God I've had taken my wife to the movies and after ticket and snacks easilly over $50. But you get a drink, popcorn AND a chocolate bar for only $18.99 how could it possibly be any cheaper!?Aerosteam said:
Do people not realize games aren't $60?
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Ok, this thread is 4 pages long, and I'm still lost on something; how are you getting $40 on a resale? I mean, if the game was really good and had lots of demand, sure, maybe. Like at least a 4/10 chance of pulling that off. But for a meh game that everyone knows is meh, who the hell is paying $40 for it? Especially if quite a few other people are doing the same thing after a 2-4 day period.
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Up to $46 currently:tilmoph said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Order-1886-Sony-PlayStation-4-/261786334887?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf3ae76a7
Calling a game that you never played dogshit is pretty asinine. There's no such thing as more of a game, every game is 100% of a game. The thread isn't about The Order, it's about any game regardless if it's 5 hours or 100 hours.Whitbane said:
I've got a feeling this game is going to drop value quickly as it gets traded in by those who did buy it.
I already said to someone flippantly "when I see it for 18.86, then I'll buy it", but I'm thinking that might be a possibility quicker than I believed.
I already said to someone flippantly "when I see it for 18.86, then I'll buy it", but I'm thinking that might be a possibility quicker than I believed.
That's why GameStop gets away with selling used copies for $5 below retail because people will pay. eBay is so great because the seller doesn't get ripped off and the buyer doesn't have to pay GameStop prices.tilmoph said:
You used The Order as an example in your first post, so I just responded to your question. If the game was 5 hours of the greatest gameplay to ever exist, randomized dozens of times to enable re-playability, then yeah it would be worth $60. But as it stands, it's 3 hours of cutscenes, and 2 hours of boring, generic walk-and-shoot seen in hundreds of other games.Phoenixmgs said:
Length doesn't signify whether a game is worth money, and hundreds of hours of awfulness doesn't mean a game is worth 60 bucks.
Plus, you don't need to play a game to know that it's awful.
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That's a game that came out YESTERDAY. The game came out on the 20th, literally a day ago and in a day it's already lost 25% of its value. You can still rent it for less. There was no point in buying it to resell less than a week later.Phoenixmgs said:
For all the times you've said in this thread that this isn't about The Order 1886 and that you're using it as a worst case scenario you're really pushing to use it in every single one of your examples.
Since you've claimed that you can get $40 for a game MONTHS after its release lets see you put your money where your mouth is. Show me an ebay bid for $40 for a mediocre game 3 months after its release.
Funny enough, I did a bunch of "research" and did exactly that before I realized that we're not being listened to anyway so why bother. What I found was that most 3 month games (I used Assassins Creed, Halo Master Chief Edition, and Dragon Age Inquisition when I looked; all three were released in November); you know what I found?Dirty Hipsters said:
Most of them were still (relatively) up there. All of them were around $30 on both eBay and Amazon (keep in mind that this does NOT include the cut that the companies take and does NOT include the cost to ship/box). This was for both PS4 and Xbox One (I did not look at current gen) with slight variations but for the most part, you're looking at $30 a game 3 months down the road.
So take this info however you want; I obviously disagree with the OP (as I stated on page 1) but these are the figures I saw.
EDIT: F it; here are the numbers taken right from Amazon right now because I have nothing better to do than to redo it
AC: Unity: PS4 $28 Xbox One $17
Master Chief Collection: Xbox One $32
DA: Inquisition: PS4 $30 Xbox One $32
I'm not going to do eBay again because that takes a lot longer to look through but I assure you that the numbers were relatively close to Amazons
Some people like cutscenes and a game that's cinematic, which is why games like Heavy Rain, Telltale games, etc. exist. Boring, generic, etc. are subjective. Jim Sterling called Vanquish boring.Whitbane said:
Yeah, you don't have to play a game to know it's awful like E.T., Superman, Ride to Hell, etc. but The Order is not nearly close to those games at all.
1) The auction isn't over and it's USED copy, not a new copy. New sells for more $$$.Dirty Hipsters said:
2) I've never had a game just for a weekend. I might end up selling The Order after a few days, but I don't know that going in. Plus, rental options these days are rather limited, there's only Red Box and GameFly available for me I think.
3) The Order is conceivably the worst possible scenario with regards to buying a game (with it being so short and story driven), that's why it was used as an example.
4) I said 2-3 months so 2 months for sure. Even a game like Watch Dogs had plenty of value months later, I know because I sold it. The message board game community is only a small portion of the game community so how people feel about a game on the boards (here or other places) is not always the general feeling among the entirety of the gaming community, your potential buys/customers.
Dragon Age at $31 with an hour left:tippy2k2 said:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dragon-Age-Inquisition-Sony-PlayStation-4-2014-/191515474615?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c97363ab7
I think it'll at least get to $35.