There is some games I would pay only $10. In the other hand, I could pay even $90 for, let's say, Final Fantasy XIII.

I paid 50-60$ and even more for games ten years ago (Remember N64 games).

In those ten years I saw that a lot of things got more expensive around me. Beer, watch a movie/rent a movie/ Go to an attraction park etc.

So yeah for me it is fair to pay 50-60$ for a game because they can give me entertainment for more than 10-50 hours and be serious their is not much else where you can have 10-50 hours of entertainment and pay less than 50$ today.

But i dont get why people buy into this crap methods.

To me its a rip of to charge someone the same ammount of money for a DL game as the same game would cost to buy in the store, there is no middleman, no box, no artwork that comes with the box and all those saves should go to the gamers pocket so they can buy more games.

I just dont get what they are thinking with and how people seem to accept the rip off.

Well this is one of those issues... That has a lot of different sides to it... Part of me thinks that gamers got spoiled to a point with the 32 bit and 64 bit era. I mean 50 dollars for a really solid game was not always the way before then. (Seriously I remember happily flopping down 80 bucks for Street Fighter 2 Turbo) But to a lot of gamers 50 dollars is the standard from 32 and 64 bit era. (Though N64 games went for 60 dollars most generally alot of people just waited for stores to lower it the 10 bucks... which happened within a week or month around here except for Zelda and rarities like Wrestlemania 2000)

Of course now in days... I would say no.... or very rarely if ever is the game worth 60 bucks.

Alot of people care about graphics or multiplayer and not enough about what you actually get in the whole package. Alot of times I find that for the price of some of the really great games of today.... I could just as easily get a couple of really great portable games... or some games that are just as good if not better on my older systems.

There's only a few games this gen that I would consider worth full price of 60 bucks.

That's just my personal opinion of this gens game.... in all honesty my opinion on games in general.

If you enjoyed it thoroughly for a long time.... It's Priceless.

If it were I would've never had an N64 game. that was $50 - 100 back when the dollar had value. New gamers are just spoiled. Quality titles are and shitty ones aren't do your research. Hopefully DD will allow them to find the best price elasticity based on genre and content.

I dont think games are worth £40. And Activision are really going over the top to price MW2 at £50.

they are thinking that retailers are still their partners. unless the publisher drops retailing altogether it doesn't make sense to piss them off.

So pissing of existing and potential customers is a better way to go?

This is exactly how I feel as well.  A decent night at the bar and you easily spend $60.  My wife and I took our daughter to a Matinee showing of Ice Age 3-D the other day and spent over $50.  Gaming is the best value for your entertainment dollar. Without question  And if you by a retail version of a game, you can either sell it when your done or lend it out for others to play.  I have no problem spending $60 on a game when it first hits the shelves.

Most games i wouldnt play even if you payed me lol

For me the sweet spot for a game is 30 pounds. If the game is ok i dont mind paying that much.

I will play 40+ for a game i know i will love. MGS4, Uncharted, GOW 3, GT5, KZ2.

I will not pay more then 30 pounds for a fighting game. Most game that are 20- are not worth playing.