[quote name='Romeo']Exactly technole. No offense to anyone but if someone thinks a game just under 100 hours isn't worth $40-$60, they're an idiot. It took me 62 hours to beat the main story with all side missions up to that point, and at 75 hours to finish all end game content. Only thing left are a few trophies.
I bet the people who say $60 is too much are the same people who buy games like Tomb Raider or Metal Gear and think they're worth it at 12 hours or less.[/QUOTE]
[quote name='KingofOldSchool']Let me tell you a wild and crazy fact, I know this may shock you and all, but the length of the game does not = whether the game is worth buying at a certain price point. Believe it or not, some people find 89 hour games to be too long for them, other people just like a good story.
Me? I gladly bought Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite at full price, getting $20 RZ certificates back for both, while trading both back in for close to $40 each after beating them. And you know what? I enjoyed them both immensely.
But, opinions be damned cause Ni No Kuni has over 60 hours of gameplay![/QUOTE]
Exactly. Money isn't the real currency paid by most people working for a living, it's time. Free time. The cash is a tip. Most free-to-play games are ridiculously long, but most of it is insipid garbage that isn't worth even starting. F2P games are mostly too expensive to bother with, in that case.
Two of the shortest games I've played through, Portal 1 and Limbo, were worth so much more, I was more than happy to pay full price for them. I got Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on sale for XBLA, and felt so guilty because I had gotten so much enjoyment out of playing that I immediately purchased the DLC even though it had no use to me. (It's multiplayer only.)
If I'm going to drop 60-90 hours into a game in a genre that's known for grinding (and therefore a substantial number of low-quality hours), I can already tell I don't want to give them too much cash on top of that. It doesn't help matters that I didn't think that much of the demo.