Comments on: Value http://www.gazimoff.com/2009/01/07/value/ Ramblings of a geek in an insane world Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: An Examination of Mobile Gaming | Gazimoff's geekBlog http://www.gazimoff.com/2009/01/07/value/comment-page-1/#comment-12 An Examination of Mobile Gaming | Gazimoff's geekBlog Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:39:12 +0000 http://www.gazimoff.com/?p=46#comment-12 [...] videogames it can be a as much as $30 million, while customers are increasingly concerned about the value they get from the games they buy. Conventional industry wisdom states that for a game with top flight [...] [...] videogames it can be a as much as $30 million, while customers are increasingly concerned about the value they get from the games they buy. Conventional industry wisdom states that for a game with top flight [...]

]]> By: Khaotikal http://www.gazimoff.com/2009/01/07/value/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Khaotikal Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:35:28 +0000 http://www.gazimoff.com/?p=46#comment-11 I think that there's a correlation at the moment between certain styles of both video game and video consoles that are topping the sales compaired to others, the same goes on with pc gaming and notably the success of MMO's. If you consider with the current "credit crunch" a lot of people are staying in during the evenings instead of going out to pubs and clubs to socialise due to cost of a few drinks. It's cheaper to host "house parties" and buy a few packs of beers or bottles and using games that either have a party function (Like half of the Nintendo Wii's catalogue) Guitar Hero 3 was one of the big sellers last year. These games also have a second advantage, replayability value. As well as being games that mulitple people can get involved in (and also more fun when they get drunk!) They don't wear old because of the clever design of the game to involve either so many options or different features. On the other side, apart from the obscene cost, the PS3 hosts many games that make great use of the graphical engine, but are pretty much one time playthroughs and offer very little replayability value, and for their cost it's very offputting to the consumer to invest in such titles. MMO's have that fantastic feature that we all hate but continue to play because of it, the grind. You don't complete an MMO (Even Kungen probably has a few bits and pieces missing) and taking the prime example of WoW in, Blizzard always releases new content in free patch downloads, all for a monthly subscription of £8.99... 3 pints of Kronenburg to put it in a pub context. The expansions themselves are also cheap to buy, WOTLK retailed at 19.99. The last time I bought something that cheap was for the Game Boy Colour (Even GBA titles were 24.99) And while it's not multiplayer action you can get friends around for, you can happily stock up with a few beers, and share gaming online with friends over a voice speak, and you didnt even have to dress up for the occasion (Just.. if you are sat there playing in just your boxer shorts, don't tell the world, we really REALLY don't need to know.... Seriously) So really for as long as this economic resession continues, the smartest thing for game developers to do, is ditch the insanely awesome pretty graphic no content style of gaming, and make games that are fun. And either great fun with friends, or so fun you want to pick it up when you've completed it, and do something totally different with your next story line... Explains why people still play Baldur's Gate 2 and Diablo really. I think that there’s a correlation at the moment between certain styles of both video game and video consoles that are topping the sales compaired to others, the same goes on with pc gaming and notably the success of MMO’s.

If you consider with the current “credit crunch” a lot of people are staying in during the evenings instead of going out to pubs and clubs to socialise due to cost of a few drinks. It’s cheaper to host “house parties” and buy a few packs of beers or bottles and using games that either have a party function (Like half of the Nintendo Wii’s catalogue) Guitar Hero 3 was one of the big sellers last year. These games also have a second advantage, replayability value.

As well as being games that mulitple people can get involved in (and also more fun when they get drunk!) They don’t wear old because of the clever design of the game to involve either so many options or different features. On the other side, apart from the obscene cost, the PS3 hosts many games that make great use of the graphical engine, but are pretty much one time playthroughs and offer very little replayability value, and for their cost it’s very offputting to the consumer to invest in such titles.

MMO’s have that fantastic feature that we all hate but continue to play because of it, the grind. You don’t complete an MMO (Even Kungen probably has a few bits and pieces missing) and taking the prime example of WoW in, Blizzard always releases new content in free patch downloads, all for a monthly subscription of £8.99… 3 pints of Kronenburg to put it in a pub context.

The expansions themselves are also cheap to buy, WOTLK retailed at 19.99. The last time I bought something that cheap was for the Game Boy Colour (Even GBA titles were 24.99) And while it’s not multiplayer action you can get friends around for, you can happily stock up with a few beers, and share gaming online with friends over a voice speak, and you didnt even have to dress up for the occasion (Just.. if you are sat there playing in just your boxer shorts, don’t tell the world, we really REALLY don’t need to know….

Seriously)

So really for as long as this economic resession continues, the smartest thing for game developers to do, is ditch the insanely awesome pretty graphic no content style of gaming, and make games that are fun. And either great fun with friends, or so fun you want to pick it up when you’ve completed it, and do something totally different with your next story line…

Explains why people still play Baldur’s Gate 2 and Diablo really.

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