Are Certain Games (Namely Fighting Games) Overpriced?

[HeyZeus_Ezekiel_Jesus]

You can dump a assload of coins into an arcade machine or buy Street Fighter IV for $60. Which is the better option? Neither. (I'm gonna use Street Fighter IV a lot in this cause it just came out)

At this date in gaming it's nothing but sequels. Halo 3, Street Fighter IV, Soul Calibur IV, Final Fantasy XIII, etc. Games are becoming like, to use a fairly weak comparison, sports cars. You're not paying for the car (or the game in this case), you're paying for the name it has.

Can you honestly say Street Fighter IV would be as hyped and at the price it is if it was under a different name? Facebreaker, in my opinion, is more fun that Street Fighter IV and it's half the damn price. Sure you can say "if you don't like it then don't buy it" but you can't tell me even with that mentality you've not felt like you wasted your money with a certain game. Granted there are some of you on this forum that actually rent before you buy but I can almost guarantee that no-one is actually gonna rent SF4 before they buy it.

So, basically, do you guys think certain games overpriced?

 

[This-is-Hip-Hop]

I would like to put in an oppinon for this post, but I have no idea how much money it takes to make the game.

All I know is that, When Sony wants a game made, they purchase it from the devoloper, and if they pay enough, the game could be made exclusive. After the game is made by the devolpers, it is distrubted by Sony, and if it sells well enough, thhey will purchase a sequl.

So, you Want Sly 4? dont buy INfamous.

-Source, my cousin at Sucker Punch,

-Disclamer, Buy Infamous, I would like my cousin to keep his job.

 

[barryween]

First of all, if you thought Facebreaker was more fun than SFIV, your crazy. Second, if you enjoy it, its not a waste of money. all people dont like shooters and RPGs that take a long time to get through. Some just like a good fighting game. And third, SFIV has A LOT for $60. 25 characters, each with a "story line", Time attack, survival and online play. Halo 3 can be plowed through in 5-15 hours, depending. SFIV takes around 14 and a half hours. they also both have online play, giving unlimited play time. So, to quote Yahtzee "short answer: no. Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo."

 

[Good morning blues]

I think $50-60 is too much to pay for a video game, so I don't. The only games I will ever buy for full price are Half-Life games.

 

[barryween]

Yeah i agree with Good Morning Blues. While $60 isnt overpriced per say, it kinda sucks that prices for games (and stuff) increase, but the money we make decrease.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I think $50-60 is too much to pay for a video game, so I don't. The only games I will ever buy for full price are Half-Life games.

Aye. I've always thought that 60 dollars is a little crazy for a game. Most games are overpriced, as are most systems. But people will still pay for it and that's why the prices haven't gone down. If people won't buy games because they are too expensive, the company should learn a lesson and drop the prices of games. But they've realized that people will pay that much for a game and that they can still make money off of it.

 

[Nutcase]

OP's headline says "fighting games", post body says nothing about fighting games.

I have only ever bought one fighting game, VF4 Evolution. Paid ~$60 for the game, ~$150 for an arcade stick. I have gotten so much enjoyment out of these that it was good value overall.

 

[Erana]

I think it would be more reasonable to price new games at $40.
The most I ever spent on a game was $50, but that was because I had a gift card to suppliment.

 

[damion559]

i cant complain because i dont buy my games most of the time but it would be a nicer world if the price of new good games was £15 or $30 depending on where you are cause then you can buy two good games yay

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

So, basically, do you guys think certain games overpriced?

I would say almost all games are overpriced. Assuming we're going by that standard "50-60" dollar price.

 

[fryght]

Street Fighter IV is thoroughly designed, balanced and tested to last gamers for a long time. It offers great depth and there is a big scene for it. Like with Winning Eleven, Madden and Starcraft, for example, people play the game and keep playing the game for a good reason: it's been carefully designed and offers a fair and stable platform for competitive play.

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike is still being played, the same goes for SF2. SF4 builds on the SF2 experience. Players know this, so it's popular, since it's proven to work. Like you said, Street Fighter has built a name for itself.

Guilty Gear did as well. The company that made that game is now going to launch a new game, which is called Blaz Blue. I'm sure that that game will be received with enthusiasm as well, as the company's name stands for a certain quality.

There is another game, called Melty Blood, that started out as a homebrew game, which made it's way into the arcades in Japan, where it was received well. This game was totally new. Arcana Heart - another new fighting game - is up to it's second volume already, as is Rumble Fish. All new games.

