5) Paying full game's price for an expansion!!!!!!!1!: If you are into the multiplayer and play for a long term, you will know that starcraft is the greatest investment in terms of games you will ever make. I've played WoL for 2 years, and that equates to less than give cents for each day played. Lets compare that to the last single player game you had: what's the ratio of price to time played?
I've heard this argument over and over again to justify the high price of some games. It's an absurd one. Here are a few reasons why:
1) In the real world, products are not priced based on how many hours of fun use buyers will get from them. Price is based on production cost + profit margin. Not "people will get 100 hours of value of this so we'll charge them for every hour".
2) Not everyone is going to get the same value out of a game. You may find 100s of hours of enjoyment, some will only get a dozen. So saying that we're all getting a cheap deal is plan inaccurate.
3) If you really do think that a game's long-term value makes it a steal at the price, then you should be willing to pay at least two, three, four times as much as the game actually costs. And publishers must be complete idiots to so drastically undervalue their games. Are you willing to pay £100+ for an expansion to a three-year old game? I doubt it. But that means you don't genuinely believe that the game is worth far more than you're paying.
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