Who is waiting for the Skyrim Game of the Year edition?
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I bought it new, and I don't regret it in the slightest. I've played more than 40 hours of it already and I'm not even starting to get bored or run out of content. I'll also buy every piece of DLC new (or as soon as I have the money at least). Hell, I'd gladly fork out cash for Skyrim horse armour, it's that good.
You can save yourself some small amount of cash, I certainly don't envy you. While you're sat around doing whatever it is people do when they're not playing Skyrim, I'll be dragon slaying / dungeon raiding / horse-armour equipping in one of the greatest games ever made.
You can save yourself some small amount of cash, I certainly don't envy you. While you're sat around doing whatever it is people do when they're not playing Skyrim, I'll be dragon slaying / dungeon raiding / horse-armour equipping in one of the greatest games ever made.
Nope. It's worth an extra $40 to me not to have to wait a year and a half.
Plus, I don't have entitlement issues.
Plus, I don't have entitlement issues.
Im waiting. Not a fan of the elder scrolls series and its not only thoughtless, but its economically damaging to yield your money for an incomplete value.
One of my regrets is that I purchased a copy of New Vegas recently, not realizing the DLC alone costs more than a game and that price is essentially non negotiable. So in essence I will either have to pay for the ultimate edition in febuary which will cost 40$ or buy the DLC which clocks in at 40$.
So yes, I will wait until say September of 2012 when the Ultimate edition price normalizes and costs a more appropriate 25$ Because even then... the DLC downloads, will still clock in at 40$.
Skyrim is no different, and so I will be more than happy to wait for the purposeful gouging to cease before I consider buying a game from a franchise I rank slightly below Fable.
One of my regrets is that I purchased a copy of New Vegas recently, not realizing the DLC alone costs more than a game and that price is essentially non negotiable. So in essence I will either have to pay for the ultimate edition in febuary which will cost 40$ or buy the DLC which clocks in at 40$.
So yes, I will wait until say September of 2012 when the Ultimate edition price normalizes and costs a more appropriate 25$ Because even then... the DLC downloads, will still clock in at 40$.
Skyrim is no different, and so I will be more than happy to wait for the purposeful gouging to cease before I consider buying a game from a franchise I rank slightly below Fable.
I'm not sure. I'm not much of a fan of RPGs and the fantasy genre, but once every few years I do get a hankering for one, and I'm at that point right now. I don't have the money or the time for Skyrim at the moment, and then there's Bethesda' less-than-stellar track record when it comes to their games' stability... but hot damn, this one looks sooooo alluring! I really don't if I'll cave somewhere down the line. :\
Pretty much. I wasn't convinced about it but enough friends have now recommended it so I thought I'd get it eventually, but I know Bethesda far too well, so a GOTY edition just seems like the wiser choice.
Besides, I have a whole host of games I want to get first, where I don't care whether it's the GOTY edition or not.
Besides, I have a whole host of games I want to get first, where I don't care whether it's the GOTY edition or not.
While it's presumptious to say that there will be a GoTY edition. I am waiting for some sort of version that includes all of whatever DLC they plan to release in the coming months.
I'm looking more to a price drop than a definite edition. Seriously can't think of the kind of DLC they could do that I would want to have.
But more then anything, I'm looking forward to some patching. I have such a hard time enjoying Bethesda games. I'm not one to care for graphics much, but their releases always seem so damn buggy and technically lacking.
But more then anything, I'm looking forward to some patching. I have such a hard time enjoying Bethesda games. I'm not one to care for graphics much, but their releases always seem so damn buggy and technically lacking.
Well no, the people with entitlement issues are the ones who think they should get ALL of the game for just the $60...the ones who are philosophically opposed to DLC. That's really what this looks like to me for some people...they're waiting as a sort of punishment to the developer by not giving them any more than the $60 they think should pay for the whole package.fenrizz said:
But that's just silly to me. I'm fine with DLC. I'm fine with paying additional money on top of the initial $60 for more content. I don't think I'm entitled to a developer's entire efforts for the one price.
