Too much for too little?

Wow I don't even know where to begin...

Marikhen posted...

Just look at all the shoddy knockoffs, ports, and even "sequels" like Doom 2 and Descent 2 which used the same engine as the original game and just included a bunch of new maps that a lot of map makers could probably have knocked out in a couple months of work.

Did you just call Doom 2 a shoddy "sequel"? Doom 2 is one of the most highly regarded fps games that has ever been made! Clearly, you are putting too much stock into the creation of the engine. Remember, an engine by itself is nothing. You have to actually make something with it. And that involves an enormous amount of work. You can't just poop out a bunch of maps and expect to end up with a legendary game.


Marikhen posted...

I sincerely hope you don't ever face a situation where you have to pay $400 for DLC that offers 50,000 hours of play time but only cost $300 to make

This example is so outlandish it just makes your argument look silly. Seriously, $400 dollars, for any DLC, is absurd. But $40, on the other hand, is well within the realm of reason.


Marikhen posted...

Nothing I've seen of Heart of the Swarm indicates that Blizzard is putting fully 66% of the development effort, and money, into it as they put into Wings of Liberty so why should the retail price be 66% of Wing's of Liberty's?

Let's see, the development team for Heart is almost double the size it was at the end of Liberty, and they have been working on Heart for almost 3 years constantly... I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that Blizz is putting in limited development effort. You seem to think that creating maps, fmvs, new units, and doing new voice work and audio doesn't take that much work. This couldn't be farther from the truth. Why do you think most RTSs and MMOs fail these days? It's because so called "business people" think like you do, that they can put all this stuff together with minimal development, but all they put together is a giant pile of garbage. In reality, it takes SERIOUS work and talent to design and create the content for a successful computer game.


Marikhen posted...

To me paying $40 for this expansion, based on what I've seen out of it, or $10 for some character skin DLC is about the same as spending $75 for a wrench that ought to only cost $12.50 on the grounds that you'll get something like 5,000 hours of use out of it over the next 35 years.

Your hyperbole here is *almost* as absurd as your hyperole from the previous thing I quoted. A $75 dollar wrench is absolutely stupid, and doesn't work to prove your point at all. And skins are overpriced on purpose. They are designed to appeal to people that have money to burn who want to feel special. Neither of these are analogous to the pricing for a computer game expansion. For me, a whole new 20 mission campaign, new fmvs, new battle.net, revamped multiplayer, new physics, resume from replay, etc. makes Heart almost as substantial of a release as Wings, and certainly worth $40.


Marikhen posted...

I suppose a thank you for being an intelligent poster is in order given that some of the people in this topic seem to make lukewarm tapioca look like a Harvard graduate.

You overestimate your own intellect just as much as you underestimate the work it takes to create a good game.