One more, Mass Effect 3 with all his DLC cost around US$ 800, you play for less than 10 hours and in the end you feel like your money going to the trash can.
In Minecraft you play through 100 hours, and you think that isn't close to enough to the end, because you have so much do dig, so much do build.
LE MAINSTREAM GAME PRICELIST Diablo 3: $60. Mass Effect 3: $60 (>$500 with all the idiotic DLC's). Skyrim: $60. LOTR Online: $30. Star Wars The Old Republic: $50.
20 dollars for Minecraft, why is it so much?
60 dollars for MW3, why do they sell it for so little?
Just because you bought a game online and it's an indie title that doesn't have the backing of a big publishing company doesn't mean that the quality or price of the game will or should be any less than the big multi million dollar franchised game that gets ads run for it every minute. Or maybe you are one of those people that was an iOS gamer and just got a computer to game on. You are used to getting everything for a dollar, and maybe if its one of those super HD 3D Infinity Blade games then you'll pay the exorbitant price of 6 bucks for it. You get a PC, log into Steam, and flip when you see prices of 20, 30, 40, 60 dollars for games! Either way, 20 dollars is a great price for an amazing game like Minecraft, and really, I'd pay more for it than any CoD title, considering the amounts of enjoyment I have gotten out of it.
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This is a very cheap game for what you are getting. I think it is worth more, but until it is packaged on shelves and doesn't rely on Java, Mojang is being very kind and fair in offering it for it's current price.
20$ for a game these day is not that expensive. 20$ for a game that I will play many month versus 60$ for a game like COD where the solo last about 10 hour. The multiplayer is there to make the game last longer but you will get tired of it much faster (for me at least).
Also 20$ for a game that constantly receive new content for FREE. Have you ever seen a game that offer free DLC 2 years after the release? Not since almost 10 years.
When you think about all that Minecraft is not that expensive for 20$. Sure if you're a 10 years old kids with no money it can seem's like alot of cash but just ask you're dad if he can pay you to do work around the house and it will be the best 20 buck you will have ever spend.
Actually a lot of games have patches that add content for longer than 2 years. But yes I agree, this $20 is very cheap for a video game in todays market.
I played more hours of minecraft than I have on black ops. I play minecraft for hours every day. I leave blackops sitting on my desk gathering dust. Minecraft was well worth my money.
In my opinion, this game is worth MUCH more than $20. Maybe even more than $60.
$20 is too much. This game get boring pretty fast. The ONY reason to keep playing is multiplayer MODS. and MODS are whats is for free. Mojang doesnt make mods for the gam, all they do is patches and little cutsie updates. Everythign they have added was like... Oh thats neat...(for about 10 min) then its back to... what do i do now? whats a good mod to dl to keep me interested in this game?
No this game shouldnt be worth more than 20 bucks.
Those patches are usually just bugfixes for free or content for cash. Most companies end up abandoning the games eventually anyway, satisfied with the millions of dollars they make.
Yea, well that's all that minecraft has done so far is bug fixes. It was already stated as well that the DLC in the future will not be free(only to alpha purchasers).
$20 is too much. This game get boring pretty fast. The ONY reason to keep playing is multiplayer MODS. and MODS are whats is for free. Mojang doesnt make mods for the gam, all they do is patches and little cutsie updates. Everythign they have added was like... Oh thats neat...(for about 10 min) then its back to... what do i do now? whats a good mod to dl to keep me interested in this game?
No this game shouldnt be worth more than 20 bucks.
So you think the game is boring, you only play because of the mods, yet you took the time to create a forum account dedicated to dedicated Minecraft users? Seems legit.
i bought minecraft and iv had it for a long time i still don't get why it costs 20 dollars each do you know why
The better question is, why do you want to give so little?
The fact is, an Indie game either has to be quite cheap, or relatively expensive. For the most part, the Cheap games have to be relatively small in scope, simple, and easy to learn; They can't have huge, complicated rules sets, so that a lot of players can figure them out easy, and they have to lend themselves to short play sessions. They can't be too deep in one niche, so they cannot be categorized as an RPG or a shooter, in order to maximize the customer base, and they are meant to be disposable impulse purchases- you buy it for a small amount of money, have a bit of fun, and move on.
Minecraft doesn't quite fit all of those. The only one it really fits is the difficult to categorize bit.
At that point, you need a huge player base in order to make anything back; because you still need to pay for marketing and all that. Most Indie games like this fail. Indie game development is a place to make a killing, but no way to make a living.
The more expensive games are games that take a long time to experience properly, and have complicated systems to maintain interest during this increased play time. Games that typically have longer play sections, Games that have few competitors, and that you buy because you will be happy with that game. Games that you pay more for and that reward you with an experience that you live with for a while. If you ask me, that fits Minecraft to a T.
Consider for a moment that Games, even the triple AAA titles, often sell for 60 dollars. That isn't a lot either. Compare that to many Business Applications which can often run into several hundreds of thousands of dollars. Very few of the businesses using that software complain about that... hell some of it can be tax deductible.
