Black Ops II $100 USD!? Seriously?

[chozo_hybrid]

This is not a hate thread on the game or anything like that, but the price just baffles me. I was on Steam just looking at the specials and saw CoD Black Ops II on there, and it has an even higher priced version ($110). Why is it that expensive, does it have a lot of content?

It's just baffling me is all... Is there anyone here who has bought it that could tell me what makes it worth so much? I thought Xcom was expensive at $70 and Dishonored at $80, but this a lot more than that and I'm guessing there's more costing stuff on the way for it.

For a bit of added discussion, what is the most you have paid for a game and what were your reasons for doing so?

Mine would Be Batman: Arkham City, the added movie and cool statue made it worth the price to me as a Batman fan, even if it was $180 NZD (That's $146.70 USD and games tend to go for $100 - $120 NZD at release) it also came with a soundtrack, art book and some dlc too.

So I have paid a lot for a game, but it came with lots of extras. But this pricing seems to baffle me and I want to understand why someone would pay that much just for a plain version of any game.

 

[krazykidd]

Which version of the game is it? Also does anything else come with it? I don't know anythif about steam i am a console user .

OT: The most i payed for a game was 100 canadian dollars plus tax , so about $115. The game was suikoden 3 (ps2) , last year , in a videogame store . I got to that store a lot , and iv'e been eyeing that game for about 4 years . I have a lot of disposable income . So the price didn't bother me . One thi i regret, that same store had the entire .Hack series for 240$ , and i didn't buy it , been kicking myself ever since .

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Which version of the game is it? Also does anything else come with it? I don't know anythif about steam i am a console user.

Just the standard version of the game, the digital deluxe is the one for $110.

Also, is that Noa from Legend of Legaia as your avatar?

 

[Smeggs]

This is not a hate thread on the game or anything like that, but the price just baffles me. I was on Steam just looking at the specials and saw CoD Black Ops II on there, and it has an even higher priced version ($110). Why is it that expensive, does it have a lot of content?

It's just baffling me is all... Is there anyone here who has bought it that could tell me what makes it worth so much? I thought Xcom was expensive at $70 and Dishonored at $80, but this a lot more than that and I'm guessing there's more costing stuff on the way for it.

For a bit of added discussion, what is the most you have paid for a game and what were your reasons for doing so?

Mine would Be Batman: Arkham City, the added movie and cool statue made it worth the price to me as a Batman fan, even if it was $180 NZD (That's $146.70 USD and games tend to go for $100 - $120 NZD at release) it also came with a soundtrack, art book and some dlc too.

So I have paid a lot for a game, but it came with lots of extras. But this pricing seems to baffle me and I want to understand why someone would pay that much just for a plain version of any game.

Wait, $100, U.S.? I just saw XCOM: EU on there just yesterday for like 40-something.

 

[The_Lost_King]

You sure you aren't on Australian steam or something? Because I see it for $60. Steam is bugging out right now because I am in the use and have seen pricing in Euros.

 

[Coach Morrison]

I have a feeling that these are Australian prices due to what your listing.

As to your question the most I paid was the 150 (I think that was the price) for the collectors edition for Guild Wars 2. Mainly because Guild Wars was a good chunk of my childhood and that damn rytlock statue.

 

[chadachada123]

You can't really compare AU and NZ prices to American currency when Americans have a minimum wage half that of Australians while having a currency close to equal.

It sucks, but the reason prices are so high is because you guys have more money and are willing to pay more for 'frivolous' things like video games. Activision (and/or Valve) must think that they can yank more money out of the people down under by charging more.

Consider this: College textbooks in the US cost HUNDREDS of dollars, while in Taiwan/etc, they cost maybe twenty or thirty dollars (nowhere near the price in the US, even accounting for the exchange rate). The publisher knows that people in the US are willing and able (well, mostly-able) to pay those asinine prices, and will turn around and charge as much as is reasonable for Taiwanese citizens, maximizing profits in both areas at extreme cost to both Americans and Taiwanese people. Video game publishers are pulling the same shit, which is the SOLE reason that stuff like region-locking exists.

In short, my answer to you is this: Start importing games, brah.

 

[aba1]

I just got the first black ops game yesterday for $20 from the sounds of things I think it was a good idea.

 

[daveman247]

$100 for college books?

Damn, and i thought the UK had it bad at £30-£50 a book.

As for higher prices for the cod games, they have always been about £20 more than everything else. I guess because they can get away with it. Lots of people buy that game each year and NOTHING else game-wise. So they do not care.

 

[chadachada123]

$100 for college books?

Damn, and i thought the UK had it bad at £30-£50 a book.

Ugh. I'm pretty jealous. For many classes you can get lucky and find the book used, but many other courses require you to have the newest edition of a textbook.

Just as a random example, take Organic Chemistry:

http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Structure-Reactivity-Study/dp/0618318100/

http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Reactivity-Seyhan-Ege/dp/0618318097/

For both the textbook and the study guide, without even including the highly-suggested additional coursepack that rolls like $60 USD...

New textbook: $73 and up. New study guide: $75 and up. Altogether, for this one class, you're looking at at least $200 USD before tax to be on the same level as everyone else unless you buy used (barring the coursepack that is unique every year).

This semester, at least one of my books was $145. It's ludicrous. And many of these are the "sale" prices, too. The original listed price on Amazon is over $140 for the study guide alone.

It varies heavily on the types of classes, but yeah, they get pretty pricey for your average pre-engineering or pre-med student.

 

[Dangit2019]

$100 for college books?

Damn, and i thought the UK had it bad at £30-£50 a book.

Yeah, you know how the UK gets screwed over a lot on prices for American stuff? Textbooks are our payback.

Here's some freaking culinary books as examples.

http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/dp/0982761007/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353644387&sr=1-2&keywords=textbook

http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Textbook-Culinary-Fundamentals-MyCulinaryLab/dp/0133103196/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353644328&sr=1-7&keywords=textbook

 

[daveman247]

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Holy crap O_O Those must be damn good books XD

 

[Nouw]

It's best to avoid Steam for new games because there are better alternatives, *cough*nzgameshop*cough.* Some games, like Black Ops 2, have crazy out-of-the-ordinary-prices though. Assassin's Creed 3 is $70 USD which is somewhat understandable but Black Ops 2 is $100 USD.

 

[fat american]

Are these price accounting for tax or something? Cuz the most I've ever paid for a standard edition new game is $60 USD. That's at Gamestop though maybe other places charge more.

 

[Reaper195]

You sure you aren't on Australian steam or something? Because I see it for $60. Steam is bugging out right now because I am in the use and have seen pricing in Euros.

I don't think there is an Australian Steam. Everything on the site (From New Zealand) is in USD. And it's a $99.99USD.

 

[OtherSideofSky]

That sounds like about what I have to pay every time I import a major console title from Japan (fortunately, I don't have to do that very often any more). I have one game on pre-order with a special edition that costs over $500 USD (more than the system it runs on).

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

If you like Black Ops fine, but why would you buy it on PC when Activision spits in the face of PC gamers all year round with such tripe?

OT: here in Aussie land it says $90

Still a fucking rip off when you can get the same kind of experience from TF2. 'Cept with hats. Lots of hats o.o