I won't be paying for the next open world fighting game that they release for consoles and badly port to the PC.

Sorry, *cheap

And no, I do not crap gold, I have a job and understand the value of money vs. entertainment value. I am also selective on which games I buy as to maximize the value of my games. When was the last time you were entertained for a week straight (168 hours) on $60? Most people have put in more hours than that in this game already.

I would certainly pay more for TES:VI. It's the return on investment. I gladly threw down $60 for Call of Duty a couple weeks ago. I've yet to even install it, but I'm sure it will be a very enjoyable 2 weeks that I'll play it before never touching it again. Same went for the vast majority of games that I've bought. There are only 2 exceptions. One is iRacing, that came out before Oblivion did, and I still play it often. The other exception is TES, where I've played each of those titles for hundreds of hours over a span of years. TES has provided lots of bang for my buck. Roughly $.15 cents per hour of play with Oblivion. Not bad.

So if TES:VI increased the world size to at least 64 sq miles, put in actual major cities and filled it with NPCs so they'd feel populated, and made it PC exclusive, then I would gladly pay more. At least double the normal price. Ok, maybe it wouldn't have to be PC exclusive, but it can't be designed for the old-gen consoles again.

This is a great point.


And also, is 60$ that expensive for a few months of gameplay?

60$ for Skyrim > Cable Bill

Skyrim gives me 25x more enjoyment. I'm fresh out of college and can honestly say that shelling out 60$ is nothing.

With stagnant wages for the last ten years, the answer is a definite NO.

No. They don't even bring out working games anymore, why should I give them more money for an ill completed game?

I've become much more picky about which games I buy... I used to buy stuff just because it sounded interesting. Now I pretty much only buy premium titles.

Why can't games just be $50 like they used to be?

Thank you Activision for making everyone hike up their prices because you proved morons will shell out incredible amounts of money for the same crap we've seen 50 times already.

I don't pirate anything. Let's be clear on that right away. I've been playing TES games since Daggerfall though and know they come with bugs. Sometimes a LOT of bugs, you know, to the point where the game isn't even worth playing for six months or so. This is the case with Skyrim. I'm not going to just blindly throw $ at Bethesda for a buggy half-arsed product. I'm going to wait for them to fix it, then buy it at a reduced cost. If they don't fix the PS3 issues (again - FO3, FO:NV) I'll also buy it used so they get nothing whatsoever from my purchase.

Simply put: If you keep lining up and buying super buggy games, no matter how you justify it to yourself, you're going to get a super buggy game the next time too. This trend is nothing new with Bethesda, but people keep buying their buggy games so they don't improve their QA process. Sad but true.

No way. 60 bucks for a sh*tty console port is already too much.

Games are incredibly cheap, actually. Seriously.

I can go to the movies for like, what, $10? And get..2 hours of entertainment, if the movie is good.

If I o that 6 times, I get 12 hours of entertainment for $60.

Skyrim? I've played about 250 hours.

I don't mean to debate semantics, but what is the difference between pirating a game and borrowing your friends copy to play it? either way both are against the law and it is sharing the game, just in one instance you know the person your sharing with and the other you don't.

Also the poll is assuming they would put more content, and similarly bug-testing into the price and game. I feel your pain though, I actually bought the game on release and my Main Quest bugs out, I had to start over after 70 hours into the game

I would never pay extra money for an Elder Scrolls game. The quality of the games have been going down too much for me to justify paying extra.

There is no Main quest... each area would have its own main-quest. (Perhaps that being the "Key" that unlocks the next two or three DLC areas to include. (EG... Dragons suppressed... They stay are a LOT less frequent, but still appear in other DLC areas. Now your main-quest in another area is... Red-Mountain {just pulling old quests out of my bottom-side}... There may, or may-not be dragons in that DLC... but that quest-area will not be accessible until you have beaten the original area first, with each new character. The "random quests" would still be specific to each area. Yet, the addition of new random quests, or upgraded quests would be thrown into the mix, or just replace the "been there, done that" original random quests.)

Eg, it would always grow with you... Each area has requirements to continue... to the next area DLC.

Best thing to do this.. would be to go back to the beginning of the history of the entire game... That first town... those first original stories... they unfold as you buy the DLC... (If that requires you being reincarnated every 100 years... then so-be-it... the land constantly changes, and expands. Cloud-storage would be great for this.)

The point being... Every month a new area could be released, making them potentially $5 a pop... per customer... plus new growing customers. (Chances are... you would NOT be starting all over, and you would be playing the same continued character all the time, or have multiple characters from the beginning.)

It is easier to manage, and would not be limited to the 2000 land-objects, and limited images/graphics of the whole-game... since each area is essentially a new game, with new objects, and new graphics. It feels more varied. It feels more complete. 30 people all working to build the perfect single DLC zones, all at once... as opposed to 30 people building 30 zones, all without following tight standards. Perfection, in a manageable package.

Not to mention... It would be almost pirate-proof... lol

Im not even going to buy the next TES.

Not unless they make a radical philosophy change and put the magic back into TES.

If TES 6 has no spellmaking, well, I might get it out of the bargain bin a year after release.
But no way Im paying anything like full price.

Games haven't even kept pace with our rapidly depreciating US dollar. Also, the good ones now offer hundreds of hours of entertainment. I spent $50 usd on teenage mutant ninja turtles for nes back in the day (well my mom did), and didn't even play it as much as I have played skyrim so far.

[censored]. When you borrow a game, there is only one licensed copy in circulation. It's perfectly legal.

Actually when a person buys a game they are buying the license, so they aren't supposed to share, nor do they actually "own" the rights to the game

Thats why software can only be installed on 1 computer, games on steam only 1 account etc etc

So unless there is a legal transaction of selling your license, its illegal

Sharing isn't illegal.

Doing it en masse over a torrent network or for profit is.

I wouldn't pay more. I rarely pay full price for games, I instead wait a while and buy them cheaper on Amazon.uk or if my PC can handle it I'll wait for the inevitable Steam sale. Skyrim is the only game I've bought at full price this year to be honest (two copies of it for our household).
If the price would go higher then what I've paid now, I think I'd rather wait a few weeks instead.

No. Biased poll is biased.

Bias? how? I included a "no" option...

biased poster is biased?

Because $60 is too expensive. Games should be cheaper.

You sound like you'd happily pay more. Where are the depreciating options? All I see are MOAR MONEY TAKE MY MONEY! options, where are the: ￡10, ￡20, ￡30, ￡40, options? You have them for the increase in price.

Yes, the thread is asking whether you'd pay more, so either remove all the options and simply put yes or no, or above/under current price.

How do you figure?