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[bdouble]

This thread is so confusing.

 

[PflargBlarg]

Lol at whoever that was complaining about people willing to pay 'more and more' for video games. Look at the price for an N64 game back in say '98. I regularly saw games for 60, 70, even 80 dollars back then. If you take inflation into account, game prices have gone way down. Even if this does sell for 60, it's still cheaper than most of the console games released in Canada now. Almost all new releases are 70 (sometimes even 75), so I'm pretty ok with buying goddamn DIABLO III for 60 dollars.

 

[Haunted]

...but who plays single player, anyways? What a waste of time that is...

 

[mrgone]

Hey, if we get enough people saying "I'd pay <ridiculous price> for this game", maybe they can just make those folks pay what they're claiming and the rest of us can get it at the standard pc game price! Internet!

 

[Zero Tolerance]

This is like the third time in a year where i wished i had not removed the price sticker from my boxes. If im remembering right, D2 and WC3 were 49.99 at CompUSA. It sounds like other places jacked the price up knowing that people would pay. If i were Activision i would raise this price to at least $70 because, as is evident from this thread, people will pay a lot more than the norm. Hopefully this will establish a new price point in the gaming industry. Games are already too cheap.. i think they are about the only form of entertainment that has gone down over the years and the publishers should change the price to reflect that. Although i would prefer taxing though.

I still have many of my boxes.

On my desk right now:
Dragon Age $49.99 (best buy)
(Sins of a Solar Empire has no price on it)
NWN2 Gold $49.99 (unknown retailer...unmarked)

 

[Proc]

I'm fine with the price. It's Diablo 3.

 

[Xavien]

There was a discussion on the PC Gamer podcast about publishers wanting to raise PC game prices to $59.99, as this would make them more apt to create a pc version of a game. Since they take home a lot more profit on a pc game versus a console game, the extra 10 dollars goes a long way. At this point I'm actually fine with $59.99 PC games, as long as they are high quality and the best version of a game available as they should be. And not with oppressive drm like in Ass Creed 2.

Come on, you just know that it'll be $60 WITH shitty DRM like in Ass Creed 2. Publishers don't give a shit.

 

[magus]

I wouldn't give this much credibility guys. It is way too early to start putting a price on Diablo 3. It won't even be out on 2010.

Wait and see what Starcraft 2 costs and use that to determine Diablo 3's cost.

 

[Brannon]

*yawn*

Still getting it for half that price anyway. Too many bargains come up to warrant paying full price for most any game. Of course this is all thanks to cheapassgamers, the site of frugal gaming gods.

And yes, I'm aware that it probably won't be that cheap on day one, but I'm pretty sure I can wait a couple of weeks before submitting myself to one of the greatest games that will come out... whenever Blizzard gets around to releasing it.

(no rushing Blizz, you're worth the wait!)

 

[Forkball]

Well to be fair, it's only $20 more than Diablo II.

 

[Talon]

Damn it Actiblizzion.

Spoiler

I'd gladly pay $100.

Why did I just say that?

 

[ampere]

I will buy this game regardless of price.

Sadly I'm this way as well.
I'm not good enough at Starcraft to bother with it, but other Blizzard games = sold.

 

[bdouble]

Come on, you just know that it'll be $60 WITH shitty DRM like in Ass Creed 2. Publishers don't give a shit.

yeah right. It will have battle.net and maybe some other DRM. Blizz knows if you really want to play D3 you will play it online and the only way to do that is through their service. If anything you should have said it would be more like Steam.

 

[Ettie]

In the first two weeks there will be a deal for 50 or less. Just hang in there if the principle or the money is that important to you.

 

[dorkimoe]

by the time this game comes out, the standard pc game will be 69 so dont complain

 

[YYZ]

by the time this game comes out, the standard pc game will be 69 so dont complain

So it'll be $79 then? I would pay higher than normal if there were no other fees AT ALL. Expansions don't count.

 

[Gravijah]

*yawn*

Still getting it for half that price anyway. Too many bargains come up to warrant paying full price for most any game. Of course this is all thanks to cheapassgamers, the site of frugal gaming gods.

And yes, I'm aware that it probably won't be that cheap on day one, but I'm pretty sure I can wait a couple of weeks before submitting myself to one of the greatest games that will come out... whenever Blizzard gets around to releasing it.

(no rushing Blizz, you're worth the wait!)

How are you going to get it for half that price?

 

[Lich_King]

I'd pay even $599.99 for it!

 

[Dark Octave]

Lol at whoever that was complaining about people willing to pay 'more and more' for video games. Look at the price for an N64 game back in say '98. I regularly saw games for 60, 70, even 80 dollars back then. If you take inflation into account, game prices have gone way down. Even if this does sell for 60, it's still cheaper than most of the console games released in Canada now. Almost all new releases are 70 (sometimes even 75), so I'm pretty ok with buying goddamn DIABLO III for 60 dollars.

:lol @ these entitled, petty assholes. All this crying over $10.