Definitely not development.
Well, presumably Jeb and Jon are on the payroll, so, Yes, some of it does go towards MC development.
if your implication is that they should throw more money and thus bodies at MC development, than that is retarded, and always a sign of terrible management. I'm not even going to bother getting into why, just read "The Mythical Man Month" for that explanation.
If you could get games for free you would still be playing on a atari. A game producer needs to spend a lot of many in the development of games. There are hundreds of people working on a game as cod and they would'd like to get payed. I think you don't want to work for free either?
Notch may not need the money but he certainly deserves it for the game he made. I would pay $60 to get this game if I had too. He created a wonderful game and deserves the $20 for the game to live his life to the fullest. Its amazing why someone would be complaining about a one-time fee of $20 for an awesome game when I have paid $60 on games that I don't like at all so I think $20 is more than fair.
You should have bought it back when it was 15 bucks
and I have a second one I bought for WoW gold before I put that down.
As fast as this game is blowing up you need to buy it now, make a save file everytime you updae the game (still for free)
Then in that file you add a full copy of that version of java, a full unedited copy of the minecraft game, another folder with a copy of all your world saves, another folder with a copy of all the mods for that version and (optional) a working .minecraft save file for each working mod combination.
When I want to...say..play with bacteria mod or even car mod on a world with all my stuff on it that was made without those mods I justreplace my current .minecraft folder with a working mod file and add my previously saved world file and it updates everything. Like this you can instal any mod and get rid of it, replace it whatever.
Using this method you can play this game for the rest of your life. Or untill the old softwear is uncompatible with the new hard wear, but as far as i know there are still verssions of windows 98 that are usable today. So I dont think that will be an issue
Its worth the cash bro!! If you cant get it from home maybe collect aluminum cans on the way to and from school..once you have 2 giant black trash bags full you should have a bit more than 20 bucks
i bought minecraft and iv had it for a long time i still don't get why it costs 20 dollars each do you know why
It's actually one of the most inexpensive mainstream games today.(5 million sales can be considered mainstream )
added: also lets be honest, if the game designers make **** money doing this,
they probly will give **** results XD even Notch was enticed by money at times.
Idm giving at that point its just economy, and I'm supporting that bald swedish guy we all know and like.
Well, if you really need to know what Notch needs the money for ......
Notch has a huge cilantro habit, from his childhood days working as a spittoon boy in a Mexican brothel. He has cilantro freeze-dried and pulverized into powder and then snorts it like snuff.
He has a troop of 144 rhesus monkeys that are trained to race pigs on a private racetrack that he had built on a secret island in the North Sea (or was it the East Sea? Hmmmm....) Anyhow, the losing pigs are turned into back bacon and shipped to hockey players the world over, to help them maintain their Canadian accents.
In support of the arts, he has commissioned a 300 meter high sculpture of Donald Trump's hair, made from rendered duck fat.
He is also spending massive amounts of money to bribe officials to have Minecraft declared as an event in the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Triathlon will be renamed as the Quadrathlon, and will include running, Minecraft, swimming, and making fart noises with your armpit.
Now, obviously, Notch wants to keep this all secret, so don't tell anybody. OK?
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I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to. - J. R. "Bob" Dobbs
Because it's not just Notch who is getting the money. He has something you might not know called employees.
Yeh, employees who he hired for hundreds of thousands of dollars to make periodic updates to a Cafepress-style web store, make inferior mods for Minecraft, and play video games all day
"When we release a pure bugfix update, people get VERY upset ("NOTHING CHANGED!").. Adding features gives us much happier users. But I do realize that it's only happier users in the short term." - Notch
He deserve it, die dumb horse!
One more, Mass Effect 3 with all his DLC cost around US$ 800, you play for less than 10 hours and in the end you feel like your money going to the trash can.
In Minecraft you play through 100 hours, and you think that isn't close to enough to the end, because you have so much do dig, so much do build.
LE MAINSTREAM GAME PRICELIST
Diablo 3: $60.
Mass Effect 3: $60 (>$500 with all the idiotic DLC's).
Skyrim: $60.
LOTR Online: $30.
Star Wars The Old Republic: $50.
And now compare this to Minecraft.
Then again, GMod costs $10...
Doesn't take much to realize that on this forum, kinda sad.
60 dollars for MW3, why do they sell it for so little?
Just because you bought a game online and it's an indie title that doesn't have the backing of a big publishing company doesn't mean that the quality or price of the game will or should be any less than the big multi million dollar franchised game that gets ads run for it every minute. Or maybe you are one of those people that was an iOS gamer and just got a computer to game on. You are used to getting everything for a dollar, and maybe if its one of those super HD 3D Infinity Blade games then you'll pay the exorbitant price of 6 bucks for it. You get a PC, log into Steam, and flip when you see prices of 20, 30, 40, 60 dollars for games! Either way, 20 dollars is a great price for an amazing game like Minecraft, and really, I'd pay more for it than any CoD title, considering the amounts of enjoyment I have gotten out of it.
