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The End of $60 Games?
Saras:
--- Quote from: zherok on April 19, 2012, 12:20:05 PM ---And I think whenever people bring up mediums like browser or portable games, they seem to suggest that these are somehow replacing conventional gaming, rather than simply bringing gaming to a place that otherwise wouldn't have had it.
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Replacing? No. Makes them more pissed of at 60 buck shit games, yes.
Oh, what concerns handhelds, tablet/smartphone games are indeed replacing them.
AceHigh:
--- Quote ---- Psychologically, $60 just sounds expensive. This isn't anecdotal, this is common sense. Unless you're financially independent, $60 outright repels a vast slice of the entertainment consumer populace that the games industry desperately needs to convert to grow and survive.
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That one is interesting. While a decade ago 60USD would translate to around 600NOK, today it's only 350. So from my perspective the games have gotten much cheaper. Especially with digital distribution where I can buy with prices fixed on US price and not Euro or even much worse: Norwegian store shelf price. That is another reason Origin store can screw itself.
So if you Americans compare with roughly a decade ago, don't you feel some inflation? That maybe 60USD today isn't as much as it was back then?
vicious796:
--- Quote from: HSSDamian on April 19, 2012, 01:41:38 PM ---Wait what? Games were that cheap??
Here in Australia, new releases cost around $100+
I remember buying FFXIII for $129.95 about 5 months after it came out.
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Things have always been that expensive there, though. Have you noticed a raise in game prices over the past... say... 5 years?
--- Quote from: AceHigh on April 19, 2012, 02:19:51 PM ---
--- Quote ---- Psychologically, $60 just sounds expensive. This isn't anecdotal, this is common sense. Unless you're financially independent, $60 outright repels a vast slice of the entertainment consumer populace that the games industry desperately needs to convert to grow and survive.
--- End quote ---
That one is interesting. While a decade ago 60USD would translate to around 600NOK, today it's only 350. So from my perspective the games have gotten much cheaper. Especially with digital distribution where I can buy with prices fixed on US price and not Euro or even much worse: Norwegian store shelf price. That is another reason Origin store can screw itself.
So if you Americans compare with roughly a decade ago, don't you feel some inflation? That maybe 60USD today isn't as much as it was back then?
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60USD today is worth less than it was back then, sure, but we haven't increased our median salary at all over the past few years either. In fact, I think it's gone slightly down from near 40k to near 35k (not the full 5k, just saying the difference between 37 and 36).
costi:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on April 19, 2012, 02:19:51 PM ---
--- Quote ---- Psychologically, $60 just sounds expensive. This isn't anecdotal, this is common sense. Unless you're financially independent, $60 outright repels a vast slice of the entertainment consumer populace that the games industry desperately needs to convert to grow and survive.
--- End quote ---
That one is interesting. While a decade ago 60USD would translate to around 600NOK, today it's only 350. So from my perspective the games have gotten much cheaper. Especially with digital distribution where I can buy with prices fixed on US price and not Euro or even much worse: Norwegian store shelf price. That is another reason Origin store can screw itself.
So if you Americans compare with roughly a decade ago, don't you feel some inflation? That maybe 60USD today isn't as much as it was back then?
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For me it's the opposite - the shelf price in Poland is around half of regular Steam price, and usually less, since we are tied to the Euro region. Average price for a new PC game is around 120 PLN, while 60 EUR is around 250, and 60 USD is about 200 PLN.
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on April 19, 2012, 02:19:51 PM ---
--- Quote ---- Psychologically, $60 just sounds expensive. This isn't anecdotal, this is common sense. Unless you're financially independent, $60 outright repels a vast slice of the entertainment consumer populace that the games industry desperately needs to convert to grow and survive.
--- End quote ---
That one is interesting. While a decade ago 60USD would translate to around 600NOK, today it's only 350. So from my perspective the games have gotten much cheaper. Especially with digital distribution where I can buy with prices fixed on US price and not Euro or even much worse: Norwegian store shelf price. That is another reason Origin store can screw itself.
So if you Americans compare with roughly a decade ago, don't you feel some inflation? That maybe 60USD today isn't as much as it was back then?
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$60 here in the states gets you a week... maybe a week and half... worth of groceries. Or for me, it's about a tank and half worth of gas. :(
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