Carl2291 said:
To anyone wondering, this post is better than this one, because spemanig is actually explaining his opinion.
Anyway, lets look closer.
Standalone, TLOU is retailing for ~$30. Right. The Left Behind DLC is going for ~$15, the Abandoned Territories DLC is going for ~$10. With those 2 DLC items alone, we are up to ~$55. The Grounded bundle has stupid prices, so I wont list that. Even then though, you can get everything in the Season Pass for ~$20.
So standalone with Season Pass bring it to a round ~$50. This doesnt take into account the dev time to get it up and running on PS4 and to improve pretty much everything about the game. They are basically doing the upgrades for free with a retail price of ~$50, that will likely come down to $40 in very little time.
I fail to see how it is a ripoff. Adding ~$20 worth of Season Pass DLC and upgrading everything isnt worth an extra ~$20? How?
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Because the value of DLC goes down, just like the value of a game does. The season pass was available at launch if I am correct. I'm not going to try and act like I know how quickly the value of DLC drops, but even though Sony themselves don't drop the price, those are definitely not worth $20 now. They're worth much less, and if we followed the same 50% drop of the actual retail title, they'd be worth $10 now. That adds to $40.
I explained to someone else why I don't feel that the graphical and framerate upgrades don't add value to TLOU:R, but since your response was so respectful, I'll elaborate.
TLOU, as a year old game, hasn't aged enough to warrent being more expensive for the remastered price. In a generational interlude where there are regularly next gen and last gen versions of games releasing simultaniously for the same price, it just doesn't make sense that TLOU:R gets to cost what is essentially $10 extra because it was released a year late. I gave this example before:
"If the original TLOU was released at the PS4's launch, they'd both be sold for $60 with no DLC. The same price. One superior and one inferior, but sold for the same value. Just like with XBO and Titanfall. (Just like with Destiny one the PS4/PS3/XBO/360. etc.) Then the DLC would come out. Jump to right now, they'd do the same thing, call it TLOU: GOTY Edition, and sell it for $40 with all the DLC included, because THAT'S what it's worth."
They wouldn't add an extra price for the extra work of making the PS4 version look superior. It would just be expected to look that way. There'd be no less effort and no less costs put into making it possible, but it would be sold for what it's worth, $40, otherwise people just wouldn't buy it.
