Skyrim will be $60 on the PC : V - Skyrim

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:17 pm

Game stop has "Mass effect 3" with the same cover as ME2 listed in the Preorder/upcoming games sections.

yes this price i feel is being pulled out of somewhere unpleasant.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:25 pm

Okay, stop comparing PC game prices to console game prices. Look at them as separate entities, because they are. Console gamers pay that extra $10 for licensing reasons. PC players don't need to pay that money, we're used to NOT paying that extra money.

Like someone said above me, what if console prices went up by $10? Pure and simple, as things stand RIGHT NOW, how would you feel? I imagine you wouldn't be too happy.

Just because you're an Oblivion really devoted fan doesn't mean that PC gamers should want to spend the extra and unnecessary $10 for a game, regardless of what it is, unless it comes with more physical content, like a collector's edition or something.

Oblivion was fun, but it is not the "greatest game on the market." That isn't even close to being true.

So, please, imagine what it would be like to spend a whole seventy dollars on just one video game that, in the past, would have cost you only $60. After all, it's only $10, right?

Also, Mumatil, you have NO idea how much money people spend on their computers, or where they get that money, or where they stand financially. So instead of making snide remarks, leave if you can't be constructive.

I wouldn't mind if it was single game that a I really wanted, but if the whole market raised i'd be pissed. But that isn't the case, and I doubt skyrim is even $60 anyway, as I said before, most likely a place holder.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:14 am

A few posts reminded me how much it must svck to be a gamer is Australia. Don't worry guys. I think 2011 might be the year of the gamer for the Aussies.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:12 pm

YOU are not being constructive. Morrowind is a hell of a lot worse than Oblivion. Oblivion was AMAZING. If you counter me with "thats not true!

" Then I shall counter you with a quote from another amazing game: "Nothing is true..."
I know what other games there are and I know which one is the best.

If I was a PC gamer then I would not be angry. I would be angry if I had to pay 20 more dollars than a PC gamer. You are already getting the better deal, stop [censored] COMPLAINING!

Do me a favor, every time you spend your $60 on an Xbox game, give another $10 to me. That way, you can see how it's like to spend $10 extra on a game, and I can be that much closer to being able to afford it when it comes out. Would you be willing to do that?

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:29 pm

A few posts reminded me how much it must svck to be a gamer is Australia. Don't worry guys. I think 2011 might be the year of the gamer for the Aussies.

I sure hope so. Gamespot even has a reward for "Most Surprising Game to Make it Past Aussie Censors" :sadvaultboy:

EDIT:

Do me a favor, every time you spend your $60 on an Xbox game, give another $10 to me. That way, you can see how it's like to spend $10 extra on a game, and I can be that much closer to being able to afford it when it comes out. Would you be willing to do that?

How foolish you are! You can not stop Lord Dagon!

Just kidding. You see, my point is that us console gamers are ALREADY paying that extra $10. How can you be upset to pay the price everyone else pays? You are acting like the aristocrats during the French revolution. You must now pay the taxes that all of the "peasants" have been paying and your at an outrage.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:32 pm

yes stuff does cost alot now could you ever find a pc for 300-400 $ yes but all you could play is maybe.. tic-tac-toe but no it has to be in the pricey zone i spent 1,200 on mine and it can still be a pain sometimes

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:11 pm

Gamestop listed the PC version of Skyrim for $60 very shortly after it was announced, so I'm pretty sure they're just pulling the number out of their ass.

It also shows the cover of the game as a 'Games for Windows Live' game, which I don't think they have even decided yet. It also gurentee's if the price goes down they give you the lower price, so if it drops to 50 (hence when they actually announce it) they give you that price instead. They are obviously bullsh*tting it. I was unaware you could even pre-order it yet.

Meh, its only 10 bucks, and its probably well worth it. I mean, you can always boycot it

I'm sure that price is a placeholder anyway.
You guys already have it good, with better graphics, console, mods etc.
We console players have to pay $60 all the time with no mods or anything.

Overpriced? The PC version has mods. The console versions are overpriced with no mod support.

