What features do you expect from a full-priced game these days?

[twesterm]

Kresnik said:

twesterm said:

Personally, provide me with 6-ish hours of enjoying, preferably at least 8, and I'm happy.  I don't care if it's good multiplayer, a long single player campaign, or a short single player game played through multiple times, as long as I'm getting about that out of the game I'm generally happy.

See, I do understand that because it seems to be the model games are taking at the moment - loads of 8 or so hour single-player games sell millions of copies each year at full price

But an 8 hour game with no replayability is going to be completed in two, possibly three sittings for me.  If I had the money I'm sure I could justify it better, but for that price it would have be giving me at least a fortnight worth of play.  

So generally I only buy RPG's/games I'm buying for the multi-player at full price (unless my hype levels are really high for it) and otherwise I wait for the inevitable £20 a few months later sale.

I'd agree with Kowenicki too, a bolted-on MP isn't going to be a selling point at all, I'd treat such as game as a single-player experience that I may have a go at the online with.

It all comes down to playstyle and time.  An eight hour game takes me a long time to complete because I 1) play in small chunks and 2) take a few hours longer than normal play time because I explore *everything*.

You can't find one model that pleases everybody.  What's worth $60 to me obviously isn't to you.