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Still not as expensive as the inFAMOUS copy selling for 74 euros at a store where I live... | |
...money grabbing arse hats. i am boycotting the hell out of this. | |
The price will drop if sales are bad, and they'll stay up if people feel the game is worth it. Thus is the nature of things. | |
$60? But that's tiny! Oh wait, you guys are American. Oh well, I suppose I'll have to make do with my $120 price tag. | |
pffft....And I said I wouldn't even buy it at $30. Edit: And can they reason Halo 3: ODST is worth just as much as Halo 3? This is crazy. | |
Woo! Halo:ODST Boycott! Quick, start a group at the Xbox forums or something, we've got a manifesto to write! | |
Nobody is forcing you to buy it. If you've played Halo: CE then you've played ODST. | |
Really? I had no idea. I was never really interested in this, I figured I would just get it since it was probably going to be faitly cheap anyway. Now, I probably won't get it. | |
But does Halo 3: ODST have Yahtzee saying its a great game? I'm kidding. That sounds pretty unfair, you might want to check another store - might just be a problem on their end. | |
I believe it's fixed. | |
Gah. To be fair, that wasn't really a grammar mistake, I just kept the wrong word after I changed the sentence. So it was just negligence. MY GRAMMER ARE FLAWELESS. | |
Spelling Nazi awaaaaaay! | |
Eh, I'll buy the collector's edition probably, if only because I need another controller. | |
Who knows. He might end up liking it!(not a chance.) And yes its the store problem. Which happens to be right now the only store in town. There was a old store that sold geek stuff but it close down. I had customer privalages and everything! | |
Well it hasn't come out yet so it might be a good game! ....I'm sorry, even I thought that was bad. | |
I'll have to wait a bit before playing it, then. | |
All right, all in favor of blowing up Bungie's money-grubbing asses, say "aye." | |
So you get a shorter campaign and a recycled multiplayer mode for 60 bucks? Yeah, I think I'll stick with the halo 3 regular. | |
I'll save my money up so I can afford "Half Life Forever" when it comes out. | |
Why don't you just use Amazon? | |
I probably will. But when I buy my PS3 sometime betewen today and christmas, inFAMOUS is not one of those games that I will buy right away. Uncharted, LittleBig Planet, Batman:Arkham Asylum, Brutal Legend and MSG4(. Which by now are pretty cheap apart from batman and Brutal Legend which aren't still relesead). My buyers list doesn't only resolve around games, I also have books to buy! | |
I don't really see a need to charge a full amount. It is an expansion pack for all intents and purposes. I'll try it, but I'm not gonna buy it till the price drops. And if that means waiting a while, I will. It's just a cash cow. | |
Tell me about it. For all their complaining, $60 USD = $74 AUD. They complain about paying significantly less than two-thirds of what a full-price game costs here. And what reason do they give? "It's a small market" or "Localisation costs". Oh yeah, it's so hard to translate a game from English into English (and they never bother to make it UK English) or to ship games to a nation of 20 million people. It's shameless price-gouging. | |
Yeah, you guys have it rough. Still, this the cost of a whole game for an expansion pack. The actual number price is irrelevant; the fact that it costs double what it should is. | |
Maybe it is worth the price increase. We won't know until the game is actually released. | |
Lol hell no i'm not buying this! The d*cks at bungie still haven't made the legendry maps free [i] a year after they have dropped[/I] and I mistakenly bought the mythic maps thinking they would become so. No more money for you, Bungie! | |
HL2:ep2 had a campaign, so did HL2:ep1 and they were expansions of sorts, they didn't cost 60$. | |
Microsoft and Bungie know that people will buy any FPS with the Halo brand name slapped on it and will pay full price for it. So they are going to do that because they are a business and just want to make money, not quality or fair priced titles. | |
as long as its longer then halo 3 we wont have a problem | |
I've noticed a strange trend. Collector edition games keep rising in prices, with the occasional skyrocket, like Gears of War 2, with it's replica Lancer. Now, I'm all for getting collector editions, I have several myself, but I see them keep going up and up and up... all I say is it better be worth the price. | |
Halo 3 was your typical FPS... Certainly not bad, but not great either. I would not have bought that for $60. Now an expansion pack is asking the same amount as the original game? No thanks :P | |
People paid for more older games.. StarFox 64 was way more expensive,yet people still paid for it. | |
YES. IT IS FLAWLESS. Besides, dont try correct him, where would we be without Keane? he brings us THE NEWS so we can get angry as THE NEWS is usually developers doing evil things becuase this is THE NEWS to only gamers and this site is packed with gamers who want THE NEWS. Sorry, I wanted an excuse to type in caps. Edit: On topic, I am going to buy this. I enjoyed the flexibility of the Halo 3 multiplayer. | |
I was going to buy this game! I thought it was $30-$40! Bullshit! | |
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Microsoft Defends Halo 3: ODST Pricing
The increasingly ambitious scope of Halo 3: ODST explains the dramatic increase in the asking price for the game, which was once described as an "expansion pack" but will carry a $60 price tag like a full retail game, Microsoft says.
"We do not view this as a $60 title," Bungie's Joe Staten declared after the announcement of Halo 3: ODST (then Halo Recon), which was being pitched as an expansion pack of sorts for Halo 3. Apparently times change, and so do price tags. Halo 3: ODST, as was revealed last week, will run for that exact amount - $60, just like a full-fledged game.
So what's with the price hike? Are Bungie and Microsoft hurting for cash these days just like the rest of us? "At the time of those statements, the overall scope of Halo 3: ODST was not yet finalized, and since then the project has grown increasingly more ambitious," a Microsoft rep told Joystiq. "We believe this standalone experience is much more than just an expansion. Halo 3: ODST provides a new campaign from the point of view of an entirely new character."
Microsoft also reminded us that ODST also comes with three new multiplayer maps, a new co-op mode and the "complete Halo 3 multiplayer collection," thus making it a "good value and tremendous addition to the Halo franchise." It does sound a bit like a whole lot of disparate parts attached to one relatively weighty campaign and slapped with a full retail price tag.
Based on Bungie's demo of ODST's campaign at E3, I don't doubt that it'll probably be a high-quality Halo 3 experience, but I'd have to know more to judge if it'll be worth it. Hardcore fans would probably buy this if it cost $100, and they can - ODST will ship in a collector's edition that will run you a single Benjamin.
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