Computer games are too expensive

Games have stayed around the same price level pretty much since the beginning. It's only recently, with development costs rising to tens of millions of pounds have the prices risen and stayed up at around the £40 - £50.

I remember The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time being £60 when it came out on the N64. Streetfighter too was £60 when that was released on the SNES!

Don't get me wrong, I still think games are a little too expensive, but I'm glad the prices haven't gone up too much...

Some games are a bit pricey for example the games that are low rated get a lower price not a usual 30-40 price range. I see that some are sucking for to much profit and some are just making those prices right when the game is a big hit. I don't know much about pricing but only that certain games that have been sent back to the store more than any other should get a drop of price on the second week. Not hard that is what computers are good at. Pricing can change in an instant and computers can read really fast to the point that the human mind is getting tired of getting these high priced down the toilet games. Bahh!!

Game Quality Control: Right on. As soon as a film comes out ie. Pirates of the Caribbean, Surfs Up (please insert film of your choice). There immediately follows a low quality PC and console game to milk the consuming public. It all stinks!

If you think videogames are bad in Europe or the States, try south Africa! R500-600 (about £45), no second hand games, most are crappy rugby or cricket games anyhow. Besides, if you buy secondhand (like any sane person should if capable) you'll only pitch about £10-£20. Pc games, however, are THE BIGGEST CORPARATE SCAM IN LIVING HISTORY. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that's including enron, big cement and artifical fertilisers. You pay £500-£600+ for a decent-ish rig, another £30 for each (expletive removed) game AND NEXT YEAR THE DAMN THING'S OBSOLETE! Do manufacturers think we're capable of shelling out that kind of money every few years just for the privilidge of buying another one of their games.This enrages me a great deal, although I personally recognised their little scheme several years back, and have simply decided to subsist on old, classic games untill its absolutely neccesary to upgrade. Consoles are slightly less evil, as they maintain a steady performance level that developers have to work to, rather than continually altering the requirements. Though that may change (if it does, I will cave to preassure and simply take up rugby full-time). We cannot stand for this flagrent, heinous and crude abuse of our rights as consumers, indeed, we must organise to protect ourselves from this. Gamers worldwide! Unite against this malevolant, vampiristic corporate entity that seeks to pander to the elites and parasites of society, and so disregard the very community that created videogames as they are known!

Ahem. Now I feel less angry. Good day to all

I would like to abolish, burn, destroy, remove completely all references in the world to

Dungeons and Dragons
Lord of The Rings
Star Wars

and every game ever produced and made based on a book or film or so-called Adventure game.

These genres have produced some of the worst games in the computer industry. They sicken me.

If you take into account the sheer amount of work and development that goes into top class games, the prices are very reasonable.

It takes roughly around 3 years (or longer) to develop and release a top title, which is a LOT of work. Programmers and game designers aren't cheap to employ either.

I think if a game is truly remarkable, innovative and has fantastic gameplay, I would quite happily pay £30-40 for it!

...shame about the cost of having to upgrade your system every few years :(

You're paying for how new it is. If you don't wana play loads wait 6 month after release and get it off e-bay. Then when your tired of it sell it back on e-bay. I do this and I can honestly say it works out cheaper than my friend who buys pirated CDs!

in my humble opinion computer games should be in the region of about £10-30. but are they? no there £35-50 which is just insane. how are children able to afford these unless their fathers a millionaire fist off the console and then the games you have to buy!!!! crazy...

Ok, Im a serious gamer and im always paying between £20-£40 for a new pc game, they are abit expensive but it does take alot to develop, the only thing I have the problem with, with pc in particular, is the games get better and better, but then you have to spend hundreds on upgrading your pc to be able to play the things. Not right really, so the average gaming rig to play games with the intended graphics these days is around £600.. And thats a cheap one, Alienware systems start around £1200..

Good games, good price, overpriced hardware..

Done!!!

Prices for computer games haven't changed in a very, very long time. Games ahve always cost about $50 and only recently have gone to $60 since the 360 came out. You can buy them online for a little cheaper, but look at how much money is spent to develope a game these days and you will see that you are getting a great deal.

3D artists, graphics designers, programmers, now even full motion actors and voice talent are hired to create characters for games. Then add in the marketing costs, legal fees, testing and production costs and you will see that it takes more money to introduce a new game then it does to produce a blockbuster hollywood film.

If you paid 50 pounds for a game, you've lost your mind.

Fascist, a bit over the top don't you think? This debate is about the price of computer games, not whether or not they are good for your soul. I personally think gaming once and a while is good for you, but I have seen people take it a bit too far - In other words... it is gaming and nothing else, almost to the point of excluding friends in the real world. Some people can't actually have a proper relationship because they hang out in the gaming scene and to me that is worrying.

But to describe it as "majority mindless drivel for morons" - that is a bit much. Loosen up and live a little, before you die a sad old person!

Computer games are in the majority mindless drivel for morons. In my regime, they would be banned. Overpriced? If people are stupid enough to pay for such rubbish they deserve to be fleeced. The same philosophy applies to people who harm themselves and others by paying large amounts of money to poison themselves and others with carcinogens.