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Have to agree with Straggen. The only way they would change their model is to make a significant impact in their profit by refusing to buy the game unless it's same price (at least for the digital editions).
Because there's no valid reason for something digital to cost more in EU than on the US. There's no packaging, no posting, no customs, nothing. And if they're even hosted in the same server for download, there's no extra server cost!!!!
This is nothing new to us Europeans, we're used to having to pay more for no apparent reason, but it's also our own fault for allowing this to go on. We complain, but we still put down the cash and buy the game. If there was a significant boycott to the sales they would probably rethink it. We (Europe) hold a considerable slice of the videogame consumer market... we just have to put our collective feet down and make them realize it.
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If I buy the game, play it, enjoy it, and never use the cash shop, does that mean that I'm doing it wrong?
"Loading screens" are not "instances".
Your personal efforts to troll any game will not, in fact, impact the success or failure of said game.
Seems everyone is up to screwing us in Europe, Diablo3's digital version is $60 or £45 ( $71) - shop around though and you can get it for £35. (normal price for a PC game in UK).
I think publishers do this cus they know people will pay the extra to "play now" and/or to guarantee day 1 access, but thats what we all are impatient fanbois and they're cashing in on it.
But yeah when I saw the £50 price tag this morning I knew I would not be pre-ordering - I'll wait and see if it's any good.
I thought this thread was a joke. However, it seems its not.
Ok, I'll be giving it a miss.
The OPs signature content really tells you everything you need to know about his perspective.
The internet is an amazing platform for some people to showcase their deficiencies as a person.
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Stop being cheap....they are putting out a AAA game (compared to what else is out there) and your paying to play the game for life....without a sub. Any other AAA game you buy, your doing the same thing no?....plus $15 every month (if its an MMO)
If you have any doubts as to whether the game is worth it to you.....dont pay for it. Just about every new game I've purchased the past few years is $50+, I dont see whats so new about this.
Isn't it true that everyone outside the EU logs in to the US servers by default?
In other words, even if £39.99 for a game is 'expensive', which I don't honesty believe it is, you would be buying the US client anyhow so your problem isn't really with the EU.
On a side note, I guess SA dosen't have much of a gaming scene? They obviously don't sell a lot of product there, otherwise I guess you would get your own servers? Are there no South African retailers that will carry the game?
you sir are just as lacking in logic. gw2 is B2P, in the end any labeling is all semantics though as they are all simply GAMES. now first of all, all evidence atm points to the cash shop not being a required thing to be competative at all. its up to you to prove otherwise when you go around trying to convince other people it is otherwise. i have yet to see a single person do this.
no it is not free to play the company is the only person who can actualy decide to make it free to play (its a business model not a type of game design like say pay 2 be competative *win sounds better but is hard to define*). as for the game it looks to me like it has enough content to exceed most single player games that cost the same and it also happens to be a persistant world Co-operative mmo with 2 types of pvp gameplay.
to me that is a great deal and maybe you dont think it is, well thats fine THATS YOUR OPINION just like my thinking its a great deal is MY OPINION. in the end your post is just flamebait and misinformation as most if not all of the previous two posts i read that you made in this thread.
good day sir.
So, having no experience playing this game, you have decided that what they are offering is not worth the $60. OK. But if it had a sub fee, like say, World of Warcraft, then it would be OK, even though for the last 8 months I haven't gotten anything from my subscription other than 5 months of Dragon Soul, and that's all I can expect for the next 3? I check my mailbox for free pets and mounts but I can only find the ones that Blizz is trying to sell me in their store.
"Loading screens" are not "instances".
Your personal efforts to troll any game will not, in fact, impact the success or failure of said game.
F2P downloads are that way ------------>
The price of this game is standard.
People just HAVE to have SOMETHING to bitch about. Pure and simple. Nothing new to see here. A game that is the same price as other games, both similar and in other genres, and someone whining and moaning on MMORPG.com forums. Neither are new.
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What? Games have been $50-60 for a few years now. In fact, I'm surprised they aren't higher as $50 was the prices for many more years than one would expect. I spend $60 on one trip to a sushi joint. I think the price is more than fair considering there are no sub fees.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
PC games are not 50 POUNDS unless they are the 'deluxe/CE/complete/whatever' edition.
Kinda like how it won't be 50 YEN or 50 WON or 50 KRONAR etc etc.
USD isn't the only currency. :P
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
You're right, the price of this game is ridiculous.....ridiculously cheap compared to most AAA MMOs! Considering you have no sub fees to pay once you buy, it's a pretty good deal, I say. The price of this game is not really any different than most games coming out nowadays, so I don't see a problem.
But, if you don't like it, that's cool. I'll be enjoying it for quite a while before you decide it's a low enough price for you.
You want me to pay to play a game I already paid for???
Be afraid.....The dragons are HERE!
Really this thread is still here? (/facepalm) and the op is comparing the pricing of a full version launch to an expansion cost??
HERE's my reaction to that one.
(incidently, that video is one of my favorite videos of all time LOL)
Anyway the pricing is clearly normal, people were paying more for SWTOR and you have to pay to play that game meh. Heck the RoI expansion was the same cost for LOTRO.
Well if you want to be that way.
Then Guild Wars is totally overpriced for a Cash shop game. Most games with a cash shop are free.
I can't help but say everyone can blame themselves. I can't go to this board or another gaming site without hearing how its the saving grace of the MMO genre and gaming itself. Having that kind of blind support by so many what did you expect? Boasting millions signing for beta did you think they'd sell it for 39.99?
The gaming industry has seen every AAA title in the last two years sell near or over 1,000,000 boxes at launch and then struggle to keep 200-300k (if lucky) around after the free month. This is the money grab. Many won't like that there isn't a raiding treadmill (even though they have said there isn't one) just like all those so mad that SWOTOR wasn't SWG 2.0 after EA told you it wasn't but bought the game anyway. What i'm saying is every title bleeds players after the first month or two. I'd want my dollars up front also.
I was just looking at the UK prices of a bunch of different games and I can see why PC users would feel like it's overpriced.
In the US, $60 has become pretty typical for a AAA title at this point. But it looks like they're jumping the price up 10 quid for you Brits.
I have said this 5 times today already, but you guys refuse to listen, prefering to repeat the same moan.
I bought the game for £39.99 for the GF today.
Where is your mental block on that information?
Go and look at Play.com.
I paid 149+ for the CE and another 50+ on a digital deluxe (for the kids). Why? Because I can and I want to.
You may think it foolish, wasteful, whatever. I think it is cheap considering how many months I will invest in this game. Oh and letting my younglings have thier first, eagerly anticipated, taste of playing their first MMO.
You think it is too expensive. Cool, don't buy it. The less bitter, self entitled, gripers we have in-game, the better.
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Opens wallet.. tumbleweed whistles out and out of the room... maybe when things are a bittt cheaper.
Jesus Christ! If you cant afford 60 dollars (or whatever currency) then DONT play the game! This thread is getting stupid. No one is forcing anybody to buy anything.
Its Arena Net's IP and they can sell it for whatever they want. Complaining about it isn't going to change that.
You are wasting your keyboard. We're at page 19 and some people do not understand how there can be different countries or currency. You could show them a globe and Euro or Pound notes and they still would not be any wiser.
Edit. The guy posting above me is a perfect example. He does not know how to type other currency's even when the thread is littered with examples. Edit
I bet it's the same people who say GW2 does not have a subscription fee so it's okay to pay a bit more. Completely forgetting (most) other games with a cash shop are free.