And ~15 years from now it's quite possible that we will only be able to buy games online, so then we are stuck with whatever high prices they put up, cause there won't be any price wars between retail stores cause they don't exist any longer.

Of course, digital distributors have to pay for 5-10-15-whatever gigabytes of bandwidth, have to maintain servers that are large enough to support mass downloads of that 5+GB file (on the day of release, for example). And, depending on the service (Steam, for one), they might also be providing potentially infinite downloads of that 5+GB file, for years.

So, yeah..... digital's all "free", unlike those boxed games. :whistling:

$60 is standard price for a game, what are you mad about? Some people perfer digital copies for whatever reason (usually convenience with regards to where they live), and some people like physical copies. Including extras with the phyical copies is to encourage publishers to not go digital only.

Can you explain why you are disappointed with us?

You are disappointed that we're buying the game?

I absolutely agree, for a digital copy to be pushing $60 with no preorder benefits, there's not much reason to buy it through steam, period. Even if you're using steam as your game catalog, you can always add it to your library (it's not a steamworks title, but you can still manually add .exe's into your library). I'm personally grabbing it from Amazon for release date delivery of a physical copy.

And while there's not much use in crying over spilled milk, I remember the "good ol' days" when physical copies retailed at $40 and came with expansive manuals. In color!!!!! Starsiege, Independence Wars (Deluxe), and Homeworld were all favorites of mine for including massive tomes of knowledge (+5). Starsiege in particular had a 50+ page manual AND a giant color Universe Compendium with back story and pseudo-scientific explanations to the universe. *sigh* those were the days...

$60 is standard price for a game, what are you mad about? Some people perfer digital copies for whatever reason (usually convenience with regards to where they live), and some people like physical copies. Including extras with the phyical copies is to encourage publishers to not go digital only.

$60, and it doesn't even have Spell Making? They must be out of their minds. Just pay $50 for a physical copy, it'll have the same Steam functionality.

Ugh, just when I was happily blissfully not thinking of the debacle of no spellmaking, you have to go and ruin it!

Haha. But seriously, they've removed one of my favorite features of TES games, they can't ask me to compromise and then expect me to pay $60 for a PC copy of their game. They should be happy I'm buying it at all at this point.

We are talking about TES here
What kind of extra items do you want for Steam version game?
Some ingame items?
Creation Kit & Mods should be more than enough

If you look to incentives to decide whether to pre-order or not, that's quite "What? Dumb."

This. I think people forget that they don't have to release a semi user friendly program that lets you do whatever you want to a game that you are already going to spend hundreds of hours with.

Im tired of these threads 6 months ago people were saying "oh I would pay 150 for am elder scrolls game" now noone wants to pay over 50.

beths support with patches, for modders and the quality of game are all extras that a lot of companies don't give out.

Thread should be it might be hard for me to get an extra ten bucks, u guys got any suggestions.

It's interesting to note that $40 in 1994 dollars equals $60.92 in 2011 dollars.

Souce: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Just because people aren't saying "OMG SKYRIM SO GOOD LET ME PAY YOU 1,000,000 FOR IT gamesas" doesn't mean they aren't excited. They shouldn't have to pay any more than anybody else and digital distribution should be at least a few bucks cheaper because it helps them to rake in much larger profits.

YES! Thank you... I have tried telling people this so many times. To complain about price increases in games is kind of amazing to me. They follow a very slow very predictable increase as the years pass. I can only figure that many gamers haven't had to live in the real world for very long and had to watch the inflation of other common goods. Food, gasoline, cars, homes.... Trust me, you will WISH those items followed the same slow inflation rate that games have enjoyed.

Ok console players have been paying 10 dollars more for sub visual games for what 6 years now. Pc games have been resisting the rise in cost to match it.

And ok digital copy should be cheaper so charge 58 instead of sixty be cause that's how much it costs to make a game disk.

Think about it this way

They spent 4-5 years making this game, now I dunno what your average game developer makes but I bet its not cheap. Your not paying sixty dollars for a game disk your paying that guy who say infront of his computer for 5 years .

I'm more upset about paying 60 for a certain annual war shooter that has zero support and crappy money pits masked as dlc.

And there are extras. The sdk is more than worth 10 dollars even if you dont use it, it results in thousands of hours of extras.

Lol you actually are one of the ones willing to pay $100+ for the game aren't you? Okay just because you get lots of entertainment out of it doesn't mean it should cost more or that you should be willing to pay more than the average game on the market.