When have people started to basically judge a game based on length alone?

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I think the issue of "replayability" comes when the fact that other games also offer replayability but they also have a longer length as well so I don't think "replayability" should really be a "valid" excuse for a single player game for its length. Its like the whole MGS GZ nonsense where people would pay $30 for 1 hour game and the only justification for that price was its "replayability" which I still think is pretty nonsense since again, plenty of games offer that + has a longer length.

And expectations were different back then cause there was no real way of knowing what a good game is nor was there a real way of comparing games and etc cause the internet wasn't really as widely used or widely known or widely accessable as well as many other things back then compared to now.

Also portal 2 took about 8.5 hours to beat http://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=7231 so I mean, for a $50 game, thats pretty good

But at the end of the day, I think the main issue that people are having is that people expect a minimum amount of playtime for the price they are paying without going into "I need to justify my purchase somehow ville". Captain Toad is like 6.5 hours, Kirby will probably be the same as an example but since they are fairly "short," they cost $40. Now people can argue that both of those games are "smaller" titles and probably don't take as much effort to make but in terms of length, that might be what people are struggling with... Cause for $60, the people that are against it might feel that they aren't getting their moneys worth compared to the other games that are also $60 which also have much longer length and offer just as much replayability if not more compared to the Order 1886. (When it comes out obviously)

With that being said, I don't personally care either ways cause the reason I wont be getting it (apart from not having a ps4 but even if I did) is cause I don't like the black bars and not really cause of its "length" but thats just my opinion on the matter anyway