[quote name='Beer Monkey']$5 for a single game now is like $3.50 back in the 90s with inflation. And the key is SINGLE GAME. Yeah, you always get some additional discount when you buy a quantity because tons of people like me will end up buying a bundle of five when we really only want maybe 3 of the games. So a $20 bundle is over $7 per game (with tax) for the games I would actually want.
Bottom line is, $5 is a GREAT price.
Here's another way of looking about it. GAF whines and cries about the price of everything, but GAF has no beef with classic LucasArts titles at $5. Anybody who thinks $5 is high is out of touch. It is cheap.[/QUOTE]
From a relative perspective, $5 isn't high ... however, for someone who is interested in all the games as opposed to just a few here and there, it makes more sense to wait for a bundle. That's my point, no $5 isn't going to break the bank and many of the titles are worth far more than that, but a bundle is all but inevitable and it will be a better value if, like me, you are interested in each of the games rather than spending $20 on 4 games right now. This has more to do with knowing how Steam works than it does about the individual games being offered up again. Not to mention, when you're talking inflation and also the fact you wouldn't want all the games in a bundle, we are comparing digital downloads versus hard copies which, in some cases, had printed manuals. As it stands now, Lucasarts is getting pure profit off of 15-20 year old games with no cost to them, so it's not like the developer is suffering from lower prices (granted Lucasarts is starting to look like the Titanic with some of their more recent releases ... god damn that Staff of Kings ... awful)
And Battlefront 2 is overpriced ... I really don't care what anyone says about it's rarity or eBay prices ... $20 is overpriced
On the other hand, Commando is a great deal at $10