how many games are actually worth full price?

out of all the games you buy in a year, what percentage of them are full price.

me, i buy about 10-20 games each year. usually 2 of them are fully priced and the rest are used or on sale.

I can't remember the last time i bought a game at full price, even my recent pre orders were on sale.

generally, the sales i do are $15 and under. i rarely buy games slashed from $60 to $40.

Varies heavily from person to person - I see Forza 5 as definitely being worth $60 but I'd pay for Killzone on sale if it turns out to be a step forward for the series.

same. oh wait. i guess new super mario bros. u, last year around this time.

Uncharted 2

Would pay $200 for it, honestly.

I think i bought BLOPS 2 at full price, but I used a gift card so that doesn't really count, or was it a gift.... Can't remember, but I didn't pay for it

Very few for me, cheaper to just wait and not play games at launch.

Very little. PSplus and the newest games for gold are my friends.

Maybe one per year, if that. I only spend a lot on certain retro games.

One, BF4 on ps4.

I buy a lot of 3DS games @ full price and think they're worth it. I also bought GTA V and Tales of Xillia on day one, and will buy Super Mario 3D World day one too. Everything else I got used or on sale.

Paying full-price is prohibitive to being a gamer, it's an expensive hobby.

If I really want a game I don't mind paying full price, retro gaming is more expensive if you cherry pick

This, no sense buying games on launch for full price, discounts come rather fast on the PC, and it's good to wait a little for the bugs to be ironed out, due to the recent increase in "release now, fix later" attitude.

Only blockbuster games.

I buy 5-10 games a year and i wait for sales. I am a student so can't afford $60 games often

Not a whole lot, usually just the big titles. I wait for price drops or search online for good deals for most games. LIke today I found Deadpool for $20 at Wal Mart which I thought was awesome, but would never consider it a $60 game. Now I just have to find the same price for Metro Last Light and Remember Me.

I did buy quite a few full priced games this year like Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite ($80 version), Injustice: Gods Among Us (CE), Rayman Legends, Tomb Raider (CE), DmC, Gears of War Judgment, Arkham Origins (CE) and others I'm forgetting. It was a great year for games.

I'm easy to please, so if a $60 game gives me at least 20 hours of good fun, I'm content.

The amount of playtime I require before deeming a purchase to be worth the money obviously scales with the initial price point of the game in question.

The ones that are worth full price that I can remember (at least worth it for me). Only gonna list games the last few years.

• Skyrim
• GTA V
• TLOU
• Batman Arkham City
• Uncharted 2
• Uncharted 3
• Hotline Miami (best $9.99 I've ever spent on a game)
• The Wolf Among Us (well worth the $24.99 and it's only 1 episode in)
• RDR
• The Witcher 2
• State of Decay
• Sleeping Dogs
• Dragon's Crown
• Dark Souls
• Mass Effect
• Mass Effect 2
• Far Cry 3
• Metro Last Light
• BF3
• Left 4 Dead

I usually buy 10-20 games a year, out of say 20 games a year, I might regret 1 or 2 purchases while some I did enjoy but felt like "why is this game $60" and the games I listed were well worth the price tag I purchased them at (some were full priced at less than $60)

The Last of Us, Uncharted, SFIV, MvC3, Deus Ex.

If you like the game, then I don't see the problem of paying full-price for it (unless it's already on sale).

I buy physical games I like at full price only though, digital is an exception to the rule. Games on steam I usually get during sale periods only and not on release. I just don't see digital being worth as much as a physical copy (mostly directed at Blizzard's digital prices)

Considering the development budgets these days, all of them are worth full price.

Demon's Souls and The last of us for my standards were worth $60.

and GMG has had sales on just about every major recent pre-order. 20% off BF4, 25% of Arkham origins, 15% off COD Ghosts

EVERYTHING by Capcom and Square is worth $90+...

otherwise they will threaten to cancel their own franchises.