Go mow some lawns or get a paper route.

 

[Brannon]

How are you going to get it for half that price?

In the first two weeks there will be a deal for 50 or less. Just hang in there if the principle or the money is that important to you.

It always happens. A combination of in-store deals, coupons and/or promotional codes drive down prices significantly. Though most probably it could be $40. But $60?

No way.

 

[HK-47]

Come on, you just know that it'll be $60 WITH shitty DRM like in Ass Creed 2. Publishers don't give a shit.

Shitty DRM, no extras and 6 months later.

Yeah, totally worth 60 bucks.

 

[DarkoMaledictus]

Activision strikes again.

Wasn't Modern Warfare 2 also $60?

Is Starcraft 2 also $60?

It's probably also Activision's decision to make it a trilogy. Blizzard would've never done that.

Makes me laugh they are making a trilogy.. .who really plays through the story mode in a rts anyway... personally I never even bothered just play skirmish and online! Seems pointless...

 

[Akim]

this is diablo 3


I don't give A FUCK

price it whatever

 

[Gravijah]

It always happens. A combination of in-store deals, coupons and/or promotional codes drive down prices significantly. Though most probably it could be $40. But $60?

No way.

How often does this usually happen with PC games? I have little firsthand experience.

 

[Noisepurge]

already pre-ordered from play.com for 40$

 

[HK-47]

Makes me laugh they are making a trilogy.. .who really plays through the story mode in a rts anyway... personally I never even bothered just play skirmish and online! Seems pointless...

People love SC SP

It's why I want the game.

 

[JDSN]

How often does this usually happen with PC games? I have little firsthand experience.

Every week on STEAM, and you can invest a few minutes of your day on checking stuff like CAG. Heck, I got L4d2 for $30 and Borderlands for $20 one month after it was out.

 

[Gravijah]

Every week on STEAM, and you can invest a few minutes of your day on checking stuff like CAG. Heck, I got L4d2 for $30 and Borderlands for $20 one month after it was out.

Sadly, I'll be buying the LE/CE anyways.

 

[Brannon]

Every week on STEAM, and you can invest a few minutes of your day on checking stuff like CAG. Heck, I got L4d2 for $30 and Borderlands for $20 one month after it was out.

Damn I got the 360 version of L4D2 for the same price at Best Buy during a sale, and a $35 gift card I got from for buying an external HD that was itself on sale a couple of months ago let me get X360 Aliens vs Predator for $25 today (actually $26; there were M&Ms involved. They did not survive).

CAG is GOD.

 

[Yaweee]

Makes me laugh they are making a trilogy.. .who really plays through the story mode in a rts anyway... personally I never even bothered just play skirmish and online! Seems pointless...

It's two expansions with new multiplayer units and the such, as well. It isn't any different than other RTSs that get multiple expansions.

 

[teh]

look at all the games you wasted $$$ on and didn't end up playing or just lost interest in

then look at how much better the value is for something u wont stop playing, like Diablo 3.

 

[Frank "Trashman" Reynolds]

lol just from reading this thread I can see why Activision gets away with the stuff they do.

Kotick should just forget about releasing a CE and charge $99 for the regular edition.

 

[Slavik81]

Makes me laugh they are making a trilogy.. .who really plays through the story mode in a rts anyway... personally I never even bothered just play skirmish and online! Seems pointless...

I rarely play skirmishes or online in RTS titles. The campaign is the only interesting part.

 

[JDSN]

lol just from reading this thread I can see why Activision gets away with the stuff they do.

Kotick should just forget about releasing a CE and charge $99 for the regular edition.

Yep, all thanks to the hivemind, we love games like Call of Duty, Tony Hawk Ride and Diablo III on the same amount.

 

[Xavien]

yeah right. It will have battle.net and maybe some other DRM. Blizz knows if you really want to play D3 you will play it online and the only way to do that is through their service. If anything you should have said it would be more like Steam.

If you read the post I quoted, you wouldn't look like a fool.

 

[Struct09]

And I paid $49.99 for NWN at Babbage's when that came out, too. I live in the US. Those look like worldwide averages (who is GS using as a source, anyway?).

I don't doubt that you paid $50 for it, but the MSRP for Warcraft III was $59.99. That news article on Gamespot is from NPD sales figures, which only accounts for the US.

Anyway, I found my War3 box:

 

[Ninja Scooter]

i even remember Diablo II being a good $10 or so more expensive than the norm back in the day.

 

[dLMN8R]

I don't doubt that you paid $50 for it, but the MSRP for Warcraft III was $59.99. That news article on Gamespot is from NPD sales figures, which only accounts for the US.

Anyway, I found my War3 box:

:lol nice. I knew I remembered at least War3 being $60. I thought the original Starcraft / Diablo 2 might have been too, nice.

Nerd rage is funny enough in and of itself, but when people nerd rage 8 years late it's just plain gold :lol

 

[water_wendi]

I don't doubt that you paid $50 for it, but the MSRP for Warcraft III was $59.99. That news article on Gamespot is from NPD sales figures, which only accounts for the US.

