Mnementh on 09 March 2015
This comparison is so wrong on many levels. First of all, quality of a videogame isn't playtime alone. The fun also is a factor. Naturally I wouldn't say The Order (as this is the hook of the question) is 100 times as much fun as Monster Hunter (Metacritic suggests MH is actually more fun). Secondly, the pricing doesn't work this way, people have budgets for things, and $1000 explode the budget of nearly everyone for entertainment. As cheaper offerings are made, the $1000-proposition would be dropped. So shorter games tend to get more money for the playtime. But that isn't that unfair as it seems. Again comparing with monster hunter: the development of Monster Hunter wasn't 100 times as expensive as the one of The Order, even if you can play it 100 times as long.
Now some suggestions:
a) The Order could have avoided much of the controversity if Ready@Dawn hadn't hyped it that much and asked a lower price ($40 for example). I think Metacritic would have been better, as much of the extreme critic stemmed from the discrepancy between hype and reality.
b) Can we please start to forget about mediocre games? Why the thousands of threads?
c) It is no coincidence I used Monster Hunter as comparison. MH4U released nearly at the same time as The Order (in the West), got 20 points more at Metacritic and has at least 100 times the playtime. Why have we thousands of Order-threads? Can we please get more hype for good games like MH?
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