alienware
Banned
Seriously WTF?
As we all know (well we may not but we will after reading this) console games have always been more expensive than PC games because there are licensing fees of around 30% per game sold by the owner of the console itself.
So for example a 360 game is £45, £15 or so of that goes to M$. This is why M$ got into the console business in the first place, as they are not allowed by law to charge a licensing fee for games released in Windows (they tried but failed).
Same goes for Sony, and Nintendo (however to be fair Nintendo charge a lot less).
So that meant that a PC game at launch here in the UK (because you Americans get robbed which is surprising but true) would be around £25.
However this year things seem to have changed. Now PC games are costing the same as console games. As an example I bought Crysis 3 for £35. I wasn't surprised at that as EA are greedy bastards. However, I just went to see how much Metro : Last Light was and it's £35. The Xbox 360 version is £35.
What winds me right up is that piracy in 2005 was really high. PC games were expensive then too, and after exhaustive argument and debates game companies finally dropped the price of PC games which to me any way reduced piracy.
I'll admit that in 2005 I stole a lot of games. I did buy quite a lot, but I stole a good few too.
Now I'll tell you that between 2008 and now I have not stolen a single game because I was more than happy to pay the £20-£25 a brand new title demanded. Heck, I even paid £30 at launch for GTAIV at Game and £55 each for two Fallout box sets.
But the way things are going? I'm not being funny but I'm not paying £35 for a PC game. They're simply not worth it.
/rant over.
As we all know (well we may not but we will after reading this) console games have always been more expensive than PC games because there are licensing fees of around 30% per game sold by the owner of the console itself.
So for example a 360 game is £45, £15 or so of that goes to M$. This is why M$ got into the console business in the first place, as they are not allowed by law to charge a licensing fee for games released in Windows (they tried but failed).
Same goes for Sony, and Nintendo (however to be fair Nintendo charge a lot less).
So that meant that a PC game at launch here in the UK (because you Americans get robbed which is surprising but true) would be around £25.
However this year things seem to have changed. Now PC games are costing the same as console games. As an example I bought Crysis 3 for £35. I wasn't surprised at that as EA are greedy bastards. However, I just went to see how much Metro : Last Light was and it's £35. The Xbox 360 version is £35.
What winds me right up is that piracy in 2005 was really high. PC games were expensive then too, and after exhaustive argument and debates game companies finally dropped the price of PC games which to me any way reduced piracy.
I'll admit that in 2005 I stole a lot of games. I did buy quite a lot, but I stole a good few too.
Now I'll tell you that between 2008 and now I have not stolen a single game because I was more than happy to pay the £20-£25 a brand new title demanded. Heck, I even paid £30 at launch for GTAIV at Game and £55 each for two Fallout box sets.
But the way things are going? I'm not being funny but I'm not paying £35 for a PC game. They're simply not worth it.
/rant over.