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Subject: H3: ODST still gonna be a rip off when Reach beta comes out?

Poll: H3: ODST still gonna be a rip off when Reach beta comes out?  [closed]
Yes, still going to be a rip off:  12%
(8 Votes)
No, not going to be a rip off, but it was b4:  9%
(6 Votes)
I never thought it was a rip off:  79%
(54 Votes)
Total Votes: 68

So many people think ODST is a rip off. Now i do believe that it should have been less than $60, but dont complain. We canadians had to pay $70, but w.e. The thing is, are you going to think Halo 3: ODST is still going to be a rip off when the Halo Reach beta comes out?
Vote on the poll and comment on your thoughts plz

BTW, does anyone know if firefight is going to be in Halo Reach?

  • 01.22.2010 9:01 PM PDT

And my army of brothers went over the hilltops, drenched in blood we may be.... but fighting is all left to me....together with my army of brothers...down we fall....darkness in all..through hell...

If it weren't for the beta I probably wouldn't have bought the game, only rented it.

  • 01.22.2010 9:11 PM PDT

Its the hardship and tales of self sacrifice in life that makes us stronger people or, of course, an Overshield and freshly spawned Spartan Laser.

I didnt think it was a rip off. lol.

  • 01.22.2010 9:30 PM PDT
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i dont think its a rip off now a great campaign albiet alittle short, great achivements, recon(bleh) and Nathan Fillion!

  • 01.22.2010 10:05 PM PDT

Posted by: camnator
A beta does not effect the value of a purchase, especially considering it's only a couple weeks in length. Most people are paid to play a beta, so you could actually twist that arguement around and claim it's MORE of a rip off after the beta.


How does an added feature in a game not affect the price of the game?

  • 01.22.2010 10:07 PM PDT

Posted by: CrazyJediMaster
Posted by: camnator
A beta does not effect the value of a purchase, especially considering it's only a couple weeks in length. Most people are paid to play a beta, so you could actually twist that arguement around and claim it's MORE of a rip off after the beta.


How does an added feature in a game not affect the price of the game?
Should Crackdown have cost more than retail, then?

  • 01.22.2010 10:21 PM PDT

The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's to late to stop reading it.

It's a rent and will always be a rent.

You can finish the game in like 5 hours.

We know little about the BETA.I pretty sure a good chunk of people bought the game for the BETA and maps,even though we don't know what the BETA is going to be like.

So I don't know.No matter what I'm still not buying the game.

  • 01.22.2010 10:26 PM PDT

Posted by: camnator
Posted by: CrazyJediMaster
Posted by: camnator
A beta does not effect the value of a purchase, especially considering it's only a couple weeks in length. Most people are paid to play a beta, so you could actually twist that arguement around and claim it's MORE of a rip off after the beta.


How does an added feature in a game not affect the price of the game?


A beta is a test, people make careers out of testing games, it helps find early bugs and glitches to solve, it's a simple gimic and does not increase the value.


Yup a select few people do, but know we have the opportunity to get early access to portions of a new game. It is an additional feature and adds to the total value of the game. People make their lives playing video games, does that mean that any video game doesn't have value because a portion of the population make money doing it.

And to the crackdown bit, did more people not buy the game because it had the Halo 3 beta, because if so that added more value to that game and it sold better because of it. Crackdown, in my opinion, wasn't that great of a game but the I would have been more willing to buy it because it was average and came with the Halo 3 Beta so it's value was closer to the price I was being charged.

  • 01.23.2010 5:37 AM PDT

My original halo disk was in 2 halves when ODST came out. So i believe it was a worth while purchase.

  • 01.23.2010 5:44 AM PDT

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in england it was 35pounds so about 60dollers.

for me 35pounds it well worth it and for the game i got it was brillant. normal games such as Left 4 dead 2 is 40pounds which wasnt worth it and even Cod6 MW2 was 45pounds! yer the campaign was brillant maybe even better than ODST's but multiplayer wasnt as fun as you may think, it isnt fun and customs (private) is just boring.

Me and about 20other mates use to play Halo from 2007 to 2009 with enjoyment and it was our after skl/ after going out time when we just sat and talked about stuff while playing. Cod you cant do that coz you have to go in gamechat and you can't play by yourselfs.

ill look back in 20years and remember that Halo was what me and my mates used to stay in touch after skl finished and it did it well and thats the only reason we did because everyone had college so we never went out with each other that much because we all had different times etc.

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  • 01.23.2010 5:58 AM PDT

i wanted the maps and the beta

  • 01.23.2010 6:02 AM PDT

Beta, Beta, Beta here we come!

  • 01.23.2010 6:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: HOJIN117
So many people think ODST is a rip off. Now i do believe that it should have been less than $60, but dont complain. We canadians had to pay $70, but w.e. The thing is, are you going to think Halo 3: ODST is still going to be a rip off when the Halo Reach beta comes out?
Vote on the poll and comment on your thoughts plz

BTW, does anyone know if firefight is going to be in Halo Reach?

I didn't think ODST was a rip off when I bought it on release.

  • 01.23.2010 6:44 AM PDT
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Never thought it was a rip off. I paid knowing what I was getting, and I already played ODST more than other full games I've gotten in the past. I'm having a blast with it.

  • 01.23.2010 9:24 AM PDT

so it seems that there are many loyal halo fans out there... well i had to pay $10 more so >:(, but w.e.

  • 01.23.2010 12:58 PM PDT

I preordered the game before the Reach Beta was announced, so it had no affect on whether I would buy it or not. And I don't think it was a rip off.

  • 01.23.2010 3:06 PM PDT

Posted by: camnator

So, you think that a test that benefits the company making the game by working out flaws should cost the consumer money? No, we're helping the company make the game better, why would that make the game more expensive? And if it did, they would better release versions of the game that don't have the beta, because I would not be willing to waste more money on a simple gimic that only lasts a couple weeks.


No offense but the a public beta is just as much as a test as it is a Demo for the game to come. Yeah, it helps the company but it also helps the consumer by getting consumer input into how they would like the game designed better for their needs.
And I didn't say that a game should be more expensive because of that I said it added value to the purchase making the purchase more worthwhile.

  • 01.23.2010 3:19 PM PDT

I was not ripped-off becase I had expected little from the game.

  • 01.23.2010 3:26 PM PDT

It was never a ripoff.

  • 01.23.2010 3:30 PM PDT

Posted by: PaNyK SiNDRoHME
It was never a ripoff.

  • 01.23.2010 3:30 PM PDT

That ViDoc... :'(

I thought it was a rip off until I bought it..

  • 01.23.2010 3:51 PM PDT

From The Beginning, You Know The End

------------------------------------Halo Reach---------------------------------------------

It was never a Rip Off for me.

  • 01.23.2010 4:30 PM PDT

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