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well there was the day when return to castle wolfenstein costed R960....
...i myself wouldn't pay to much for a play once title (horror shooters), i mean you can only get the frights once and then you know when and where its going to happen the next round.
Yeah it's really becoming insane the prices they are asking for these titles. Not good business milking a sector that has such rampant piracy. Shouldn't they be sweetening the deal? Idiots...
Hmmm its looks like our PC games prices are finally catching up with internation pricing. I was wandering when this was going to happen.
This is not a passing phase guys.
http://www.mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=460
Madness.Then I again, I suppose it is a luxury item. <sigh>
Now I understand why you created the other thread, Joker.
High Game Prices:Just say No.
I would have thought that given the current economic recession the price of games would be lowered to entice gamers to buy more games.
Sadly there will never be a price war among games, as there is between Intel/AMD, nVidia/ATi
On luxury items you pay ridiculous amount of customs duty. It's really not worth bringing small quantities in. I once bought some Ctrl+Alt+Del merchandise through the SplitReason store and when the package landed at the post office I had to pay 50-60% (I can't remember exactly now) of the package's total value in duties. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Deceptor
any local link for a demo of fear2? as i had loads of playing fear, so before splashing out, i'd like to test it
It's on the new NAG cover DVD :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by wizdumb
Don't you dare go encouraging people to buy NAG now :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Isengard
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Originally Posted by The Extremist
I bought my XFX GTX260 in England in December, the Import Duties/Tax were R960!
Hope you're right. Not going to wager anything on it though :pQuote:
Originally Posted by lilDeath
How much, in R, did you pay for the card, without the import taxes?
WTF, since when are PC games so expensive??
Since now :p
Yeah ... its the latest thing.
Rip off the people that support you. Almost as bad as EA with their Spore debacle last year.
I don't like the idea of piracy all that much either - but for those sort of prices I'll make do until the game hits the bargain bin ...
I played the demo today and was left very impressed, but something about the lighting makes the game seem almost cartoon-y to me. I still got some good frights from it (okay one good fright) :D.
I'm sure the game will be great but up until now new PC game titles have always been around the R300 mark. Thats quite a chunk above the average to pay. But as the trend shows we'll probably all end up forking our money out for a good game anyway.
It's not great, single player sucks ass. Guns aren't nice at all. You spend the entire game playing with the assault rifle because you never get ammo for the "nail gun thing" which by the way is horrible in this. It just doesn't have the same power as it used to have.
And you get raped.
The guns felt quite nice in the demo, a lot better than some other games I've played, but I suppose after an extended playing period the same guns could get tiresome. I was pleasantly surprised by the mech suite part, it was more fun than I expected it to be :).Quote:
Originally Posted by SpoOkie
Don't buy it if it the price is too high.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcryan
A game must be great, not just good (imo) before they can accept it as an auto-purchase.
For me it's good to hear the nail gun thing isn't as powerful as it used to be. It ruined multiplayer F.E.A.R. IMO. It's sad to hear that the guns aren't nice, though. That's make or break for an FPS.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpoOkie
Depends. Some times you pay nothing. When they charged you they work out 14% on 110% of the value. There is only vat and a small import tax fee, there's no duties on computer software and hardware.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deceptor
Most I have ever payed was R350 when I imported an board game from the states, the board game's value was R2200. Never paid anything when imported my inter milan shirts from italy, the italians are very clever with deceiving the customs guys by qouting totally undervalued prices on the slip in the box. My online slip for exchange purposes are much more than the slip in the parcel. I love Interstore and their sneaky ways.:)
I know Yahtzee's points of view are very rarely shared by the mass market but his F.E.A.R. 2 review is up.
Basically it comes down to: F.E.A.R. 2 is F.E.A.R. for consoles but with updated graphics. He reckons that if you've played F.E.A.R. you don't need to bother with F.E.A.R. 2. I ask: Is more F.E.A.R. with better graphics, more guns on your person and scenes where you're piloting a mech a bad thing? To me it isn't... but an updated F.E.A.R. console port is also not worth R470-R500.
I'd say more F.E.A.R. is never a bad thing, just not for R500.
well i started playing it tonight and im quite happy..still shocked about the price though:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Isengard
I started playing it last night, played 2 chapters and I love it.
It's more of the same, but with FEAR that's never a bad thing, still not worth what I shelled out
I'll wait till it hits the bargain bin. It's a shame tho, was looking forward to it.
I agree, but with the current Rand dollar some importers are just stuffed.
is that the price for pc version? wtf
Yeah I do agree, but for me FEAR was brilliant and I am going to buy FEAR 2. I still have a few games I want to finish first then i will buy it. Hopefully the price has dropped by then, but if not, I'll still get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lilDeath
well I paid R410 for COD5 during the weekend, just to play it online. I checked some game prices and EVERY SINGLE NEW title on the shelf ( PC) Was R399-R420
Luckily I grabbed mine when it was still R300. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Maplassie
I paid R287 at Kalahari.net cash, with R50 off from a voucher.
wow you very luckey man. to bad theres no online server in SA as far aas I know
See this is why I hardly ever buy games. I tend to play the ones I already have for years and years rather than fork out the hellish amount of cash.
Something new will come along that I HAVE to have though :D
Ja we must not support gamers that makes games this expensive
Yes R 400 + for a PC game, omw :( :(
We are doomed in SA, I see all new games are about at the range of R 399. It is fail, I did not buy a PS3 for the reason that games are too expensive, now our beloved PC also takes the same route! :mad:
I think this is a direct consequence of the Rand-Dollar exchange if a PC Game is $40 to $50 it will be (@ R10.88 to $1) R435 to R544 in SA.
If the Rand goes down to R8/$1 we should see new PC games at below R350 again.
This is crazy, and they wonder why people pirate games. Idiots.
LOL, I dont think that will happen this year, so all games will stay expensive :( :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nictron