- RighteousTyrant
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Hi I'm RT and I like to argue!
Posted by: SovietPrimeMin
Being an accountant by trade, watching all of you come up with different ways to justify or argue against the stated price is quite amusing to me. :-)
Yes you're right. We're not taking in account the cost to make and ship the game. We're ignoring the advertising cost. We don't even know how much of the games price will go to bungie, and whether they'll get ANY profit from it!
We're talking about this from a gamers perspective, whether or not we feel that this is worth 60-140 dollars, whether or not if we bought this, we would FEEL that we got our moneys worth.
True, from your point of view, we're going at this from a completely idiotic perspective.
But from Bungie's POV, the perspective of the billions of people who will -blam!- pillage and murder in the malls and game stores to get their hands on a box of ODST hawtness is the only thing that matters.Haha, I wasn't even thinking of it like that. That'd be foolish, anyway, from where we sit, since we have no idea what they're spending to develop, market, produce, and ship the game.
What I meant was the people clamoring back and forth, "for $60 you get maps, campaign, firefight, beta" "no you don't count the beta, those are free" "but it still has value" etc. It's just funny.
As far as a purchasing decision goes, whether or not you think it's worth it is the only way to go. But, "you" is the key word there -- it's a very subjective thing. Hence the bickering, hence my amusement.
It's also terribly disappointing how many people haven't yet learned that the dollar sign goes before the number. *sigh*
[Edited on 06.02.2009 9:37 AM PDT]