"Simburian;c-17638121" wrote:
That 700 dollars? or so is over 6 years so buying in packs over the 6 years didn't hurt my purse and people now are getting packs much, much cheaper in EA Sales. I've got 6000+ hours of play out of it too with no lack of stuff.
That's no price compared to this with all packs! Train Simulator 2015 – £3,000 for Everything for a fanatical railway enthusiast.
And £649.99 for a Lego Millennium Falcon for a Star Wars fan if they are lucky.
If you are a true fan you can pay out a lot. I'm a fan of Terry Pratchett's books and probably have about 50 plus with calendars, diaries and all the Diskworld hardbacks, first editions and that's probably cost me well over £800 or so. Paying at the most £40 for a Sims 4 expansion pack occasionally doesn't seem too bad in comparison. (mind you they would make a profit if sold secondhand)!
1. Sale PricesThe sale prices are cheaper, but they're also not relevant to the argument being made here. The full, $700 price is what EA states the game is primarily worth. TS4, with all of its packs, is worth that full price in their eyes.
2. Other MediaThe fact that other games have ridiculous DLC models doesn't mean much, because we're talking about TS4, not Train Simulator. Incidentally, I've seen Train Simulator and other games like DOA get massive backlash as well. Train Simulator even gets exactly the same backlash, with people saying across its Steam reviews that it has a boring base game that requires DLC to fill in the gaps. It's bad when EA does it, it's bad when others do it.
The £650 Lego Falcon is also part of a limited collector series, whereas TS4 is not.
3. FansAbsolutely a fair point, if you enjoy something, you should be able to spend what you like on it. I'm not going to say that people shouldn't be able to spend a great deal of money on something like TS4 if they really want to, but it's objectively a game that lacks depth when compared to its predecessors, which were complete after 5 years. They should be getting more for the money they're putting in, sale or not, because of the standards established by the series and its past.
I did the Maths for UK prices back in October and have updated listings since, and here TS4 costs £680. By comparison, for £658, I can buy a brand new PlayStation 4 and 15 games from my library at full price. If we are going to go by sale prices, I can still get the PS4 and then
even more games for less, because the PlayStation store has sale prices of up to 90% off. The point I'm trying to make is that no individual game should cost more than a brand new console with a stack of games, half of which are AAA titles.
