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Posted July 27, 2009
Let's not also forget we are talking about a game which if it follows the trend of previous releases in the series will be completable in 4-5 hours in single player, the same with Mass Effect, it was very well made but far too short. I don't really bother with multiplayer myself but i suppose that will give better value for money if you do, but the prices are nothing but greed. If it was to do with rising production costs then all their games be increased and not just the big franchises.
Posted July 27, 2009
Not happy, as it likely means places will be selling it even more here in Aus (even if I'm not interested in this title). We're not far away from a $150AU game now.
I used to only buy one or two *new* games at retail per year, but with current prices, it's exactly zero. Now, I buy at a few digital distribution channels, and older games at the shops.
Thankfully, someplace somewhere will always have a cheaper option. Just hope they don't sell it at such a loss it becomes unsustainable.
Posted July 27, 2009
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acare84: Looks like Mass Effect 2 will cost $60 on PC too, lol.
http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Effect-2-Pc/dp/B001VJ4DHK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1248677891&sr=1-2

Screw this shit, I'll be contented playing GOGs and indie RPGs like Jeff Vogel's games, and the upcoming Age of Decadence
I don't have a jealous bone in my body when I say this: I don't care for Ass Effect or any other big titles, if I can get as much entertainment for a lower value
Posted July 27, 2009
I bought new games trice in this country (in four years time)
Stalker
Fallout 3
and
Empire Total war.
Each cost me 100 AUD so around 82 Holy American Bucks.
And consoles are 10% more expensive here.
So I actually chuckled when I saw you complaining about 60 dollar game :)
I won't be buying it on release for sure. Will wait tear next june when there are massive discounts on everything.
Posted July 27, 2009
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acare84: Looks like Mass Effect 2 will cost $60 on PC too, lol.
http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Effect-2-Pc/dp/B001VJ4DHK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1248677891&sr=1-2
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lowyhong: Screw this shit, I'll be contented playing GOGs and indie RPGs like Jeff Vogel's games, and the upcoming Age of Decadence
I don't have a jealous bone in my body when I say this: I don't care for Ass Effect or any other big titles, if I can get as much entertainment for a lower value

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Like others have said, this is Activision testing the waters. It all started with Collectors Editions. Pay extra for crap that will only collect dust. I just wait until the price is more resonable. I visit a site called cheapassgamer.com and there are plenty deals to be found on newer games. Although these deals are mostly for North America. But there is no excuse to pay full price on a game. You have to search for the deals, but they're there.
Posted July 27, 2009
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bansama: Average price of domestically released PC games (including the porn "games") here is anywhere from 7,000 to 13,000 yen, so $60 (6000 yen) is still cheap.

I thought they were ALL porn games here ;-)
I've been trying to play Dark Messiah for ages, but as you said it i can't find it for download here.
I also couldn't get in on all the steam bioshock offers as they weren't available from my home PC. (but oddly were from my work PC).
You can occasionally find second hand games cheap in places like Hard Off though... but it's usually rubbish. (console games you can get dirt cheap)
Posted July 27, 2009
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TheCheese33: how PS3 owners deal with shoddy ports of the games obviously developed with the 360 in mind and having a five download limit for all digital content

That's actually extremely inaccurate.
You can download PSN games as many times as you want on up to 5 activated consoles. activating and de-activating is simple and painless. It's actually a fairly nice system, in comparison to others.
Posted July 27, 2009
Activition are certainly doing everything they can to be a real arse this year, don't they?
Well, I was never really interested in Modern Warfare 2 anyway. If I'm to shelve out some 500-600 Kroner on a game, I would expect that to be a full-packed Collectors Edition, including the previous game, making-of video, posters, artbooks, cheesy action figures, soundtrack CD, exclusive ingame content, and a whole lot of other stuff. I mean, I can buy six or seven good old games for that price! Why on Earth would I want to pay that much for a single game, which I would only play the probably short single-player portion of anyway?
Easy answer: I won't.
Post edited July 27, 2009 by Skystrider
Posted July 27, 2009
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TheCheese33: how PS3 owners deal with shoddy ports of the games obviously developed with the 360 in mind and having a five download limit for all digital content
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LBartley: That's actually extremely inaccurate.
You can download PSN games as many times as you want on up to 5 activated consoles. activating and de-activating is simple and painless. It's actually a fairly nice system, in comparison to others.

