Cheap Lunch

[Sanuck]

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

[IanC]

Originally Posted by Sanuck

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$

[Noren]

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.

[SteamWake]

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.

[Sanuck]

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

[OakGroove]

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.

[609_Avatar]

Some people may also have more discriminating tastes than others...

[Brag]

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

[Task Force]

Hmm... lunch here (usualy a bag of patato chips, and a drink.) cost about 2 dollars... or less...

[Safe-Keeper]

Originally Posted by Sanuck

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

So "lunch for two" means "lunch, salad, beer and coffee" for two.

Glad to have that cleared up.

[jwilliams]

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

[IanC]

[Turbografx]

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.

Originally Posted by SteamWake

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.

[jerm138]

Originally Posted by IanC

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.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Sanuck

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

It costs me AU$30 to feed my wife and three kids at Hungry Jacks - that's a burger, fries, coke and sundae each. That's still 66% less (AU$60) than what the standard version of SH5 costs.

Originally Posted by jerm138

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.

The Australian tipping system is best...


Unless, of course, you happen to work in the hospitality industry...