Price of games now!

bluenoseam

PenguinJim wrote: »

And over twice as much as my GTAV pre-order!

But it's still good advice to not pre-order in general, as any game that comes out might be absolute garbage. £20 isn't a good pre-order price if the game is Aliens: Colonial Marines or Assassin's Creed III, for example!

Still, I'm not sure what the OP is talking about. They chose to get a more expensive gaming platform, and now they're complaining that the more expensive gaming platform they chose is... expensive? Well of course. If you're going to choose the second-most-expensive gaming platform with the third-best-quality games, then focus on the positive reasons you chose that platform.

Or, if it was a badly-researched purchase, cut your losses.

It's all dependant on your view - I have seen thousands of POP's traipsing round every shop in town looking for a FIFA/CoD for their sprogs many times. Recently the one that kinda surprised me was Rory McIlroy Golf, couldn't find that for love nor money in my local town on release day!

I know that most cases pre-ordering is nothing short of hype, but there are cases where the bonuses outweigh the risks, it's a rarity but it happens. I'm also one of these dinosaurs who dislikes the current trend towards digital, particularly if you wind up with shovelware - cos you're stuck with it. Having worked for years in the games retail world, I know there's pressure in there to get preorders so companies can approach the publishers for exclusives/bigger allocations. (Certainly since I've left there's a dramatic reduction in credible high street locations)

Then it all boils down to value for money - I paid just under £40 for MGS5 & have had over 80 hours of gameplay out of it so far. Now to me that represents excellent value for money & considering the completion rate (57% last I checked) it's a safe bet I'll get to over 100 hours out of it for the money. To put it into comparison, if I go to the football tomorrow night it'll skin me £22 for the ticket for 90 minutes, or to go see a concert might skin me £30-50 on average for 2-3hrs. I tend to only pay full retail price for games I know I'll get my money's worth out of - even with my £100 Fallout 4 I know it'll wind up close to 50p/hr of gameplay. On the flip side I see no point paying for Call of Duty knowing I can likely finish it in an evening, I have no interest in the online side of things given its poor balance & toxic community.

alyssia

Its for the Fallout 4 Game plus full season pass so getting all the DLC, and Syndicate again is for the deluxe day 1 edition with all the DLC.

Nilrem

bluenoseam wrote: »

Then it all boils down to value for money - I paid just under £40 for MGS5 & have had over 80 hours of gameplay out of it so far. Now to me that represents excellent value for money & considering the completion rate (57% last I checked) it's a safe bet I'll get to over 100 hours out of it for the money. To put it into comparison, if I go to the football tomorrow night it'll skin me £22 for the ticket for 90 minutes, or to go see a concert might skin me £30-50 on average for 2-3hrs. I tend to only pay full retail price for games I know I'll get my money's worth out of - even with my £100 Fallout 4 I know it'll wind up close to 50p/hr of gameplay. On the flip side I see no point paying for Call of Duty knowing I can likely finish it in an evening, I have no interest in the online side of things given its poor balance & toxic community.

That's about how I see it, if I expect to get 30+ hours out of a game I'll happily spend about £15 on it, if I expect 60+ then £30 isn't too bad.

I've had games that cost me a tenner and racked up 100+ hours.

Clark_Peterson

Games have become expensive, but when you think about what you're getting in return with some games, it's really worth. The Witcher 3 is a little over 30 pounds, but you get hundreds and hundreds of hours of gameplay, and that's not including the replay value. Playing on the highest difficulty (I always do), I'm currently at 250 hours and haven't even finished the main story, yet. The game is just so beautiful that you can explore it for hours not really doing anything (#no_life). Totally worth every minute.

That being said, there are games, such as The Order: 1866 which costs nearly half, and the game has almost no gameplay. I do not think it's worth more than 10 pounds (and that's if I'm being generous).

At the end of the day, you decide which is the biggest bang for your buck.

d70cw6

just wait for them all to go sub £5 on steam sales. seriously no need to buy them at £30-£50 on release!

darrensurrey

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....

Holy crap.

That's why I stick to buying bargain bucket games. You know you will be able to pick up either of those games for about £5 if you wait long enough. And if you then follow this strategy, you can buy old consoles at just £50.

TBH these days I play mobile games. High quality games like Real Racing 3 are free with IAPs that you don't have to buy.

FredG

I genuinely think gaming is the best bang for buck entertainment you can get. Like the fellow earlier in the thread, I paid £40 for The Witcher 3 and got nearly 80 hours out of it spread over 5-6 months.

I'd spend that in a few hours in the pub.

AndyBSG

Gaming is definitely one of my cheaper hobbies.

Reading - £1.40 an hour
An average 300 page paperback costs about £7 and takes me about 5 hours to get through.

Cycling - £2.50 an hour
In 3 years of cycling i've spent about £2,000 and cycled over 4,000 miles a year at an average speed of about 15MPH. Admittedly most of that is in 'up front' costs for things like clothing, lights, the bikes themselves etc and I rarely spend more than a couple of hundred a year now on servicing etc so that hourly rate will actually start going down.

Cinema - £6.50 an hour(£10 an hour if you include food and drink!)
Tickets at my local cinema without deals are £13 for roughly two hours worth of entertainment.

Drinking - £10 an hour
Almost a tenner for two pints and adding in a couple of bags of crisps/games of pool/fruit machine and it's one of my more expensive hobbies, especially as the night wears on and I start doing shots!

Gaming - £2.00 an hour(maximum)
I'd say I get at least 20 hours out of each game I buy at an average price of £40. I'd guess it's actually more than 20 hours when you think of time sinks like FIFA, Witcher 3, etc and that doesn't include all the games I pick up a few months after release for under £25

cobol666

As online play is not a major issue for me, I live my life a year behind the curve when it comes to console games. So many great bargains plus you get to avoid the tripe.

I do splurge on the odd new release but for the most part old/second hand games are a far fairer price with much less risk.

Nilrem

Andy, that's a good comparisons and something similar to how I worked out how much i'm willing to spend on a game or whatever.

My most expensive game (as in purchase price) for the last couple of years was £40ish, which I've already got to 30 odd hours of play out of and I'm a third of the way through it.

one game that cost me under a tenner is currently at 100 hours, and another couple at nearly 200.

Mind you I've also got games I've bought any not even played yet:o I've got a habit of buying things like the Indiegala/Humbe bundles for a single game included and not playing the rest, or buying a game in the Steam sales intending to play it when I've got time and never getting the time (usually when it's down to a couple of pounds).