[quote name='RedvsBlue'][quote name='Gothic_Walrus'][quote name='RichD1'][quote name='Scrubking']I hope all you people who support EA realize that if EA continues on the path they are on there will only be a handful of publishers in the future where EA publishes 75% of all the games or worse. Prices will go through the roof to somewhere like $80 a game with little to no price drop.
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I'd like to live in your fantasy world of chocolate rivers and candy rain and ginger bread houses.[/quote]
How is it a fantasy world? Look at EA's recent track record. They seem to be hell-bent on gaining a monopoly, and it's not like things like this haven't happened before. Look at Microsoft in the 1990s.
[quote name='RedvsBlue'][quote name='Scrubking']I hope all you people who support EA realize that if EA continues on the path they are on there will only be a handful of publishers in the future where EA publishes 75% of all the games or worse. Prices will go through the roof to somewhere like $80 a game with little to no price drop.
And all because everyone said it wasn't a big deal, or that nothing could be done.
I thought CAG was composed of people who liked cheap games. I guess I was wrong.[/quote]
Yep and then to continue your story. The games come out at $80, no one buys them, and then they drop in price. Besides, if the games are $80 then just don't buy them, no one is forcing you to spend your money on entertainment products.[/quote]
People WILL pay for it. People paid that much for NES games, for SNES games, and for Genesis games. The demand is there; if there is no other alternative beyond paying the higher price, people will do it. If it means they buy less games, so be it - the Madden fix outweighs the need for other games for a lot of people.[/quote]
Well if people were paying that high for games on those systems then how come I can go out and buy a wide variety of good games for $20 at almost any store that I go to. Even the new games don't go above $50 anymore.
Obviously not enough people were paying that much for the games otherwise they would still be priced that high![/quote]
That makes no sense. Movies take more to produce than videogames and they are not even priced at $50. It's called mainstream. Besides that, back then there were added costs to development. They were called cartridge roms. Cartridge = Expensive
. Disc = Pennies on the dollar. There were many games in the 80's and early 90's that cost $59.99, $69.99, $79.99, even $99.99. And not because of greed, the respective size of cart was very expensive back then.
If people don't understand what is happening, they will pay for inflated prices. And if EA keeps going down the road they are on, people won't have any choice.