Anyway, I found my War3 box:

Nice! Looks in great shape

Could be that was the price i paid then. CompUSA and BestBuy used to have very similar price points. i cant find the receipt to be certain about CompUSAs price though. Probably stashed it in another game box since i usually get more than one game at a time.

Anyway, game prices are way too low. Fifteen years ago i paid $4 for a matinee and $70 for a PC game. Today its $10 for a matinee and $50 for a PC game. Prices need to go up a lot especially if you take into consideration that game development costs have skyrocketed. How many people worked on my $70 copy of Empire Deluxe vs the hundreds that make up a studio of today? 10 guys? 20?

 

[Spike]

Considering the amount of support that Diablo II has received even up to day, (didn't patch 1.12 change the game considerably?), $60 is a worthy price.

Regardless, it's most likely not coming out until 2011/2012 anyways. By that time, game prices will jump up to $69.99 and this will look like a deal.

 

[Kagami]

I think the better question is, how high would Diablo III have to be priced to make you not buy it?

I think I'd start hesitating at around $1000.

 

[Frank "Trashman" Reynolds]

I think the better question is, how high would Diablo III have to be priced to make you not buy it?

I think I'd start hesitating at around $1000.

I think I could resist Diablo 3 if it was only a dollar. Never got the appeal of the series. The core gameplay is so boring =/

 

[Fallout-NL]

I think the better question is, how high would Diablo III have to be priced to make you not buy it?

I think I'd start hesitating at around $1000.

This is true, I hope they never find out.

 

[mavs]

I don't doubt that you paid $50 for it, but the MSRP for Warcraft III was $59.99. That news article on Gamespot is from NPD sales figures, which only accounts for the US.

Anyway, I found my War3 box:

http://i46.tinypic.com/raxog7.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

Wasn't LOD also priced really high? Either the same or more than DII itself at release, which I thought was highway robbery for an expansion.

I paid it anyway. Obviously.

 

[Brazil]

I think I could resist Diablo 3 if it was only a dollar. Never got the appeal of the series. The core gameplay is so boring =/

You know, there's no reason for you to be in this thread if that's what you have to say.

 

[Frank "Trashman" Reynolds]

You know, there's no reason for you to be in this thread if that's what you have to say.

I was under the impression this thread was created to discuss the premium price of the game, and not just a Diablo 3 circle jerk fest. Sorry that my opinion of the series differs from yours.

Don't get this hive mentality. Discussion is pointless if you require everyone to think alike to allow participation.

 

[FoxSpirit]

I wouldn't give this much credibility guys. It is way too early to start putting a price on Diablo 3. It won't even be out on 2010.

Wait and see what Starcraft 2 costs and use that to determine Diablo 3's cost.

I just got a preorder offer from Amazon UK. 30 pounds, that's just slightly above 45 dollars. Much hyperbole for inflated pricing?

 

[Metal Gear?!]

Better than the Starcraft deal.

You don't think Starcraft 2 will be MSRP $59.99 too?

No, WCIII was $49.99. I know this because I bought a Night Elf game box and an Undead strat guide knowing that the instruction booklet was Human.

The hell it was.

Nope, definitely $60 MSRP as the picture above proves. However retailers fought over the price and many stores had it for the standard $50, so perhaps it you could say it didn't work.

There was a discussion on the PC Gamer podcast about publishers wanting to raise PC game prices to $59.99, as this would make them more apt to create a pc version of a game. Since they take home a lot more profit on a pc game versus a console game, the extra 10 dollars goes a long way. At this point I'm actually fine with $59.99 PC games, as long as they are high quality and the best version of a game available as they should be. And not with oppressive drm like in Ass Creed 2.

Yessssss a good way to fight piracy is to raise prices above the norm. DO IT. PULL THE TRIGGER ON YOUR OWN DEMISE.

I loved it how people were all "RAAAAAGE" with MW2 about the same issue

but now that it is blizzard?
"no problem guys, here have 20$ extra, kotic I am your bitch use me in any way you like"

Well...

1) Blizzard did this once before
2) Blizzard still retains a lot more goodwill than IW since
3) Blizzard didn't intentionally cripple their own game at the same time they raised the price

 

[Minsc]

You don't think Starcraft 2 will be MSRP $59.99 too?

It's either a joke or he's one of the people who think Starcraft costs $180 because 3 campaigns are needed to make a full game (despite the fact the each campaign is as long as all three combined from the original with more lore to boot, and introduces permanent RPG-like unit/structure upgrades, as well as containing a protoss mini-campaign).

 

[Metal Gear?!]

It's either a joke or he's one of the people who think Starcraft costs $180 because 3 campaigns are needed to make a full game (despite the fact the each campaign is as long as all three combined from the original with more lore to boot, and introduces permanent RPG-like unit/structure upgrades, as well as containing a protoss mini-campaign).

I'd say it's highly likely it will be 60-30-30