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ORIGINAL: bretg80
Swept under the carpet. No problem. The message is out there.
Hardly swept under the carpet. If they would have deleted it then maybe I'd agree.
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ORIGINAL: Panman
Come on guys ... this is hardly that much more expensive than a current AAA console titles. And how much play time do you get from your average AAA title? It's no more expensive than the other Matrix premium titles and has the potential to create a lot of additional FREE content by the community that the others don't provide.
It's 150% the price of a current AAA title (in Canada). Higher, if the title you're comparing it to is 6 months or older (outside of the AAA+ titles, which take about a year).
At $90 I'm not looking at the playtime from an average AAA title, I'm looking at AAA+ titles. My current daily game is Skyrim. Purchased for $20, all DLC added on for an additional $25 (God bless Gamer's Gate and Steam sales), 265 hours so far, 15 cents an hours. And I'm far from done, and I am far from the only person to have spent this much time.
For Command to give similar value at its current price it would have to deliver 530+ hours of gameplay. And I think outside of a 1-2% of diehards, no one else who purchases it will come close to that.
It is the most expensive title in the Matrix catalogue, so you're technically correct when you say it is no more expensive than any other.
God bless the community who will provide the free content. But I hardly think this is a reason to jack the price up. Plenty of other products out there have modding and extra scenarios (some even being "niche wargames"), and none of them are priced close to this.
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ORIGINAL: Panman
No one is making you purchase anything. You can turn around and just walk out of the store ... or do you prefer to stand in the middle of the store and shout about it?
But what if I want to buy a decent TV? Or an inexpensive TV? Or (sharp intake of breath at my cheekiness) both?
And what if I like the look of the Matrix TV, but am still sane enough to realize that those who pay $1000 have money to burn, or a fervent loyalty that sways common sense? (I suspect Matrix relies on this for their business model.) 5 years ago I could go to stores where Matrix TVs were $800, $600, $500...but Matrix has withdrawn their products from those stores.
And what if we go beyond me, and look at the chap buying his first ever TV? He loves the look of the Matrix one, but think it's insane to pay the price being asked, especially when the salesman won't even turn it on so he can view it before purchasing.
So he walks out of the store, never to consider Matrix as a potential purchase ever again.
I want a BMW, Lexus, and a Jaguar ... a walk past those dealerships as a potential customer ... never to consider a purchase again and I doubt they even care I walk past.
WitP, WitE, and I am assuming WitW are also at the same price. This title is in good company and provides MORE potential content. Again, a greater value in my eyes and I own those other titles as well. The amount of research that goes into the database is worth the value alone.
If you want to buy a decent TV and an inexpensive one, then save up your money and do so. Why should the manufacturer lower their prices just so you could have both?
Do you think the Ferrari dealer is going to give that chap a test drive if he doesn't think he can afford the car? Sorry, I don't buy the demo excuse. There are plenty of videos demonstrating game play, the reviews are coming out, and the boards are a good indication of the issues.
As a consumer you get to decide if it's worth the cost or not. You can shout and post about it until you are blue in the face but in the end, it's the sales that speak louder than anything.
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