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PhalanxCO on 09 April 2010
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Jereel Hunter said:
PhalanxCO said:
Jereel Hunter said:
mtlca66 said:
well looks like activision has adopted a price tag of 59.99 for their PC games. god i fucking hate them.

Are you complaining that SC is $10 more expensive? Personally, I got easily 20x more playability from SC, than from any other one-time purchase of it's time. The only other games I've played even close to as much were MMO's with monthly fees. SC is a bargain at $60, or even $100. I don't understand the logic that all games must be the same price. I could see if it was some 6 hour single player game, but this is SC! Outside of video games/movies people realize that a top tier item costs more... I don't see the issue.

I'm more irritated that in order to play the whole game, I'm going to have to shell out $180.

I think that there's a big misunderstanding out there that blizzard is planning to release 1/3 of a game and charge full price for it. Lets clear this up: The vision they had for SC2 was huge. So huge. much bigger than SC + Brood War. Much more than... 1 game's worth of content, by anyone's standards. Now, they coudl let us wait 3 or 4 more years while they achieved that dream, but we've waited 12 years already. They are releasing a complete game, no question. The ones coming down the line are expansions, and just like brood war added 30 new missions, as well as breathing tons of new life into the multiplayer, these will do the same.

Now, since you'd have to wait 4 years to get the entire package anyway, you're free to do so, and by then the prices of the first 2 would have come down substantially. But for now, you're getting "the whole game" for $60. SC will have more playability than 99% of what releases, and quite frankly, even if it was part of 1 bigger game, if they made 1 massive game, over the course of 10 years, with way more replayability than 10 average games combined, isn't it still a good deal? How many franchises release a new game every 2 or 3 years? Blizzard is doing the same, they just aren't incrementing the number after the title.

(Also, from what they said, the next installments may be completely different - including RPG/shooter aspects that will make them entirely different experiences)

I totally see the value in it.  I shouldn't have said I was irritated by it.  It's just a lot of money to shell out, especially considering that I need to get a new video card as well, since I doubt it will be very playable on my X600.