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Subject: Halo 3:ODST = Too expensive?

Make me a sammich!

Do us all a favor and SHUT UP
Because we all know you are going to buy it anyways
So to ALL you price gouging -blam!- out there.......
SHUT THE F**K UP

  • 08.22.2009 9:26 AM PDT
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  • 08.22.2009 9:31 AM PDT
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It's well priced.

You get a new campaign that's free-roam and unlimited hours of social fun with friends..[Fun!]

5 Firefight maps [More Fun!]

Firefight [Super Fun!]

Halo: Reach Beta [It's getting hot in here [read it like the song goes]

Halo 3 maps [The Fun we had for 2 years!]

etc. . .


[Edited on 08.22.2009 9:32 AM PDT]

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I'm just going to say this to appease whatever ninja comes in here and says the same thing:

Keep the discussion down to the one thread about ODST's price. `
(Which is strangely no longer on the Top Forum Topics)

  • 08.22.2009 9:39 AM PDT

don't you mean £35 pre-ordered off GAME?

nice economy by the way lol

  • 08.22.2009 10:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: Fang32
Does anyone agree with me that the initial price of Halo 3: ODST, which is is $60 is a bit too expensive for what were getting. It seems to me that all Halo 3: ODST is another copy of Halo 3, the new campaign, firefight mode, and 3 new maps. That's great and all but I already have Halo 3 and I do't really need another copy, especially for 60 bucks.
The halo multiplay is a already extra peice buy standars the campaighn and firefight is standard for 60 dollers

  • 08.22.2009 10:33 AM PDT

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You guys need to stop breaking it up the price into parts and start measuring it as a whole package. The game is using an old probably updated engine for Campaign. The multiplayer is 2 years old with 3 new maps. You get firefight and a small campaign. If you look closely, you see will it is over priced.

[Edited on 08.22.2009 10:38 AM PDT]

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Posted by: Arbiduck
OP=Retard?

Yup, he sure is.

For the last goddamned time, THE PRICE IS JUSTIFIED!

Enough of this crap!

  • 08.22.2009 10:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: MA5C 7RUTH
Please complain in one of the various forums already created talking about this exact subject. Bungie bestowed upon us the Search Bar for this very reason.

As for my thoughts on the subject: I believe it is a personal choice. I do NOT think the price is too much.


50 Euros is a nice price for a whole new campaign, Firefight mode and 3 new maps. If you don't like it then stop complaining and don't buy it.

  • 08.22.2009 10:53 AM PDT

Posted by: HaloReach Tester
It's well priced.

You get a new campaign that's free-roam and unlimited hours of social fun with friends..[Fun!]

5 Firefight maps [More Fun!]

Firefight [Super Fun!]

Halo: Reach Beta [It's getting hot in here [read it like the song goes]

Halo 3 maps [The Fun we had for 2 years!]

etc. . .


yep well said
Halo 3 odst is well worth 60

Its 8 firefight maps , not 5

  • 08.22.2009 10:53 AM PDT

Posted by: Irr3l3vant
It's on a lot of community maps. Affinity, Think Twice, Abridged...

Posted by: dfisch5
I meant good maps

Posted by: masterchief200
You guys need to stop breaking it up the price into parts and start measuring it as a whole package. The game is using an old probably updated engine for Campaign. The multiplayer is 2 years old with 3 new maps. You get firefight and a small campaign. If you look closely, you see will it is over priced.

The campaign is not small in any way. Bungie confirmed it to be around the length of Halo 2/3, and you also can just roam around the city to make it about 20+hours of gameplay. So seriously stop complaining about the price of this game and just don't buy it. And just because Halo 3's multiplayer is 2 years old doesn't make it bad. Millions of people still play it today, and it has been the number one game for a few weeks since the mythic maps part 1 came out.

  • 08.22.2009 10:54 AM PDT

Posted by: Irr3l3vant
It's on a lot of community maps. Affinity, Think Twice, Abridged...

