Comments on: Bought our game? Buy it again, please. http://www.primegamer.co.uk/2009/09/bought-our-game-buy-it-again-please/ Stuff about games, by gamers Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:34:16 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ben http://www.primegamer.co.uk/2009/09/bought-our-game-buy-it-again-please/comment-page-1/#comment-391 Ben Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:12:01 +0000 http://www.primegamer.co.uk/?p=410#comment-391 To be honest the Left 4 Dead GotY edition was actually a massive rip off as it only included the Survival Pack DLC, which was free. OK so you lost out on the 100Mb of space it required, but I'd take an 100Mb download over the £15 extra the GotY edition would have been to pick up versus the price I paid. I have no real issue with this tactic of bundling DLC into games and re-releasing them with a bit of a price bump. Sure you can get pissed that you've effectively paid more for the game and its DLC, but that happens every time you buy a game anywhere near release, so just deal with it. What I don't like is this idea of additional content that's exclusive to a re-release as that is clearly aimed at making people buy the game again, which is retarded. To be honest the Left 4 Dead GotY edition was actually a massive rip off as it only included the Survival Pack DLC, which was free. OK so you lost out on the 100Mb of space it required, but I’d take an 100Mb download over the £15 extra the GotY edition would have been to pick up versus the price I paid.

I have no real issue with this tactic of bundling DLC into games and re-releasing them with a bit of a price bump. Sure you can get pissed that you’ve effectively paid more for the game and its DLC, but that happens every time you buy a game anywhere near release, so just deal with it. What I don’t like is this idea of additional content that’s exclusive to a re-release as that is clearly aimed at making people buy the game again, which is retarded.

]]> By: Paco http://www.primegamer.co.uk/2009/09/bought-our-game-buy-it-again-please/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Paco Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:51:38 +0000 http://www.primegamer.co.uk/?p=410#comment-390 I have a love/hate relationship with this kind of tactic. I mean, if the game is good, it should warrant the price of the purchase and if you don't have the game yet, it's probably a good idea to opt for the latter release since it has more incentive. But, for example, those of us who actually coughed up cash for Left 4 Dead only to find a "Game of the Year" release on the shelf a couple of months later felt like we got shunned. It makes it worse when you find out that Left 4 Dead 2 is coming out at the end of that SAME FISCAL YEAR. So yeah. It would be nice if they made the game properly the first time. I have a love/hate relationship with this kind of tactic. I mean, if the game is good, it should warrant the price of the purchase and if you don’t have the game yet, it’s probably a good idea to opt for the latter release since it has more incentive. But, for example, those of us who actually coughed up cash for Left 4 Dead only to find a “Game of the Year” release on the shelf a couple of months later felt like we got shunned. It makes it worse when you find out that Left 4 Dead 2 is coming out at the end of that SAME FISCAL YEAR.

So yeah. It would be nice if they made the game properly the first time.

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