Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Jan 22, 2024 22:45:06 GMT -5
The real travesty is that even without manufacturing costs of discs and packaging and paper, they still have the gall to charge 60 bucks per game.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 22, 2024 23:00:05 GMT -5
The real travesty is that even without manufacturing costs of discs and packaging and paper, they still have the gall to charge 60 bucks per game. No they don't...they charge you 70. not counting microtransactions, season pass, second season pass, non included DLC... etc.
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Jan 23, 2024 1:08:10 GMT -5
The real travesty is that even without manufacturing costs of discs and packaging and paper, they still have the gall to charge 60 bucks per game. No they don't...they charge you 70. not counting microtransactions, season pass, second season pass, non included DLC... etc. Wow. Just like almost everything in life, it's worse than I thought.
So glad I have a hard rule of only buying games under 25 dollars minus games I REALLY want to play(and even then under or around 40 bucks).
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salz4life
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Post by salz4life on Jan 23, 2024 12:50:37 GMT -5
It's likely just Xbox for the time being. Their proportion of physical sales is much, much lower than other consoles and by all accounts the next Series X revision is supposed to be digital-only. This wouldn't bother me AS LONG AS they come up with a way to be able to confirm ownership of physical disks to convert to digital. I know that's wishful thinking through.
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schma
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Post by schma on Jan 23, 2024 13:11:52 GMT -5
No they don't...they charge you 70. not counting microtransactions, season pass, second season pass, non included DLC... etc. Wow. Just like almost everything in life, it's worse than I thought.
So glad I have a hard rule of only buying games under 25 dollars minus games I REALLY want to play(and even then under or around 40 bucks).
I generally stopped buying new games partly because of my backlog. However, I also realized that if I just wait a year, I can get the game and all the dlc for cheaper than the game itself cost when it was new.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jan 23, 2024 13:20:06 GMT -5
The real travesty is that even without manufacturing costs of discs and packaging and paper, they still have the gall to charge 60 bucks per game. No they don't...they charge you 70. not counting microtransactions, season pass, second season pass, non included DLC... etc. I live in Canada, and I was at Walmart last week. Noticed Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, an 8-month-old game, listed at $89.99 CDN. The price for this game converts the same to the USD for MSRP, but it doesn't spend the same across the border.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 23, 2024 13:33:06 GMT -5
Wow. Just like almost everything in life, it's worse than I thought.
So glad I have a hard rule of only buying games under 25 dollars minus games I REALLY want to play(and even then under or around 40 bucks).
I generally stopped buying new games partly because of my backlog. However, I also realized that if I just wait a year, I can get the game and all the dlc for cheaper than the game itself cost when it was new. That's what I did with Mortal Kombat 9.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jan 23, 2024 16:46:29 GMT -5
The big issue is more and more with things like Digital companies are making it quite clear that you don't own their games, you are borrowing them. Physical you can't stop people from playing, but digital? All it takes is them taking the storefront down and it can become unplayable. When I bought my Xbox One, I bought Fallout 4 with it. Was surprised that after popping in the disc and loading it up I couldn't just play the game, I had to wait for a considerable amount of content and patches to download. Ultimately it loaded up, but if someday the Fallout 4 servers went dead or Bethesda just chose to quit supporting them, wouldn't the physical copy be equally worthless? No, they'll always be a settlement needing your attention.
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