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		| iGod Grandmaster Cheater
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:55 pm    Post subject: The price of games. |   |  
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				| Is it just me or are games getting expensive? I mean its £50 (I think thats $82?) for one game. The recession is hitting hard here. |  | 
	
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		| Fantasy I post too much
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:32 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I agree that it is expensive. 
 But, if you think about how much time and dedication it took the people who made it.. I think it's cheap .. Some games takes years, and yet it only costs £50 .. So somehow, it's actually fair enough that games are expensive.. But games with monthly fees, should not be expensive... That's just my opinion (:
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		| Odecey Master Cheater
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:33 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Here in Norway, prices have been around $80-100 for a long time, anything below that is considered cheap. _________________
 
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		| Fantasy I post too much
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:13 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| It still is a lot of money :\ |  | 
	
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		| iGod Grandmaster Cheater
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:56 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| They have jumped up from £30 to £50 which is a £20 difference... |  | 
	
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		| Monkeys I post too much
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:57 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| How is this gameplay design? 
 But ontopic, I don't think it's merely the recession's doing.
 It probably raised it a BIT but nothing extravagant.
 Warez, on the other hand, did have a great hand in this play.
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		| iGod Grandmaster Cheater
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:16 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				|  	  | Monkeys wrote: |  	  | How is this gameplay design? 
 But ontopic, I don't think it's merely the recession's doing.
 It probably raised it a BIT but nothing extravagant.
 Warez, on the other hand, did have a great hand in this play.
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 oft: Product marketing still fits under game design.
 
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		| educofu Expert Cheater
 
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				|  Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:21 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| here in brazil only 27% of gamers buy their games. piracy is very common here. example: a original game can be bought 200~250 R$. this is like 100~125 dollars. a copy (that can even be bought b4 the game is released here) is sold for about 5~10 R$ = 2.5~5 dollars. this happens bcuz the government tax imported electronics at a very high rate. thats why Brazilians play alot of f2p online games. till now i havent spent even a cent with games and i have the greatest (or at least i think) offline games, such as Fallout3, PoP, DMC4, Diablo 3 (lol kiddin^^) so on... I think games should be sold at something between 20~60 USD. its a fair price.
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