Justifying a full priced ($50) Left 4 Dead sequel, after just 1 year

Written by evol

Sunday, 04 October 2009 20:30

I’ll keep this short and sweet. I’ve been a gamer all my life. I’m 27 years old right now. When I was very young, (4 or 5), I played Atari and Nintendo. New, those games cost $50. New games STILL cost $50. Notice how they haven’t gone up with inflation, unlike everything else? During my teen years, I played a lot of arcades with friends. Playing arcades used to cost me anywhere from $1/hr to $5/hr, depending on how long my games lasted. I paid $50 for Left 4 Dead 1, and I have 380 hours logged. That comes out to 13 cents per hour ($0.13/hr). That pretty hard to beat. If I could never play Left 4 Dead again, I already got my money’s worth, 10 times over.

For the amount of time I know I’m going to put into L4D2, $50 is easy to pay. So much so, that the morning pre-sales were available, I ordered the 4-pack. I need a few extra copies to make and test mods, and the price per copy was just over $37. Well worth it. If you liked L4D1, you’re going to love L4D2. No more corner-camping, as you have to run THROUGH events, so you can’t “wait it out”. Plus the Spitter and Charger will put a stop to corner-camping melee-happy teams. Just go pre-order your copy already. It’s going to be amazing. I'll see you in the demo on October 27th.

-EVOL (Sam Meacham)

Comments

Samsara - but what about huntergames!?

|67.53.38.xxx |2009-10-05 20:59:53

Thats all well and good EVOL, but what about Huntergames!!? I was at least
hoping to have an ETA on when it will be fixed, no mention of any fix for unrest
eaither....dude plz, some communication can go a long way towards preserving my
sanity

I miss huntergames

mi1stormilst - Yes yes / No no

|SAdministrator |2009-10-25 14:27:26

How about a Hunter Gamers status update Mr. Evol?

Regarding this
post, when I was a kid no one had video game consoles in their houses.
We went down to the nickle arcade. We also did not game as much so we
probably spent around 3 dollars a month which at the time got us access to
lots of different games. There was also a real life social aspect to
gaming so in a way a lot of things were just different. My first gaming
machine at home was a http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html it was really a computer and I paid less than $100.00 for it in 1982. I
bought 7 games for around $20.00. I played on that system for 3
years so I am sure the value was much greater then.

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