£80 per game ?

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Omaeka said:
If it cost £40 to create a retail copy, £80 may be viable, however it costs more on the end of £1 to create a retail copy, creating £39 of pure profit. Games that you download however, cost nothing.
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LOLWUT? the developers make the game for free? the people who record all the sound effects are free? the people who go out taking photos of brick walls and making textures are free? the motion capture is free?

im in the wrong busisness!
 
So OP you want to pay £80 for a game and completely kill off Pc gaming, as you would be one of a select few who can afford to pay that sort of money. I have just returned from a holiday in Florida (no I am not rich, I save hard)where all the recent game releases are retailing everywhere at $59.99 plus 6% tax and mostly lying on the shelves, thats over £40. Personally I try to cap my purchases at £25 or less, so I just snapped up Max Payne 3 on here at £24.98 delivered. I think a few retailers have clocked that £25 is the sweet spot, problem here is pre-order prices and the idiots who cannot wait to find out if a game is any good and then there is taste, what you may find a 'terrible game' someone else finds is 'fantastic', Skyrim is a good example for instance, I find it rivoting and only paid £24, first week out, for the hours I've put in, its terrific value. So how much you should pay for a game is surely down to the individual. At £80 OP you are easily in the minority.:)
 
They need to make more games exclusive to PC for me. £80 is way too much, you're just going to get more people pirating games at that price.

I usually wait for the games to drop in price so they are more affordable, unless it's a new game I really want. So for me £20-£40 is the most I am prepared to pay, anything over that you can forget it.
 
Never. I've spent more than that on MMO's like SWTOR (£130 for the game, then month sub) but that was a one off. Max I'd pay for PC games is £30 unless they offer something truly special and ground-breaking. Although I have to agree with some; sell more at £20 rather than £30 and make more profits.
 
Spils said:
Could just imagine trying to tell the mrs sorry this month we must starve there's 3 games out I want thats going to cost me a cool £240 so the kids are going to have to starve, turn that dam heating off I don't care if its minus 10 outside theres some DLC out today priced a cool £50
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The point the OP is making is that you wouldn't need to by 3 games a month, the quality is that high that just one game would last you at least a month. So instead of spending £80 on 3 games, you spend £80 on 1 game.
 
Omaeka said:
Games that you download however, cost nothing, so £80 pure profit PER SALE of something that will sell tens and hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions is ridiculous. Pure and simple. If you want gaming to innovate that much by the consumer throwing pathetic amounts of money at the already filthy rich businesses, then donate every penny you have to EA and see what they 'innovate'. ;)

Something you may want to take into account; shoes and clothes...

It can cost millions in designing and marketing for a new product
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Your first statement in bold is kinda countered by your second :)
Digital distribution undoubtedly reduces costs (packaging, physical distribution, shelf space etc) but is not completely cost free. You still need to clawback R&D and marketing costs, plus the (admittedly very small) cost of digital distribution (hosting etc). Then there may be post-release support, patches and suchlike required which all carry a cost.

Yes the marginal cost is very low for digital copies but you still need to sell enough to clawback all the money that has been invested up front.
 
Yes I would pay £80 for a game that gives me great entertainment & fun.

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Even £40 is a ripoff, for any game, I was willing to ignore that rule for GW2 seeing as that type of game normally has a monthly fee. Though i've never EVER bought a game that had a £30 price tag followed by a monthly fee, that's the biggest rip off of them all.

Until recent years (thanks to utter ***** that is call of duty) PC games had a maximum of £30, always had been as far as i could remember, and only consoles went up to £40, but now EA caught on to the fact that COD was selling for £40 and are now merrily releasing everything for £40.... even fifa which only has about £10 worth of changes every release :/

Note: I'm blaming COD because it appears to have been the one that "started it" due to its popularity at that price, other games may been attempted first but weren't that popular. Although god knows why people like playing that tripe.
 
I now wait a few months until a game becomes £10-£15.I don't think i will be buying a game on release any more unless it is something amazing.

I would really like Max Payne 3 right now but i know that in a months time it will be available for near £10.

So in answer to your question...no, i wouldnt.

I might spend up to £40 if the game was incredible and was a pc exclusive with graphics/content that was available nowhere else. £80 is silly.
 
I remember back in the 90's my mum paid about £70 for street fighter 2 for the mega drive! I dunno why it was so expensive?
 
Jono8 said:
I now wait a few months until a game becomes £10-£15.I don't think i will be buying a game on release any more unless it is something amazing.

I would really like Max Payne 3 right now but i know that in a months time it will be available for near £10.

So in answer to your question...no, i wouldnt.

I might spend up to £40 if the game was incredible and was a pc exclusive with graphics/content that was available nowhere else. £80 is silly.
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Yes this seems the the biggest argument against higher priced games. The fact is games do not hold their value. They have a product life cycle like most things. You can skim the market for early adopters when it's first released but eventually if you want to keep sales going you lower the price. If you make the price higher then those initial sales will be lower.
 
Well you can spend close to £80 right now to get the "full" version of Battlefield 3.

You pay £40 for the game itself or if you're sensible you buy it from somewhere other than Origin for about £20, then purchase Premium for £40 which gets you a few more maps and vehicles. Does this sound worth it to you? Essentially this sets a precedent because many buy DLC for online games because they don't want to be left out. With all the players buying Premium it only opens the floodgates for more ridiculous pricing and a tiered gaming experience from launch for future games. No doubt you'll see situations like this:

£40 gets you the basic game, which doesn't include launch day DLC or at least not all of it.

£60 gets you the full game, with all the launch day DLC.

£80 gets you the full game, with all the launch day and future DLC.

EA practically already did this with BF3 at launch with the limited and non limited versions of the game and the Back to Karkand expansion, there just wasn't a price difference.
 
Gimpymoo said:
The point being you will sell more units at the lower price point than at the higher price point.

Thus making more profit.
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Yes but the profit per unit is less, therefore you might not necessarily make more profit. If games aren't priced to maximise profit, how else would they be priced?
 
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