I would pay $69.99 for next generation games if all the DLC was free. But we all know that won't happen.
Poll: If games cost $69.99 next gen?
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Man i wish new titles cost that much here in New Zealand you can expect to pay about $100 - $120 for them, so the idea of having to fork out a bit of dosh for a game isn't really that bad for me. That being said with your price going up the fallout will mean that our price will rise as well, but the difference of paying $120 to paying $130 really doesn't change a whole lot for me.
Nope. I usually wait until the price has gone down or there's a steam sale before buying a title right now (except for maybe one or two times per year where I'll grab a game at full price) so an increase of ten bucks on launch day won't really change my habits, except maybe waiting a bit longer for the price to drop even more.
I would buy, but probably buy less. More money needed means less I can afford at any given time.
Mine is £20.Soxafloppin said:
Last year I bought Gears of War 3 for £22 and that was the most I've ever spent on a game.
Remember to add DLC and microtransactions to that $70.Trivun said:
Also, has it ever occurred to you that it's not that you're getting a "good deal" now but that you have always been scammed? Especially now, when you buy additional content online, giving the publishers even more money, there's absolutely no need for prices to be so high.
Unless you make $1000 per week and $70 is just pocket change to you but I know a lot of gamers and none of them is in that kind of financial situation.
Gametop and EB games both sell at $69.99 here in Canada or at least they did before I stopped buying from there like 4 years ago.
Looking to be 1.02 at the moment. The price of games have been varying of late but essentially prices are still the same. So when the next gen comes out, more expensive than the last, remember us.Evil Smurf said:
It all comes down to wages and cost of living. Australians have higher wages (on average) than Americans, but it's balanced out by a higher cost of living. I saw someone on these forums once work out how many cans of coke you could buy for the cost of a game in each country, and it came out to exactly the same number of cans. You're still being reamed, but no more so than we are. It's just a bigger number, not actually a larger percentage of discretionary income.MercurySteam said:
I couldn't tell you the last game I paid full price for. I usually wait for Steam sales. I don't mind waiting a year or two to play a game.
Not true. Just look at the PC version's price in comparison to the console version's. [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=tomb+raider] That's for a brand new game. The new Hitman was similarly priced.Lilani said:
Far Cry 3 wasn't that cheap, but it was about £40 on console and £30 on PC. This is from Ubisoft of all people!
Even Dead Space 3 is cheaper! [http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dead+space+3&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Adead+space+3]
Sonic Generations was pretty extreme. The Steam version launched at the same time as the £40 console version for £20 and then came out on Amazon a few weeks later for £15.
PC games are a fair bit cheaper, even when you don't account for sales.
Of course, this could just be the UK getting lucky.
OT: I always wait for a price drop, anyway. I've bought one or two games full price and have always regretted it regardless of the quality of the game. I'm a bit of a penny pincher these days and I simply can't justify spending that kind of money on my entertainment. I even had to hesitate when I got Dishonored for £14 off of GMG a few weeks after release.
Yes, I would.
If the game was worth $70. Which I would only know well after the game had come out, so no pre-order nonsense, guys.
Honestly, though, I don't think more than three or four games come out most years that are worth paying their initial MSRP for. There's plenty of stuff that's worth what it will cost at the Steam sale or used... and I have a backlog of games to keep me content through lean months for just this reason.
If the game was worth $70. Which I would only know well after the game had come out, so no pre-order nonsense, guys.
Honestly, though, I don't think more than three or four games come out most years that are worth paying their initial MSRP for. There's plenty of stuff that's worth what it will cost at the Steam sale or used... and I have a backlog of games to keep me content through lean months for just this reason.
