Originally Posted by malethief Geez the Sims is the deal of the week and it's still expensive for me lol

Ditto.

The game it pretty mediocre for my taste. I'd consider it at $2.99, but $4.99 is too high for me.

I've never been a fan of The Sims and these reviews are really turning me off.

Oh well, seems like a good month to pick up some $2.99 games I've been waiting on.

To expensive...

Game has horrible reviews on marketplace with what sounds like glitches. Think I'll pass.

I've never played a Sims game. I don't think I'll start with a phone version.

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Tentacles is fun. If it was 2.99 I might have bought it but 4.99 is too much. Any idea how long its wp7 exclusive?

It's probably exclusive for life, but I dunno. Doubt Press Play would say if they were taking it elsewhere later.

Hope not and its released on another phone type in the next year and I'll pick it up.Doubt will ever have a price drop on wp7 in the next couple years.. Castlevania Puzzle was originally exclusive to iphone and they brought it wp7 about 6 months after. Its still 6.99 on wp7 and 99 cents on iphone.

Originally Posted by sleepydumbdude Tentacles is fun. If it was 2.99 I might have bought it but 4.99 is too much. Any idea how long its wp7 exclusive?

Not to be a dick, but is 2.00 really that bank breaking for you?

Don't want to support them charging that much for the games. Even though they say thats what the developers are charging then why are all the live games starting at 2.99 and none below that. You'd one of them would try one at 1.99 or cheaper and see what the sales are like. The only difference in these and the android/iphone ones is achievements which I could care less about.

We have been over this. Multiple times. But I'll quickly go over it again.

The 2.99 price point is probably in place for two reasons. MS setting a standard to not "cheapen" achievements and the higher cost that comes in when MS publishes your game/your game is an XBLA game.

I remember Rovio commenting Angry Birds took so long to come out because MS has lawyers. Lot's of them. Anyone want to dig up the quote?

The other factor is, the .99 fire sales have distorted your mind on the value of the games. Honestly? This pisses developers off, especially the little guys. Looks up how angry people were at EA when they put all their games on sale for .99 around Christmas and infiltrated the top charts in the iOS store. Now that .99 sales have become acceptable in the Apple world, combined with it being one of the most popular platforms (probably most popular for mobile gaming) it puts developers in a really bad bind. Put your game on iOS or else and put it at .99 (at least at some point) or else.

Then you have something like Tentacles. An exclusive, and from what I've played, fun game for 4.99. Sure, you could wait for it to maybe hit iOS so you can save 4.00, but you're not really supporting the developer then, and basically saying you only support fire sales.

It's 5.00. 2 coffees which take seconds to brew and minutes to consume are 5.00 at most places. You can probably get at least a few hours of play out of Tentacles. I really can't wrap my head around the rationale. It's not like Tentacles is 59.99, and most mobile games are .99.

I fully agree with Sean on this point. If a developer works hard to make a great game, we should support them by buying it. I don't think abstaining will encourage more exclusives or price dropping - it will just make devs look to other platforms with larger userbases (iOS). Tentacles is nice and long too so it's not like you won't get much value out of it.

My Plants vs. Zombies review is live. It's probably my best review and I would appreciate if you guys checked it out.

Here's my Sonic 4 review too.

Finally, I reviewed Pokedex Mobile, created by CAG's own Zophar. Great app for Pokemon fans.

I totally see Sean's POV and agree with what he says.

The only caveat I have is that MS do seem to have a tendency of creeping the prices of downloadable games as much as they think they can get away with.

As soon as the first few 1200 point XBLA games were out that seemed to become the new standard price point. I wouldn't like to see the $2.99 WP7 games disappearing and being replaced with $4.99 games.

As Sean states though $2 isn't much of a difference really, and in these relatively early days for WP7 it's worth supporting the devs so we get more games in the future.

The thing is that a $15 game on Xbox Live Arcade is also $15 on the Playstation Network. I think people have a hard time accepting that a WP7 game doesn't cost the same as the game on iOS.

I'm more than happy to pay the difference as I find a lot of value in achievements. A lot of people see no or very little value in achievements. So, once you remove achievements, why is the WP7 version worth more??

I just got this phone at Verizon and the rep was trying to talk me out of it because the price of games. I might take it back though because I thought maybe it was just the new games.

If the developers don't like the money they are getting for mobile games the develop something else.

I buy my phone to run apps and games and need to think about how all these extra charges are going to add up in the long run.

Has any of developers released how much they have made compared to other phone markets?

I guess the non Live enabled games are still cheap, I don't know what the minimum is but it's prolly less than $2.99

This is CHEAPASSgamer, not MODERATELYPRICEDgamer. I think most of us came here to find deals, and yes, if a game is priced higher on one platform than another, some of us are going to complain about it.

I have held off on buying XBLA games for years until I can save $5 on them, and yeah, I'll probably do the same thing with some WP7 games to save $2 or even $1.

Originally Posted by DrUnkAgAIn This is CHEAPASSgamer, not MODERATELYPRICEDgamer. I think most of us came here to find deals, and yes, if a game is priced higher on one platform than another, some of us are going to complain about it. I have held off on buying XBLA games for years until I can save $5 on them, and yeah, I'll probably do the same thing with some WP7 games to save $2 or even $1.

Exactly, not complainassgamer. It seems more like trolling really. This is a topic that has beaten a dead horse. The thread is for deals, dotw.

Originally Posted by DrUnkAgAIn This is CHEAPASSgamer, not MODERATELYPRICEDgamer. I think most of us came here to find deals, and yes, if a game is priced higher on one platform than another, some of us are going to complain about it. I have held off on buying XBLA games for years until I can save $5 on them, and yeah, I'll probably do the same thing with some WP7 games to save $2 or even $1.

My final word... Be as cheap as you want, but some complaints are just unreasonable. Yes, the 360 and PS3 can do just fine even with people holding out for everything to go to clearance prices, because they're already large, well-established consoles. Neither one has to compete with some huge other console that has a 20X larger user base. WP7, on the other hand, is the scrappy little up and comer. For it to succeed, people actually do have to buy the good stuff that comes out for it. People don't buy the games, devs stop making the games. It's a clear and obvious relationship. You can hold out for fire sale prices if you like, but other people obviously must not do that or your WP7 phone will not be getting lots of good games for you (or any of us) to play.

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