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Edited by TACTICAL BEAR79:
9/22/2015 8:56:25 PM
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Ending this argument once and for all!!!
How long have games been $60? I'd say for at least the last 15 years or so. So, just with inflation we should be paying way more, especially with rising cost of development. Even if you only got 20 hours out of vanilla Destiny it only costs $3 dollars an hour. For most of us it's in the hundreds of hours played. Pennies on the dollar. What else can you do with $3 and an hour of your precious time?
So, justifying the cost of taken King is easy. $40 dollars for what looks to be more content than the first game is a great deal when you consider the time is money factor. If I only get 20hrs of playtime, then I'm paying $2 an hour to play. I know I'll play more than that, as most of us will.
I mean COD is $60 dollars and you get 10 maps and a 6hr campaign. Then guess what? They charge you $15 for four more maps. There are several other examples of this, but the point is if you want companies to keep making your favorite games, they need to make money, and lots of it.
In the end I know not everyone has tons of money to buy games, and it's wise to make prudent decisions. It's all about value for your individual dollar. Gaming can be an expensive hobby. If you don't want to buy something then don't. But please, for the love of God, stop whining about it. Or be careful because before you know it we'll get nickeled and dimed with a free to play model, or subscription fee.
***lots of good points and comments guys. And of course the trolls. Keep it coming.
I hope the rest of you are enjoying the expansion. See you on the Dreadnought Gaurdians!
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9 RepliesCan someone explain why I can jump on ebay.co.uk and within 5 seconds worth of a search, find a brand new and sealed Legendary edition of Taken King, that includes: Destiny The Dark Below House of Wolves The Taken King. For £32 But if I jump on PSN and look for The Taken King standalone download, it's £39.99. Someone please explain this. Also, as a UK customer, why am I getting royally f*cked in the ass by the currency conversion? $40 is £26 NOT £40. You can't change the currency sign and nobody notice. I want to get The Taken King, but Bungie this is honestly just bullsh!t any way you cut it.
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I spent 65 hours since kings fall came out. Not to mention the time spent before that haha. I love this game.
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1 ReplyI'm sure I've spent 20 hours in Kings Fall, alone.
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2 RepliesI thought everyone already got over this?
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Well put sir
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1 ReplyI just think of the 8 subway foot longs I'm not eating. I walk in for lunch, remember I bought ttk, laugh, scare the customers, and walk out. I then go back to my cubicle, and my malnourished-non-lunched hand carves a 3rd tally into my clipboard underneath the fax papers, and I just whisper "5 more to go."
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26 RepliesIt boggles me when people say Destiny has no content. I can't think of another fps with this much stuff in it. Just playing through it all once would be several times more hours of gameplay compared to similar games. And that's not taking into account the replay value.
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My faith in bungie.net users has been restored. Great post! This is exactly what I have been trying to tell people since destiny launched.
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1 Reply$60 for me to fill my car with gas that lasts a week. To pay that for a good quality game that I will enjoy for hundreds of hours is nothing, pennies per hour.
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4 Replies$40 is to much money for a dlc
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7 RepliesGoldeneye 007 for Nintendo 64: Made by a team of 11 people, stored on a cartridge with next to no memory space, and could not be updated with patches or fixes. Needed four people in the same room and four controllers for full multiplayer. It cost something around $70-80 back in 1997. That's almost $100 in today's dollars. For a game that took up less space on the cart than one weapon model would take up in Destiny. Destiny for modern consoles: Enormous game spanning around 60GB, fully online world, years of development (and counting) by hundreds of people, updates and patches out the wazoo, dedicated forums for whining children to bitch about everything and anything they don't like, and hundreds if not THOUSANDS of hours of playtime for many players. People complain about a $40 DLC. Young gamers don't know how good they have it these days. This is PARADISE compared to classic gaming, where you got much less for more money.
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8 Replies[quote]we should be paying way more, especially with rising cost of development. [/quote] This is wrong. 15 years ago many (console) games were released on cartridge. The production cost was about 18$ per game. The profit margins were much lower. Today games released on disk. The production cost is about .03$. Did you factor that in when you assumed "inflation"?
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Waaaaaaaah Waaaaaaaah! Stop using common sense and good logic! Waaaaaaah! It hurys ma head! Waaaaaah!
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2 RepliesGaming is NOT an expensive hobby. That's why it's one of my favorite hobbies. In a given year, I probably pay between $300-$400. That's awesome.
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I remember paying 1.99 for my games on spectrum 48k plus so i feel highly ripped off paying over 100 for destiny
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According to Forbes, mathematically, TTK is worth 60& and not 40
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You're totally right that some games nowadays are cheap if you calculate the $/hours. The real debate and flame war that is happening isn't about the $/hours, or even if the game is worth 40$. It's that for people like me, who bought the 60 or 99$ year 1 game (as for me, on both PS4 and Xbone, mind you) and that have waited to see if TTK was worth it, only to be welcomed with locked or removed old content from year 1, well, frankly we are now faced with a dilemna. Should we buy the expansion for a measly 40$ (80$ for me to unlock on both console, and I have it, no worries) and send the message that's it's ok, just because they have a EULA, that they can completely remove contents already bought, or do we voice our opinion so that thing might change for the best FOR ALL OF US! It's never been about the $/hours, even worse with a game like Destiny that inflates the time spent ingame because of multiple grinding walls. In fact, if TTK was Destiny 2, and we could still play Destiny 1 without them screwing around our content, none of this would have happen.
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Edited by brandorobot: 9/22/2015 5:59:59 PMIt's been longer than 15 years. Certain games back in the early console days could actually be upwards of $80 for a cartridge.
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Think of it this way: we paid a little (or a lot) extra for early access to the game? Kind of... We got the Year 1 experience, and that's awesome.
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1 ReplyMost people will admit to putting in hundreds of hours into this game. But if you compare how much I personally have put in to Destiny compared to my other games? Geez it isn't even close. Hours of enjoyment is a major factor in deciding whether a game was worth it or not. $140 for Year 1 of Destiny, over 1000 hours played? Sorry everyone, that's a DAMN good value.
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12 RepliesFor the quality of the 3D mapping and quality of games $60 doesn't seem that exuberant to me, plus cod, battle field and many more charge in the range from $30 to $35 for dlc's so if you are crying about $40 go back to play board games.
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19 RepliesEdited by II Nismo Joe II: 9/22/2015 6:48:23 PMDoes it limit your gameplay when cod adds a map pack? Does it limit your gameplay when gears adds weapon skins or map packs? NO, then you're not even understanding the real problem here, its not about the money but the consistent lies. TTK is basically a subscription, if you cant see that then theres no hope for you. [quote]How long have games been $60? I'd say for at least the last 15 years or so. [/quote] ^^^^ As for this bs? i havent been paying 60 bucks for a game for 15 yrs, thats just stupid or you're getting ripped off. When the original xbox released i paid no more than 40 bucks for any game. 360 was the only time i had to pay more than 40 bucks & even then it was a while before prices hit 60 bucks.
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The conversion is rubbish that the problem
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The entitlement is real.
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Preach!
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4 RepliesWell I agree with you but I should ppint out, new games for $60 is a recent thing with the ps3-360 gen. 15 years ago xbox didn't exist yet, and the Playstation was on its last legs. I know its crazy to think about but yeah, its true. If I am remembering correctly a new game for ps2 and xbox was around $40-$45
