Dev asks gamers to buy new and not used.

[Greg Gorby]

My apologies and I stand corrected.

 

[Reflexx]

$60 for a game is just greed pure and simple. You can't tell me that making a game and porting it over to every sytem known to man isn't profitable. EA makes billions (thats Billions with a B). You make a good game and you will make money, you make a good game for $40 and you'll make a ton of money.

It's not greed.

The prices are that high because they have to take into account that people will buy used. There are servers and other support costs associated with games. When a person buys used, they are not only denting developers income. They are actually costing devs money if it is played online.

 

[Reflexx]

Sounds like Microsoft should have a straight from the Dev download system for XBox. Without raping the devs profit margin. It may cut into microsofts bottom line and we wouldn't want that to happen. I don't buy used games nor sell the games I have but $60 is pricing alot of the kids out of the market and turning them to piracy. Lower your prices and make more money, it sounds crazy but it might just work.

The cost of the console is subsidized by game sales.

If you don't want console makers to earn anything from the games, then you'd be paying for $1000 game consoles.

 

[Keith Wallace]

In the case of Assassin's Creed 3, I find the multiplayer way more compelling than the single player, to be honest. What hurts the single player there is that they've been pumping out so many Assassin's Creed games every year that 3 was stale before it even came out. Personally, if it was me, I'd have done something crazy to shake things up entirely with 3: dropped all historical content and concentrated on Desmond and the present-time (present-time in the series, I mean).

Oh, I agree with you on Assassin's Creed's level of staleness. That's why I am 3 games behind, despite the fact that my cousin (who lives here) has Brotherhood and I have Revelations. By the end of the second game, I realized how horribly redundant the combat system is, and I was trudging through to the end. There isn't a length of time between games to fix that broken combat system--that being hold block until you're bored, then start hacking at enemies wildly until they all die. There's no deal difficulty when the game basically automatically positions yourself to attack and block, it's just mashing buttons in the same fashion throughout each game. Granted, the puzzle-like style of the rooms at times is cool, but the core gameplay is completely stale after the first game.

I wouldn't say that dropping the historical matter would fix it. I actually liked that stuff. It's all about fixing the gameplay, because the control system requires minimal effort and isn't engaging at all. Yes, shooters are a cookie-cutter matter, for the most part, but the engagement of having to aim and move and cover allows the fact that it's basically one control scheme for 10 years to avoid becoming boring. Sports games are similar--the dynamic encounters and means of solving a situation (hitting a fastball or a curveball in baseball, running or passing in football, shooting a jumper or posting up or driving in basketball, etc.) allows unchanging control schemes to stay fresh.

Assassin's Creed simply needs to find a way to make its combat interesting.

 

[montsa007]

Dev asks gamers to buy new and not used. Gamers ask devs to lower prices or suck it.

I really like that.

 

[theeboredone]

I said this in another forum, but given Game Stop's tendency to rip off consumers by pricing used games at "55" dollars, I think developers/publishers should support and go out of their way to strike deals with other stores. Whether it's Best Buy or some gaming stores like Play N Trade. Just find ways to boost their gaming business, and in turn get some money from used games sales. Clearly, GS is not going to be brought to the negotiating table unless everyone went digital just like that.

 

[Keith Wallace]

The problem is, I don't know that anything would stop GameStop from lowering their prices to match. Instead, they have to lean on the digital platform to make the used game market lower in quantity and quality, while also making new game sales through GameStop less appealing.

 

[theeboredone]

I haven't shopped at GS in years, just because I hate their practices. I find that Best Buy, and then stores like Amazon tend to run more promotions for recent games. I do wonder who makes the call on those "Pre-order from GS and get exclusive items". Cause if GS is paying top dollar for those, sometimes it's best to take your business elsewhere so they suffer.