I'll be dropping in and out of this particular general gaming forum, I stopped playing Ed the day they announced that consoles wouldn't be getting Odyssey or any other further updates.
Or you didn't notice it. I switched from 32 bits to 64 bits this year, and I basically see different game in many small details. What I thought "normal" it was a bug in fact.
. I had it on character creation, but decided to avoid searching patch as it moved eventually and this is 1 time in whole the game.I'm also waiting for it to be released, however really trying to not get hyped, then again the last demo just blew me away, I mean outpost building, ship creation, ship crew, EVA combat, docking to ships and take them over and sell them, it's like being a kid in a candy store.
And I must correct you again...
Bethesda acquired the IP when Interplay went bust. I think Black Isle did some work at a Fallout #3 but was liquidated by Interplay. Interplay was in financial trouble so they sold licence / IP to Bethesda. Obsidian was founded by old Black Isle staff and would make FO New Vegas. Obsidian and Bethesda (Zenimax?) were bought independently by Microsoft and today it is one big family again...
Bear in mind that the article you linked to was written in 2011. Original retail price for 2600 was $189.95, which if you look at www.usinflationcalculator.com shows that to be $953.28 in 2023 money. I can't recall the source for my original retail price for carts, but working it backwards it would have been around $40. After researching, I've seen it be mostly around $25-$35, which works out to be $150-$175, so still not that far off tbh.
Either way, it makes the average full price of $40-$70 these days seem extremely reasonable ($70 = $14 in 1977 money!), especially when considering what you get in comparison.
However, it's very important to note that the sales of the top selling games far exceed that of the games from the Atari 2600 days, the highest selling 2600 game was Pac Man at 8,095,586 copies, which is still pretty great, but compare Minecraft with 238,000,000, and you can see the difference. Factor in digital distribution vs manufacturing and shipping cartridges and I'd say the profit, even at the present levels is probably equal to or higher per unit today than when the 2600 was released. Which is just as well as I would suggest that the development costs for modern games do not track proportionally to that of the Atari 2600 era when factoring inflation into the overall equation at all.
Honestly, $70 for a game like Zelda; Tears of the Kingdom, or Starfield (if it actually turns out as good as they show) seems very reasonable all things considered. Makes the 1977 $7.97 price for the Odyssey expansion look not so expensive either, and the sale price of 1977 $2.79 a positive bargain. Or have I gone too far with this?
I have finished almost everything in Oblivion, but never the main quest.
Oblivion I didn't finish either - the portals went on my nerve. Skyrim I finished exactly once and then never again, but dozens of playthroughs.
That's true for some, but not all. I guess we'll see by which measure once Starfield is out.
Fair, the prices I looked at had a few years to drop after release. 100% agree with your point, particularly after recently starting tears of the kingdomBear in mind that the article you linked to was written in 2011. Original retail price for 2600 was $189.95, which if you look at www.usinflationcalculator.com shows that to be $953.28 in 2023 money. I can't recall the source for my original retail price for carts, but working it backwards it would have been around $40. After researching, I've seen it be mostly around $25-$35, which works out to be $150-$175, so still not that far off tbh.
Either way, it makes the average full price of $40-$70 these days seem extremely reasonable ($70 = $14 in 1977 money!), especially when considering what you get in comparison.
However, it's very important to note that the sales of the top selling games far exceed that of the games from the Atari 2600 days, the highest selling 2600 game was Pac Man at 8,095,586 copies, which is still pretty great, but compare Minecraft with 238,000,000, and you can see the difference. Factor in digital distribution vs manufacturing and shipping cartridges and I'd say the profit, even at the present levels is probably equal to or higher per unit today than when the 2600 was released. Which is just as well as I would suggest that the development costs for modern games do not track proportionally to that of the Atari 2600 era when factoring inflation into the overall equation at all.
Honestly, $70 for a game like Zelda; Tears of the Kingdom, or Starfield (if it actually turns out as good as they show) seems very reasonable all things considered. Makes the 1977 $7.97 price for the Odyssey expansion look not so expensive either, and the sale price of 1977 $2.79 a positive bargain. Or have I gone too far with this?
You could download olite and just install such plugin with this ship, it was avail many years too.
I can see the upcoming Starfield related section of this forum outdoing the star citizen one over time
I never saw errors until I finished the game, I didn't use mods either, until I finished it, then I used a few mods, to this day I go back from time to time.
Better call it a Panther Clopper though for legal reason
"Difficult to see...always in motion, is the future"I can see the upcoming Starfield related section of this forum outdoing the star citizen one over time
I don't think so, the Star Citizen thread relies on nothing actually being produced for its ever lively banter. Starfield look like it's going to ignore this important attention grabbing facetI can see the upcoming Starfield related section of this forum outdoing the star citizen one over time
I've played Oolite since 2005 when the Linux port was released. Amazing game. Talk about mod freedom (within the constraints of the game, of course)!
Panther Clopper confirmed!Better call it a Panther Clopper though for legal reason
