L4D2 is $20 cheaper on PC than 360

[vlad321]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

shio said:

 

Too bad you couldn't buy Bioshock and Assassin's Creed for $5 on Consoles, while many people bought them on PC (I got Bioshock $5 btw).

 

ZenfoldorVGI said:

 

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Good for you, I don't have to pay $50 every year to be allowed to play online. I don't need to pay an extra tax for being able to play the superior versions. Hell, my PC even

Too bad the console versions of games are so dumed-down that they just can't grab you for years (or even decades) like PC games do. Maybe if the X360 version's hardest mode wasn't just the easy mode of the PC version you could've seen the difference.

It's fine though. I have so many professional exclusive games with high bugdets to play on consoles, provided by 1st and 2nd parties, that I don't need to play the same game for years.

Keep having fun with your exclusives though. All that money you save can go towards those games.

...Oh, BTW, since you got Assassin's Creed for 5 bucks....they just announced that the PC version of AC2 was delayed until 2010.

You always have Blizzard and Witcher 2 though. Meh, next gen.

 

I'm fine with not getting exclusive 1st party games and sticking with games that last forever. When the consoles get something as high quality as say.... Deus Ex (people still replay it everywhere 10 years later), X-COM (same, almost 20 years), Diablo 2, Warcraft, Starcraft, Half-Life. Come talk to me. So far there hasn't been a single huge game outside of platformers and fighing on the consoles, certianly not 1st party ones. I have yet to play a good FPS or RPG game on a console. All are too kiddy and simplified for the audience/controller (compare Morrowind to Oblivion, Oblivion sucked the big one and Morrowing was absolutely awesome).

 

As for your logic of spending money = stimulating economy. Which economy are you exactly stimulating? Yes you get more money but what the hell do you do with it? Buy more used games so devs don't see any more money anyways. It doesn't matter if there is exchange of money or not, the publishers and devs still don't see any of the money, a la piracy.

The arguments are also not selective at all. I did the math for you, with piracy the devs get 50 bucks and with tradeins they see 60, the initial buyers. Anything afterwards they don't see. Please, stick to the math. How is it any different. Show me and back it up.