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Posted by: wcd45
Posted by: dude527
Yeah, I thought this was bull too. You're a little late to the party. The thing I don't get is the whole "This game deserves a $60 price tag, as it's a full game!" Well, I just have to ask: Don't full games deserve spit and polish and patch work until they're perfect? All the possible features there can be? with most games, yes. This is just another example of Bungie's circular word. If ODST was indeed meant to be a standalone game, Firefight would have matchmaking. It doesn't, showing a lack of effort or resources. In this case, effort. More money was spent advertising ODST than making it.
Only one small problem with your post Micro$oft determine the price not Bungie. I don't think they would have made this full price if they had a choice but they didn't. As for marketing, this was advertised way less than Halo 3.
Except that Bungie (even on a personal level) condoned the full price. Never once did a representative or spokesperson step up and say, "Well, Microsoft forced our hand..." Instead, they said "We do believe that there is enough content here to warrant $60." This steers me to believe that Bungie agreed with the price, and it wasn't all Microsoft as you say. If it were, Bungie would let us know. They've owned up on the price decision, however.
But I also wasn't even referring to price; I was referring to content. Bungie does decide the content, not Microsoft. Delaying the game to update it and warrant the $60 price tag would have been the considerate thing to do, considering that Bungie agrees with this price. Again, they've confirmed this.