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.
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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.
I can't remember the last time i bought a game at full price, even my recent pre orders were on sale.
same. oh wait. i guess new super mario bros. u, last year around this time.
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
If I really want a game I don't mind paying full price, retro gaming is more expensive if you cherry pick
I can't remember the last time i bought a game at full price, even my recent pre orders were on sale.
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.
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)
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)
I can't remember the last time i bought a game at full price, even my recent pre orders were on sale.
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.
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.
I can't remember the last time i bought a game at full price, even my recent pre orders were on sale.
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.
and GMG has had sales on just about every major recent pre-order. 20% off BF4, 25% of Arkham origins, 15% off COD Ghosts
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.
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.
I can't remember the last time i bought a game at full price, even my recent pre orders were on sale.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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