| Vena said:
No. I am saying that publishers keep incentivizing late adoption over firsts (especially with single player titles like this) because, why buy the game now when you can buy it cheaper with everything built in... in less than two years? Why pay the 60$ upfront and then for all the DLC when you can just wait a while, the single player experience isn't going to change, and get it all for less? This leads to the need for hype-culture bullshit and piecemealing games to get those early adoptions to then milk them dry. Later they'll release the "full" game for everyone else waiting.c I don't mind having rereleases with bonus content if they are half a decade later or more, at a discount. Then it makes sense. The used games, for a good title, by that point will cost about as much as the new because supply has dwindled (and for a truly good game, supply likely wouldn't exist in used in large doses). But putting it so close to the actual product? After already doing another remaster/rerelease for the same game? Why should I ever buy a new game from any of these publishers when I can wait a year, get the full package, and pay MUCH less without having to deal with ambigous season pass bullshit and otherwise? (Basically the: why buy any game on Steam for full price, effect. I've already basically adopted that stance myself with big titles because... why bother giving them money upfront when they'll be waiting to ask for more later?) I am not talking about getting dippers to buy, I am talking about the simple problem that this sort of thing creates in the gaming culture. It doesn't matter if its ND, Nintendo, Batman, or the Maritan Independant Press. Nintendo overpricing their old titles isn't remotely related to this discussion, that's another matter entirely and one I also don't particularly agree with either. (Nintendo has a tendency to also do limited print runs which means you end up running out of certain games after a while. Which is an issue in and of itself, and they continue to charge full price for the digital.) |
Why buy a console now, when you could buy it cheaper in 5 years and have hundreds of low price games? Why go to see a film at the cinema when you could get it on DVD later? Why get it on DVD when you could wait and see it on TV? Why buy an iPhone now, when you could wait 2 years for it to be cheaper? Why ever buy anything new at all?
The answer? Not everyone wants to wait. Everyone knows the iPhone 6 will be a lot cheaper in 2 years. Everyone knows that game prices go down over time. Everyone knows films end up on DVD, and then on TV and Netflix. Despite knowing all this, many are perfectly happy to pay a premium because they don't want these things in over a years time. They want them now. THAT is what they are paying for. THAT is the incentive of being an early adopter. Don't think it's worth it? Then you have the choice to reduce your costs by playing the waiting game.
People are responsible for their own money. As long as they have a choice, and have access to all the information necessary to make that choice (regardless to if they choose to actually use it), then i don't have a problem with any of it. I think on disk DLC is bullshit. Know what i do? I don't buy games with it. I think season passes are a waist of money. Know what i do? I don't buy them. I think marketing can often be misleading. Know what i do? I research the games i want myself or wait for reviews.
Choice is fun.
