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Old 05-23-2010, 11:33 AM   #1
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Namco Bandai: Games too expensive?
http://kotaku.com/5544236/publisher-...-too-expensive

I think games are too expensive. You think games are too expensive. Surprisingly, a major international publisher thinks the same, Namco Bandai calling for a "worldwide summit" to discuss this crisis.

"I feel all the big video game companies need to join together in a worldwide summit to discuss the future of our industry. I think we have to pull our thoughts together", Namco Bandai's Olivier Comte told MCV.

"I am convinced that in the future we must change the price of video games – they're too expensive for the audience. With the cost of development and the retail margins, £40 is a fair price [to us], but for the consumer it is too much."

"From September to December there are three new blockbusters every week, and consumers just can't afford to buy all that."

I like where this is going, I like where this is going....oh, wait. "A good price of a game should be around £20 – but for this price we can't make a ten to 15-hour adventure. So for £20 we should offer consumers four to five hours of gameplay, then after that we can make additional money with DLC."

Shame. Call me naive, but I've always like the idea of simply cutting the price of existing games by half. "Halve the price but triple the audience!", I yell with gusto at parties, before I wake up the next morning and realise there's a reason multinational corporations don't base their pricing strategies on my broke-ass whims.
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5 hours for 30 bucks doesnt' seem like a bad idea, considering we'll be asked to pay 60 bucks for 6-8 hours. Not sure how I feel about the "and then we'll make money on DLC" notion, but it depends on the cost and quality of the DLC, I suppose.

I think people frequently determine the value of games in terms of whether they're ones that should be purchased "new," "Cheap," or "Used." BDC;s got a thread for games of a certain price point, and I love picking up decent games at 20 dollars that I would never pay 60 for.

I mean, let's face it. Not every game is Red Dead.

IF Namco Bandai can put out decent games at a price point similar to shovelware, then awesome. If we're going to get weak games with pricy DLC, then fuck this.

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Old 05-23-2010, 11:35 AM   #2
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I think game prices are okay.
They could be better. Personally, I don't mind dropping 40-50 dollars for a great game such as Fallout III or Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. However, I do mind dropping that much money for a piece of shit game like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
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Old 05-23-2010, 11:53 AM   #3
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I agree. Web of shadows was a Christmas gift from an over-enthusiastic mother, so I don't feel ripped off, but if I'd paid full price, I would have.

N3 was a game so blah that even a 30 dollar price point left me feel ripped off.

Good games, however, I'll gladly buy full price. I only do a few pre-orders a year, but i do pre-order and those are the ones I think I'll be getting 60 dollars worth out of.
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Honestly, I think the DLC notion is where we're going. They're going to start selling bare-bones games at decent prices (say $30) then throw a shit ton of DLC out there, likely resulting in the games being $100+ after all the DLC is purchased. Look at the Guitar Hero-like game concept and that's what you're looking at for most games in the future.

DLC is fucking up the gaming industry from a consumer standpoint. So have the advent of console patches and the first round of purchasers being essentially beta testers, but that's another topic.
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Namco's taking a noble stance but when people buy 15$ map packs by the millions that's hardly motivation to get sympathetic.
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I think game prices are okay.
They could be better. Personally, I don't mind dropping 40-50 dollars for a great game such as Fallout III or Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. However, I do mind dropping that much money for a piece of shit game like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
Agreed.

I paid full price for Web Of Shadows, it isn't horrible but yeah- not worth 60 bucks.
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Namco's taking a noble stance but when people buy 15$ map packs by the millions that's hardly motivation to get sympathetic.
I don't think it's sympathy.
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You know, games are too expensive. Sometime in late 2008/early 2009 games jumped from $60 to $70 CDN around here. Throughout most of the time since then our currencies have been extremely close, if not at par.

I hate being price gouged. So I've taken to the bargain bin far more frequently these days.
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I personally believe it isn't price gouging if we don't need it, this isn't water or electricity. Maybe on unfortunate day in the future a game will run people 100$, but far before that day we need only not support pretentious pricing. We can live without games and if the message is said in a grand unified voice, publishers will wise up. Until then, they'll keep pulling stunts if the people bite.
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I personally believe it isn't price gouging if we don't need it, this isn't water or electricity.
I, too, like to personally redefine words to fundamentally alter the meaning or concept behind them. It's not stupid at all.
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