Posted by: dfisch5
I meant good maps

Posted by: TWOMEY1993
Posted by: HaloReach Tester
It's well priced.

You get a new campaign that's free-roam and unlimited hours of social fun with friends..[Fun!]

5 Firefight maps [More Fun!]

Firefight [Super Fun!]

Halo: Reach Beta [It's getting hot in here [read it like the song goes]

Halo 3 maps [The Fun we had for 2 years!]

etc. . .


yep well said
Halo 3 odst is well worth 60

Its 8 firefight maps , not 5

Sorry for the double post, but OXM and IGN confirmed 10 maps for firefight, not 8 or 5.

  • 08.22.2009 10:55 AM PDT

No, its is a whole new game, with extras, I think $60 is just fair.

  • 08.22.2009 10:56 AM PDT

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First:

The campaign alone makes ODST worth $60. everything else is simply bonus material that makes the game more attractive

just an FYI it isn't a 5 hour campaign any more. as they said 1 hour per mission and about half an hour between each mission to reach the different way points(Joe Staten said this in the play through of the first mission, it's why he used that teleport 'cheat')

**also i did not include the time it would take to get the audio logs etc as this is extra content not critical to the story. this is a bare minimum calculation**

Now lets do some fairly simple math.

-There are 6 missions if the leaked achievements are to be believed.
-That means 6 one hour missions.
-6 x 1 = 6
-That means there is 6 hours in missions alone. Lets store that number away in our head and -move to the next part of our game length calculations.


-if there are 6 missions that means you need to travel to all 6, Correct? that means there are 6 times you need to travel to a new location, (travel to point one, travel to point 2, travel to point 3, travel, to point 4, travel to point 5, and travel to point 6. That's Six travel times)
-now we were told in the mission walk through by Jo Staten that it's about half an hour to walk to a target point when he used his teleport cheat.
-6Travel times of half an hour each
-6 x 0.5 = 3
-this means that that there is about 3 hours of just running to your objectives alone.
-now to move to the final part of our calculations here


-taking that first number we got from the beginning of ODST's development and the leaked achievements and adding them to the travel time result we get:
-6 hours of missions plus the 3 hours of travel time
-6 + 3 = 9
-This means there is about 9 hours of campaign.

Also note this calculation does not include the "final mission" Bungie has alluded to as it has not been directly confirmed to my knowledge.


This number of 9 hours of campaign is the equivalent of an average FULL game these days.
this with alone by game marketing standards warrants a $60 price tag.

The things people argue that you need for a full price game, often are not included in a campaign oriented game.

A full price title does not need:
-Match Making
-Multiplayer of any form(such as co-op/ split screen)
-a second game mode
Please note that with these features included in a large title often increases the price of the game by $10

A full game must include
-A single player campaign totalling a minimum of 6 hour average playtime OR a fully Multiplayer game(unknown standard)
-1000GS (Xbox 360)


Now ODST fits the Retail Requirements of a full game:
-9+hour campaign(larger than 6 hours)
-1000 independent GS(not related to Halo 3 GS in any way there is 750 GS also available on the Halo 3 multiplayer)
This here in the marketing world Labels ODST as a Full Retail game and is being Priced at $60 like any other full retail game.


As well ODST has:
-A second game mode
-Multiplayer Co-op
Please note that with these features included in a large title often increases the price of the game by $10. In ODST it does not.


So in the end is ODST worth $60?
-By marketing standards YES
-By your standards? Read the above and answer your self reasonably and truthfully. Then ask if it is just your disappointment in it now fitting the above requirements and hence being more expensive than you planned, or are you truly being ripped off? again answer yourself tuthfully.





Second

Video Interview with ODST's Producer

at 3:40 bungie confirms ODST to be a full length game, with a campaign just as long as ANY OTHER GAME

  • 08.22.2009 10:58 AM PDT

With this shield or on it.

um let me think about it... no not everyone is poor you know

  • 08.22.2009 11:05 AM PDT

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