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The End of $60 Games?

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Tatsujin:

--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on April 19, 2012, 01:20:18 PM ---Skyrocketing costs?

How about just making GOOD games that will sell at $50 instead of many games (good and bad and in the middle) that have to sell at $60? The first time I was stung by a $60 game back in early 2006 just made me cringe. Then PC games hit $60! It's seriously a vicious cycle that will make me stop buying physical mediums and purely buy Steam games.

If Valve makes a console, I'm willing to predict that they will win the console wars because it'll just be like the new Xbox/PS but with a 1-2 TB harddrive and no disc drive. Buy all your games online and download them (even with Steam sales)... good idea right?

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For 2 years (2007 to 2009ish) I'd get hype'd about a game, pre-order, then play it and it turns out like shit and I think "... Seriously? This is worth 60 dollars?!". Just few games were really worth the money - my full 60 dollars. Games like MGSIV, God of War III, Killzone 2 & 3, Little Big Planet, Call of Duty 4, Black Ops and other notable games. I personally think they need to work on cutting down the development costs, like get better and more advanced technology to reduce time development and do a better job at presenting games. A 60 dollar game should give you a lot of things to do over the course of a month or longer.

Anyways, this is my opinion.

Temuthril:
Game $60
Day 1 DLC $14.99
DLC 2 $9.99
DLC 3 $7.49
DLC 4 $19.99

So much for $60.

AceHigh:
Well, then you are a sucker to pre-order those kind of titles. I hope at least you learned a lesson here.

It's actually funny when I think about it. One game this year that I pre-ordered was Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion and I got it cheaper because I had purchased the first game (loyalty to their existing customers?) and got automatically beta access to it. If I remember correctly I paid around 25USD for a game that will keep me entertained for many many hours.

Then there was this indie game that I was looking forward to and signed up for a closed beta. We were a very small test group and as a thanks for testing, we got the game for free.

Then we have wasteland 2 project... no need to mention how good investment that can turn out to be.

The only AAA title I pre-ordered so far in GW2. However I am pretty sure that one will not suck. Otherwise the hell must freeze over before I buy a 60$ game without trying it out first.

TMRNetShark:

--- Quote from: AceHigh on April 19, 2012, 09:42:38 PM ---Well, then you are a sucker to pre-order those kind of titles. I hope at least you learned a lesson here.

It's actually funny when I think about it. One game this year that I pre-ordered was Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion and I got it cheaper because I had purchased the first game (loyalty to their existing customers?) and got automatically beta access to it. If I remember correctly I paid around 25USD for a game that will keep me entertained for many many hours.

Then there was this indie game that I was looking forward to and signed up for a closed beta. We were a very small test group and as a thanks for testing, we got the game for free.

Then we have wasteland 2 project... no need to mention how good investment that can turn out to be.

The only AAA title I pre-ordered so far in GW2. However I am pretty sure that one will not suck. Otherwise the hell must freeze over before I buy a 60$ game without trying it out first.

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Sins is developed by a company that actually *shocker* CARES about it's customers. I didn't get the deal with Rebellion (waiting on that one) but I will indeed thing that my investment into Wasteland 2 will be well worth it.

AceHigh:
No NDA on that one, so I can reveal that we are at the moment testing balance on Advent (already done with TEC). Testers are now awaiting for the two Vasari factions that will have to be balanced against each other and the other 4. So... I bet it will come out really soon, and while the changes unit-wise are not that big, it is very entertaining and brings new stuff that will keep you entertained for a while.

I definitely recommend this one.

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