Price of games now!

uncreative

£150 for 2 games though?

Surely a maximum £40 for a game is a decent return for the games companies. I remember when computer games were £1.99 on cassette.

custardy

uncreative wrote: »

£150 for 2 games though?

Surely a maximum £40 for a game is a decent return for the games companies. I remember when computer games were £1.99 on cassette.

Buy the standard/base version then.

http://www.365games.co.uk/xbox-one-games/assassins-creed-syndicate-xbox-one-game?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=google+shopping+data+feed+(27/09/2015-16:52)&gclid=Cj0KEQjwkeiwBRCzmo-wiKL49pEBEiQAhvGKYcEPBoQyxSLFD6fg4trgfUOoYCYA0-YEwK3gRBPFTYkaAuhS8P8HAQ

http://occultplanet.com/fallout-4-xbox-one?utm_source=google_shopping

under £80 for both.

Your £1.99 game could be coded by one guy on a home machine, in his spare time.

Tropez

uncreative wrote: »

£150 for 2 games though?

Surely a maximum £40 for a game is a decent return for the games companies. I remember when computer games were £1.99 on cassette.

If you're buying special editions, you're not just buying the base game. You're paying for the extra content that will become available over the following year or so.

It used to be a case that a video game developer/distributor would occasionally maximise their revenue on a title by releasing an "expansion pack". Generally these would retail for around half the original retail price of the game and contain a third to half as much new content as the original game.

However, nowadays, devs and distributors have largely shifted to the DLC model where smaller parts of extra content are added for varying sums in the year or two after the release of the original game. This allows an extra revenue stream for devs and distributors, while also keeping a reasonable number of people playing the game to try out the new content (particularly important for multiplayer titles). DLC can also help promote a following game - ie. Mass Effect 2: Arrival, which serves as a direct link between Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 was released just over a year after Mass Effect 2 and about 9-10 months prior to Mass Effect 3.

By buying a special edition with a DLC pass, you're paying up front for your DLC and likely achieving a small discount than if you were to buy the base game and then buy all the DLC separately.

You'll also probably be getting hold of a couple of bits of "limited edition" gubbins exclusive to the edition you'll be getting (I haven't checked what the deluxe editions of those games contains). Like limited edition anythings, the fan-factor bumps the price up.

If you don't believe you'll want all the DLC then you can simply buy the base game and then buy whichever DLC you fancy as it is released, or none at all if that is your preference.

uncreative

ok thanks guys i will get the base game then go for the DLC afterwards. Should help the christmas budget!

DCFC79

uncreative wrote: »

Its lucky then I wont be buying SW Battlefront after playing the beta....

Why wont you be buying Battlefront, was it no good ?

I'm tempted to get Syndicate with the season pass.

uncreative

Once you get over the excitement of the actual start wars bit, its not really floating my boat to be honest.

DCFC79

uncreative wrote: »

Once you get over the excitement of the actual start wars bit, its not really floating my boat to be honest.

Yes I can see your point, only seen a video of the game and might get a chance with the beta.

bluenoseam

uncreative wrote: »

£150 for 2 games though?

Surely a maximum £40 for a game is a decent return for the games companies. I remember when computer games were £1.99 on cassette.

No, you were talking about the game AND DLC, you're neither forced to nor have to play the DLC, you do so because it's your preference to do so. When it comes to Fallout you'd probably be best waiting for it to be released as a GOTY edition (cos we all know that'll happen) which will then drop it down to closer to £40 for both.

The thing with the Fallout season pass is I'm not bothered about it being subpar, Bethesda have a reasonable track record with that & well, unless it's a 20 minute episode I think £25 is worthwhile. I don't for one second disagree that some companies are extracting the urine a little bit though. Problem is while people are paying for it, companies are hardly likely to stop selling it - only when a backlash on a large scale appears will it stop. (See EA & their online pass policy)

As for games at £1.99 - yep, when they're spending the money they are on triple-a titles, then we can all agree that they need to charge £45 a pop. Especially considering the amount of that they'll actually see by the time the tax man, the retailer & distributor get their cut.

ifstar

uncreative wrote: »

So I excitedly looked at pre-ordering Fallout 4 and Assassins Creed Syndicate for Xbox1, 69.99 and 79.99. So thats £150 for 2 games...:eek: back in the day you could get a console for that!

Its lucky then I wont be buying SW Battlefront after playing the beta....

You should look at buying from the foreign xbox stores, Russia and Singapore both work with Xbox gift cards and they are much cheaper. Usually works out about £32-35 or so per game.
If you buy digital then you can do game sharing with a friend too, where you get access to their digital games and vice versa.

Johnmcl7

I remember a long time back when Street Fighter 2 came out at a whopping £65 for the Super Nintendo/SNES and the highly desired imports of SF2 Turbo Edition were going for over £100. At release the N64 games were very pricey with Turok costing £70 initially. Ok, a large part of that was the pricey cartridge technology but the likes of Fallout 4 is a vastly more complex game and of course there was no DLC back in those days, new content would be released as new pricey games.

There's a lot more competition on prices as well now, originally you'd buy games from a local shop, then more mail order specialists cropped up then the internet opening up the potential to order worldwide and now with digital copies of games it's possible to buy games in different territories and start downloading them immediately.

John