:Sigh: This is because consoles are sold at a loss, and a portion of that 60 bucks goes to microsoft/sony. PC game companies dont pay royalties or anything. Plus, PC gamers spend MUCH more on PC's. If you can find a nice PC to play all your games on for 200-300$, you are the coolest person on the planet. I can go get a 300$ pc, but it wont play any games beyond like minesweeper.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:53 pm

You all need to grow up a come to realize that money is becoming a tight thing right now 60$ is very steep even if you get some sort of map, So when you go to by a
car (example)

and there is tax $2,000,000 / $40,000,000 = .050 x $1,000 = $50 (tax rate)

1,000 tax

.050 interest

Im not to good at this since I am still in the learning process

Game companies Put alot of work in to what they do and it cost them /Time/Tool/Workers/Tax/ and there Is dozens more i have an cousin entering the gaming ind (Everyone needs to make a profit somehow)

:confused:
I am sorry, I have no Idea what you are saying. Could be my limited language skills but I honestly don't know what the point of your post was!

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:49 pm

Do me a favor, every time you spend your $60 on an Xbox game, give another $10 to me. That way, you can see how it's like to spend $10 extra on a game, and I can be that much closer to being able to afford it when it comes out. Would you be willing to do that?

Again, its not every game, its a singular game.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:27 am

Again, its not every game, its a singular game.

It seems to be a growing trend. Activision has started doing it, too. Which didn't bother me since I'm boycotting Activision titles, but I don't want to see this trend grow any more.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:15 am

You all need to grow up a come to realize that money is becoming a tight thing right now 60$ is very steep even if you get some sort of map, So when you go to by a
car (example)

and there is tax $2,000,000 / $40,000,000 = .050 x $1,000 = $50 (tax rate)

1,000 tax

.050 interest

Im not to good at this since I am still in the learning process

Game companies Put alot of work in to what they do and it cost them /Time/Tool/Workers/Tax/ and there Is dozens more i have an cousin entering the gaming ind (Everyone needs to make a profit somehow)

What? You start with saying money is steep, and 60 bucks is a lot to spend.
then something about a car,
then something about millions of dollars,
then something about tax,
then something about interest,
then saying that it takes a alot of work to develop a game and that they need to make a profit
So your saying that 60 bucks is steep and you don't wanna spend it but gamer companies need to charge more to make a profit so you will buy it?

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:03 pm

I still don't understand. Why do they even make PC games cheaper? How can you complain that you are getting the same price as everyone else?

because on consoles, sony/nintendo/microsoft get a 10$ cut of every game sale. that is how they make money on their systems sony wasnt making a profit on their ps3 sales until just last year.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:58 pm

The thing that gets me is that the game industry makes you pay the same price for a poor game as you do for a great one. I don't mind paying more for something I'd really like, though usually I'm willing to wait until there's a GOTY edition to bundle it all together.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:31 pm

I don't know what you are crying about - In NZ the http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/PC-Games/The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim/9868000/ version is $120 and the http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Xbox-360/The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim/9868002/ is $140

Exactly! Can you people stop crying?! http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=60&From=USD&To=NZD We're paying ~$110 for this game! I'm fine with that, I don't buy games too often, and that seems a reasonable amount!

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:10 pm

Only if there's no exclusive DLC.

But, yeah, $60 ka-ching? That's pretty steep. They better throw in a pretty manual and a map. I mean, look at what the Hellbook edition of Darksiders has! I got an awesome case, the soundtrack, a digital comic, a physical artbook, a few extra pages of artwork, and a few cards with art printed on them. List price? $40.on release. Bethesda, you have no excuse!

