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The_Yoda on 09 June 2015
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midrange said:
Johnw1104 said:


All I'll say is I've played a number of the "AAA" blockbuster games, and it's already clear I'll get more hours of fun out it than I did Far Cry 4 or Shadows of Mordor. Likewise, the same parts of the brain that fire up and get you excited playing BF3 are also active while playing Splatoon, so the experience feels quite similar, if not even more frantic as you race against that 3 minute countdown.

Really, if $60 is still a sticking point it's more your valuation of the time and resources they devoted to making this game as compared to some other $60 games that's holding you back, as the experience itself is a $60 one. That comparison to cheap app games like angry birds really doesn't work, as the experience is entirely different and it's more a time-waster than the fun, frantic nonsense that you're forced to focus on while playing Splatoon. Splatoon, essentially, is full-priced fun.

Well, in order to have an unbiased valuation of a game, we have to have a certain standard to the games we play. If most $60 games have voice chat, is it fair to pay $60 for another game that does not have voice chat. If most $60 games have customizable online games, is it fair to pay $60 for a game that does not. If most $60 games have a heavily packed local multiplayer mode, is it fair to pay $60 for a game that does not. The paintball gameplay seems like a mode that call of duty could implement for $10 rather than a fully fledged $60 title.

While it is true that you may have spent 80 hours in splatoon and 10 in far cry, I may have spent 10 hours in splatoon and and 80 hours in far cry (obviously these numbers are not real). However your experience does not warrant splatoon to be an $80 game, and my experience does not warrant it to be a $10 game. So the best way to actually price it, is by comparing it to the features of other similar titles that are actually $60 (or $40 or $20 ... you get the idea)


Does it make it easier to swallow knowing that you will be getting more contenet without added cost something the $60 games you are talking about don't do?  How many COD continually give you free new maps and free new modes?  It is a different delivery system so we will have to wait and see in the end how much content you get for $60 before you can really draw comparisons on content.  I could say the only shooter that is worth $60 is COD because none of the other games out there feature a Zombies mode.