Yup will buy 9.99$ games. Have bought DoomResurrection, Real Racing, Rolando 2, The Sims, Need For Speedat 9.99$ and quite a few more in the 5-7$ range. Also I`m looking forward to quite a few more 9.99 games and most probably will buy them as soon as they hit the stores. But the game has to be from a big name dev who has a history of not reducing the price like most other appstore games do. I m not going to buy a game at full price if I m pretty sure that it`ll be on sale sometime soon.
Agreed. If you saved your iPod Touch for 30 years, much like your Atari, it will still work just fine with the games you have on it. Back to the original question: I have and will continue to pay $9.99. The main issue for me is quality and not price. I would pay $19.99 or more for a truly high quality game.
Big Kudos for this answer. I see it exactl ythe same way. you still got what you pay for... And I'm happily paying a few extra bucks for a great application...
I have paid $10 for a game. As my iTouch is my primary gaming platform, and I like to buy games when they are released, I don't see any problem with this. When you take into account the great games that are on excessive sales 10 or 5 dollars to 99 cents, I know that I am still ahead and I have the huge pleasure of playing new games when they come out.
Yes I will however I could buy several cheaper games and get a much better value. I do own real racing which I do not think is all that great (OMG BLASPHEMY!!!) I feel that if I had bought 5 or 6 cheaper games for that money I could have got a better value. Now if real racing gets updated with full online multiplayer that would be a different story because it would make it better than all those cheaper games I could buy combined. I am more than willing to pay 9.99+ for a game, however I do not feel many games with that price tag justify the purchase.
I used the $9.99 as the "upper" only because you don't see too many games, if any, higher than that. Also, average prices seem to be trending down. My question to you is what a $14.99 or $19.99 game on the iPhone might look like?
i only bought 1 thing for 9.99. that was assassins creed. the next highest was HoS for 5.99. then ishoot for 2.99. then cro mag rally for 1.99, and everything else for .99 or free.
People buy titles like Zombies and me for $0.99c and bitch, gripe and moan about the lack of depth. You get what you pay for... I have bought Real Racing and Doom Resurrection at "full price" and happy to do so again if they bring me such quality entertainment. You get what you pay for... Lets all the little titles fight amongst themselves and if devs ramp up the quality and depth of games and need to charge more, then count me in.
Sorry to ask this because it is so off topic but I did contribute to this thread earlier so here is my question, how do u write something in ur sig so it comes up when u post something?
I'll pay whatever the price tag if the game looks worth the money. Gekkota nails it on the head; keep catering for the wrong crowds and you'll have helped complete the Wal-Martification of iTunes. What's even more infuriating is watching the prices play see-saw almost on a weekly basis... the whole 99 cent sale gimmick is detrimental to the developer base and has now become expected or even necessary to keep your app in the limelight. This is as much the fault of the iTunes rating system as you the developer or they the customer, but still. "I think it's sad that app store prices seem to be influenced by the spending preferences of 13-year-olds with The Minigore Mentality." -gekkota Indeed.
It's easy... They want you to buy the next version. Betamax < VHS < DVD < BluRay Vinyl < 8 Track < Cassette < CD < digital download PS < PS2 < PS3 (backward compatable? What's that?) No publisher (of any kind) wants you to use only 1 copy for the rest of your life. They want you to get the newest version and pay them all over again. It's only a matter of time until this happens with the iPhone. 3GS, I'm looking at you. That said, that is actually one of the cool things about the Appstore. Games are cheap and disposable.
Yeah true. But I think they're also starting to catch on that people don't like to lose the old stuff, you listed Blu-Ray, but the majority of (if not all) Blu-Ray players also support DVD. Likewise with the PS3 supporting PS1 games, 360 supporting Xbox games and the Wii emulating quite a good selection of retro consoles. Hopefully backwards compatibility will continute to grow in popularity, I hate the idea that the games I buy today might not work in future.
I've done it before, and I'll do it again. To quote Mel Brooks as King Louie in History of the World Part I, "I just DID IT, and I'm ready to DO IT again!"
It's funny to see how much things can change in just 1 year - Back when the app store first opened, almost all of the bigger name games cost $10 I remember paying $10 for Enigmo, Super Monkey Ball, Pac-Man, Bejeweled 2, Real Soccer, Spore and countless others - It was rare to see a 'big name' game for less than 7.99- Thats why it cracks me up to see people complaining about prices that go much above .99
So you're not playing DOOM resurrection, or Real Racing, or Rolando 2, or...shame because all of those and many others at 10 bucks are good titles. Will the prices go down? Probably, but I like to support devs making quality games.
