Crysis 2 is $60

I was browsing EA's store because they're having a sale and I noticed that they listed Crysis 2 for $60. Sorry if old. Hopefully many people on PC won't support this new pricing trend thanks to Call of Dooky. I personally seen nothing about Crysis 2 that can somehow justify it to be $10 more than most other games on the platform.

http://eastore.ea.com/DRHM/store?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=ea&Locale=en_US&ThemeID=718200&Env=BASE&productID=184052400

Funny thing , though, that the currency exchange rates with USD and the country I'm living in, $60 games will cost the same as when I bought CoD4 and The Orange Box and back then , they were like $50. I don't mind paying at that price as long as they offer a lot of content.

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

OMG this is just awesome!

Thanks a lot Activision! :evil: (for starting all this with MW2)

OMG this is just awesome!

Thanks a lot Activision! :evil: (for starting all this with MW2)

M3tr4nk0

[QUOTE="M3tr4nk0"]

OMG this is just awesome!

Thanks a lot Activision! :evil: (for starting all this with MW2)

SF_KiLLaMaN

Are we really going to have this type of thread every time this happens? If you're not willing to spend the extra $10 just don't buy it. Again, I refer to how much games in other places cost. All of the games I buy at retail are normally $79 (au) and thats a discount!

I also have to question how long Kevin Van Ord is going to lower PC game scores for this. If it does become a regular aspect for games, which it looks like it is, is he still going to put it in his negative criteria?

LOL I don't care!

Games are SUPER CHEAP where I live!

Convert that into USD:P

[QUOTE="M3tr4nk0"]

OMG this is just awesome!

Thanks a lot Activision! :evil: (for starting all this with MW2)

SF_KiLLaMaN

The saddest thing in all this is that when games are on the EA store, there's no middleman taking a split of the profit, it's all going straight to the publisher. So how they can do that on their own site is just terrible, if anything they should be pushing the absolute cheapest price.

LOL I don't care!

Games are SUPER CHEAP where I live!

Convert that into USD:P

call_of_duty_10

You will have to pay double of that for crysis 2 and thats as much as paying for a console game

To be honest I have some interest but not enough to buy the game at this point(price tag doesn't help), still sticking to the 1st and hopefully get Warhead.

I think EA will quickly realize that Crysis 2 is no MW2 or SC2, so $60 probably won't be too appealing to most people thinking of getting it.General_X

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

blues35301

Really? 0 justification?

How about having to hire probably 25+ more programmers just to give us the graphical quality we all expect from a DX11 game. Or how about the extra money it costs to put in the high quality audio with half-decent voice actors with studio quality sounds.

This stuff ain't cheap anymore. PC people are not entitled to price cuts just because PC titles have always been cheaper.

Face it, development costs have skyrocketed. No half-decent graphics programmer is going to work for less than 50,000 a year... and when you need 30 of them over a couple of years of development, it drives up costs.

[QUOTE="call_of_duty_10"]

LOL I don't care!

Games are SUPER CHEAP where I live!

Convert that into USD:P

sandeep410

You will have to pay double of that for crysis 2 and thats as much as paying for a console game

[QUOTE="sandeep410"]

[QUOTE="call_of_duty_10"]

LOL I don't care!

Games are SUPER CHEAP where I live!

Convert that into USD:P

call_of_duty_10

You will have to pay double of that for crysis 2 and thats as much as paying for a console game

You are not the only one living in India. Besides Dragon age is Rs 2000 so is Mass effect 2.So will be crysis 2.

[QUOTE="blues35301"]

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

Wasdie

Really? 0 justification?

How about having to hire probably 25+ more programmers just to give us the graphical quality we all expect from a DX11 game. Or how about the extra money it costs to put in the high quality audio with half-decent voice actors with studio quality sounds.

This stuff ain't cheap anymore. PC people are not entitled to price cuts just because PC titles have always been cheaper.

Face it, development costs have skyrocketed. No half-decent graphics programmer is going to work for less than 50,000 a year... and when you need 30 of them over a couple of years of development, it drives up costs.

I figured they would do this since they did it with MoH, and reception of that game has been far more lukewarm than Crysis 2's. Pretty unfortunate.

However, keep in mind you'll inevitably be able to order it somewhere "on sale" for $50. Amazon has the preorder for $50 with free shipping right now (though it doesn't stipulate that it's the limited edition right now, but I'm sure it will closer to release).

Are we really going to have this type of thread every time this happens? If you're not willing to spend the extra $10 just don't buy it. Again, I refer to how much games in other places cost. All of the games I buy at retail are normally $79 (au) and thats a discount!

biggest_loser

That just means Australians are getting ripped off extra hard.

Games have not always been $50, you know. I remember paying $60 for new adventure titles, or $70 to $100 for the CD-ROM version. And that was in the 90's.

[QUOTE="blues35301"]

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

Wasdie

Really? 0 justification?

How about having to hire probably 25+ more programmers just to give us the graphical quality we all expect from a DX11 game. Or how about the extra money it costs to put in the high quality audio with half-decent voice actors with studio quality sounds.

