Not just digital, game prices this gen have been a rip off even at retail.
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Diablo lll: Ultimate Edition digital download is 62.7gb [in EU, 26.1 GB in US]
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Not just digital, game prices this gen have been a rip off even at retail.
There's no need for LPCM audio.... assuming you aren't worried about CPU overhead.
Modern compression for video and audio should produce excellent quality assets for the game engine to draw on.
Ideally (specially on PC) you'd want a system that asks you what language pack and what quality textures you want to download. Selecting another language or lower/higher quality textures after installign game shou;d start downloading the assets after a prompt with a warning and an expected file download size.
ethomaz
Banned
I think we can have a half way.
+ Continue with high quality assets
+ Give the option to choose one language to download
If you want more than one language you can download like DLC.
So you download 15GB only with your chosen language but you have the the option to download all 100GB with all 15 languages.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Sweet Billy, is that you?
Prices are different in each region, this is "normal" - sadly.
Look at these prices:
I took this picture in May at the Sony Store in Berlin. Every game store that I've been there it was cheaper than that, but this is Sony's price.
ethomaz
Banned
You pay for additional languagesPrices are different in each region, this is "normal" - sadly.
Look at these prices:
I've took this photo in May at the Sony Store in Berlin. Every game store that I've been it was cheaper than that, but this is Sony's price.
PodcastFips
Member
Prices are different in each region, this is "normal" - sadly.
Look at these prices:
I took this picture in May at the Sony Store in Berlin. Every game store that I've been there it was cheaper than that, but this is Sony's price.
Well, same goes for Apple, Adidas... all these stores are trying to be "exclusive", that's why they are more expensive.
You pay for additional languages
It's not that bad after the U$ 62 "Super Luigi U" in Brazil =P
(It's not the official price,this was before the official launch. The official price is about U$ 43)
It's shocking really and it's something they can't justify, I was 100% getting this untill I saw the price it's a joke.
No, we want them to use a little common sense when it comes to installs. They already have stuff in place to play a game with a partial install. A prompt to select a language the first time you start a game doesn't seem that hard to do.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Well, it's a great pound to GB ratio.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Last Uchiha
Banned
Prices are different in each region, this is "normal" - sadly.
Look at these prices:
I took this picture in May at the Sony Store in Berlin. Every game store that I've been there it was cheaper than that, but this is Sony's price.
WTF ! are you living in berlin or Narnia? :]
Poodlestrike
Banned
Huh. Any word on X1 file sizes? I'd imagine they'd be the same, but then, I would've imagined NA and EU sizes would be the same, so now I'm curious.
Welcome to mainland Europe prices.
ethomaz
Banned
$62 here is cheap... I'm paying $90 (R$200) in most launch games.... well TLOU was cheaper ($64 / R$150).
Prices are different in each region, this is "normal" - sadly.
Look at these prices:
I took this picture in May at the Sony Store in Berlin. Every game store that I've been there it was cheaper than that, but this is Sony's price.
And I though we had it bad here in Brazil. Damn. That's almost twice the price for Knack over here.
ethomaz
Banned
The worst is PC.
- The main client download the game + English lang
- You change to Spanish
- The main client download the Spanish lang
- You change to English
- The main client download the English lang
You never have two languages installed... you need always change the language and download again.
And there are serious issues reported by users that can't install the DLC after change the language or can't go back to English after change to another language.
Goldrusher
Member
It's a photo from May, at the most expensive store in the country.
Knack and Killzone can be found for 30 right now.
NoSkillz187
Member
I live in this place called Murica and I have AT&T U-verse, which has a 250gb cap. So unless you want to pay for a new place for me to live in a better state and then buy my internet, be reasonable and realize that there are LOTS of people with caps.
mocolostrocolos
Member
Good lord I preordered the US version of the store despite living in Spain.
Steverulez
Member
They should just let you download the language you need. Why do I need 63gb when I speak English and require no extra effort for localisation than the US version?
FloppyDelux
Member
A dual layered BD is 50GB, single is 25gb
Imagine being ignorant enough to think that only people who live in "strange ass places" have bandwidth caps. I can't.
soul creator
Member
I was wondering who all would pick up on that
That was one of the benefits of those original ideas, though it obviously had the drawbacks mentioned. Like you said, I still kinda wish it would be possible for at least a limited run of discs that behaved in the that way, to address those people who did prefer the hybrid model that PC games use (discs for quicker install and collector's editions, and potentially finding a cheaper price than on the download store, but still associated with a user account so you don't need the disc to play)
Maybe if it was only sold through online retailers, that would address the consumer confusion part
I was traveling actually =P
Super Luigi U is U$ 30 in US, that's why R$ 150 for this game is an insult (and the DLC version is only U$ 20)
I'm all digital this gen because of prices - especially now that is harder to import without taxes.
Yes, that's insane. To be fair, there was a PS4 bundle for €500 that included Knack, Infamous and Killzone (so, €100 for 3 games, and one of them is actually pretty good).
But again, this is was only "Sony Style" price, in other stores (like Saturn and Media Markt) was cheaper than that.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Languages?
chugen
Member
I said the same thing about Persona 4 golden and what people told me ?
Learn japanese if I wanted dual audio.
njd_online
Banned
Just posted this https://twitter.com/neiljamesd/status/497868823933243393
Please help any way in getting their attention on this one. Its f**king ridiculous.
Please help any way in getting their attention on this one. Its f**king ridiculous.
DeejayKnight
Member
This makes me either want to
1) Reconsider AT&T Uverse. Internet isn't as fast as it could be, but has a 250 GB/month cap that you pay $10 for each additional 50GB. Lucky for me, since I can't check it they apparently won't charge me, but still...
2) Never buy games digital that I could buy at retail. I live by this currently, and have gotten great deals because of it.
Looks like I'm leaning heavily toward option 2...
1) Reconsider AT&T Uverse. Internet isn't as fast as it could be, but has a 250 GB/month cap that you pay $10 for each additional 50GB. Lucky for me, since I can't check it they apparently won't charge me, but still...
2) Never buy games digital that I could buy at retail. I live by this currently, and have gotten great deals because of it.
Looks like I'm leaning heavily toward option 2...
Raven Prime
Member
I wonder why nobody is rioting about the Destiny's Digital Guardian edition becuase it's $89,99 in NA and 99,99 in the EU, that's also more than a 30 difference.
Does anybody know if there is a downside to downloading games from the NA store if you reside in the EU? pre-loading, online matchmaking, buying future DLC from the regional store, that sort of stuff..
ethomaz
Banned
Only DLC... you need to but all the DLC in the sane region you bought the game.
Everything else works fine... the matchmaking is based in your PSN account region... not game.
Raven Prime
Member
Figured as much, thank you.
I'll be rolling The Crusader, let's play some games.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Different regions, different sizes.
And this is why I can't move in to the new gen, my Internet just can't handle the game sizes. 62 gig would take me I think 4 or 5 days.
Uh umm are you adam orth?
The perfect Dark
Banned
Yeah. I mean that PC version has such absolutely shitty graphics and sound at 15GB. I can't wait for the superior console graphics and sound at 4x the game size.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Sweet Billy?