PixlBit

Congrats! :D

Yeah, $20 is often my celing for titles I'm iffy on. Especially now, since I end up buying digital more often than not, so I don't want to be stuck with an expensive stinker I can't trade in.

I only expect things to get worse as time goes on. I don't buy the industry's claims that costs won't go up much; they said that in 2005, but GTAV ended up costing $200 million dollars. We're already seeing stuff like the $500 million Destiny deal from Activision just a year and a half into Gen 8.

I just want there to be some consistency, you know? Like...all this sweet shit they pull with exclusive content makes it look like they're releasing incomplete puzzle sets, where you'd have to buy 4 of them from different stores. If that makes sense.

Indeed, that's one of many ways in which games are losing the permanence they had back in the day. Between losing access to DLC and patches, multiplayer servers being shut down, and more and more games being built around online functionality with an expiration date, a lot of these Blu-ray discs aren't going to retain their playability as well as the CDs and cartridges of old.

Yeah, I especially love how they pretend microtransactions are some nice convenience for those who want to unlock stuff early. For one thing, the game should be fun enough to want to earn that stuff normally, but...don't passwords and cheat codes fulfill that exact same role for free?

Of course, with that option they can't charge for the same content, which is what the REAL problem is. Not "wanting to give more convenient options" or whatever the fuck.

Thanks! :)

If I'm super excited about the game, I can put down $60 no problem. Beyond that, though, it's open season, LOL.

I still buy stuff early, too, but that exact issue is why I don't do it as often. And when I do it usually has nothing to do with the DLC offerings that come with the game.

Same here. Arkham Asylum is one of my all time favorite games; I got the GOTY version on sale and still have yet to even TRY all the DLC that came with it, LOL.

It's just not much of a value add for me most of the time.