Games: Too Expensive or not...?

I've yet to encounter a game that costs more than 60.

 

Each new generation in console makes the games cost £10 more in my country so I just wait and see if my friends play it or what the reviews are.
I also moved over to PC because it's way easier to use and is like a third of the cost of a console game. Plus I can do things in the background.
I also just play a game for ages (like weeks) until I get bored and either go back to an old game or just get a new game.

 

Games tend to be more expensive in some countries. I think Australia is the worst.

Anyways, when it comes to PC games, most games, even new ones, can be found really cheap if you know where to look. I bought Evolve and GTAV new for about 40USD by buying it from the right site at the right time and both of these were pre-purchases. I also know you can do some VPN magic with some services, like Origin, to set your location to a country with lower prices, like Mexico. I know you could buy Dragon Age: Inquisition that way for around 30USD.

Really, video games are only expensive in places where they think they can get away with it. Go for the smaller dedicated distributors instead.

It's more difficult with console games, because there's a lot more control involved here. You can only find digital copies on the console's own digital store and they charge a lot on there.

 

A Brazilian friend tells me that a large reason to that is because piracy is so ridiculously rampant in Brazil that game companies need to overcharge something ridiculous just to break even.

 

The way I see it is, a game's not worth my time unless the number of hours I'll end up playing it exceeds the number of dollars I spend on it.

 

It's sort of a case of quantity over quality, but...

https://www.humblebundle.com/

 

Eighty bucks for a game is ridiculous. But I still but them.

I don't really have the money, so I wait, not because I want to, but because I have to.

 

Yeah, Brazil sure isn't a place to be a gamer. I think your best bet if you're Brazilian is to get a PC, use only digital distributors and use VPN tricks to change your location, because I know at least Steam will raise prices in Brazil or outright not sell them there.

For the rest of you, I recommend Green Man Gaming. They're cheaper than Steam and if you shop there for a bit and register, they start sending you a bunch of vouchers that shave the prices off even more. To top it off, they make Steam sales look like daylight robbery. At one point at a GMG sale, I bought a pack that included every single X-COM game for ten dollars. We're talking the whole package here; the classic X-COM games, X-COM: Enemy Unknown along with its expansion Enemy Within and X-COM: The Bureau. For ten bucks.

 

Or most of Europe.

 

in syria all games are sold with 1$ or 2$ as they are all copies of cracked games with different cracks and keygens
though still some stores sell the games that can be cracked but cant access the online gameplay and they like pay 10$ or 25$ for any new game that is original not cracked and new so you can play it online without problems
though thats for the pc
xpox 360 games are the cheapest here 0.5$ is the price of any any game whatever its and any xpox 360 is cracked to be played online with any game and disable any connection with microsoft so your profile wont get banned
ps2 games are even cheaper and also every ps2 that is sold is modded also
ps3 somewhat the same but hard to mod as i heard so not all ps3 are modded you have to ask him to mod it for you if its not as for games of ps3 the highest they can go up to is like 7$ or so because its blu-ray
btw we dont sell with dollars but i converted the S.P to $

 

our government doesn't recognize the rights of video games or programs or even windows any copied game windows or program can be sold or bought or whatever no one cares
thats like one of my few reasons why i love my country !

 

They really are, especially for the newer consoles (PS4 & Xboxone)... Most new games cost like £50 which is way too much. I remember when I was younger and new games used to cost like £25 on the PS2 lol... Even the consoles themselves cost way too much. I think it's like £320 for a PS4, when I first got a PS2 it was like £200 and my mum was like that is too much, so I would like to see what she would say if I was to ask her to buy me a PS4 lol.

 

Steam summer sale is coming up...AAA games for $5 to $10, cheap DLCs, lots of indies on sale. The only two games I bought for full price at launch over the past year or so were Dragon Age Inquisition and South Park.