Square Enix has committed support to Xbox, but it has come with a caveat. Seemingly, there are no physical versions of its upcoming games for Xbox. This seems to be happening more and more, but why?
I refuse to pay $70 let alone $80 for not even a complete game but also that doesn’t include its dlc at that price. I buy most games when they go on sale
I don’t really care much about that side of things, I simply don’t feel the value proposition to me personally is sane at the price points new games on consoles cost. The disc can be the key for all I care, but by the time I pick it up second hand I expect a fully patched experience.
Note that due to blackmagic fuckery and import fees for the UK, everything game related is sold at equal cost to the US. Example: Xbox Series X was UK£450/US$450. These prices are therefore convertible as 1:1
Back in the day I paid £60 for a game (£40 base) plus season pass, discount bundle. According to an inflation calculator that value = £90 today.
Ignoring the difference in time to develop and the manpower involved between these two reference games, only taking into account the reported playtime…
Overall reception for the games vary massively…
MW3 2011
MW3 2023
Let’s just say I still wouldn’t pay over £90 for the entire game. Notwithstanding that many games today are released unfinished due to crunch time culture and the ability to update, or finish development, after release.
I refuse to pay $70 let alone $80 for not even a complete game but also that doesn’t include its dlc at that price. I buy most games when they go on sale
I don’t really care much about that side of things, I simply don’t feel the value proposition to me personally is sane at the price points new games on consoles cost. The disc can be the key for all I care, but by the time I pick it up second hand I expect a fully patched experience.
Note that due to blackmagic fuckery and import fees for the UK, everything game related is sold at equal cost to the US. Example: Xbox Series X was UK£450/US$450. These prices are therefore convertible as 1:1
Back in the day I paid £60 for a game (£40 base) plus season pass, discount bundle. According to an inflation calculator that value = £90 today.
Ignoring the difference in time to develop and the manpower involved between these two reference games, only taking into account the reported playtime…
Overall reception for the games vary massively…
MW3 2011
MW3 2023
Let’s just say I still wouldn’t pay over £90 for the entire game. Notwithstanding that many games today are released unfinished due to crunch time culture and the ability to update, or finish development, after release.
the last game i paid ‘full price’ for was hl2.
hl2 was also the last game i bought on release day.