Who pay full-price game anymore ?

[CannibalCorpses]

I pay full price for games like GTA and Fallout because i know that i will be playing them for a longtime...200 hours+ over months and months with probably 3-10 playthroughs of varying objectives

Everything else i buy used or rent...mostly rent to be honest. 5 quid for a game that takes a day to finish is still not good enough value for money for me to bother with.

 

[Drake666]

I pay full price for games like GTA and Fallout because i know that i will be playing them for a longtime...200 hours+ over months and months with probably 3-10 playthroughs of varying objectives

Everything else i buy used or rent...mostly rent to be honest. 5 quid for a game that takes a day to finish is still not good enough value for money for me to bother with.

On what platform do you play? There's a lot of answers on this thread that are similar. The question is, I think, will people that are renting and buying used will change their way buying habits for new console(s) or will become PC gamer :S ?

 

[White Wizard]

I only buy games new now. I would much prefer my money to contribute to the development of future games, however I'll caveat with: I don't buy games when released, usally wait a few months. Unfortunately I have very little time for gaming and may only buy one game a quarter and aim for a 100% completion before moving onto the next one.

However in my youth, I was mainly a PC Gamer and I spent alot of time in a bay full of pirates, which would have been my first point of call for any game I wanted to play, if it was any good then I would buy it on Steam for ease of use.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I pay full price for games like GTA and Fallout because i know that i will be playing them for a longtime...200 hours+ over months and months with probably 3-10 playthroughs of varying objectives

Everything else i buy used or rent...mostly rent to be honest. 5 quid for a game that takes a day to finish is still not good enough value for money for me to bother with.

On what platform do you play? There's a lot of answers on this thread that are similar. The question is, I think, will people that are renting and buying used will change their way buying habits for new console(s) or will become PC gamer :S ?

I'm a 360 user currently but i doubt i will be staying with Micro-transaction-shaft for their new console. I haven't decided what i will do but i'm pretty sure that i won't be moving back to PC...too many cheating bastards and not enough competition for me.

If rentals and used games are removed then i probably won't move to the new platform at all. Without rentals there is no way to make an informed decision about whether a game is worth purchasing or not and without used games there won't be enough titles out there to keep me occupied while the good ones pop up.

I think some people will be willing to drop used games but a large portion of current used game sales are to people who would never pay full price for the product in the first place. There is another twist to this though. People who buy new games because they know they can trade them in if they don't like them will also have to wise up. I think the consequence of that change will be lower overall sales totals which will probably drive the cost of games up. Nobody will win in that scenario.

 

[BeeGeenie]

I pay full price all the time. I don't see where people get off saying that $60 is expensive. I remember gaming back in the Atari days when games actually were expensive.

I mean, $60 for a 8-12 hour game is way cheaper than an equal number of trips to the movie theater.

That's why I never go to the theater anymore either

I occasionally pay full price, but I've mostly been nostalgia trippin' for a while now, and old games are both good and cheap.

 

[NightmareExpress]

Right wing people (hesitating not to type a negative adjective) who want to feel good about themselves.
Impatient people with loose wallets.

I wait for sales a whopping 96% of the time because I don't need games and I most certainly do not need them right then and there. Necessities and profitable hobbies come first, it also doesn't help that I grew up a stingy person. You're only a bad consumer in the long run if you support those who don't give a flying fuck about your rights and attempt at every corner to bend you over, drop your trousers and...take your money.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

60 Bucks too much, aww isn't that cute. Live in Australia for a bit and then come back to me. I import from the UK, 60 bucks is chump change for a game.

Flipping heck, feel for you chap. Some great games I own I payed less than £5 for (The Saboteur, The Darkness, Star Ocean TLH etc. - Fallout NV was £6) and the thought of paying more than £20 for a game now seems a bit silly to me.

You only have to see how many games end up back on trade shelves within days of release to realize how poor some of them actually are once people see through the hype. ME3 almost took up an entire shelf at my local game store and they could not give them away.

I never trade back in games unless I found them absolutely boring, or I simply haven't had a reason to play them again (Soul Calibur 4, Bayonetta). I was one of those few that didn't hate Mass effect 3, I found the game enjoyable and the characters interesting enough to keep me round dispite the lackluster ending. But then I'm an odd duck that has very niche appeals.

 

[Grape_Bullion]

Personally, I just buy a game new, unless that's impossible because of the game's age, for both PC and consoles (Well I pirate it if I can't find something on PC, if we want to be overly technical). That being said, before I had major cheese used/on sale games made up the vast majority of the games I owned. They're a great way for people to play things they otherwise wouldn't be able to. Used games are a good thing (most of the time) and greed is the larger problem than used games themselves.