Are games overpriced?

[xxxxxxxxx]

I never played any Halo or CoD game before. This year will make me buy more games than normally, I started with Dead Space 2 and next up will probably be Crysis 2, depends on how quickly it falls in price. I'm also interested in Bulletstorm.

You shouldn't buy Black Ops or ODST. They suck.

 

But you SHOULD buy the Fallout games.

[BTGBullseye]

I never played any Halo

You need to. Get a torrent of it and say you borrowed it from me...

[xxxxxxxxx]

I never played any Halo

You need to. Get a torrent of it and say you borrowed it from me...

Or you could get the demo then keygen it.

That's pretty much how I get every computer game.

 

WINGS OF LIBERTY FTW.

[BTGBullseye]

I never played any Halo

You need to. Get a torrent of it and say you borrowed it from me...

Or you could get the demo then keygen it.

That's pretty much how I get every computer game.

 

WINGS OF LIBERTY FTW.

Didn't know Halo 1 upgraded like that.

 

SC2 is awesome isn't it?

[xxxxxxxxx]

SC2 is awesome isn't it?

Yeah but now you have to buy the Zerg and Protoss Campaigns separate.

[BTGBullseye]

you have to buy the Zerg and Protoss Campaigns separate.

Yeah, but each campaign is an entire game unto itself... Kinda like all the Blizzard expansions...

[xxxxxxxxx]

you have to buy the Zerg and Protoss Campaigns separate.

Yeah, but each campaign is an entire game unto itself... Kinda like all the Blizzard expansions...

Yeah but the Brood war Expansion was freakin awesome.

They'd better release the Protoss Campaign next. Or some people'z gonna dai.

[BTGBullseye]

They'd better release the Protoss Campaign next.

That was the order they were going to do them last time I checked...

[Attilio]

Isn't "Heart of the swarm" next?

[Alyxx Thorne]

I think this thread has skewed out a bit... Could we get back on the topic of overpriced games instead of discussing StarCraft expansions?

[xxxxxxxxx]

I think this thread has skewed out a bit... Could we get back on the topic of overpriced games instead of discussing StarCraft expansions?

I thought this was the Favorite video game villains thread....

 

Okay Alyxx, Starcraft was like 120 bucks and you got nothing if you pre-ordered.

[Alyxx Thorne]

I think this thread has skewed out a bit... Could we get back on the topic of overpriced games instead of discussing StarCraft expansions?

I thought this was the Favorite video game villains thread....

 

Okay Alyxx, Starcraft was like 120 bucks and you got nothing if you pre-ordered.

Then you thought wrong, lol.

[that guy]

There almost always is a way around high prices (not talking about piracy). I got GTA 4 for just 6 euros

[Alyxx Thorne]

Buying used games for example, or buying games on sale.

[Blue]

The Canadian Social Science Research Council declared in the publication "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies" that one of the major reasons Piracy is so rampant in less developed or less economically strong countries (such as Brazil, India, Bolivia) because Video Games up front are so darned expensive, thus it's hard for companies to compete with rates like "Cheap as free".

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[BTGBullseye]

The Canadian Social Science Research Council postulated

 

Definition of postulate: To assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.

 

In other words, they have no proof...

[Blightmare]

The price of games has risen quite a lot from what it used to be *remembers buying new ps1 games for 30 dollars* but there also is more time, money, and effort put into games now than their were back then. aside from natural inflation, we're probably also paying for more labor.

 

That's my theory, but yes. I still think they're a little too expensive.

[BTGBullseye]

there also is more time, money, and effort put into games now than their were back then.

That's debatable. (for example CoD:MW2 & BlOps)

[Blue]

The Canadian Social Science Research Council postulated

 

Definition of postulate: To assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.

 

In other words, they have no proof...

Postulate means differently than what I thought it meant then.

[Lord Sinister]

I've always interpreted the term postulation as being when someone puts forward an idea or something that could possibly be fact. They then set out to prove that, ie 'Group x postulated that extra terrestrials do exist'. They then set out to do research and try to verify their postulation.

 

Anyway, this is vastly off-topic. To drag us back on-topic, PC games can be expensive, or at least seem so to a University student such as myself.

 

So unless I'm sure a game is going to be good I won't get it on release.

 

To try and find the best price for a game, I use http://www.best-game-price.co.uk. I've found it to be a really useful website but I suspect it may only be useful to people from the UK. However there's loads of other price comparison/searching websites out there which can help.

 

In general though, games do seem pricey, especially on release. I can only really comment for PC games though as I've never purchased any console games due to not owning a console.