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Old 09-20-07, 04:33 PM   #18
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"What is full price?"

To make it short, a PC game for 39-55 euros is considered to be "full price" these days. And there are games that get delivered in a state that show that for that money you can get a game with only so little flaws that they are not seriously hindering gameplay, and advertised features are not broken or missing. so, if the biggest companies cannot manage to get a completed product being delivered for that money, and patched in a reasonable ammount of time (everything beyond 3-4 months does not qualify for that descprition, I would say, because if it takes longer, the product was in a too poor shape for release), then this does not mean that it cannot be done, but indicates bad management and customer-hostile marketing practice.

As I said, you spend your money - not mine. And that is good so. So, go ahead spending your money, if you wish. One thing I am sure: it is a long time since I needed to wait long for a needed patch to a game that I already had wasted money on. I can only recommend everybody not to buy games in the release month, but to wait some weeks, maybe even 2-3 months - that will save you a lot of dissapointments and anger, and will deliver a strong message (voting by your wallets) to companies that thy can no longe rget away so easily with your money. Games that failed me over the last years were the few exceptions were I did not follow this my own rule - and these exceptions ALL failed me, as far as i remember. My losses serve me right, then.
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