This stuff ain't cheap anymore. PC people are not entitled to price cuts just because PC titles have always been cheaper.

Face it, development costs have skyrocketed. No half-decent graphics programmer is going to work for less than 50,000 a year... and when you need 30 of them over a couple of years of development, it drives up costs.

Games have not always been $50, you know. I remember paying $60 for new adventure titles, or $70 to $100 for the CD-ROM version. And that was in 90's.

dos4gw82

Most old games weren't that much in my experience, though. In the early 90's, most PC games were $30-$35 (e.g., Bio Menace, Duke Nukem, each Keen game [which we now recognize as two games split into three episodes each, minus Keen Dreams], Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Blake Stone, Jill of the Jungle, Xargon, etc.), and later $40 (Doom, Jazz Jackrabbit, and a bunch of others I'm too lazy to go refresh my memory on). From there, the $40 standard for full price for most games stuck on into the early 2000's, around which time I remember full price increased to $50 standard.

Well. Seeing as how the PC will be the superior version, I do not mind paying $60 at all. I own consoles as well, and I would feel cheated if I purchased the console version for $60. Too bad though, I would still prefer $50 price tag. Saving money is always a good thing.Elann2008

Like I said in my first post in the topic, look out for places selling at a quote, unquote "discount" price of $50 like Amazon is doing right now.

[QUOTE="dos4gw82"]

Games have not always been $50, you know. I remember paying $60 for new adventure titles, or $70 to $100 for the CD-ROM version. And that was in 90's.

JP_Russell

Most old games weren't that much in my experience, though. In the early 90's, most PC games were $30-$35 (e.g., Bio Menace, Duke Nukem, each Keen game [which we now recognize as two games split into three episodes each, minus Keen Dreams], Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Blake Stone, Jill of the Jungle, Xargon, etc.), and later $40 (Doom, Jazz Jackrabbit, and a bunch of others I'm too lazy to go refresh my memory on). From there, the $40 standard for full price for most games stuck on into the early 2000's, around which time I remember full price increased to $50 standard.

[QUOTE="dos4gw82"]

Games have not always been $50, you know. I remember paying $60 for new adventure titles, or $70 to $100 for the CD-ROM version. And that was in 90's.

JP_Russell

Most old games weren't that much in my experience, though. In the early 90's, most PC games were $30-$35 (e.g., Bio Menace, Duke Nukem, each Keen game [which we now recognize as two games split into three episodes each, minus Keen Dreams], Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Blake Stone, Jill of the Jungle, Xargon, etc.), and later $40 (Doom, Jazz Jackrabbit, and a bunch of others I'm too lazy to go refresh my memory on). From there, the $40 standard for full price for most games stuck on into the early 2000's, around which time I remember full price increased to $50 standard.

Well. Seeing as how the PC will be the superior version, I do not mind paying $60 at all. I own consoles as well, and I would feel cheated if I purchased the console version for $60. Too bad though, I would still prefer $50 price tag. Saving money is always a good thing.Elann2008

Like I said in my first post in the topic, look out for places selling at a quote, unquote "discount" price of $50 like Amazon is doing right now.

Do you guys not realise that all games have a higher rrp than what they sell for? In england its normally £50 rrp but every shop sells for £40 (unless it's mw2, in that case we pay £45 -.-). Of course it'll be more expensive on EA's site, i bet it says its $50 for assasins creed brotherhood too.

EDIT: I mean £50 rrp for console games

I also have to question how long Kevin Van Ord is going to lower PC game scores for this. If it does become a regular aspect for games, which it looks like it is, is he still going to put it in his negative criteria?

biggest_loser

You will have to pay double of that for crysis 2 and thats as much as paying for a console game

sandeep410

you said double? its still going to be cheaper then a console game.

I will gladly pay that price if it offers the same experience as crysis did. But it doesn't seem to be that way, from the gameplay movies I've seen the levels look much smaller and there is much less sandbox gameplay. It seems more linear this time around and I'm getting really sick of those kind of FPS.

Also the graphics don't seem that much of an improvement even though the time gap is almost 4 years whereas between Far Cry and Crysis it was 3 years with a huge difference in graphics. But I'll wait for more PC footage before making my judgement on that subject

[QUOTE="blues35301"]

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

Wasdie

Really? 0 justification?

How about having to hire probably 25+ more programmers just to give us the graphical quality we all expect from a DX11 game. Or how about the extra money it costs to put in the high quality audio with half-decent voice actors with studio quality sounds.

This stuff ain't cheap anymore. PC people are not entitled to price cuts just because PC titles have always been cheaper.

Face it, development costs have skyrocketed. No half-decent graphics programmer is going to work for less than 50,000 a year... and when you need 30 of them over a couple of years of development, it drives up costs.

I'm not sure about the final price. In my country MoH was marked at 60 € in PC, but now that the ship date is near I saw that in most of stores the price tag is only 50 €, as was BF: BC 2 and most of the PC games for years and years -I paid the same 50 € equivalent for almost all my PC games in the last 6 years.