Yeah, picked up Arkham Origins, AC Black Flag and Thief, all for 37 EUR, with that 25% off voucher.

Only AAA big budget games. I will gladly get GTA, MGS, Naughty Dog Game, Fallout etc on day one for $60. Those are damn well worth it.

I couldn't imagine wasting $60 on something like CoD, halo, Tomb raider, assassins creed, any nintendo game, any sports game etc. Those can all wait for price drops.

Most of BRP's list ^^

with this upcoming gen, just a select few

Very few imo. Could be because I'm a cheap bastard, but they lower the price all the time anyways on Steam or otherwise. My conditioning to it pretty much automatically tells me that games aren't worth 60 bucks. Could be lying to myself but who cares.

Well yeah if we're talking RRP's I never pay them, I always managed to save about £5 on console games and then £10+ with most PC games.

As for games being worth it, well that all depends on how fun I think it'll be and if it has some sort of replay value. I never really understood why gamer's focus on the time it takes to complete a game so much, don't get me wrong, 4 hour story modes are a joke most of the time, but if a game's only 4 hours long but you enjoy the hell out of those 4 hours and replay it multiple times what's the big deal? You don't judge music or film or books on how long they are, so why are games different? Just because SOME games are long doesn't mean every game needs to be that way.

Too broad a question to answer.

What a game is worth is a subjective opinion. I usually buy games after a price drop. Certain games like Mass Effect, anything form Naughty Gods is worth a day 1 purchase to me.

None. I never buy games at full price.

Most open-world games tend to be worth the full price to me, eg Far Cry 3 and Flight Simulator X. That would also include the GTA games and RDR if the setting for them appealed to me.

Most games that I own I bought at full price. I preorder most games, so very few of them come out the door on sale.

Can't remember the last game I bought at full price. I would've gladly bought most of them at full price though.

I pay full price for most of my console games. I tend to lose interest in a game by the time it's inexpensive (on consoles). On PC, I just wait until Steam Sales.

I buy very few games at full price, but the ones I do buy at full price tend to be preorders or bought on release simply due to how awesome they are. Well, as full price as they can be, since Steam tends to give discount for preorders. Some examples include Dark Souls, XCOM Enemy Unknown, and numerous other indie titles like Chivalry Medieval Warfare, Bastion and Recettear. Some indie titles priced at only $20 have offered me a lot more joy than even discounted $40 AAA games.

Sony will gain an invaluable ally with indies at its side. Assuming, of course, that PS4 is as accessible to both existing and new indies as Sony claimed.

I buy everything at full price and I plan to stop, but I can't help it.

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I bought one game at full price in the past like... 2 years. Pokemon X. I've bought around 100 games the last couple years probably.

Ah wait, forgot about white 2. Bought that for $33. Pretty close to full price.

Dark Souls, Demons Souls, and every mainline Pokemon game.

All of them, because I only buy ones that are worth it. I rent the rest.

Starcraft 2

Civilization 5

All the Pokemon games

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Black Ops 2

I'm happy to pay full price for some select Nintendo first party games, but other than that, I wait. So far for my Wii U I've paid for Pikmin 3 full price. Everything else has been discounted in some way (usually just slightly discounted, but definitely not day 1 full price). Mario 3D World will be next to get the full price treatment, then Donkey Kong TF.

The last game I bought at full price was GTA 5, it was ok.

before that it was diablo 3, I immediately felt ill.

Far Cry 3

Tomb Raider -2013

Metro Last Light

GTA V

Maybe 20% of big name AAA releases in any given year.

Games are reaching a point where most AAA offer $60 worth of production value but the quality of content just isn't there. It's like Transformers. You can definitely tell where they put the money but the film just isn't good on so many levels and would be better if it was significantly shorter. Basically every open world game suffers from this.

The Last of Us is worth full price ..... even worth is the steelbook edition and I'm a proud owner of it .......