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naruball on 19 February 2011
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CGI-Quality said:
Wagram said:

I disagree with this article. I don't think I get what I pay for when I buy a game that lasts only a few hours. This isn't a movie, this is a game. I can go to the movies for 6 bucks and watch a 2 hour movie. I pay 65 US dollars for a 6-10 hour game? That isn't right.

But games of the past were even higher in price (in the 16-bit era for instance, games were $70 in some cases) and most of them didn't last beyond 6-10 hours. That's what he's getting at. 

I think a lot of it has to do with age as well. As a child, you'd get one or two games (because you had no job) and would play them for months, why, because it was all you had, so you mastered it. Nowadays, you buy a title and as soon as you jsut get into it (or beat it), something else comes out that you want and can probably afford. So that $60, 6-10 hour game feels wasted, when really, you could play it again and master it for all it's worth.

Make sense?

@CGI-Quality

I totally agree with this article. Old games were much shorter and still no one complained. And you know what? We did have fun and appreciated every title we bought. And about movies, I agree once again. Plus when you watch a movie at a cinema you can't sell it back. Even if you want to buy a copy of it (especially the blu-ray version, since the games are in HD), it's still quite expensive and when it comes to drama or horror movies they are much less enjoyable the second time around, while a game may offer something unique with each playthrough.

One of the reasons I've been postponing to play Final Fantasy XIII is that it's so long that I would have to stop playing any other games for months. Same with GT5. I had a blast with Heavenly Rain and I wish there were more games like it.

Now about the price I never pay full price. I wait till it goes down to £10-15 (the most I've paid for a game is £35 for Naruto: Ultimate ninja Storm 2, which was so epic that I couldn't wait to get it).