[quote name='JaylisJayP']I have no idea if this game is good or not, but it is the quickest I've ever seen a somewhat high-profile game drop in price so quickly, and is a shining example of the industry itself telling you not to pay full price for games unless you HAVE to have it day 1. They point their finger at used games hurting sales, but this is such a damaging trend for the publishers/developers (although of course good for consumers in the short term). Why on earth pay $60 plus tax for any game when it's going to come down so quickly. And I really don't think any game is immune to this anymore except perhaps a few Nintendo first-party titles or titles people think they want because they're rare. Look how quickly Reach and Gears 3 dropped. I think it already had dipped to $30 for the regular edition last month on Amazon.
The publishers/developers whine about there being no "sell through" after the initial month of sales, and after that people just buy the game used. Here's an idea, if you priced your games more reasonably, like say even $40 MSRP, you'd have a much higher sell through and the used game market wouldn't have such of an impact except on people who were never going to pay more for than $15 for the game new or used anyway.[/QUOTE]
The game's single-player story can be beaten in ~5-6 hours, its multiplayer is short and lackluster and it can be 1000/1000 achievements (or platinum'd, as it were) easily in 15 hours. There's no reason to hold on to this game.
Pricing at $60 on release captures all of the (relatively) inelastic purchasers who would get the game regardless. It's true that this game in particular is not worth $60, but it makes more sense to reduce the price gradually as people get more privy to the "true value" of a game. Don't forget that consumers still value "brand new" and allow it a premium above the used market and eBay and other sources for resale aren't the best to arrive at the "true price" due to the fees which the seller eats up most of the time because you're dealing with elastic consumers at that point. Still even all of this is a load of shit because consumers are obscenely ignorant anyways and the video game market is not in any sense efficient.
[quote name='Hellhunt']Are all new copies limited edition? I would pick this up for the codes (makes the collectibles appear on the mini-map, and I am an achievement guy), but if all new copies are limited edition - i will just wait for the inevitable gamefly sale.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it seems like Bulletstorm. I saw one "normal" edition Bulletstorm at BBY used and I have no idea where the guy (who traded it in) got it from. I think this is the same. The normal edition might exist but I don't think most, if any, stores have run out of stock of the LE (or will).