Perturabo
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ORIGINAL: apathetic lurker quote:
ORIGINAL: Perturabo To be honest, I'm always perplexed when I see westerners complaining about prices like 40GBP or 50$. It's less than 7 hours of minimal wage work for tens or in case of wargames hundreds of hours of fun. Or maybe my countrymen just have insane spending habits with buying new AAA games for about 100-120PLN (30-40USD) each (15,5-18,5 minimal hourly wages). Well, The most expensive title I saw at Empik this summer was for 99PLN for IL-2 Wings of Dover. Everything else seemed to hover in the 50-60PLN range with the cheap titles hitting 20-40PLN range...... I checked the Empik page before posting this and it's 99-120PLN for new titles. The 50-70PLN range is older games in GOTY edition and 20-40PLN range is very old games. The prices for new games are a bit smaller in $/Euro than the western editions but it's still like paying 99-120$/Euro for a new game, taking in account minimal wages and like paying 50-70$/Euro for GoTY games and 20-40$/Euro for very old games. quote:
ORIGINAL: wodin quote:
ORIGINAL: Perturabo To be honest, I'm always perplexed when I see westerners complaining about prices like 40GBP or 50$. It's less than 7 hours of minimal wage work for tens or in case of wargames hundreds of hours of fun. Or maybe my countrymen just have insane spending habits with buying new AAA games for about 100-120PLN (30-40USD) each (15,5-18,5 minimal hourly wages). Well £40 is more like $65. Also in the UK we are taxed beyond belief our fuel bills are sky high as is petrol so we are left with very little at the end of the day especially if you have kids to look after, which I presume you don't. If not just wait and see. It's the same in Poland. Actually from what my uncle which lives in London tells me, the taxes (especially the social security tax) are even higher in Poland. Except that our work is somehow counted as worth 4.5 times less than in UK, so we're left with even less. As for the prices in GBP and USD, I was talking about general amounts of money, not, about a price of a specific game. As for situational stuff. Right now I have to pay for my studies and I don't have any money left for games, movies, books, etc. Like in 0PLN per month. Technically, when it comes to entertainment in itself it isn't a problem as there are several well stocked libraries in my city and I can legally download movies, music and books and I'm stocked up with tens of older games, but it obviously isn't the same as the real thing. It doesn't give that driving force to work that the ability to buy something gives. It's just working to work some more. So, I guess it would probably be insane spending habits here, then? quote:
ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd DLCs are alright as long as they have not taken away from the main game and as long as they're priced right. If the content isn't what I want, then I'll leave it (sprite packs for HoI). If it's too pricey, I'll leave it (FPS DLC packs at over £10 for a few online maps) What I dislike more is standard game on sale and deluxe games. I didn't mind deluxe games when the purchaser got certain external things (figure, t-shirt or whatever), but getting equipment in game up front that other people either won't get or have to work through levels to get - I don't like those deluxe versions! I have more problems with the concept of grinding for exp and equipment itself than with people bypassing it by buying equipment. Imagine a wargame where you have to grind for a Tiger or for M1 Abrams or for a squad of Marines.
< Message edited by Perturabo -- 10/12/2011 12:58:56 PM >
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