EA Join the ?54.99 club

[rmoxon]

FIFA gets better every year and I play every version the whole year through, Ive probabaly put about 500 hours into FIFA 11.

If people dont think thats worth full price for then I dont know what it... and the normal version will only be ?39.99 anyway, this ?54.99 edition sounds like it just has some Ultimate team card packs free with it or somthing.

[Bond James Bond]

if thats the case your not supporting the industry at all, games cost more to develop these days. You should try and bring yourself to the 21st century.

Listen, don't hit me with your anti-secondhand comments as its a bunch of nonsense. Games are over-priced. Period. If publishers want to sell more games and reduce the secondhand market then they need to price their games appropriately. These firms are businesses, they don't care about you, so don't come on here and act like they do.

Why not? What are your reasons for that being too much?
For the games that give you 6+ hours of entertainment (and those that give you dozens of hours) ?30-?35 isn't asking too much considering the high production values and the fact you can resell/trade your games afterwards.

Games for me just aren't worth over ?20. The days of me paying ?25/30/35 for a game are long gone and have been for over 5 years now. Why should games get special treatment as opposed to other media?

Or maybe you're just cheap?

Nah mate, its common sense. Some people have it, others, unfortunately, dont...

[Skull Commander]

I'm with Sketcz and Bond on this one. There was once upon a time where I would buy day one, but now you have to be a bit of a mug. Games fall in price within a couple of month of coming out, and the fact that the general cost of living has risen and people have less money than ever, I'd have thought it was just common sense to wait for a good price on most games.

The industry can try and justify all the high prices they want, but as far as I am concerned there is very little games that are worth over ?30 to me nowadays, and paying ?40 for something that lasts 8 hours is not on.

I have to be far more selective nowadays as with an expensive mortgage, and a young daughter to consider I have the less disposable income at the moment than I have ever had in my entire working life.

?54.99 is not acceptable in any shape or form, least of all for Fifa, which barely warrants a ?25 price tag if you have any from recent years already.

[Brad]

I pay what a game is worth to me. Most aren't worth more than ?20. Others I'd pay ?100 for if I had to. I just wait for the price to drop or and offer or buy 2nd hand on here. Last full price I paid was for Portal 2, which was excellent value I thought.

[Family Fry]

If I want it I do this.
I buy it. I play it. I trade it.

Bought Portal 2 for ?34.99 finished and traded for ?35 against LA Noire paid ?4.99, finished and will trade in at GAME for ?35 and ?5 extra on GAME card. Few weeks time I will cash that in against Shadows of the Damned.

Lets do the math....

How much total money have I lost?
?39.99
How many games will I have played?
3
How much does that averages out per game?
?13.33

I punch those numbers into my calculator, I get a happy face.

[Bond James Bond]

Well said that man! I can't recall the last game I bought new... It may have been Red Seeds Profile on import, but that was ?35 from South Korea and it didn't have a UK release on PS3.

I fail the understand arguments regarding the length of games justifying the price. It's a "genie out of the bottle" situation. 15 years ago I may have thought high prices were normal because I knew no better, but now that I've had access to cheap games via the internet, I'm not going to regress.

If they can't find a business model that's profitable, they need to get a better handle on the technology and perhaps stop chasing the proverbial "next gen" so desperately. Indie devs seems to be doing swell at the moment, and it's only the massive fish, with their super expensive boom/bust vortex traps they got themselves embroiled in which are doing badly.

When people such as myself and Mr Bond refuse to buy new and refuse to pay full whack, it's kind of like evolution. If everyone was like us, refusing to pay high prices, they would either need to evolve or die. Trim the fat, kill off the sick and weak, lower the prices and change your structure.

Maybe everyone should go indie - the biggest slice of expense in the industry appears to be these bastard publishers acting as middlemen between the devs and players.

