HAVE YOU SEEN HOW MUCH BRAID AND CASTLE CRASHERS WILL COST?

[Dan]

Castle Crashers is £10. And Braid might be as much as £7.50!

Jesus Christ, it's HIGHWAY FUCKING ROBBERY is what it is!

What is wrong with these people where £7.50 is somehow an outrageous sum of money for a game?

Take Destructoid, for example. On the face of it, they're all for the little man. But then they post that £7.50 is worthy of this sort of shit:

Still, I'll wait until the English announcement before I scream "F*CK YOU MICRO$OFT AND I SPELL THE "S" IN YOUR NAME WITH A DOLLAR SIGN" from the highest rooftop.

For fuck's sake, no wonder everything's shit.

EDIT: apparently 1800 points is £15 quid! FIFTEEN QUID FOR SOME ENTERTAINMENT! I didn't spend £200 on a next-gen games console to play low-end games, etc. I mean, I'll pay £44.99 for Alone in the Dark, obviously, because it has fire in it. But fifteen quid for something smaller and better? Pttttsh.

[RobF]

Castle Crashers can fuck off anyway ;)

It's a relative thing, mind. When most games are 400/800 then yeah, there's going to be a bit of a kerfuffle. And to be annoyingly pedantic, it's £10 and £13.50-ish on the points conversion.

I guess the worry is that if they start setting a precedent then the overall prices of the XBLA stuff start creeping up as the studios who already default to 800 think "oh well, we'll nip on up to 1200" then 1600 for a lot of gash crap. Which would be a generally bad thing for a service that relies on no brain click button purchases. 400/800 points is a complete no brainer purchase. The moment you slip up to a tenner you're not in that space anymore.

Personally, I'll happily chuck a tenner at Braid but The Behemoth can cunt right off, frankly.

[edit] 1800 points? They can definitely fuck off.

[Dan]

What's your beef with Castle Crashers? I've only seen one video of it, and it's not like I'm worked up about it or anything, but it looks sort of fun.

Certainly acres better than the Match-3/ Hidden Object shit that gets churned out at that price and noone bats an eyelid.

[RobF]

It just looks like Golden Axe in silly pants. And as wonderful as the artwork is, I can't really see it being a massive diversion from the forty million other scrolling beat-em-ups I've had to endure in my life.

I'm still scarred from them being the match-3 of their day all those years ago.

[seregrail7]

Power to the Indies! I can't believe people have a problem with those prices, they're fairly standard for an Indie pc game.

[RobF]

Hah, crap. I didn't notice the Destructoid link - I just read the Kotaku news post and toddled off. That's special as usual, I see.

They should change the tagline to Destructoid: Home for Special Children and be done with.

Gah! I'm trying to work out why the 1800 has got me so miffed. I'm still half annoyed that Yak only charged 400 for SG and plummeted himself into near shit street because of it (ignoring the wild silly ranting he did afterwards which helped precisely nothing) and I spent a silly amount of time arguing yesterday that developers have to bloody well eat, but it's 1800 points for a game that's got such a small hope in hell of me buying even if it were 50p and a packet of Jaffa Cakes.

Maybe it's precisely because I've been spoilt. Space Giraffe at 400 was the biggest gaming bargain in my lifetime to date for the hours of fun it brought me, I bunged over 800 (I think, I didn't look) for GWRE2 this morning after 3 minutes on the demo and I already know that'll give me hours of fun.

It's bothering me more that it's bothering me now.

[Simon]

It's way too expensive. They're not even 3D.

[seregrail7]

$20 is a lot to ask for a digital download with no case, manuals and most important, a physical disc.

Honestly, I wouldn't have minded if they just went retail and charged like $40 for it.

He'd pay double for a manual he'll look at once, a case that will sit on a shelf forever, and a disc that will just be in his console anyway?

[Simon]

But they're 3D.

[Dan]

If he bought the retail version, but promised to keep one eye closed at all times when looking at the box, manual or CD, do you think they'd let him have it for $30?

[misterbrilliant]

fuk dat i can play puzzle pirates 4 free

[Simon]

If he bought the retail version, but promised to keep one eye closed at all times when looking at the box, manual or CD, do you think they'd let him have it for $30?

No that doesn't work, they've seen that a million times. Put on an eye patch, never fails to net you a discount. Also, avoid polarised glasses.

[Dan]

I had to stop reading that Destructoid thread because it was meaking me very angry.

"MONEY GRABBING DEVELOPERS!"

:(

[Simon]

That's nothing. Some developers have a donate button on the page of their free games.

[Dan]

When will it end, Simon? These developers need to be shut down. They should be doing it for the shits, the giggles, and the kudos alone. If they wat to eat, let them eat out of the bins like the rest of us.