Anyway, the possible extra 10 bucks isn't my main concern about the game. The lack of drivable vehicles in the mp, the reduced size of the maps and max population supported, or the absence of on fly weapon customization looks like a more serious problem than a increase in the price tag.

[QUOTE="M3tr4nk0"]

OMG this is just awesome!

Thanks a lot Activision! :evil: (for starting all this with MW2)

SF_KiLLaMaN

True. MS Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition was still like $70 almost a year after release. I can't even remember how much it was when it initially released.

I've noticed that in the past 20 years, Western European and American kids have been taught in the government run schools to never fight back.

They have been brainwashed into believing that they should just take it, when someone tries to rip them off, charges more money for a product than what it's worth, flies airplanes into buildings , etc.

BUT - - they will attack anyone who DOES try to stand up for themselves.

About 50% of our young people have become wimps.

I will NOT pay 60 dollars for a game, unfortunately though, there will be people with no self respect - who will.

[QUOTE="blues35301"]

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

Wasdie

Really? 0 justification?

How about having to hire probably 25+ more programmers just to give us the graphical quality we all expect from a DX11 game. Or how about the extra money it costs to put in the high quality audio with half-decent voice actors with studio quality sounds.

This stuff ain't cheap anymore. PC people are not entitled to price cuts just because PC titles have always been cheaper.

Face it, development costs have skyrocketed. No half-decent graphics programmer is going to work for less than 50,000 a year... and when you need 30 of them over a couple of years of development, it drives up costs.

Actually, just the other day, EA has stated that game budgets have peaked and are now moving in the reverse direction again. It's a cycle that repeats itself every generation.

Anyway, Crysis 2 is listed at 50€ for me so that's the normal price. I also took a glance at Amazon UK and they have it for 27 pounds (MSRP 35 pounds) so I guess the price hike is America-only.

[QUOTE="blues35301"]

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

Wasdie

Really? 0 justification?

How about having to hire probably 25+ more programmers just to give us the graphical quality we all expect from a DX11 game. Or how about the extra money it costs to put in the high quality audio with half-decent voice actors with studio quality sounds.

This stuff ain't cheap anymore. PC people are not entitled to price cuts just because PC titles have always been cheaper.

Face it, development costs have skyrocketed. No half-decent graphics programmer is going to work for less than 50,000 a year... and when you need 30 of them over a couple of years of development, it drives up costs.

lol its gone up £2 on amazon so its £26.99 for UK was £25.

You know, i'm usually the first person to get angry and vocal when I see another game at $60, but i have to agree with a couple posters here, development costs have changed significantly. Seriously, check out the length of credits at the end of the game. Compare just 5 years ago to today. The typical game has doubled in the number of people it has take in that time. And from 5 years ago to 10 years ago, it seems to have doubled again. These are very rough approximations, but its true.

Also, doesnt it seem more common that a game company suffers an annual loss these days? If they are losing money, they will go out of business....and that is bad for all of us who like games.

[QUOTE="blues35301"]

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

Wasdie

Really? 0 justification?

How about having to hire probably 25+ more programmers just to give us the graphical quality we all expect from a DX11 game. Or how about the extra money it costs to put in the high quality audio with half-decent voice actors with studio quality sounds.

This stuff ain't cheap anymore. PC people are not entitled to price cuts just because PC titles have always been cheaper.

Face it, development costs have skyrocketed. No half-decent graphics programmer is going to work for less than 50,000 a year... and when you need 30 of them over a couple of years of development, it drives up costs.

Then why arn't consoles games $70?

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="blues35301"]

It is funny because there is 0 justification for this recent cost increase on pc (no console manufacturer to take a cut). It's just greed. And its 10 bucks and people who really want to play the game, myself included, won't hesitate to spend an extra 10 bucks and this is why they do it.

morrowindnic

Really? 0 justification?

How about having to hire probably 25+ more programmers just to give us the graphical quality we all expect from a DX11 game. Or how about the extra money it costs to put in the high quality audio with half-decent voice actors with studio quality sounds.

This stuff ain't cheap anymore. PC people are not entitled to price cuts just because PC titles have always been cheaper.

Face it, development costs have skyrocketed. No half-decent graphics programmer is going to work for less than 50,000 a year... and when you need 30 of them over a couple of years of development, it drives up costs.

Then why arn't consoles games $70?

Personally I would never pay 60$ for a game unless it was the holy grail of gaming, especially with a guaranteed xmas sale each year.

Wasn't planning on buying it anyway... same with MoH. They can keep their $60 games. I think they need to make sure the game series is pretty popular before they try a stunt like that, or they're gonna lose out.

It's $50 where I live, try a different store...

I honestly don't care, its obvious that development costs are much higher then they were in the past. If you are complaining about this and refuse to buy it because its 10$ more...then please quit PC gaming. While most of us want to have fun, you are part of the problem of why publishers don't take the PC platform seriously.

I honestly don't care, its obvious that development costs are much higher then they were in the past. If you are complaining about this and refuse to buy it because its 10$ more...then please quit PC gaming. While most of us want to have fun, you are part of the problem of why publishers don't take the PC platform seriously.

JangoWuzHere