I rarely buy new games. Only games I will buy if it is a part of a series that I love, like Halo and Elder Scrolls.

So it wouldn't effect me too much, I guess I can say.

I rarely buy games when they're new releases anymore unless I really want a collector edition or something (rare). I usually wait until the price goes down, there's a Steam sale, I can get a good price on eBay, I get get a good price on a Steam activation key from a 3rd-party, etc. I can usually wait and get games for $5 - $30 USD, and I usually have so many games that I don't have much time to play that I don't really need any new games.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/10/an-inconvenient-truth-game-prices-have-come-down-with-time.ars

edit: http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Launch_price?image=Launch_prices-png, too. Adjusted for to 2006 dollars, the Atari 2600 cost around $650.
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As for being anti used-sales..... even as someone who's taken advantage of used sales, I'm not surprised that the companies are going that route. Given the profits that Gamestop keeps gouging out of their IP, without giving them a cut, it's completely understandable that they want to put the brakes on it. If I was in their shoes, I'd be tired of someone else raking in massive profits off my work, too.

(Also, based on the articles I've read, most of the "anti used game" stuff comes down to just making this "online pass" thing centralized, so that every publisher doesn't have to come up with their own system, and it can all just be centrally managed by the console networks. Even if Sony & MS didn't do build it into the systems, you don't imagine that every single big-publisher game would have some sort of online pass mechanism within the next couple years?)

I will just wait for the Greatest Hits on PS3, and PC and 360.

How can anyone say 70$ and increasing is a good price? Imagine in the future game's costing 100$-120$ .. you think that's a reasonable price?

Reasonable my butt !!

I barely play video games as it is. I might buy one or two new games a year. An extra 10 dollars per won't really hurt me, but I'm also not a gamer. I guess if I was one of those people who's life pretty much revolved around video games, I'd be pretty asshurt about it, since some of those types that I've been exposed to buy like 4 or 5 new games a month.

Also, what's this BS about "used game protection" on the new consoles?

Should the $70 price tag produce sales that keep the companies content, we'll only have ourselves to blame.
If your life can revolve around video games you're not representative of the general gamer population.

Yup buying a 20 year old NES or Sega game, or a ps2 game on an obsolete system not even being manufactured anymore is really hurting the game companies.

Heck once the game developer stops manufationg and selling the game at that point no one what so ever should have a problem with buying and trading it, I mean where else you gonna get the game? Im mainly talking about console games of coarse.

I'm pretty poor so I won't be getting any next gen titles or systems.

To be honest, this doesn't bother me much. I've had a laptop for as long as I've been using computers, and I'll be using laptops in the foreseeable future, so I won't be able to play games within a few years of their release either. I'm still waiting for my next laptop so that I can play Crysis.

Advancements in hardware and software have not exactly proceeded along a smooth curve over the past few years. There are plenty of more recent games that are much better optimized than Crysis to run on weaker graphics cards.

There are not a lot of laptops that can run Crysis at 1080p, but there are many that can run more recent games like Skyrim, ME3, etc.

I'll pay $100 for PS4 games with it's epic rumored specs.

Specs mean nothing unless the games are good.

It's quite rare that I spend over $20 on a game, so I really couldn't care less what they set the initial prices at. They'll eventually drop the prices to a range that I find acceptable if they want my business. And considering the massive backlog I have, the huge number of titles available that I can already buy for incredibly cheap prices, and my large collection of games that's always begging to be re-played, I feel pretty comfortable stating that I'm not the one who's going to blink when it comes to game prices.

I'm already only spending money on gaming "must-haves" and that's it. If the price goes up, that list just gets smaller. I give myself a limit on how much I can spend on games a year (I just find it's easier to keep track of this way ), and just don't go over that.

This year, the list is almost non-existant. Halo 4 (either the console bundle, or the Legendary Edition) and maybe the new AC game. I know since my X-Box is still fine, that it's really just a waste of money...but I figure as long as I'm still under-budget, it doesn't matter. Gaming money went to something gaming related. Good enough for me.

I'll pay whatever Bethesda wants me too.

I don't pay full price for new games now, I just wait for a Steam sale or preorder if it's cheaper, $60 for a game is dumb, $70 is absurd.

I just usually wait until steam inneventably has it on sale or a special going.


The majority of my gaming time is spent on MMORPGs though. Most only are $15 a month. I usually only buy a single person title if its something I've been looking for. TES, Battlefield, etc. These people don't come out with games every few months so its not like I'm buying a new game every few weeks.

Yeah, that's not really the "used game sales" that they're trying to stop. More the "buy back last week's $60 release for $20-30, sell it for $55, PROFIT!" thing.

This.

Most games you can find used the day after they released. I remember I saw 5 used MW3 copies at my local gamestop two days after it was released.

I don't really condone buying used games, with one exception. If you find an awesome game used that isn't in production anymore, snatch it up.

I mainly game on the PC (have a 360 for when friends come over) so I don't really have the option.

People don't really care as long they can save $5

Even if that's not the kind of used sales they're trying to stop, that's still a result.

If an NES game had some sort of telephone activation system to unlock the game (since there wasn't the means to do it by internet), what do you think would happen to the used games sold years after they stopped providing the activation service? I can see the same type of thing happening in the future with Steam-exclusive games, and games for these new consoles.

I had to bold that for emphasis, because I 100% completely agree and am in the same boat. I have at least 35 games in my backlog, some STILL SHRINK-WRAPPED, that I need to get around to playing, and this stands a good chance as being the catalyst that finally causes me to get around to playing them all. Not to mention there are at least another 30-40 older games I'd like to buy, and are infinitely cheaper then paying $70 a pop. So, yeah, game companies don't want to get into a staring contest with people like us, because it'll be a good 2-3 years before we finally blink.

What it boils down too is these developers and publishers are not living in the real world. They have 6 figure jobs and they have no idea what its like to robb peter to pay paul. When familes are sitting there and looking at the bank account. And they say geee "Put gas in the car and food on the table". Or get that new $70 game and skimp on gas or food. The video game is going to loose every time. Times are tough right now and the developers and publishers are about to find out how tough!

Greg

yet they likely still wont see for what it is, just for what they want it to be

"they're not buying our new games they must be buying the *gasp* old games! Why are customers so mean to us?"

If games go up to $70 next gen then I'll be replaying a lot of games from this generation.