Strong Bad's Cool Game gets Attractive $15 price on PSN

@daevv Yeah, its not like you are getting a game that was at one time $30 or $40 for several episodes.

Welcome to being what is wrong with gamers.

@sammo21 What's wrong with wanting more for less? The people who make gamers "Wrong"...are the ones who ask for multiplayer for games that don't need it, buy things like PS+, and waste money on Home, avatars, and themes.

@daevv

Just so we're clear. This is 15 bucks for five episodes. Not just episode one.

@mywhitenoise

PS+, a service that costs $50 for 15 months right now, is giving out a $35 game that I wanted this month. I've already gotten way more than $50 worth of games and am not even half done with my subsciption yet. The PS+ bashing isn't clever anymore. If you don't buy that much stuff on PSN, it's ridiculously well worth it. You don't have to pay for it if you don't want to. It boils down to this:

I've gotten more than $100 worth of games for $50...and I'm not even half done yet. Stop being so damn bitter.

@mywhitenoise What's wrong is that these things are priced high because it costs a lot to make a professional game. They need to make a profit or they can't keep making games.

This is also the problem with buying games used. If you buy a used game, the developers make none of the money from it. You may be asking, "Why should I care?" Well, do you like playing Tough Guy Shoots Aliens On A Brown Planet? Good, because that's all you'll get.

If developers aren't making a decent amount of money on unconventional gaming genres, like indie adventure games, they'll stop producing them. Right now, the most reliable investments are the Halo, Call of Duty, and God of War knockoffs. Whether or not they are good, they tend to make a decent amount of cash.

If you want to see developers making better games, you have to be willing to pay for the quality when it matters. If you think SBCG4AP is a good game, buy it before the developers start begging you with their pathetically low prices. Then you'll get more like it.

The gamers who buy useless extra shit aren't hurting anybody except themselves. Gamers who expect more for less are actually doing harm to the industry.

If you don't think SBCG4AP is a crappy game and not worth $15, that's fine, but I remember when this kind of fuss was raised over Braid. Braid was an amazing game, and people thought $10 was too much for it. What planet are these people from? You pay $10 for a two-hour movie. You pay $10 for a dinner at a restaurant. $10 is a reasonable freaking price.

SBCG4AP has the same amount of gameplay as a retail game. When it first came out, it was broken down into 5 $10 episodes. Now you can get the whole thing for $15. And that's an unreasonable price? Why is it that when a game is on a disc, suddenly we're willing to pay $50 for it?

@ddrussianinja I buy all my games on release day...but I always manage to pay $40 or less (through amazon, promotions...or whatever). There are always loopholes to be found, for instance I bought AC: Brotherhood for $10 on release day.
Thing with Digital content, is that they NEVER go on sale (unless its on Steam), and you should at least be able to try out a demo before making a purchase. So I don't think it's unfair of him to ask for a demo.

@squallgengar

Or, you could open up a gameshare acct. with 5 friends and get $500 worth of games that you actually WANT for $50.

@Mixer23

I don't have that many friends with PS3s and I don't trust random strangers with my account. Besides, I don't like feeling like I'm cheating developers out of money because that's essentially what gamesharing is. Rationalize it however you like.

@ddrussianinja

$10 for dinner at a restaraunt!?
More like $10 for some incredibly poor burger meal from McDonalds, where they didn't even attempt to make a quality product.

That really puts Braid in perspective.

@ddrussianinja

The reason people thought Braid was overpriced is because it WASN'T 10 dollars. It was one of the earliest games to push the norm towards $15.

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@wiredtolain

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@wiredtolain
George Foreman?
(Yes, I know that wasn't from A Jorb Well Done.)

@Exu I'm with you on wanting these for 360.

Oh well, there is always Steam.

@EndynOmni Yeah if you have a PC that can run them.
I'd just like them on my preferred format tbh.

@LuckyEMS
TROGDOOOOR!
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@TheRepublic

THOSE ARE HIS HAANDS!

@Shockwave
See here, One-Eyed Robot Guy, the difference is in the bloggers who made these posts.

Richard Mitchell (who is an attractive person) wrote this post, while Brad Nicholson (who hates cool games) wrote the Poker Night review.

Psst, two different people.

@Drakkenfyre Umm, guys, they're both Joystiq. All video game sites are hiveminds.

@SEGA Scream

Really? Seems quite a strange amount to me. It's not that much money, and it is 2 separate notes. I mean, who does that?