EDIT: but, not like I'll be getting TESV on release. If it is any good, I'll wait til it hits $20 or for the GotY to hit $20.

are you serious? really?
wth are you doing on these forums? your gonna wait and see if its anygood? and then wait for the price to drop conciderably?
i could never do this to TES. THEY ARE THE ONLY GAMES WORTH BUYING IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!

i guess i just dont understand even looking at a forum for a game that your only mildly interested in. let alone posting in it.
maybe i should go to the WoW forums or CoD forums and say something like "meh i might try cataclysm, or black ops. but only if theyre good. and even then im gonna wait for them to be free"....what im trying to get at here is...whats the point? because im not interested in those games at all. so there is no point in me even being a member of their forums.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:41 pm

The thing that gets me is that the game industry makes you pay the same price for a poor game as you do for a great one. I don't mind paying more for something I'd really like, though usually I'm willing to wait until there's a GOTY edition to bundle it all together.

Well at least Skyrim is likely to be one of the games worth $60, for the amount of use I got out of it Oblivion was worth $60 [and between the consoles and PC, I spent 2x that much]. As with Oblivion and Fallout, I will likely get the launch title and then the GOTY unless it is on Steam as then it will be the holiday sales that dictate the timing of DLC/Add-On purchases.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:17 am

I don't care what the cost. I'll buy it no matter what. I'm getting the CE anyways. :shrug:

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:05 pm

lets put it this way. IF the price is really 60, which is 10 more than normal. also 10 less than console. the higher price is because....you get the construction set. and the mods to go with it. pretty simple. you get more. you pay more.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:52 pm

Gamestop listed the PC version of Skyrim for $60 very shortly after it was announced, so I'm pretty sure they're just pulling the number out of their ass.

Or they're the kind of company that would charge you $60 even if it was intended to be sold at 50. They also sell you damaged Xbox 360 vga cords (still angry) and give you 50 cents of store credit when you turn in games (guy in front of me declined obviously).

Do you know why it's annoying to have to pay $60 instead of $50? Because PC games have been costing $50 for a while. There is absolutely no reason for the price to be $60.

If the standard price for console games became $70 instead of $60, don't you think there would be a lot of complaining?

If Bethesda didn't make another game because they knew they couldn't make the budget, don't you think there would be a lot of complaining?

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:49 pm

Wont bother me......i expect the $90 - $100 price for the PC version in australia (and our dolar is actually worth more then yours right now)....thank god im not on a console where they chuck on an extra $20 ontop of that.

If its $60 in the US it would be $100 here (for some insane reason)....unless EB decides to be nice and not raise the price as the american price goes up....yeah right.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:24 pm

According to http://www.gamestop.com/browse/search.aspx?dsNav=Ntk:TitleKeyword|Elder+Scrolls+V:+Skyrim|1|, Skyrim will cost $60 for the PC version. This is surprising, as only a handful of PC games have been given this raise in price, and gamesas's recent Fallout games have not been a part of that pool. Do you think it will remain $60, or is this just speculation on Gamestop's part, throwing up a high price with the low-price pre-order guarantee?

I really hope that it drops down to $50. It has always seemed like a fair price for most games, and has been an industry standard for years, even carrying through the most recent generation of games and consoles. I don't know if I'd be willing to pay an extra $10, and then see DLC popping up that looks like it was supposed to be in the game to begin with, and have to pay an extra $5 for that as well.

Uhh why would it be $60 for xbox/ps3 and $50 for the computer?

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:06 pm

Beth is so charging 60 bucks after reading this thread...

If Bethesda didn't make another game because they knew they couldn't make the budget, don't you think there would be a lot of complaining?

Because Beth is totally in financial peril. It's why they've been snatching up all these other companies lately, they just don't want to go down alone! Just like Activision with Modern Warfare 2, if they don't get that extra tenner they'll be doomed!

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:04 am

Uhh why would it be $60 for xbox/ps3 and $50 for the computer?

Well that's how it usually is. Most console games are $60 bucks and their PC counterparts are $50.

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:25 pm

i would be happy if i paid 60 dollars, its a massive improvement over the australian 120 dollars (despite the fact that the currency's are approximately equal)

» Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:20 pm

i would be happy if i paid 60 dollars, its a massive improvement over the australian 120 dollars (despite the fact that the currency's are approximately equal)

We really are robbed blind in Australia (and NZ are worse off) it's what 1 dollar equals about 90 U.S cents. I just don't understand how it equates to double the price