3rd Strike
You guys drive a hard bargain
I can’t buy new games because I’m a:
For next gen consoles I predict the prices are gonna be 70 or 64.99
If the publishers are getting money, that means that their current strategies are working. Therefore, they’re less likely to take risks. EA is workin’ that Call of Duty because it sells well, not because they sell poorly.
See how you can twist it either way?
Seriously, this. Australia needs to stop buying games so they can send the message “This is not okay.”
I’m in Australia and I understand why games cost as much as they do, so I have no problem with it.
hory shit i never knew that. No wonder they hated buying me games. It wasn’t the violence, but the price tag. To this day. I thought those games only cost like 20 bucks. flimsy ass plastic.
Where’d all this “buying games used is bad” bullshit come from? Used for life, because $60 for games is straight garbage.
It’s people being spoon fed the same anti-used game garbage that companies have been spitting out for years now in order to stop gamers from buying games used. They tried all sorts of different roadblocks to stop games from doing this, (pre-order incentives, online passes, etc.) but people still buy games used…They should be happy though because next console Gen, thats pretty much is going to be their only option is to by new.
The bigger threats like the developers terrible marketing decisions(on disk DLC) and R4’s/Custom Frame-ware are far more important issues next to pirating and illegal game distribution, at least that’s what I think.
Haha, I can’t believe anybody brought up second hand games like it’s the same thing as piracy! Doh.
Actually, they have. not for maybe 10 years, but before that, the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, they def went up, at least in the UK. I compare things to the cost of a pint of beer. Back then it was under 2 pints for a game. These days, remembering that beer has gone up, it’s maybe 15 pints, not including any download content, which for the most part sucks and is purely to rip the customer off for a bit more money.
Back then most people could afford to buy a game or two every week and not even think about it. You could gamble on everything that came out. These days I buy about 1-2 games a year - I just have no inclination to try different genres of game any more. I download the odd demo here and there, but would never consider a full-price purchase of anything out of my usual small range of genres.