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  • Blotter updated: 01/01/09
    • "UPTIME IS THE GAME, DOWNTIME IS THE NAME"
    today marks the end of scheduled maintenance—two guys with two weeks to kill and a few hundred hours later, we're finally [mostly] done.
    page loads/image downloads should be dramatically faster. until we hit 1gbps, at least. to all of my wonderful and ungrateful users: "you're welcome."
    (note: there are still a few other things i'll be working on so expect intermittent downtime)
    ps: thanks so much to mvb for all of the help and support.
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    55 KB Why are videogames still so expensive? Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:42 No.25650202  
    It seems like whenever a store is having a storewide clearance sale, videogames are the one thing that never changes in price.

    Late in the PS2's life we seen many games become Greatest Hits after only a couple months of being on store shelves (and after a full year Sony made God of War an obvious Greatest Hit), there was also compilations of many game series such as Final Fantasy.

    Looking at the current state of gaming, its almost like the publishers and developers want people to focus on other hobbies.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:43 No.25650221
    Piracy.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:43 No.25650234
    Video games? Price?
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:43 No.25650237
    Or they're confident people will buy games for asking price no matter what.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:43 No.25650244
    >WE SEEN MANY GAMES
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:44 No.25650251
    >>25650202
    Video games were always expensive. One of the reasons your parents didn't want to give you video games in the first place.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:44 No.25650263
    >>25650237

    This. They know what people are willing to pay.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:45 No.25650298
    I remember when Atari 2600 games were 59.99.
    Games were always expensive.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:45 No.25650299
    >buy
    >videogames

    XD
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:45 No.25650308
    I always smile when I hear people say videogames are expensive nowadays.

    I remember having to save Christmas and birthday money just to buy Earthworm Jim on the SNES. That shit was 98.99$ (CDN) back then.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:46 No.25650317
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    >>25650237

    yea this

    I mean look at all the "collector's edition"s that come out for games. They charge you 10-20bucks extra for a music CD and some "behind the scenes" footage. AND PEOPLE BUY THESE OUT FASTER THAN THE REGULAR EDITIONS JESUS FUCK.
    >> Anonymous of College Park,MD 01/13/09(Tue)10:46 No.25650323
    >Looking at the current state of gaming, its almost like the publishers and developers want people to focus on other hobbies.

    Can't be, there has to be another reason.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:46 No.25650328
    >>25650221
    no faggot thats the scape goat. the quality is decreasing to a hold your hand let me help you through the game in 6 hours deal because developers are getting lazy and putting assloads of money in to the engine and using the game as a tech demo. see far cry 2, doom 3
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:46 No.25650333
    >>25650221
    So let's set price higher so people don't get the idea that's it's too expensive and turn into pirates ?
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:46 No.25650341
    Piracy
    Economy
    Old games>New games
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:47 No.25650348
    The best deal I ever had was $30 for the MGS collection.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:47 No.25650359
    Why are video games so pricey?
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    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:47 No.25650366
    Because of pirates.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:48 No.25650377
    >>25650341
    >Economy

    You mean niggers.
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:48 No.25650391
    >>25650298
    >>25650308
    Op here, they were, but that was due to the technology and the cost of creating that many cartridges. Modern technology only requires the burning of Blu-Ray and DVDs.
    >> Don't Mind Me !61ZGqB.eRA 01/13/09(Tue)10:49 No.25650425
    Shit, Final Fantasy 3 on SNES cost 80 bucks. I would have never got that for my birthday if I hadn't been sick that day and vomited by the game case at Wal-Mart.

    Didn't PS4 cost $90?
    >> Anonymous 01/13/09(Tue)10:49 No.25650428
    Unlike movies, the vast majority of profit comes from people purchasing the games themselves.

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