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Old 02-22-10, 03:47 PM   #1
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Default Cheap Lunch

The price of this game is that of a cheap lunch for two
and all this talk it should be a promo dream

how do we explain to the devs/financing company (ubi) at present
that i for one would pay at least 4 lunches if not more for the right product, in a niche market its a difficult question, but one lunch for months of fun, does not work out for either party

Just thinking
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Old 02-22-10, 03:55 PM   #2
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The price of this game is that of a cheap lunch for two
Cheap lunch!? Geez where do you go eat, my lunches cost 5$
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Old 02-22-10, 03:56 PM   #3
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say what? You must have expensive lunches or really cheap games, where do u live?
I work at a danish hospital and can get about 20 lunches for a collectors edition SH:5.
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Old 02-22-10, 04:05 PM   #4
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No kiddin I could get at least 6 lunches for that price and I wouldent have to be connected to the internet to eat them.
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Old 02-22-10, 04:07 PM   #5
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Well
i live in the Uk
if i went to pizza express and eat for two people
say 2 pizzas / one salad and 2 beers and coffee
its going to cost me about £30 with a small tip

i pre ordered shv collectors edition for £29.99

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Old 02-22-10, 04:25 PM   #6
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Just bought a tactical Flashlight for 50 Eur, ~225 lumens, AC grade hard anodized alu body, waterproof, excellent workmanship ... should serve me several years. The money originally reserved for SH5 will go into a set of MTB tires, 50 Eur +shipping, - lasting about 1/2-3/4 year. By then there's a good chance of Uplay being dropped as a requirement.
Not that we're running out of options to kill our money and sparetime.
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Old 02-22-10, 04:39 PM   #7
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Some people may also have more discriminating tastes than others...
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Old 02-22-10, 04:45 PM   #8
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I've been eating cheap lunches for a year to save enough money to get a computer that could handle SH-V.

It iwill be powerful enough to run SHIII with GWX
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Old 02-22-10, 06:37 PM   #9
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Hmm... lunch here (usualy a bag of patato chips, and a drink.) cost about 2 dollars... or less...
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Old 02-22-10, 07:00 PM   #10
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Because of Wrestling season, and my need to loose weight for it, lunches here are a reused water bottled filled with tap from school drinking fountains about 100 times and an apple. So my lunch is about 50 cents. I need 100 of those damn things, i guess.
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Old 02-22-10, 07:09 PM   #11
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LOL, cheap lunch in my country cost 5 PLN, its about 1.20 euro.
McDonalds meal cost about 12 PLN, 3 euro.
Good dish in restaurant cost 20 PLN, Big fat pizza 25 PLN its 4-6 euro.

Some of poor families has less then 15 euro monthly for food in my country.
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Old 02-22-10, 10:29 PM   #12
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very expensive "cheap lunch"

prices in NZ for silent hunter 5 = $100
collectors edition = $120

1 big mac combo = less than $10

so could prob have a meal for 12 for the price of SH5
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Old 02-22-10, 10:51 PM   #13
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Old 02-22-10, 10:56 PM   #14
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Hmm, I can't remember the last time a friend and I had "cheap" lunch for $60... Dinner yes, lunch no. More like $20 max for any lunch, for both of us. This includes unlimited refills of iced-tea.

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No kiddin I could get at least 6 lunches for that price and I wouldent have to be connected to the internet to eat them.
LOL.

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Old 02-23-10, 05:06 AM   #15
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Not trying to hijack the thread, but I gotta say this, because it burns me:

$7328.20 for the TIP!?!
I seriously doubt the server did $1200 worth of service for each person at the table. This is my problem with the "percentage" tipping system. The tip becomes a factor of the type and cost of the items you get, not the amount or quality of service you receive. If I drink a $100 bottle of wine instead of a $2 iced tea that I get refilled 10 times, I'm expected to pay an extra $20, even though the server did the same (or less) amount of work.

I just got back from Thailand where the tipping system is simple: Leave about 20 Baht (roughly 60 cents in the US) for each person at the table.
This wouldn't work here because tips are "part of their wage" and they even get TAXED on "expected tips." That's ridiculous! So basically, the laws allow the restaurants to underpay their workers, then make you feel guilty about it, strongarming you into paying most of their wages instead, all so that the restaurant can have a lower price on their menu.
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