£80 per game ?
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Or just carry on playing the games you already own, people tend to have enough of a backlog
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Or DLC. I've spent way over £80 on Crusader Kings II if you include DLC. I think I must have paid at least 10p per hour played. Scandalous.
I’d happily pay £80 for a game if it was truly something groundbreaking and offered a long and incredible experience.
But I just don’t see that happening, unless it’s from a small studio, who don’t have the power to achieve it.
We’d just see the same nobs in the big studios bending people over for the same tat.
So yes I would pay it, but no I won’t. Because it will achieve nothing but poorer gamers and even less people on the platform.
But I just don’t see that happening, unless it’s from a small studio, who don’t have the power to achieve it.
We’d just see the same nobs in the big studios bending people over for the same tat.
So yes I would pay it, but no I won’t. Because it will achieve nothing but poorer gamers and even less people on the platform.
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Too advanced for consoles? Have you played a console in the last5/6 years?
I have. Do you think they’re anywhere near as powerful as middle tier and up pc hardware? My ageing rig makes them look crap.
£80? No. Just no.
The gaming industry makes more than the film industry and i'm not paying 80 quid for a bluray.
Edit: yeah i know more value to the user in the end product but that's moot, the industry still makes more.
The gaming industry makes more than the film industry and i'm not paying 80 quid for a bluray.
Edit: yeah i know more value to the user in the end product but that's moot, the industry still makes more.
The first game I spent more than £80 on would have been WoT. Being fair, that was spread over 5 years of play, and probably equates to around £400 in total, some of which I got back on selling the account.
By comparison, DCS has ended up with more cash on hardware (though being fair that was also used with Elite for probably 1000 hours) and then way more than £80 on various modules. Making up for that, I've spent over 2 years playing DCS and still consider myself as very much "learning", so will probably spend years more working on it.
By comparison, DCS has ended up with more cash on hardware (though being fair that was also used with Elite for probably 1000 hours) and then way more than £80 on various modules. Making up for that, I've spent over 2 years playing DCS and still consider myself as very much "learning", so will probably spend years more working on it.
These are my price brackets for games.
A epic game that I know i'll get 100s of hours out of e.g Skyrim = £30 + possible dlc purchase if its any good down the line
A decent game I'll play over the course of a weekend e.g Doom = £20
A small indie game or something I am not sure i'll like =£5-£10
Theres very little chance i'll ever pay more than £35 for a game that is then linked to my account and I can't sell on. At least on consoles you can sell the game after completing to get most of your money back. I even made a small profit selling GTAV on PS3 after completion, so it's not even like I double dipped for that.
Also you could sell that £40 game and recoup £20 or so, or even more if you sold to a mate.
A epic game that I know i'll get 100s of hours out of e.g Skyrim = £30 + possible dlc purchase if its any good down the line
A decent game I'll play over the course of a weekend e.g Doom = £20
A small indie game or something I am not sure i'll like =£5-£10
Theres very little chance i'll ever pay more than £35 for a game that is then linked to my account and I can't sell on. At least on consoles you can sell the game after completing to get most of your money back. I even made a small profit selling GTAV on PS3 after completion, so it's not even like I double dipped for that.
Good job pre owned games are a thing on consoles. I always used to browse the preowned bin in Game and picked up most new titles for like £20-£30. Or waited a few months for the game to go to the £20 platinum range.
Also you could sell that £40 game and recoup £20 or so, or even more if you sold to a mate.
Star Citizen broke my normal barriers.
However as someone who use to subscribe to multiple MMORPGs etc I've no problem paying for a game if I'm getting my moneys worth back in hours played. I tend to wait on reviews by real people (not profession reviewers) to get an idea of what games are properly like before buying now though.
However as someone who use to subscribe to multiple MMORPGs etc I've no problem paying for a game if I'm getting my moneys worth back in hours played. I tend to wait on reviews by real people (not profession reviewers) to get an idea of what games are properly like before buying now though.
Thread is full of people who have apparently never paid an MMO sub.
