Comments on Grand Theft PC - The PC Gaming Blog: Why are PC Gamers paying $60 now?

what a bunch of faggots

2010-04-16T18:06:18.565+01:00

what a bunch of faggots

greedy cunts

2010-04-10T18:15:31.108+01:00

greedy cunts

Fuck console bitches your systems cost 400 bucks w...

2010-04-10T00:34:23.113+01:00

Fuck console bitches your systems cost 400 bucks with all your bells and whistles attached but ours cost $1000's for PC games. (comparable)

You console rats should be paying 100 for your games while we get them for 50... We get the bullshit console to PC ports that lack all the PC norm and you expect us to pay the same price after paying for the computer? Fuck... you... sir...

We Australians have to pay $100 fucking dollars fo...

2010-04-10T00:16:10.646+01:00

We Australians have to pay $100 fucking dollars for the STANDARD EDITION and $150 for CE so stop fucking complaining.

@Kyle You speak the truth, keep on "truckin&...

2010-04-09T23:30:19.931+01:00

@Kyle

You speak the truth, keep on "truckin" :D

Guys, you are all missing the point, the point is ...

2010-04-09T23:23:03.514+01:00

Guys, you are all missing the point, the point is console games cost the extra bit due to the money to M$/Sony/Nintendo, PC games don't, so the publishers are just getting it for nothing.

Oh no! I can't pay 10 more due to rising devel...

2010-04-09T23:04:28.343+01:00

Oh no! I can't pay 10 more due to rising development costs because it's required that I should only pay $50. I have no sense of Economics. Boo-ho!

I like PC gaming and console gaming, and I think PC gamers need to stop whining about this. Yeah, with MW2 it was stupid because they took out lots of things PC gamers are used to, but aside from that I have little sympathy

@Brian What's with the personal attacks on th...

2010-04-09T21:12:55.414+01:00

@Brian

What's with the personal attacks on the poster? This internet tough guy stuff gets old where just because you disagree with someone, they must be less experienced than you or by implication, downright stupid. If you were discussing this in person, you wouldn't look him in the eye and say, "I think that you are a child because your point is dumb." No need to say, "It's pretty obvious that the poster is a kid without very much life experience." Make your point and move on.

First, cartridges for the NES and SNES back in 1992 were actually more expensive than games now because they were more expensive to produce than discs. From some quick research, the original ChronoTrigger cost $80 brand new and with inflation, that's more than most special edition releases today. No offense, but the whole cost of producing games going up and therefore, they should be more than they used to be by logic sort of makes that whole argument fall apart. It doesn't help any that prices then seemed to be fairly inconsistent with no market standard like the 49.99 we have for PC and 59.99 for console games.

Additionally, you are talking about games for a console. Console games are supposedly sold at a higher price because it allows the publisher to pay the licensing fee for making the game on that console. That is where a lot of console makers get their revenue.

This article is about PC games, which do not require publishers to pay such a fee and therefore have consistently been sold for less than games on a console, but we also pay a higher entry fee to build gaming rigs and (usually) must maintain our own servers for multiplayer. Therefore, it's a bit ridiculous for us to be paying on the level with console games without any sort of real justification beyond 'games cost more to make.' Well of course they do, but at the same time, how does 1/4 of the gaming market (PC vs 3 current gen consoles) pay off that difference. It's particularly suspect when we PC games are allegedly a dying market and with the fact that most PC games are seeing most of their sales via digital distribution - we don't even get any physical media anymore! (Although arguably, it's better environmentally and far more convenient).

I'm sorry, but I agree with the poster - this is a very odd trend in PC game prices and I am not sure if it will sustain itself. Fortunately, only a few titles have tried to do this thus far. Unfortunately, it's been games that were expected to sell really well and of course they did, which may encourage the rest of the market to try and follow suit.

In my honest opinion, Activision has gotten too greedy - it has nothing to do with the cost of making games increasing. Particularly in the case of MW2 - it's just running on a tweaked engine that MW ran on. Reusing an engine can mitigate quite a bit of development costs.

I paid $96 for Monster Hunter on PSX. But I agree...

2010-04-09T21:12:16.902+01:00

I paid $96 for Monster Hunter on PSX. But I agree, gouging clients/customers because you can is wrong.

You guys got the same games for cheaper for quite ...

2010-04-09T21:03:39.142+01:00

You guys got the same games for cheaper for quite a while, and you still get free DLC/Maps when we pay $10.

Stop your moaning, you still have it better than us.

Oh please. I remember back in the SNES era games ...

2010-04-09T20:49:54.423+01:00

Oh please. I remember back in the SNES era games would have fucking ridiculous random ass prices. I bought secret of mana for 70$ (easily worth a thousand, though) and still have the box / tag. Shit was absurd

Publishers said console games were $60 Cause new c...

2010-04-09T20:48:41.192+01:00

Publishers said console games were $60 Cause new consoles cost more to develop for and they said PC games would remain at $50 so your comment is crap. Yes we can afford $60 but They raised prices for no reason. If gas jumped an extra $3 a gallon for no reason you would complain so stop pretending to be high and mighty.

I feel bad for developers more than anything. Most...

2010-04-09T20:46:57.646+01:00

I feel bad for developers more than anything. Most of them just want to make something fun and amazing to share with people. Instead they are the ones that have to deal with the fallout from the endless back and forth between gamers and publishers.

2010-04-09T20:33:40.255+01:00

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