Absolutely mate, the current business model publishers have in place clearly isn't working. I have zero sympathy for publishers as they have no one but themselves to blame for the popularity that is the secondhand market. It's just greed on the publishers behalf. Personally speaking, I won't feed them with their inflated prices.

[Family Fry]

Just keep on supporting that second hand market cause at this rate the prices of games ain't gonna get any cheaper and in the words of you.

"These firms are businesses, they don't care about you, so don't come on here and act like they do."

So why should they care about lowering their prices?

[Bond James Bond]

Just keep on supporting that second hand market cause at this rate the prices of games ain't gonna get any cheaper and in the words of you.

"These firms are businesses, they don't care about you, so don't come on here and act like they do."

So why should they care about lowering their prices?

Because they need us more than we need them. :-)

[Brad]

Just keep on supporting that second hand market cause at this rate the prices of games ain't gonna get any cheaper and in the words of you.

"These firms are businesses, they don't care about you, so don't come on here and act like they do."

So why should they care about lowering their prices?

To stay in business?

[Family Fry]

Priceless.

[Guts]

Nah mate, its common sense. Some people have it, others, unfortunately, dont...

So you're saying that If I buy a game that I enjoy for 40+ hours for 35? (which is how much most new games go for, not 55?), I'm lacking common sense? Personally, I find that price very cheap compared to going to movies/buying a Blu-Ray, going to a sports event or maybe a dinner at a restaurant.

[rmoxon]

So you're saying that If I buy a game that I enjoy for 40+ hours for 35? (which is how much most new games go for, not 55?), I'm lacking common sense? Personally, I find that price very cheap compared to going to movies/buying a Blu-Ray, going to a sports event or maybe a dinner at a restaurant.

Yeah, Common sense should actualy dictate that people realise that alot of games are worth more than buying a film on blu ray in regards to how much you will actualy use them. But apparently it doesnt for some people.

I suppose they could argue that you might watch a film 20 times, but theres no stopping you from playing a game start to finish 20 times either really.

At the end of the day people all have different idea's of what value is and probabaly think some things are both more valuable and more important than games. At the same time though they are probabaly cutting their nose off to spite their face becuase if you actualy buy a new game, complete it, then sell it, it probabaly works out cheeper than waiting till it drops to ?20 as by then it will be alot less in demand on the secondhand market and will be much harder to sell as well as really low in value.

Ironically the only people who the secondhand games market actualy serves well are the people that keep every single game they buy. As they are the only people who are saving alot of money by buying secondhand games.

[Shozuki]

Listen, don't hit me with your anti-secondhand comments as its a bunch of nonsense. Games are over-priced. Period. If publishers want to sell more games and reduce the secondhand market then they need to price their games appropriately. These firms are businesses, they don't care about you, so don't come on here and act like they do.

Your just trolling I reckon, you surely cant be stupid enough not to realize that lack of support from people like you is whats killing originality in gaming because clearly not enough people are buying things that arent CoD or FIFA.

And this is coming from an owner of a second hand gaming and electronics store! I do my part and stock in new the odd original title here and there...

[Bond James Bond]

Your just trolling I reckon, you surely cant be stupid enough not to realize that lack of support from people like you is whats killing originality in gaming because clearly not enough people are buying things that arent CoD or FIFA.

And this is coming from an owner of a second hand gaming and electronics store! I do my part and stock in new the odd original title here and there...

Only a gullible fool would believe such nonsense. If the games industry disappears up its own arse then only publishers have themselves to blame.

Over-priced games are what's killing originality (if games were cheaper more consumers would be willing to try something new) but as it stands, games are expensive, therefore consumers are going to buy "safe purchases" i.e Halo's, COD, Fifa, etc.

[Stoppy2000]

Are games really that expensive though?? ?35 is reasonable to me. And I have paid less than ?30 for the last 4 versions of fifa and got more than my value for money out of each one. And no way will I be paying more than ?35 for the new version. Because only the 'Ultimate Edition' will cost more!!