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Actually a lot of games have patches that add content for longer than 2 years. But yes I agree, this $20 is very cheap for a video game in todays market.
Gee, I don't know. Money's not important, right? :/
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$20 is too much. This game get boring pretty fast. The ONY reason to keep playing is multiplayer MODS. and MODS are whats is for free. Mojang doesnt make mods for the gam, all they do is patches and little cutsie updates. Everythign they have added was like... Oh thats neat...(for about 10 min) then its back to... what do i do now? whats a good mod to dl to keep me interested in this game?
No this game shouldnt be worth more than 20 bucks.
Yea, well that's all that minecraft has done so far is bug fixes. It was already stated as well that the DLC in the future will not be free(only to alpha purchasers).
So you think the game is boring, you only play because of the mods, yet you took the time to create a forum account dedicated to dedicated Minecraft users? Seems legit.
The better question is, why do you want to give so little?
The fact is, an Indie game either has to be quite cheap, or relatively expensive. For the most part, the Cheap games have to be relatively small in scope, simple, and easy to learn; They can't have huge, complicated rules sets, so that a lot of players can figure them out easy, and they have to lend themselves to short play sessions. They can't be too deep in one niche, so they cannot be categorized as an RPG or a shooter, in order to maximize the customer base, and they are meant to be disposable impulse purchases- you buy it for a small amount of money, have a bit of fun, and move on.
Minecraft doesn't quite fit all of those. The only one it really fits is the difficult to categorize bit.
At that point, you need a huge player base in order to make anything back; because you still need to pay for marketing and all that. Most Indie games like this fail. Indie game development is a place to make a killing, but no way to make a living.
The more expensive games are games that take a long time to experience properly, and have complicated systems to maintain interest during this increased play time. Games that typically have longer play sections, Games that have few competitors, and that you buy because you will be happy with that game. Games that you pay more for and that reward you with an experience that you live with for a while. If you ask me, that fits Minecraft to a T.
Consider for a moment that Games, even the triple AAA titles, often sell for 60 dollars. That isn't a lot either. Compare that to many Business Applications which can often run into several hundreds of thousands of dollars. Very few of the businesses using that software complain about that... hell some of it can be tax deductible.
Well, presumably Jeb and Jon are on the payroll, so, Yes, some of it does go towards MC development.
if your implication is that they should throw more money and thus bodies at MC development, than that is retarded, and always a sign of terrible management. I'm not even going to bother getting into why, just read "The Mythical Man Month" for that explanation.
He was being sarcastic.
and I have a second one I bought for WoW gold before I put that down.
As fast as this game is blowing up you need to buy it now, make a save file everytime you updae the game (still for free)
Then in that file you add a full copy of that version of java, a full unedited copy of the minecraft game, another folder with a copy of all your world saves, another folder with a copy of all the mods for that version and (optional) a working .minecraft save file for each working mod combination.
When I want to...say..play with bacteria mod or even car mod on a world with all my stuff on it that was made without those mods I justreplace my current .minecraft folder with a working mod file and add my previously saved world file and it updates everything. Like this you can instal any mod and get rid of it, replace it whatever.
Using this method you can play this game for the rest of your life. Or untill the old softwear is uncompatible with the new hard wear, but as far as i know there are still verssions of windows 98 that are usable today. So I dont think that will be an issue
Its worth the cash bro!! If you cant get it from home maybe collect aluminum cans on the way to and from school..once you have 2 giant black trash bags full you should have a bit more than 20 bucks
Goood luck!
It's actually one of the most inexpensive mainstream games today.(5 million sales can be considered mainstream )
added: also lets be honest, if the game designers make **** money doing this,
they probly will give **** results XD even Notch was enticed by money at times.
Idm giving at that point its just economy, and I'm supporting that bald swedish guy we all know and like.
Notch has a huge cilantro habit, from his childhood days working as a spittoon boy in a Mexican brothel. He has cilantro freeze-dried and pulverized into powder and then snorts it like snuff.
He has a troop of 144 rhesus monkeys that are trained to race pigs on a private racetrack that he had built on a secret island in the North Sea (or was it the East Sea? Hmmmm....) Anyhow, the losing pigs are turned into back bacon and shipped to hockey players the world over, to help them maintain their Canadian accents.
In support of the arts, he has commissioned a 300 meter high sculpture of Donald Trump's hair, made from rendered duck fat.
He is also spending massive amounts of money to bribe officials to have Minecraft declared as an event in the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Triathlon will be renamed as the Quadrathlon, and will include running, Minecraft, swimming, and making fart noises with your armpit.
Now, obviously, Notch wants to keep this all secret, so don't tell anybody. OK?
plus comme, Notch is lucky (smart) it's not $60 because no one except for 12 year olds would buy this steaming pile
Yeh, employees who he hired for hundreds of thousands of dollars to make periodic updates to a Cafepress-style web store, make inferior mods for Minecraft, and play video games all day
"When we release a pure bugfix update, people get VERY upset ("NOTHING CHANGED!").. Adding features gives us much happier users. But I do realize that it's only happier users in the short term." - Notch