Got mine just now :D Finishing off the last chapter of Holmes VS Ripper before I play it though, then i'm probably gonna play the whole thing through at once.
When are -you- planning/expecting to get yours? And are you hurrying to finish any other games before it comes out so you can play un-interrupted?
Alan Wake
Game » consists of 14 releases. Released May 14, 2010
When famous novelist Alan Wake goes on vacation with his wife Alice, he has no idea that the idyllic town of Bright Falls will soon be the site of a terrible battle between light and dark that could threaten everything, even Wake's own sanity.
Yay Alan Wake Finally arrived!
This then, is the critical portion of our disagreement." @The_A_Drain: Paying sixty dollars for an eight to ten hour game (like, say, Alan Wake or Modern Warfare 2's single player campaign) works out to about six bucks an hour for entertainment. A movie, on the other hand, costs me eight bucks for (let's be generous and aim at the low end), 90 minutes of entertainment. That's about 5.30 and change. If I want to rent a movie, it's even less (or is renting movies too greedy for you?). Like it or not, games compete with other non-games for entertainment dollars. Games like Alan Wake simply do not compete well at that level. Modern Warfare (with it's larger cultural appeal, not to mention multiplayer) compete much better. A game like Dragon Age, or Mass Effect 2 (sixty hours and thirty hours, respectively), offer a much better value even at retail prices. We're talking ten cents an hour for a long game like Dragon Age. Now that is a sweet deal.
But at sixty bucks for a short game, I'm not getting a sweet deal. I'm getting robbed
For me, it is the complete opposite. A movie offers me nothing in terms of value for money whatsoever, I pay £9 - 14 for a DVD ($16 - 21 ish) and unless it's an absolute classic, I will probably only watch it once ever before shelving it for at least a year. Besides, some feel that they can charge even more than that anyway, for example if you want boxed sets of older shows such as The Twilight Zone, here, you can expect to pay £60 ($83ish I guess?) PER SEASON. I personally, get far more out of videogames.
A game on the other hand, costs me £45 - 50 ($... Uhh, $65 - 73 ish?) and if I get six hours out of that, in my mind, that is plenty given the interactivity of the experience. This is my major issue with peoples perception of value, in my opinion, they simply expect more than is reasonable. You say yourself that at ten cents an hour, Dragon Age is a sweet deal, but if you actually ground that in logic, it's an exceptional deal that is almost unrivaled, and should be treated as such imo. 6 - 10 hours is the standard nowadays, and if you don't think that's decent value at $60, then that's fine you are entitled to that opinion. My argument however is that it's a little bit crazy for people to expect much more than that as a standard while still expecting to pay the same $60. Comparing games to films, again, in my mind is a little bit off. But to the general consumer who only sees a pricetag and an entertainment value, I guess it's inevitable.
Different people have varying perceptions of value I will grant you that, I just think that the general consumers perception of value is of late, becoming a little too warped for it's own good. As an example, even with the exceptional value Dragon Age offers, I still see shit-storms in DLC article comments sections about how it should be given away for free, and how people feel entitled to it despite the fact it's a seperate product. To me, that sort of thing is mind bogglingly selfish and greedy, and yet it seems to have become something of a norm nowadays. Now there is a trend that worries me,
I guess my opinion is just too different to most peoples to get in line with the general consensus, for example in both MW and MW2 I felt slightly cheated, why? Because I don't give two farts about the multiplayer :) i've never even been in the menu. If I want multiplayer I will buy a game built from the ground up with multiplayer in mind. I only played the single player which lasted me much less than the standard length of most games these days.
Arguments are somewhat addictive aren't they my good chap? :D In effort to bring this particular one to a close, I give you...
Partially completed WoW papercraft, forgive the poor construction :P
Now there is something that offers no value for money, fucking printer ink :\
Got mine as well. The "thick" version
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