at release without the DLC.

[Dwarva]

BobSmith101 wrote...


It only took 19 days on Amazon UK for ME3 to be cheaper with the extra DLC cost included , than it was at release without the DLC.

I wouldn't neccesarily use ME3 as your benchmark though. From what I've read expected sales dropped dramatically in those 19 days after the concerns people had with the ending. It was only a short time after that 19 days they started offering refunds for opened versions of the game IIRC..

[Fast Jimmy]

Filament wrote...

Free to play with microtransactions.

I sometimes wake up in the night screaming at the horror of this.


EDIT:

That being said, what I think the price of the game should be is going to be totally based on a number of things.

I'd say the base experience, if it is simply DA2 with more polish, is worth $39.99, starting out. 

Are there going to be multiple races you can play as? Add $7.50.

Will there be multiple origins (either based on class alone, or on race/class combo)? Add $7.50.

Will these origins have a lasting impact on the story other than the occassional random dialogue line? Add another $10.

Will combat be exceptional, showing lots of polish and doing a perfect job of tactics and enjoyability? Of difficulty and excitement? Add $10.

Will the choices of the previous games be carried over in meaningful and unique ways, instead of just throwaway cameos? Add $5. Will these choices significantly vary the experience of the game, so that you can legitimately say that your playthrough in DA3 was noticeably different if you made a choice in DA:O or DA2? Add another $5 (for a total of $10 for a fully fleshed out feature).

Will the ending be an epic conclusion, not just a poorly pieced together "last board?" $5. Will the Ending be satisfying and bring (logical) closure to the plot? Add $5. And will the endings be varied, differing wildly based on the choices I made in the game? Add another $5 ($15 total for a well-crafted, diverse ending).

If they performed all of these features, that would total the game up to $99.99, or an even $100.

If there is any Day One DLC released that is not part of the standard package, the stanadard price without DLC is immediately lowered another $10, to essentially pay for the DLC that should be included for free. In fact, Day One DLC should be free, across the board. I realize why it has to be DLC (as they have to finish it after the game has gone gold and is in the months before actual release) but they should make this free if you register online on something like Origin. They seem to want to make that mandatory across the board with things like multiplayer - why not just have a good piece of DLC that is polished and functional after the game went gold and give it for free as an act of good will? That way you are getting people to participate in the EA/Bioware iniative to get everyone registered online.

Again, this price will all depend on the features implemented. My ideal price would vary wildly depending on what they give us, just like any other product in the world.

I don't expect to have a PC that only has barely enough specs to do internet and word processing to cost the same as a top-end gaming rig. Why would I assume all games should cost the same, regardless of what features and what level of good design is applied to them? Or what level of replayabilty? 

Skyrim gave me almost a 100+ hours of gametime. Origins did the same. Deus Ex: HR was a good experience, but it only lasted me about thrity hours, tops, as I could not replay it again (I simply reloaded the game at the end and pressed all the different "ending" buttons). God of War is a good game, but once you've gone through it once, the thrill is over. You've beaten the levels, killed the enemies, solved the puzzles and seen the story. 

So why should a game I could milk 100+ hours of diverse, changing and engaging content cost the same as a game that I can get only 20-40 hours out of? 

Modifié par Fast Jimmy, 26 avril 2012 - 11:07 .