Quote Originally Posted by Strifehart View Post
So you're essentially looking the gift horse (in the mouth) that you get 90% of the time and bitch about the 10% of the time some random distributor pushes the price up?

If you are not happy with the price, don't make the purchase. Don't play the game. Simple. No one is forcing you to buy it or even play it. It's not like you need to play the game in order to survive or something. It's a damn hobby.

Jeez. Start you might have the right to moan a bit if you where ever faced with a R800 price tag of a standard edition game.
You're missing my point. Those games that are R500 are not the distributers doing but the publishers. It's their test to see if we are willing to fork out more money (so that their profit margins can go up). Now I'm not saying go out and pirate the game if you think R500 is too much, I'm saying don't buy it, don't play it, send them a message that you won't pay such high prices for games. If we all start buying games at those ludicrous prices the publishers will all start asking that price.

A problem I find with console gamers is their lack of principle. Console gamers are the ones giving publishers the idea that we will pay whatever price no matter what crap you shove down our throats and I don't say all console gamers are guilty of that, but the large majority are. I'm tired of console gamers being so self-righteous all the time.

The PC gaming community seem to be the only ones who stand up for their beliefs (however misguided it might be sometimes). Someone has to take a stand. If we always just accepted everything as it is in this world, nothing would improve.