Pachter: Publishers need to charge for online play

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Slimebeast said:

He is 100% right.

A game nowadays can give you even hundreds of hours of entertainment and yet we pay no more than $60 for it.

I got 100 hours with Dragon Age paying only $60 (actually I got it for free but... you understand the point).

Over 250 hours with Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for just $50.

Over 150 hours so far with Bad Company 2 for just $50.

Over 100 hours with Fallout 3.

And I've spent over 1500 hours on Oblivion paying only $90 (PC version and later the X360 version). Although that's an extreme case.

The value or bang for buck in games nowaydays can be amazing. No wonder publishers must change their payment model or else revenue will go down because we simply don't have time to play all these games.

 

...what about all those games that give us about 6-12 hours worth of play time? What is next gen going to be 3-5 hours? I will not pay for games anymore if that happens.