At what point does a game's length becomes an issue?

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tokilamockingbrd said:
If it is less than 10 hours long for full price you would actually get more entertainment hours per dollar going to see 5 different movies at the theater. I know dollar per hour is a bit rudimentary but if a game cannot give more dollars per hour than going to a theater and watching a movie that is too little.

Personally it depends on the genre. If its an RPG I expect at least 50 hours out of it. However if it is a high production value story driven game I am fine with 20-30 hours (Tomb Raider, Uncharted, TLOU, etc). There are a few games for me that were on the cust, Infamous:SS is not exactly what I consider to be story driven, it lasted maybe 25 hours for me, but those 25 hours were such a blast I was cool with it.

My standards (for full priced games)
under 10- Unacceptable. If it is less than 10 hours drop the price.
10-20- Generally unacceptable, it better be the most amazing 15 hours I have ever had or drop the price
20-30- Fine for high production value games
30-40- Open world games, like Farcry, AC, Batman, etc should at min fall in this window. They do not offer the story driven cinematic experiance, but typically have a very good story and content offsets the lack of elite story
40-50- Open world games, with lessor story. MGS5 was a perfect example of this category it gave me about 55 hours. FPS multiplayer games. If I buy a MP focused game I was to get a least 40 hours out of it. Right Now I am at 49 hours for SW BF so to me it has met the value mark.
50+ RPGs. Tales Games, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Mass Effect, The Witcher, Dragon Age, etc. They all typically have zero issues reaching this on for me. Most of the time they go over 100 hours. closer to 200 if I decided to plat.

Really interesting bit about price per hour and I have thought about it a bit myself.

To the OP:  In defence of my GOTY runner up, The Order 1866 (yes really), it was more like 7+ hours. Maybe 5-6 hours on my second playthrough. I was finished with it in 2 days but it was great.

And I might reiterate, there isn't so much a bad length as a bad priice.