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[Rockworm503]

SOLID_EVEREST wrote...

Unless they are a sure-bet greatest game I've ever played:

Dark Souls
MGS: 4
Fallout: New Vegas
Wasteland: 2

I don't spend $60 buying them; well, except for GTA: IV, which turned out to be my worst game.

I don't think you've played very many games if GTA IV is the worst.

[Hvlukas]

I don't mind paying 60 dollars for a blockbuster game with big, big production value. That is, if it's good. I expect that most games are bad, not my style or genre, so I kinda already research games extensively before I buy them. If anybody fail to do their research first, I really think they can only blame themselves for the bad experience.

It's totally fair to me, that I paid 9 Euro for Limbo, and 40 Euro for Mass Effect 3.

Modifié par Hvlukas, 23 juin 2012 - 10:53 .

[SOLID_EVEREST]

Rockworm503 wrote...

SOLID_EVEREST wrote...

Unless they are a sure-bet greatest game I've ever played:

Dark Souls
MGS: 4
Fallout: New Vegas
Wasteland: 2

I don't spend $60 buying them; well, except for GTA: IV, which turned out to be my worst game.

I don't think you've played very many games if GTA IV is the worst.

Well, I've been playing them since they were on the PS1. Yeah, GTA: IV was the worst thing ever.

[termokanden]

Imperial Sentinel Arian wrote...

In after "games are cheap right now and 100$ is the reasonable price" ... pfft

Strawman. Or is it slippery slope? Does it matter?

I have bought many full price games and even though I am not a rich man they are still just a drop in the ocean. Of course you shouldn't support bad games, but honestly the price of games isn't what worries me these days.

The price of almost everything else is though. I may need to move to another country where the government isn't insane. Oh wait, there are no such countries

Modifié par termokanden, 23 juin 2012 - 06:40 .

[robertm2]

Do what i do. Unless there is a game you just have to have like borderlands 2 or something you know will be good and last you quite a while take 30$ up to gamestop and go on a used shopping spree. if you shop smart you can come back with at least 4 games that came out a few years back but got really good reviews.

[naughty99]

Das Tentakel wrote...

For the enlightenment of all:

An older article related to this topic on the 'Crispy Gamer' site: 'The 60 buck dilemma'.
events.crispygamer.com/features/2009-09-23/the-60-buck-dilemma.aspx

Interesting article, but I think the author is a bit off the mark.

In today's dollars, we've already been paying between $70 - $100 for games on console and PC since the 1980s. These are luxury goods and there is clearly still a healthy demand for AAA games at the $60 price point.

However, deep discount sales for digital downloads seem to be having a significant impact on the PC game market, as used game sales have impacted the console market.

[Get Magna Carter]

In the UK games are the same price as they were 15 years ago..which means they have not kept up with inflation and so, in real terms, are cheaper than they used to be.
Meanwhile, costs of making games are shooting up so publishers are having to push dlc, compete aggressively with retailers to maximise sales of new copies, dumb-down to mass market to increase sales etc
And there is a new console generation coming which will probably mean higher development costs.
As games are already struggling to make a profit we should expect prices to go up higher

[Alexlightning]

I agree, Halo 4 and other known games are definitly worth it.

But relax, I paid 60 dollers and got homefront on the first day, that was a waste.

moral, if its a new series, do excactly what you said, if its something like halo, go buy it.

I would still have bought mass effect 3 if I had a warning to stop right before the end.

[hangmans tree]

Cimeas wrote...

Obviously you don't understand. A $60 game might include, if it has a substantial single player campaign, 30-40 hours of gameplay. If not, for example Call of Duty, it's main feature is the multiplayer, designed to be played for a long period of time.

Do you know how much a book costs nowadays? About $12 for a paperback. And you know what, if you count the total reading time (not all the time you *think* you were reading, it probably takes you about 6 or 7 hours to read.

Do you have any idea how much going to watch a movie costs? About $12-$16 (not including snacks/popcorn/drinks etc..) for 1.5-2 HOURS of entertainment. And the movie, just like a game, might be terrible.

So most games are *amazingly* good value, and as long as you buy games with good critical *and* user reviews, you'll rarely, if ever, not enjoy what you purchase.

Gaming is cheaper than going out to a restaurant, than going bowling, than watching a movie, than going to a bar/pub, than read many books, than renting/buying most movies online, than going shopping, going on holiday, doing drugs, or any number of other uses of your spare time.

So, why is it bad value.....

lol, what are you on?  YoU seriously trying to draw a paralell here? Do not try that again, you will hurt yourself

[Chromie]

Rockworm503 wrote...

SOLID_EVEREST wrote...

Unless they are a sure-bet greatest game I've ever played:

Dark Souls
MGS: 4
Fallout: New Vegas
Wasteland: 2

I don't spend $60 buying them; well, except for GTA: IV, which turned out to be my worst game.

I don't think you've played very many games if GTA IV is the worst.

GTA 4 is the worst.

[android654]

I've yet to hear anyone justify their GTA IV hate. Niko's their best written character and Liberty City is easily their best setting. Not to mention it's the best story in the series, with San Andreas in a distant second.

[termokanden]

The only real hate I have for GTA IV is because of the extremely low quality of the PC port.

It still isn't my favorite GTA game though. San Andreas is. Perhaps the story is better in GTA IV, but San Andreas is just the most fun to play for me.

[Tigerman123]

naughty99 wrote...

When you take inflation into consideration, games have never been cheaper than they are today.


In 1990, new NES games ranged from $39.95-49.95

$39.95 in 1990 had the same buying power as $71.50 in 2012. $49.95 in 1990 was equivalent to $89.39 in 2012 dollars. Quite a few old PC games from the early 1980s were even more expensive.

Soverain wrote...

Another thing is that I will never again buy a game as it is released, I will wait for the price to drop then buy it.

Certainly nothing wrong with that approach. And even here you will find much better deals that what was available in the past.

I don't recall ever seeing recent games on sale for $5-10, as you can often find great games on sale via Steam, Impulse, GamersGate, Amazon and Origin.

In the old days a game would have to be either incredibly old or incredibly bad to get that low in price from a secondhand store.

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