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J_Allard on 16 March 2014
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radha said:
J_Allard said:
radha said:
When a developer makes a single player game I feel they build a roller coaster for me, and I feel MP games are a parking lot, where people can play amongst themselves, but here are not rides or anything, is only empty space, in MP, gamers are making the fun, is lazy for a dev to make a MP only game if they plan to charge full price.


Yeah but eventually i will tire of riding the carousel the developers want me to plow through in a scripted setting against AI so give me that parking lot where we make our own rides


Yes, but fairly speaking, in which do you think there were more resources invested? in the roller couster rigth, so it makes sense that you pay something like US$60, but why pay US$60 on the parking lot? they made very little invesment, but on top of that they will charge US$10 for each map, is a slap in the face, they barely spend money making the game, even the license for the engine should be one of the cheapest, and yet they are charging very high.



I would disagree with pretty much all of that. For one I don't think the cost put into it should matter. If I go into a movie theater and I pick between Transformers 4 or Indie Title A, there might be a huge, $100,000,000+ difference in budget, but I'll be paying the same ticket price. Furthermore we have no way of knowing which portion would have had more time and money invested. We could logically guess SP would have simply because it takes more, but given the size of Respawn, IRS an even more logical guess that a SP would have drastically affected the content and balance of MP. Keeping with the amusement park analogy, would you want a park with decent roller coasters, but also a kids zone and some decent water rides, or a park with nothing but killer roller coasters? If coasters aren't your thing youmight not be interested and if you have kids or like water rides you might want a more complete but not as fine tuned experience elsewhere but if you know coasters are your thing its going to be an incredible place. Now shouldn't those guests pay the same guests would pay elsewhere? Ofccourse.