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Article #721048Re: Games Reviewers Not Doing The Job Properly
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:32
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:32
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:10:08 +1200, Peter Huebner <p.w.h...@gmail.com> wrote: >In article <hjsoqa5o7empcpkfa...@4ax.com>, >rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com says... >> >> On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:55:05 -0400, Rin Stowleigh >> <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote: >[snip] >> Just a side note. It's kind of funny to see a $40 price tag on an >> Apple wargame in 1981. And people bitch about $50-60 in 2015 :) >> >> From the October 1990 issue: >> >> "The IBM version of Red Baron will be released in October >> ($59.95). An Amiga version is planned but no release date has been >> announced." >> >> Holy shit they were ahead of their time. They predicted the base >> price of a AAA title 2.5 decades later ;) > > >Well back in the day we were gouged $150 for a game, here in NZ. >That's more or less what I paid for MOO1 and the like. > >One reason I ended up getting a credit card and buying overseas ... >and why a lot of people resorted to piracy. It works both ways. There was a time when I was working in game development, so I witnessed first hand the need for high price points to justify the cost of and still try to squeek out a profit when the number of pirated copies in use were going to dwarf the legimately purchased copies by 10:1. Once people got modems and the BBS scene emerged, getting folks to legitimately purchase a game at any price point was difficult. Then we had the fact that the total potential audience was somewhat limited -- a lot of people still did not even own a personal computer back then, much less game on them. >Digital distribution has levelled the playing field in that respect, at >least for games and ebooks. It has helped a great deal. Not only has it reduced publishing and distribution costs, but the audience of PC gamers is much larger now than it used to be, so games can be sold at a lower price point and still earn enough money to be worthwhile.
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