Are PC Games prices going up?

When you think i can go to a football match and pay £30-40 for 2 hours.

Price of gaming isn't expensive.

GW2 i paid £30 and then spent about another £30 in game. I have put over 1,000 hours into it. Bargain.
 
Sega Mega Dave said:
When you think i can go to a football match and pay £30-40 for 2 hours.

Price of gaming isn't expensive.

GW2 i paid £30 and then spent about another £30 in game. I have put over 1,000 hours into it. Bargain.
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When people compare two entirely different things it does nothing helpful.
 
It wouldn't be too bad if they actually included a proper hefty manual, a map and other such goodies that we used to get. I miss having a good meaty manual to sit and digest. Asking upwards of £50 for nowt but a disc and a code is daylight robbery.
 
GIBURROWS said:
When people compare two entirely different things it does nothing helpful.
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lets compare..... what if for that football match you were forced to wear glasses that made everything a bit blurry and pixelated. - (rubbish graphics/poor optimisation)

how about the match was exactly the same as the one your saw last week (all movement the same, same score, same people ....exactly the same....) except they wore different shirts (might not even be able to tell from the pixelation). - (symbolising lazy developers just reskinning games.. e.g. Cod series, BF hardline)

what about during the game you were abruptly asked to leave the stadium. or even worse!!! you get there...ticket in hand...then you are told there's a problem with your ticket... but just to join the back of the queue and try again. - (games crashing or just can't even log in)

certainly wouldn't really be wanting to pay so much to go to another match knowing that these things could and probably will happen. probably just sit at home and watch it on the TV or down the pub :) ;)




also yeah! when I bought ultima online: the second age....back in the day :p that cost me £4.99 ... I got a cd case with a CD and cd-key, installation booklet, 2 maps of the UO world and an 80ish page book about the basics of the game mechanics and descriptions of all the in game skills! was beast!

now unless you spend a silly amount on some super premium elite deluxe fanboi edition, you get sweet FA really.
 
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Gaming is dirt cheap on PC bar the hardware entry free. The amount of sales, code websites, free games and bundles make it a dirt cheap platform with loads of games. As for the prices the usual RRP price gets a little bump when next-gen comes around just to keep pricing consistent across platforms but the actual paying price is below the £30 mark.

We also can't complain really as PC games are cheaper than they have ever been with there being super high quality F2P games and nearly all of the top played games form the "core" audience are F2P (Dota, LoL, TF2, Planetside 2 etc). On top of that full AAA prices still can be had for £30-35 which is the same as what they used to be 17 years+ ago (I remember buying Theme Hospital for £30) yet even with inflation and the rising costs of production and marketing pricing stays the same. DLC is used these days to try help cover the costs, it definitely beats and extra 20% entry price tag!
 
Sasso said:
lets compare..... what if for that football match you were forced to wear glasses that made everything a bit blurry and pixelated. - (rubbish graphics/poor optimisation)

how about the match was exactly the same as the one your saw last week (all movement the same, same score, same people ....exactly the same....) except they wore different shirts (might not even be able to tell from the pixelation). - (symbolising lazy developers just reskinning games.. e.g. Cod series, BF hardline)

what about during the game you were abruptly asked to leave the stadium. or even worse!!! you get there...ticket in hand...then you are told there's a problem with your ticket... but just to join the back of the queue and try again. - (games crashing or just can't even log in)

certainly wouldn't really be wanting to pay so much to go to another match knowing that these things could and probably will happen. probably just sit at home and watch it on the TV or down the pub :) ;)




also yeah! when I bought ultima online: the second age....back in the day :p that cost me £4.99 ... I got a cd case with a CD and cd-key, installation booklet, 2 maps of the UO world and an 80ish page book about the basics of the game mechanics and descriptions of all the in game skills! was beast!

now unless you spend a silly amount on some super premium elite deluxe fanboi edition, you get sweet FA really.
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In other words watching Swansea?
 
maxilive said:
Gaming is dirt cheap on PC bar the hardware entry free. The amount of sales, code websites, free games and bundles make it a dirt cheap platform with loads of games. As for the prices the usual RRP price gets a little bump when next-gen comes around just to keep pricing consistent across platforms but the actual paying price is below the £30 mark.

We also can't complain really as PC games are cheaper than they have ever been with there being super high quality F2P games and nearly all of the top played games form the "core" audience are F2P (Dota, LoL, TF2, Planetside 2 etc). On top of that full AAA prices still can be had for £30-35 which is the same as what they used to be 17 years+ ago (I remember buying Theme Hospital for £30) yet even with inflation and the rising costs of production and marketing pricing stays the same. DLC is used these days to try help cover the costs, it definitely beats and extra 20% entry price tag!
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Sadly though there are far too many entitled people out there who want everything for free or next to nothing.

It's as if it's their given right to have everything.
 
Gimpymoo said:
Overyhyped AAA games with day 1 DLC are overpriced.

Everything else is reasonable.
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This isn't aimed at you gimpymoo but I don't get the term overhyped, sure hype is determined by yourself and how much you follow the game? So I can't see how a game is overhyped as you only have yourself to blame.

The game could be over marketed or falsely advertised. Most of the time it is just something taken out of context and over read in to by the fanbase.
 
You cannot really compare the price of console games to pc games as I believe the price of console games is so high due to licencing costs, yearly developer fee's and a cut of the profits on the platforms that do not exist on the PC.

It does annoy me that you can find physical copies of the games for less expensive that digital copies or that digital copies are not much cheaper as a whole due to there is no 3rd party to pay, no production costs, no packaging costs and no shipping costs. Obviously these have been replaced by hosting costs and delivery systems but I cannot believe they cost anywhere near as much as the physical copies.
 
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zola25 said:
Although I believe prices are trending up slightly - particularly when buying retail - I always remind myself that full price Amiga games cost £29.99 nearly 25 years ago. :eek:
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I'll see your 25 years and trump it with Atari cartridges I used to buy at the same price, 36 years ago!

God I feel old :(
 
In real terms (adjusting for inflation) games are falling in price over the long term. That said, about 10 years ago £17.99 seemed to be the going rate for new releases at the likes of Play.
 
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