saying its blizzards fault is a rediculous statement the fact of the matter is games are becomeing more expensive because its costing more and more to create them finding talented game designers and developers is also tends to be a difficult task and are ussually paid well with benefits (depending on what company you work for) the reason there are so many similar games nowadays is that its expensive to take risks instead of companies having 4-5 IPs back for say the N64 and ps1 they stick to 1-2 for example epic games is staying with gears and bullet storm infinity ward is staying with CoD heck blizzard might be the only company left with 4 different video game series and soon to be 5 with the release of titan. the amount of factors to take into account for making video games im surprised that they are as cheap as they are and sure every now and then there might be a game for say 30 dollars but these are ussually expansion packs and you tend to get what you paid for
You know... bread was very cheap 20 years ago compared to today.
i remember when i paid my mortal kombat 3 SNES cartridge 115$ (canadian) back when it was released O_O
Modern Warfare 2 came out in November 10, 2009 and was like 60$ on PC if I recall. It still is, at a lot of places.
That is also an Activision game, so perhaps it could be Activision's doing on the part of the pricing.
4.5 million people would beg to differ with your assessment.
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the fact your crying about 60 dollar games makes me lol. alot of other countrys have games at 100dollars and are on 1=1dollar with US... so all i can say to u is suck it up
$60 is being viewed as a standard because console gamers happily pay it.
There are plenty of lower cost games on Steam, not sure what else to tell you. Vote with your wallet.
You also have to account for you are not only buying SC2, but you are also buying the ability to play every single custom game/map made by the comunitiy, as well as buy the world editor itself. IMO, it is totally worth the $60 to buy it, seeing as its probably worth twice that much...
OP: You are a fool...
Who on earth would buy digital copies?
CoD cost me £29.99 at midnight release haven't checked currencies in a while but i'd say thats roughly 35 Euros?
And i can't ever remember paying more than £10 for any Psx, N64, Snes game otherwise i would have never afforded it. Then again i did have every psx game available
60 Dollars for a game is pretty pathetic, but i do not buy from crappy retailers that want £49,99 a game i get mine around 25-30 quid new.
I would think Cata was cheap due to other expansions being required.
Honestly, given how prices progress from system to system, I'm shocked we aren't paying 80-120 per game here in the US. $60 is nothing. If you don't wish to pay that, don't play games. You also realize that 4 months of this game is $60, plus what you paid to get the base game and 3 Xpacs. You either need to:
A.) Stop trolling.
B.) Find a cheaper hobby
C.) L2P
D.) Get a better job, or reduce costs ($60 is too expensive? I work minimum wage and can afford games easy)
E.) Probably all of the above