Crimson Alliance may have price 'flexibility' at launch

@(Unverified)

when you remember games that lasted a year, were you a kid?

I remember playing Sonic 1 and 2 forever, but give them to me now and I'll blow through them in a couple of days. I mean, sonic generations and sonic 4 are Downloadable games now.

Also if you are looking for more engaging games there are more options then ever coming soon. la noire, mass effect, skyrim, uncharted 3...

@(Unverified)

I guess I know what you mean; we're paying good money to play games, especially full priced ones, so the basic idea is that one would want as many play hours as possible for your dollar. But I'd rather have a few fantastic hours than a dozen mediocre ones. There's already not enough time in the day to play all the great games coming out. Mass Effect, which I'm sure is fantastic, has deterred me for years just because I've heard it can be a 60 hour game.

This seems like a really solid idea to me. Like baby sea tuna said, I'm probably just gonna play through it one time.

@(Unverified)

It's not the games, it's us and how things have changed for us in life.

We used to be 12 year old kids with $5/week in allowance to spend on games, but tons of free time. You only got 2-3 new games a year because you pretty much only had christmas and your birthday to get them. As such, we had to stretch those games out much longer.

Now, we're all growed up and things have completely flipped. We now have plenty of money to spend on games, but our limitation is time. Even worse (or better) is that there are now even more really good games than ever before. Playing a game for a year means that you miss out on two dozen other really good games that you have no problem affording.

Now that I can afford it, I'd rather play 10 different, great games than play one of them 10 times. I can't invest 100+ hours into a game any more because I can't play 100+ hours of games in a month any more. If I spend 150 hours into a game, that's probably the only game I'll play all year.

I played MK64 for freaking ever during that generation. If that game had come out today instead, I'll be damned if I'm going to miss out on Uncharted 3 and ME3 and Gears 3 and AC:R and Batman AC and a bunch of other really good titles because I'm playing through my 175th flower cup instead.

@Vcize
You see, what you said has been in the back of my mind for a long time now, but I've never been able to put it in words as effectively as you have. It sure takes away the "guilt" I feel for finishing only two or three games this year - the last one being Might and Magic Clash of Heroes, which took me a month!

Boy, I remember playing through Final Fantasy VIII FOUR times (where every "final save" was clocked about 80 hours or so). I also spent a lot of time playing MK64 and GoldenEye. But now I don't even have time to consider playing a game twice and my videogame backlog just keeps growing.

Ahh, those were the days...

@Fire Walk With Me
Somehow your comment made me thing of a recent purchase: Hard Corps Uprising at 1200MSP. Even though the intro cutscene feature four characters, the full game is a rip-off, you have only 2 characters available and the other 2 (plus one more) are available as separate DLC at 200MSP each. Pretty unfair, don't you think?

Scratch that, I misunderstood the article at first. But it sounds like a great pricing plan.