Price of games is stupidly expensive

[Tombstone]

I don’t see what answering any of these questions has to do with my point mate, are you paid by the word?

Yes you can calculate the value for Diablo whichever way you want, taking in whatever factors you want. I genuinely don’t mind. And that’s a different subject.

But to play PC games, you must buy a PC. That is the entry price to the market. In the context of “pc gaming is the cheapest forum of entertainment, the entry price to access the market must be factored in…….

As for what the cheapest form of entertainment is, how the hell should I know? what’s that got to do with me hahaha

Then that sounds to me like me saying that gaming is the cheapest form of entertainment isnt as wrong as you say it is. Even if I factored in the cost of the PC (which is used for work as well as gaming of course) it still works out cheaper than other forms of entertainment that I may opt to indulge in. The £ per hour for me to play Diablo 4 for example, is still cheapest, even if I was to add the price of the PC to that £ per hour equation (though admittedly if I was to add the price of the electric, desk and cost of my house to play it in, it wouldnt work out cheapest)

£2070 ÷ 300 hours = £7 per hour

 

[MoNkeE]

Hope you have a cracking night playing mate! I’m off to the gym now, which I can assure you is neither the cheapest nor most enjoyable form of entertainment

 

[Tombstone]

Hope you have a cracking night playing mate! I’m off to the gym now, which I can assure you is neither the cheapest nor most enjoyable form of entertainment

Not surprised ! Not when you factor in the price of your travel medium, fuel and your clothes to wear to, at and from the gym !

 

[MoNkeE]

Don’t forget the whole chicken I have to eat during the workout

 

[Tombstone]

Don’t forget the whole chicken I have to eat during the workout

And the drink too ! Got to keep hydrated while working out

You should probably just save yourself a few quid and preorder Diablo 4 instead, better value for money

 

[Deleted member 77746]

And the drink too ! Got to keep hydrated while working out

You should probably just save yourself a few quid and preorder Diablo 4 instead, better value for money

You can probably buy a lot of chickens and workout drink for the price of a top end game.

 

[Tombstone]

You can probably buy a lot of chickens and workout drink for the price of a top end game.

I mean I'd happily eat the chicken, just as long as I dont have to do the workout , at my age (not far off the 62 years of the OP) I cant be arsed with any of that keep fit nonsense

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I mean I'd happily eat the chicken, just as long as I dont have to do the workout , at my age (not far off the 62 years of the OP) I cant be arsed with any of that keep fit nonsense

 

[Nitefly]

I’ve ploughed 30+ hours into the new Zelda and RE4 remake, each. Maybe that was £110, together?

A return ticket to London / Bristol via train is £70ish.

A meal out with drinks is usually £25+ each.

A trip to the cinema costs £10-15 each.

A theme park ticket is £35-50 each.

Yeah, video games are insanely good value. You can make the value better by simply not buying at launch though.

 

[malachi]

With games going digital its hard to get past the high price tag. Example, Diablo 4 for the PC you have no choice but to get it from one digital store front at £60. It will be that price for a long time.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Digital downloads should be cheaper as it’s not on physical resealable media.

Unless you can then “resell” digital copies at some point it’s a very expensive way of obtaining the games.

 

[Tombstone]

Digital downloads should be cheaper as it’s not on physical resealable media.

Unless you can then “resell” digital copies at some point it’s a very expensive way of obtaining the games.

I do very much miss the old days of getting a nice big box and a big chunky manual, used to look so good when you had hundreds of the boxes on the shelves

 

[Name]

Looking forward to Starfield GOTY Limited Complete Super Season Pass Deluxe being £149.99

 

[malachi]

Digital downloads should be cheaper as it’s not on physical resealable media.

That was the whole idea in the first place. Then the whole discussion of server costs come into it.

I do very much miss the old days of getting a nice big box and a big chunky manual, used to look so good when you had hundreds of the boxes on the shelves

At least Microsoft did that with the latest Flight Simulator.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Looking forward to Starfield GOTY Limited Complete Super Season Pass Deluxe being £149.99

And the more people keep buying these titles at these prices the worse it will get.

Same as every other product on the market today.

 

[ivrytwr3]

This really.

When the game is done properly, £60 is still very good value for money. I operate on the £ per hour system for judging value for money and there is virtually no other form of entertainment that I can get 60+ hours of entertainment for £60. Thats not even taking into account titles like the Civilization or Anno games where I get hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of hours of entertainment out of. Lets take the upcoming Diablo 4 game, I've paid £70 for that but I got something like 300-400 hours of gaming out of Diablo 3 and expect at least the same from Diablo 4...

So if we work that out, lets say 300 hours, 300 hours into £70 works out as 23p per hour. What other form of entertainment can I get for 23p an hour !?

The issue isnt the price, its when, as Xaldub says the quality isnt there and frankly at that point it doesnt matter whether the game cost £60, or £40, or £20. A bad game is a bad game.

Interesting. I purchased L4D2 in 2009 for £20 - 6k+ hours and still playing.

Think i got value for money

 

[Deleted member 77746]

The people who are purchasing games straight away on release are been stung for the premium.

I’ll never ever ever buy a game on release.

 

[ivrytwr3]

I would never buy any latest games but to compare back when the sega master system 2 was out I paid £40 for sonic the hedgehog2 when I was 14-15 with paper money to buy this game. It was stolen from me 2 months later and still to this day I never found out who stole it.

Edit: actually it wasn’t when I had a paper round parents must have purchased it for me just realised the release date was 1992 so I was still in primary then probably when I was around 9.

It was your mum and dad!

No more pew pew pew for you, back to your schoolwork and chores.

(probably not).

 

[Deleted member 77746]

It was your mum and dad!

No more pew pew pew for you, back to your schoolwork and chores.

(probably not).

Nah they would have never done that.

 

[VincentHanna]

Last three games I played through

Dead Space remake - £14.99 EA Play Pro membership for 1 month
Resident Evil 4 remake - £32.81 from CD Keys
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor - £14.99 EA Pro membership for 1 month.

I have a combined playthrough time on those games of 133 hours.

Which means it cost me £0.47 per hour to play those.

Seems reasonable value to me.