re: Don’t buy SW: Battlefront 2

I'd rather go back to just getting a complete game even if it was at a flat higher rate.

Ea is awful and really turned me off of COD with DLC b.s. they don't even attempt to give you a decent experience anymore, Madden is annually recycled, and Battlefront 1 was awful.

I really just don't trust them at all.

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I saw I got downvoted for my previous comment, but that wasn't me wishing that they cost that much. We're just fortunate that games are still the price tha they are. If you read all the horror stories about development times and grueling work schedules for some of these people, I'm really surprised we haven't seen a price hike in some time.

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Agree and disagree. The market should find an equilibrium where the producers are making games/content that is profitable where consumers are happy to pay whatever cost that may be and value it appropriately.

If there is this much contention, on average, things will shift somehow. This was part of the price of chasing HD before it was cost effective to create it. Budgets have been accelerating since the Xbox/PS2 gen, and ballooned over the last two gens.

I actually do think the hesitancy of a cost raise is that games will be priced out of the target audience market. Once you get to that $100 consumer buying patterns change, even if it doesn't seem like it is that much. You know they'd be doing it if they thought they could make money that way.

I wouldn't say people are "fortunate" at all, but companies have decided that profits are better keeping core games prices at $60. Let's not act that the $60 is altruistic.