My thoughts on game prices.

[Kingme18]

($60, as I live in the U.S.)

In New Zealand, we pay 120 dollars for a new release game, which won't drop in price far longer than it takes in America,. That coupled with our low internet speeds makes multiplayer gaming without severe ping a rare treat. Games as it is are already far too expensive these days, so no, I don't think I'm spoilt in the slightest

It seems that my caution to step around the hate from other countries failed. I inserted that so you could see where I was coming from, not so I could complain.

 

[Something Amyss]

No it's not too expensive , 60$ is a very reasonable price. Think about all the hours and all the people it took to make a game ANY game . Developpers pooring their souls into video games . The amount of work it takes to make any game now a days .

Putting a lot of effort into something does not inherently give it value. As terrible as it was, I'm sure a lot of people put a lot of effort into Kane and Lynch. But I bet you didn't run out and buy the game when the excuse "but making good games is HAAAAAAARD!" Came up.

Similarly, if a game with a play time of ten hours costs as much as a game with 50, something's wrong.

The fact is, not all games are created equal, and not all effort is the same. It does take far less to come out with a lot of the big titles they want to sell because they have toolkits (Unreal, for example) that greatly make it easier than it otherwise would be. A ground-up approach will require proportionately more work, but you don't see a price break there.

Bad games run the same prices as good games. Poor efforts cost as much as strong ones. That's absurd.

 

[UrieHusky]

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I'm sorry, but it really irritates me when people in the main countries complain about their game prices when I have to do just as much work to get my money but have to pay twice as much for games and such. It's my opinion on the matter, which you asked for, so yeah.

 

[MisterDyslexo]

I don't get much a year, so I usually wait until the game price drops at least half-way to get it. I mean, I got three games that I love back in March. They came out early-to-mid last year. They're still the same game. They're good. They're fun, enjoyable. Age doesn't affect that. And I can get three times as many of these good games as if I bought them when they came out originally.

Honestly, I'd probably buy more games when they release if they game out for less than 60 bucks. I mean, who are they trying to fool, some developers? I hate to be mean, but they know when they're releasing a game that isn't worth $60 (here in America anyways). If, say, Aliens vs Predators, released at $30 instead of $60, I think that they'd actually make more money than they did with their full sixty price-tag.