And if it's not entitlement issues, it's just people being cheap. I can appreciate the difference between instant and delayed gratification, and I can see how it might make sense in some cases. But these people are waiting a year and a half in order to save $40 tops. That's weird.
I am.
I also waited for the complete edition of L.A. Noire.
One because I want the better version of the game for the same price, but two because there are plenty of games right now that I want to play more that are already out.
I'm already stock piled with a large release of holiday games that I want more than Skyrim. I'm gonna give my money to those.
I also waited for the complete edition of L.A. Noire.
One because I want the better version of the game for the same price, but two because there are plenty of games right now that I want to play more that are already out.
I'm already stock piled with a large release of holiday games that I want more than Skyrim. I'm gonna give my money to those.
I must admit that I previously read "it's not worth $40", which is why I wondered about the entitlement comment.everythingbeeps said:
Silly of me.
Other than that I completely agree with you.
Seems like they would prefer no DLC at all, which I find to be absurd.
They do not have to buy it, and people like me (and you it seems) will gladly pay for more content to our favourite games.
It's like they expect developers to do it for free.
Gamers have just been really over/mis-using the term lately. Don't know where the trend started.fenrizz said:
The thing is that paying $60 for a game does entitle you to a game that works properly. I'm not into beta testing and especially not into paying $60 to beta test something.
Knowing them, the dlc will probably be a good value; it's been a long time since Horse Armor. I'm waiting because the last game I got from Bethesda crashed every 15 mins.
fenrizz said:
Well, it's not entirely that they would prefer no DLC, it's just that they think all the DLC should already be in the retail release of the game. (Of course, that would mean the game's release gets delayed by up to a year, but you never hear them address that!) They see a GOTY release as the definitive version, the one they should have been sold initially at the $60, and therefore they see the original version of the game as only a fraction of the "real" game, and object to being sold what they see as 80% of a game for 100% of the price. Which is bonkers. Especially when you consider that so many of the games these people ***** the most about (Borderlands, Fallout 3 and NV, Dragon Age O and 2, Mass Effect 2, etc.) are already ridiculously good values before the DLC.
And yes, for the most part, DLC is typically stuff that is truly "extra". There are occasional hiccups, DLC that clearly "completes" a game rather than complements it (Broken Steel is a big offender here, I think, and there are a couple games that seem to have "Epilogues" which complete a previously unfinished story...I've heard that Prince of Persia 2008 is guilty of this, though I haven't finished that game or played the Epilogue). In those very rare cases, I can see how there might be an argument.
But for the most part, DLC usually just adds stuff on top of an already-complete game, stuff that doesn't necessarily fall within the overall story, but just adds self-contained chapters (most of the Fallout DLCs, for instance) or alternate perspectives (Enslaved), and these are truly optional...if you don't want them, their absence shouldn't affect your enjoyment of the game. If you DO want them, well then you should have no problem paying a few extra dollars!
(Then of course there's the day-one DLC, which is a whole other argument...as someone who buys exclusively new, it's hard for me to drum up any sympathy for used-game buyers, but I don't have as much of a problem with their protests in this case.)
I also think this "I don't want to beta test your game" argument is way overblown.GonzoGamer said:
Look, nobody was as annoyed as me about how thoroughly broken New Vegas was. But in my experience, that was the exception. I've never played another game at launch that worked nearly that badly. And so far Skyrim has been perfect.
I'm going to wait until I get a better computer, and if the GOTY edition will be coming soo after I get it, then I might as well wait.
I can just play Skyward Sword, The Witcher, and some of the other Bethesda games to tide me over.
( But I do really want to play it now!)
I can just play Skyward Sword, The Witcher, and some of the other Bethesda games to tide me over.
( But I do really want to play it now!)