Besides that, Street Fighter 4 has a high production value and took pretty long to make. Time is money and the intricate location testing added a great deal of time to that, a process which I assume that Facebreaker didn't undergo. Paying $60 for a game that is designed very well, looks good, has a strong following and will last (me) at least 5 years is fine by my book. $60 is pretty much the standard price for games nowadays anyways. This is for a reason, because it's really expensive to make games (I work at a casual games company and even those are expensive to make)...games companies are businesses and make games to make money. If they would not be making a profit, then they would stop making games. Then the market crystalizes into big companies only putting out 'safe' titles, which are mostly sequels. We see this happening already. I'd rather pay $60 for one good game than 6 superficial $10 games.

Saying that all games are overpriced is a weird statement. Then what about TV's? Cars? Houses? etc etc. The quality for price bar has been set quite high for games, with people demanding better stuff every day. In this aspect it's similar to the movies industry, but a movie only supplies you with 2 hours of entertainment, while games offer 6+ hours of entertainment most of the time. These 6+ hours of content need to be produced, which takes longer than the 2 hours of content of a movie. Now think about how much it costs to make a succesful 2 hour movie. Ready to invest your life savings into a new movie/videogame?

It's all about the money, dollar dollar bill y'all!

 

[balu_san]

Imagine to pay 70 euros per game, which i have done, how sucky you feel (Greek citizen) ?

 

[Woe Is You]

Speaking of fighting games... if I pay 60? for something I'll have a good chance of playing years after their release, I don't think that's a terribly steep price to pay. (See: Tetris DS, Street Fighter III: Third Strike) Your average shooter and/or RPG is actually much less of a compelling buy.

That's not to say games are cheap. I think they're pretty darn expensive. I'd probably buy more of them if they were 40EUR a pop, but what can you do?

 

[hagaya]

You can dump a assload of coins into an arcade machine or buy Street Fighter IV for $60. Which is the better option? Neither. (I'm gonna use Street Fighter IV a lot in this cause it just came out)

At this date in gaming it's nothing but sequels. Halo 3, Street Fighter IV, Soul Calibur IV, Final Fantasy XIII, etc. Games are becoming like, to use a fairly weak comparison, sports cars. You're not paying for the car (or the game in this case), you're paying for the name it has.

Can you honestly say Street Fighter IV would be as hyped and at the price it is if it was under a different name? Facebreaker, in my opinion, is more fun that Street Fighter IV and it's half the damn price. Sure you can say "if you don't like it then don't buy it" but you can't tell me even with that mentality you've not felt like you wasted your money with a certain game. Granted there are some of you on this forum that actually rent before you buy but I can almost guarantee that no-one is actually gonna rent SF4 before they buy it.

So, basically, do you guys think certain games overpriced?

Depends on the game. You can get an import of Jump Ultimate Stars -- though anime licensed and all in japanese, still one of the best portable fighting games on earth -- for about $20 american on that glorious rip-off-bucket eBay. That is the second best deal I've ever gotten , the first being The Orange Box. I would not pay 60 for Street Fighter IV because as much as I want it I don't want to pay for it. I'd pay somewhere in the $30-$40 range for it, and that seems what its worth being a fighting game with a final boss named seth.

Prices drop, sometime slowly, but still, if being a few months behind the rest of the gaming community is worth it for getting great games at great prices then thats a good way to go about business (I do most of my shopping that way). But if your that serious about SFIV or any other game for that matter, by all means, buy it. This whole forum boils down to opinion and value, but still is a great way to look at it.

 

[SimuLord]

Rare indeed is the year where I buy more than one $50 AAA title. Most games I pay $25-35 for on GamersGate from smaller European developers and they tend to be better games. I wouldn't dream of paying more than a bargain-bin $15 for something as one-dimensional as a fighting game.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

If I was really so inclined, I would get a game for $60 right after it comes out every once in a while. Thing is, I rarely do that, if ever. I need a job first. Besides that, $60 is pretty steep no matter what anyone says. I can wait a month or three for them to cut the price a little. For SF IV specifically, I think I might want the fighting stick too, so I'll definitely have to wait (I find issue with the 360's D-pad)

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

I think they are because the story is usually crap.
I have no place to rent games near me so Im pretty screwed when it comes to renting

 

[Gamer137]

Almost all are. Games have gotten too short. Gears 2, GTAIV, Fallout 3, Halo 3, Mirror's Edge, and CoD: WaW are the most recent games I bought at rip-off prices. Why did games have to jump from $50 to $60? They are the same length as last generation! Yes, I know that this generations games are more expensive to make, but only if developers push the technology. I don't want to pay an extra $10 for flashy tech. The only games I have bought this generation that I thought were really worth every penny were Tales of Vesperia, Portal: Sill Alive, No More Heroes, and CoD4.

 

[Flying-Emu]

I buy games way after they're released. Like... way after. I mean, I only just picked up the Thief trilogy. Got Halo for $20 last month.

Only exception will be Starcraft II.