No no, I’m Bitching that they raised the price from £30 to almost £50.
That would either be retail shops making money or the production company milking it. either way i can’t afford it.
My real wish here is that they would take profit from a previous good game, and spend that on making another good game rather than programming metamorphic poo like juiced, full spectrum warrior, Cabela’s big game hunter and Call of duty 9: Modern future fighting simulation 12: the final stand 2. :retard:
I see what you did thar.
Ever since being severally disappointed by Far Cry 2 I’ve more or less followed this rule. Blackmesa is the exception, if I find out it’s a shitty game in 2015 when it’s released, I’ll kill myself, and it’ll be your fault. > 
Too bad that will never happen, since most of their audience literally won’t buy games unless they have the latest and greatest visuals, always better than before. The industry may be extremely inefficient now, but it’s also more profitable than ever due to a vastly expanded consumer base.
Really, if you want games like the good ol’ days of the 90’s, then stop buying new bland AAA titles, and start bugging indie developers to release their pathetic death grip on the “pretty 2D puzzle game” theme, and actually make something like a good adventure puzzle game, or a fun new TIE Fighter clone, since they have the freedom to have low-quality graphics and high-quality game design, so long as they say it’s intentional.
I lol’d after reading some of the russian annotations
ontopic: I do think modern gaming is a money fest, that’s why I’m on a strict pirated PC games diet(except for valve games), that and emulators, so I can play most PS2 games now that PCSX2 is almost stable.
FUCK THE GOVERNMENT, MAKING MONEY OFF OF US HARDWORKING CITIZENS SO THEY CAN PUT IT IN THEIR POCKETS 
The government isn’t really doing too much of that right now, it’s the businesses, who actually have the government in their pockets.
Don’t worry, the system will either eventually see the trainwreck before it happens and fix itself, or it’ll collapse under its own weight, the hopefully be rebuilt in newer, wiser form.
Just uninstalled the medal of honor pc beta now. it is too similar to CoD for my liking
I want big maps and tanks and choppers
not infantry only and tiny tiny maps
no wonder CoD MW2 suffers from “mapathy”
BC2 ftw
also the Medal of honor beta has been out for a long time and still no update/patch to it
they will most likely not even bother because the release date is too close
pretty lousy to release a beta this close to release and only use it for final touchups for the final version
that is not enough time for a beta test. far from it.
Imo DLC can actually be a good thing as long as the developers can justify why people should spend more money on the same game. DLC that offers a sizable extension to the game or adds replayability is most often worth dishing out the money. However when they release tiny packs that include only a few extras such as a few new vehicles or weapons it just shows they are purely doing it for the money not for the benefit of the consumer.
Every business does it for the money. None of them care about “the benefit” of the consumer, the only thing they care about, is ways to keep the consumer. Companies will do fuck all of there isn’t any profit to be made.
Apparently, DLC is a profitable market, and when that stops being so, publishers/developers will find new ways of extracting money from your wallet because they want to make profit.
You people amuse me when you cry about $50 games… Try justifying the same at £50. That’s ~$75, a 50% hike on what half the people here already think is overpriced.
And to be fair, production costs aren’t much of an excuse. I can produce shit for a lot less than $200m. They wanna blow 200m on a game that ain’t worth the disk it’s burned on and then want to charge us for the pleasure? Shame people actually bought it. The next CoD game deserves to end up the same way as a certain ET game… Do you think that would teach them?
In Australia, try $100+ for new games. Its a joke!
Blame your countries for that, not the publishers.
Nothing to do with the country. When the PS3 came out, it was given a straight conversion. So $400 in the USA made it £400 here
This was back when there were $2 to the pound. Its a company thing, nothing to do with the government. There’s no such thing as a game tax…
There is VAT, though, and that will affect the prices (for example: 21% added for Belgium on most goods for everyday consumers).
UK also gets Technology Tax, and VAT is somewhere around 17.5~20%, not sure exactly where they left it last time they changed it.
That said, some of the best games can be purchased for under £10 and are fully functional.
17.5% at the moment
and yeah as far as i know homeworld and half life are less than £10.
It’s just when you pay for a game, you don’t want to pay for the work of the devs, you want to pay for something fun and interesting, not 12 year olds insulting your mum.:meh:
True, but that’s mostly with the larger studios owned by large publishers. Valve on the other hand creates awesome games, has superb mod support and community support and so on.
L4D2?
Can’t say L4D2 was a bad game, and I don’t think you can judge Valve over one ‘mistake’ by releasing another L4D game so early after the release of the first. Maybe you are unaware of the community and modding support in other games but I can assure you that Valve exceeds pretty much every large studio out there.
Besides, Gabe Newell, 'nuff said.
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Sure Valve is going to grab some extra money, after all it’s still a company that needs to make money. Valve on the other hand does not sacrifice quality or support to get some extra cash.
Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.