[360] Market forces and you or "Why popular stuff costs lots" for beginners

What does this have to do with Horse Armour? No one's surprised here. Just...annoyed. All we're commenting on is the price point. We saw it coming, but to actually see it regardless still brings pangs of shock and disappointment.

How ya doing, buddy?

One's a game function, one's for something that can best be described as a metafeature for a console, with no game integration itself.

Lots of purely visual game upgrades are overpriced (fighting game costumes, for example, or new character colours), but this is a new level of pricing ripoff because, in essence, it's even more useless. But the prices aren't reflective of that. They are even more expensive than the already overpriced themes and gamerpics.

At least in the game environment you can interact with whatever it is you wasted money on. The avatars, not so much. I doubt Joy Ride will include support for all the premium avatar content, you won't be driving around while holding a lightsabre or anything.

How ya doing, buddy?

Erm, do you think I'm arguing against it's existance as a good business move? All I'm saying is it's not quite the same thing as Acer's Horse Armour example. Different cuts from the same ripoff cloth, though.

And yes. Internet tough guy but buying it anyway is the name of the game for this generation. And we'll continue to be exploited as long as those of us with an iota of self control are outnumbered by those of us without. While I won't be stupid enough to spend any money on this marketplace, the fact that some people are doesn't make it any less depressing.

And yeah. Obviously we knew this all already, but it's a new reason to lament about the same old problem, so.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Lord Jaroh

Supporting Activision in any way, shape or form is always wrong. Besides, there are better shooters made by better companies to support (Half Life for example)

Yeah, that new Half Life coming out this Christmas is one of my most anticipated titles.

Don't be a fucking idiot.

I don't like Activision's pricing policy either, but I laugh at how fucking simple in the head some of you folks are.

Buy what you like, and spend what you think the product is worth. If you don't think it's worth the extra 10 bucks or whatever, don't fucking get it.

"always wrong", hah. Did you also refuse to buy things like Mirror's Edge, even when the SUPER EVIL OH MY GOD SATAN EA took a risk on it? Or did you boycott them entirely, not showing support for "GEE MAYBE YOU SHOULD DO MORE LIKE THIS?" and in the end teach them FUCK ALL outside of "well people still buy Madden!".

If anything, the fact that people will be buying tonnes of Modern Warfare 2 and probably not a whole hell of a lot of Tony Hawk's plastic faggotry or DJ Hero's overpriced widgets (at their ridiculous MSRP) goes to show that people will vote with their wallets either way.

And they fucking did, especially in the case of Terminator. GRIN is hemorraging jobs, and it's actually quite sad.

I swear, the mental midgets on the internet, man.

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It's fantastic, by the way. But you knew that.

Also, no one was surprised.

Can no one read anymore or is this whole showing up in a thread and not paying attention a week late just a wivvle thing these days?

I was speaking idiomatically.

There are PC drivers. Use those.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Uh, obviously.

But since you're pipe dreaming and wishing for something that isn't going to come along, I'm offering the next best alternative. Something that actually exists.

You want a good mech game? Mech 4 is free now. The SB controller will work with it. Original Xbox to USB convertors are dirt fucking cheap. It's not the most gorgeous game but you can easily output it to your TV.

"I want a golden toilet wouldn't that be awesome"
"Well here's how you can poop in a regular one and still have a good time"
"THIS DOES NOT HELP MY GOLD DREAMS"

Don't be a twatrocket.

FELIPE NO

Steel Battalion is (was) overpriced, sure, but compared to the premium they're charging for DJ Hero, what you got for that stupid price seemed like a much easier pill to swallow. Or the extra 30 dollars for Ride when it's essentially the same thing as Wii Fit's balance board.

Extra single (or maybe two, if you're lucky) use peripherals always cost a shit tonne more, but my point is that charging an even larger premium than usual, saturating the damn market, in a recession of all things, and then expecting it all to sell a fuckload seems a tad bit shortsighted.

Who knows, maybe I'll eat my hat. But I don't expect all that from this.

Not like Harmonix is doing better with the RB:Beatles price point of 250 dollars, of course. What the hell.

And even if you directly responded to my overpriced widget commentary, you still didn't read what was being said, but that's cool too.

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People just rent out wvlf instead of getting a disco ball. The way the light refracts off his balding head is the real attraction, the music's just a bonus.

Jam it back in, in the dark.