Is it just media like movies and TV shows that you can only download 5 times, then? Because I know that stuff has a limit. Sorry if games aren't the same.
Posted July 27, 2009
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LBartley: That's actually extremely inaccurate.
You can download PSN games as many times as you want on up to 5 activated consoles. activating and de-activating is simple and painless. It's actually a fairly nice system, in comparison to others.
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TheCheese33: Is it just media like movies and TV shows that you can only download 5 times, then? Because I know that stuff has a limit. Sorry if games aren't the same.

I can't say for sure, because the CRTC sucks monkey ass (no video store in Canada) but I'm pretty sure they only let you download that kind of content once. it's up to you to make back-ups. Which also sucks monkey ass.
Posted July 27, 2009
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TheCheese33: I'm sick and tired of gamers in general being shitted on this generation. Every console and PC user has had the parent company or some developer raise them the middle finger. Worse yet, the mass are accepting it, like how 360 owners accept paying $50 a year to use their own internet to play online, how PS3 owners deal with shoddy ports of the games obviously developed with the 360 in mind and having a five download limit for all digital content, how the Wii is home to so much shovelware that it's very hard to find the good titles in the sea of bad at stores like GameStop, how the PSP almost exclusively gets dumbed-down console games when it should be getting games tailored to the system, and how the DS has two different hardware versions that mean no matter which one you happen to own, you'll miss out on some of the games that are put out for the system.
The console owners bitch and bitch at each other about how the other one's system screws the user over, when the joke's on them, because we're all getting screwed over equally. The PS3 already has something like TAGES. Once you download a game five times, good luck doing it six. Microsoft lets you download as many times as you want...but good luck trying to give the copy you bought to your friend. For the Wii, games stay on that console, period. If your Wii breaks, even if you store the games on an SD card, you're screwed.
The DRM is seeping through the cracks into the consoles, and has been for some time, but nobody seems to notice or care, because they're willing to pay a premium for something they can play on a large screen, without having to worry about simple things like upgrading. Even upgrading is being fed to them discreetly, with Wii MotionPlus and Sony and Microsoft's answers to motion control, whenever they come out.
Gaming is going down the drain, and nobody seems to notice or care.

Uhh, I've downloaded all of my PS3 games that I have purchased far more than five times. In fact, I am very happy with my PS3 and PC experiences as of late, between GOG, Steam, and PS3's exclusives and downloads. Perhaps you are talking about "Activating" five consoles? I don't see a problem there, seeing as you can manage which consoles are activated very easily. I like being able to manage that sort of thing easily.
EDIT: Sorry, I didn't see that this was addressed right above my post. But yeah, with movies on PSN, you are screwed if your download fails... with games, it's a system that works great.
Post edited July 27, 2009 by PhoenixWright
Posted July 27, 2009
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Wishbone: Pardon me if I try to apply logic to those statements, but console games are not historically known for a widespread use of client/server architecture, while PC games are. And doesn't digital distribution raise the demand for server hosting, rather than lowering it?

Console games use a variety of multiplayer implementations, but they are typically filtered through the console maker's servers for some matchmaking functionality and other such things. Non-MMO PC games always use a client-server structure, but the servers are almost always hosted by third parties (which simply have to announce the server's details to the master server), and except for a few titles (like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2) the game maker doesn't handle matchmaking, ranking, and other intermediary functions.
As for digital distribution, the digital distribution provider takes a cut but the publisher still ends up with a bigger slice of the pie than at retail because there is only one middleman and no physical product.
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