To be fair thats not whats being asked though is it ? Would you pay £80 for game that you have not yet played. Have you and others with the same response bought the game first, say for £30, then because you liked it bought the DLC afterwards, or with an MMO sub you keep paying the sub because you have already played the game and liked it ??
Would you have paid £80 for Crusaders Kings II including DLC etc before you even played it ?
Would people playing an MMO paid £80 up front before even paying the MMO.
Unless I'm wrong the answer would be no, hence £80 is still way too much.
I think there is a difference between buying a game say Call of Duty for £80 and then it turning out to be a complete dud than joining a MMO type game for free and after a period of time paying £80 for that game to gain extra's because you are enjoying it.
I've probably spent £300 or more playing World of Warships but thats since it was released years ago. If it was a game I had not played I wouldnt buy it for £300. See what I mean.
I've spent £80 on both GTA V and Witcher 3 due to double dipping but that's cause I knew how outstanding they were after the first £40 that the extra £40 was nay bother. Other games I have gotten close with base game + dlc, but I only ever buy DLC after finishing the.base game and want more.
But paying £80 upfront is a different story. I never know whether I will like a game until after I have played it at which point nobody is gonna pay more money.
In conclusion, there are many games that are worth £80 but I would not spend £80 on a game.
But paying £80 upfront is a different story. I never know whether I will like a game until after I have played it at which point nobody is gonna pay more money.
In conclusion, there are many games that are worth £80 but I would not spend £80 on a game.
I would spend hundreds on the right game, in fact I've spent thousands of dollars on one game that I got thousands of hours out of, and it was worth it (to me).
But I won't even spend £50 on a new release these days because it may well be rubbish (and rubbish value for money). It is rare that a dev these days has the goodwill that I would risk it, although a HL3 or next Skyrim or Witcher etc. could be worth it but even then I would have to read some reviews and user experiences because PC games these days are released BROKEN and i don't have time anymore to do the bug testing for them.
The Premium/Gold editions are a good idea to get extra funds for development. Say someone wants to pay £80 for the GOLD version of the game, let him have his extra skins (not pay-to-win EA FFS!) and others can get the same game cheaper, i's win/win. It's like first class on airlines, make it WAY more expensive so those who can afford to can subsidise those who can't.
What is the most time you have spent on one game? How much is that worth to you? It's worth a lot to me, a lot more than £80. Alas, these games are very rare.
But I won't even spend £50 on a new release these days because it may well be rubbish (and rubbish value for money). It is rare that a dev these days has the goodwill that I would risk it, although a HL3 or next Skyrim or Witcher etc. could be worth it but even then I would have to read some reviews and user experiences because PC games these days are released BROKEN and i don't have time anymore to do the bug testing for them.
The Premium/Gold editions are a good idea to get extra funds for development. Say someone wants to pay £80 for the GOLD version of the game, let him have his extra skins (not pay-to-win EA FFS!) and others can get the same game cheaper, i's win/win. It's like first class on airlines, make it WAY more expensive so those who can afford to can subsidise those who can't.
What is the most time you have spent on one game? How much is that worth to you? It's worth a lot to me, a lot more than £80. Alas, these games are very rare.
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£40 max, if the game pushes the boundaries and is actually good then it'll sell in the numbers needed to increase the profit, if it's not good then charging more isn't going to make it better.
if a studio constantly puts out good games then they're more likely to get people buying at full price on launch rather than hanging around for sales, for example the only games i'd consider pre-ordering are tes6 and bl3, anything else i'll wait for a sale.
if a studio constantly puts out good games then they're more likely to get people buying at full price on launch rather than hanging around for sales, for example the only games i'd consider pre-ordering are tes6 and bl3, anything else i'll wait for a sale.
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£80 for a game!
erm it's not really true because they wouldn't be able to have a plane of only business/1st class and sell all the seats so the tickets would have to be higher if they didn't have regular class
regular people subsidise the rich
according to google most planes also carry some cargo as well as passenger bags