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[KaelGotDwarves]

We open with a game nobody ever wanted to play ever.

(The sweet spot on D2D seems to be $50)

$53.95 $59.95


 

Okay, let me see -
Starcraft 2
CoD6: Modern Warfare 2
CoD5
Dragon Age 2?
Dragon Age Origins?
Crysis 2

Your 2nd example is a preorder with DLC. The $60 is a new trend, there aren't two dozen AAA PC mainstream titles currently released with $60 pricepoints. Try me. I'm even willing to bet a game.

[Grakelin]

Gotta give me some leeway here, gentleman. I've only touched on brand new releases. Brand new digitally distributed releases. Yeah.

Now I have to go digging for how much things actually cost when they originally came out. To sate your appetites while you wait, I (foolishly) paid about $65 for this baby right here:

6. It burns even still. Never even got to play because their registration won't accept paypal for some reason. Zing!.


Do be kind. I know any research you do will not help your end of the bargain, but don't belittle mine as a result!


EDIT: Just spotted your addendum, Kael. Poor play, if you ask me. I'd sooner ask you to find me two dozen brand new AAA releases in general. That's about how many are released per year, given a generous estimate.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Most? Only the most ridiculous AAA titles on consoles and maybe less than a dozen on PC have ever released at $60. I'd be surprised if you could point out two dozen full games on PC that have been released at $60, and I'd be surprised if you could find one expansion pack that cost $60 besides that hilarious train DLC crap.

So uhhh, your post doesn't make any sense.

I'll accept your first challenge, not going to hit the second one. Here we go.

As for AAA games, what I mean is any popular game not like training "game" specialty simulation software, that regularly costs hundreds or thousands for a license.

[Grakelin]

Let me pick out the ones you have issues with, though, really, asking me to find the original prices of 24 games is enough of a shaft that only my past experience on this forum of people rubbing it in incessantly when I go silent from boredom keeps me going. I'll leave you with this as a new starter:

1. Halo 3: ODST

[KaelGotDwarves]

Not PC :| Are you even reading?

[Grakelin]

You're really nitpicking to protect your point, so I'm going to counter-challenge this one.

Find me the launch prices of two dozen non-indie games released before February 5, 2011.

[Sordid]

I wound up discovering the bizarre and unexpected. Take for example the black door adorned with a skull I found near a frigid pond in a rocky recess. The door spoke to me in an otherworldly whisper while shimmering faintly, and asked if I knew the music of life. I ran through the conversation tree to exhaust all options, answering drums, screaming, some kind of choir. The door promptly declared me to be unworthy and refused to open.

Is it just me, or does that sound like it came straight out of another RPG franchise? Are Bethsoft really so desperate for ideas that they're ripping off Fable, of all things?

[KaelGotDwarves]

You're really nitpicking to protect your point, so I'm going to counter-challenge this one.

Find me the launch prices of two dozen non-indie games released before February 5, 2011.

It's really lame to ask for me to counter proof my statement that you can't prove wrong.

Pretty much all AAA titles are released at $30-$50 USD.

EDIT: I mean, look at Steam's "Upcoming titles list"

Deus Ex: Human Revolution™
Action, RPG - Available: Aug 2011
-10% $49.99
$44.99
 
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
Action - Available: Aug 30, 2011
-10% $39.99
$35.99
 
Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition
Strategy - Available: Sep 1, 2011
$39.99
 
Driver San Francisco
Racing, Action - Available: Sep 6, 2011
$49.99
 
Might & Magic® Heroes® VI
RPG, Strategy - Available: Sep 6, 2011
$49.99
 
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Action - Available: Sep 2011
$49.99

Call of Juarez®: The Cartel
Action, Adventure - Available: Sep 13, 2011
$49.99
 
Rest are "indie titles" and cheaper.

[Jehdin]

You're really nitpicking to protect your point, so I'm going to counter-challenge this one.

Find me the launch prices of two dozen non-indie games released before February 5, 2011.

Considering pretty much all non-budget console games have been released at $60 since the 360 came out, that really isn't nitpicking.

I wound up discovering the bizarre and unexpected. Take for example the black door adorned with a skull I found near a frigid pond in a rocky recess. The door spoke to me in an otherworldly whisper while shimmering faintly, and asked if I knew the music of life. I ran through the conversation tree to exhaust all options, answering drums, screaming, some kind of choir. The door promptly declared me to be unworthy and refused to open.

Is it just me, or does that sound like it came straight out of another RPG franchise? Are Bethsoft really so desperate for ideas that they're ripping off Fable, of all things?

You can also get married!

Watch them add guns or farting next.

[KaguroDraven]

>.> I'm sorry but I love love LOVE when people accuse things of rip offs. Ever entertainment industry, from music, to books, to movies, to games, they all rip off many many many things, each other and their own. Talking doors where not made by fable, nor was marriage in games, or was adding guns to a perfectly acceptible fantasy game.

[Shadowlord]

Considering pretty much all non-budget console games have been released at $60 since the 360 came out, that really isn't nitpicking.

Considering you can almost always find the exact same game being released at $50 for PC and $60 for the 360, pointing out that a game is $60 on the 360 doesn't really prove anything in an argument about the price of games on the PC.

[KaelGotDwarves]

>.> I'm sorry but I love love LOVE when people accuse things of rip offs. Ever entertainment industry, from music, to books, to movies, to games, they all rip off many many many things, each other and their own. Talking doors where not made by fable, nor was marriage in games, or was adding guns to a perfectly acceptible fantasy game.

No one ever bothered to say it's a rip off (although it pretty much is ), I'm just saying that the $60 price point for PC games is a recently new thing done by companies just because they can.

There's a big difference between needing to vend physical disks (consoles) vs digital distribution.

Simply put, you guys can't prove that $60 is a standard price for PC games even though you, KaguroDraven, made the statement that it's the standard price. It simply isn't for most of the US.

[Flying Carcass]

Watch them add guns or farting next.

Guns will likely be modded in soon after release, and farting... someone needs to get on that! 

But seriously, if Skyrim has ogres like Oblivion's, farting would be a neat touch for those monsters.

[Trapezohedron]

Watch them add guns or farting next.

Guns will likely be modded in soon after release, and farting... someone needs to get on that! 

But seriously, if Skyrim has ogres like Oblivion's, farting would be a neat touch for those monsters.

Also, real-time growing trees would be nice too, something that Molyneux failed to do.

[Rose]

while the local release price for skyrim isn't announced here yet, going by the prices of similar games that were released over here, I predict $17 (the price of crysis 2 here).