@MEGAF1UX wrote:
so do the right kind of women...
by the same token you could spend 5$ on seeds and plant a garden which would occupy you for countless hours, its simply not at all the same thing. you go TO the movies, you sit in a THEATER, in a special seat with a special sound system and a special screen.. they even use special butter on the popcorn. its not "on demand" like a game is. its also not INTENDED to last you days or weeks, just a couple hours (like the right kind of..nevermind). why is it so hard to compare the correct medium? i paid 5$ for a frisbee 25 years ago.. its still going strong.. so videogames are overpriced?
It's not about making an exact comparison. I have a life with a full-time job and a limited number of hours of free time.
I make a decent living but I do have a limit on how much I can spend in my free time, after all the bills are paid. And though I do not have the same expectations of a night out going to the movies and may catching dinner, just that one night of going out to the movies and have dinner with my wife will set me back more than the price of a video game.
That's just a simple fact. It's not the same activity and it has a different value but within the limits of how much free time I have and how much money I have to spend I do see that if I like a video game enough to spend many hours in it, it's a good value to me.
Now for me to love the game completely and be full of praise about it, that's another thing. I have too much criticism of the game at the moment to go to that point, but not enough criticism to say I threw the game out after 10 hours of play and I'll neve touch it again.