*LETTER* Games are TOO expensive - up to £45 + £7 DLC?

[Johnny Shoulder]

Anyone remember when Street FIghter II came out on the SNES? Wasn't it something ridiculous like £80?

[j2000_nr]

Anyone remember when Street FIghter II came out on the SNES? Wasn't it something ridiculous like £80?

I remember saving up my pocket money for ages and I think I bought it for something like £60. Worth every penny

[biron_w]

I think games themselves aren't really overpriced. It's the DLC that IS overpriced.
You pay say £40 for a game with a full single player campaign and usually an online bit as well. And then they release some measly bit of DLC like a few new maps and charge you £10 for them(yes i'm looking at you activision and COD).
Games should stay as they are but DLC needs to be a lot cheaper.

[ClownTrousers]

When I was a "kid" kid, games for me Atari 800 were about a tenner. Then for the ST they were about 35 quid.

Games haven't really got that much dearer since.

[Bob]

Atari 2600 cartridges where about £40 as where NES games..

Console games are always dearer than their equivalent PC game because the publisher has to pay the hardware maker a licence fee.

DLC is a bit ridiculously expensive.

[ClownTrousers]

Aye, I only had one cartridge on the 800xl - Star Raiders. Everything else was tape.

Some DLC is overpriced. A lot of the Dragon Age / Mass Effect stuff is only 540 points for example. On the other hand, FIFA sucks ass.

[Bob]

only 540??

I think extra cars, horse armour and that sort of thing should be 200

New Maps, Tracks and extra mission a max of 400

Games 800.

Nothing should be more than 800.

[The-Marb]

Optikal has made some good points here, if I ever want to buy a new game then I'll head down to Tesco first, some of their games start off at a good £15 less than the RRP.

As with most new releases, if you wait, literally, a few weeks after relase then the price will have dropped, apart from the 'big games' like MW2.

So really, the choice is yours, buy new and don't moan, or wait a while and buy cheap. I tend to go for the latter option

I also wait until the price has dropped, I only got round to playing MW2 about a month ago.

MW2 only cost me £32 on day of release, use amazon and if its cheaper anywhere else they price match.

Personally i dont mind paying 40 quid plus for a long game but do sometimes feel stiffed (Bad Company 2)...



Oh and Clown your post made me urinate in my own pants...thanks

[j2000_nr]

Personally i dont mind paying 40 quid plus for a long game but do sometimes feel stiffed (Bad Company 2)...

Fair point to make bud, but a lot of new games are lucky to scrape 10 hours, and that's on a good day

[Johnny Shoulder]

Personally i dont mind paying 40 quid plus for a long game but do sometimes feel stiffed (Bad Company 2)...

Fair point to make bud, but a lot of new games are lucky to scrape 10 hours, and that's on a good day

And plus Marb you didn't play the MP, which is like only eating the veg when you have a roast dinner.

[Cerebral_Wolf]

only 540??

I think extra cars, horse armour and that sort of thing should be 200

New Maps, Tracks and extra mission a max of 400

Games 800.

Nothing should be more than 800.

ME2's releasing armour add and weapons add ons for something like 180 points i think. I'm sure that was the price i paid for the last pack a couple of weeks ago anyway.

[The-Marb]

Personally i dont mind paying 40 quid plus for a long game but do sometimes feel stiffed (Bad Company 2)...

Fair point to make bud, but a lot of new games are lucky to scrape 10 hours, and that's on a good day

And plus Marb you didn't play the MP, which is like only eating the veg when you have a roast dinner.

True i cant do MP as i live in a place with no cable and only miminal broadband, but i felt especially stiffed by BC2.

After all MW2 has offline MP and Spec-ops which has made the game last for hours and hours.

As for other games, your right most of time, but theres been some good value games this year alone. Just Cause 2, ME2, Red Dead, Crackdown 2....

[D4WES]

I mean EA for example. £39.99 for their FIFA game. Which if you are a big fan of the series will spend 400MS points on their Ultimate Team add on. Even still, I don't think I know one person who hasn't spent money to buy "Packs" to get players. I know people who have spent over £200 on it. Thats £240 they've made off one person... strictly speaking not £240 but whatever. I think companies should be less harsh on the price they put their games at and think it through. I mean...

I paid less than £25 on release day for Fifa10, I paid less than £4 for the UT DLC (never again) & I earnt the coins to purchase card packs, refusing to pay for something that required a little patience. EA didn't charge £200 for DLC, those idiots chose to pay that ridiculous amount & deserve to be Happy Slapped back to reality.

[Mullered Moose]

I paid £26 for MW2 on release day. I thought that was pretty good but to be fair I don't mind paying £40 or so for a game. The way I see it is you get on average a say... 6 or 7 hour single player game then a potentially limitless multiplayer (provided you don't get bored). For the same price, after buying drinks n snacks, two people can go to the cinema twice and get maybe a total of 4 hours of entertainment each.

[Tom909]

you're looking at 50p an hour-ish of fun? Where else in the world can you get that kinda awesomeness?
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Thailand?