Stopp ripping consumers off. The main reason why people pirate games is that simply (like ink cartridges), they are a rip off. You sell a product to a crowd with little money (teenagers) and expect them to cough up $50 for every game - come on, that's horse crap.
The profit margins for game developers are ludicriuos. Doesn't matter on the platform - people are tired of paying $50 for a game, when half the time they only get a few hours of enjoyment out of it. Heem, lety's see - Store cost at CompUSA for Halo is $45, MSRP is $50. Who's making the cash? Manufacturing costs (I'm not counting development costs) are less than $1 for most games.
I've only purchased a FEW games that have been worth the money (like FFX or Metal Gear Solid 2) - most are not. If you want to sell allot of games and keep profits up, LOWER YOUR MSRP on games! $29 is a fair price for a great game and $20 is good for an average game.
Until game prices go down, I will continue to copy PS2 games and use them with my PS2 mod chip. Crash Bandicoot for PS2 sucks majorally with 5 minute load times, and they expect $50 for this game? Give me a break....
All I can say is WWW.BESTBUYSUX.ORG
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I worked for Best Buy for 4 months from August 2001 to December 2001. I have never worked for such an incompetent, lazy, greedy and customer dis-service oriented company as Best Buy. The wage was a joke and thier service was horrible. They bitch about numbers and pull the "bait and switch" tactic all the time. Screw Best Buy - especially #403 Westland MI where I worked at.
Don't support such a lazy, disservice oriented company. Prod's at BBUy don't care about you or your dollar because they don't get commission - but their managers and supervisors do....
read www.bestbuysux.org for reasonss why this company sucks @$$.
-LAKORAI
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Stopp ripping consumers off. The main reason why people pirate games is that simply (like ink cartridges), they are a rip off. You sell a product to a crowd with little money (teenagers) and expect them to cough up $50 for every game - come on, that's horse crap. The profit margins for game developers are ludicriuos. Doesn't matter on the platform - people are tired of paying $50 for a game, when half the time they only get a few hours of enjoyment out of it. Heem, lety's see - Store cost at CompUSA for Halo is $45, MSRP is $50. Who's making the cash? Manufacturing costs (I'm not counting development costs) are less than $1 for most games. I've only purchased a FEW games that have been worth the money (like FFX or Metal Gear Solid 2) - most are not. If you want to sell allot of games and keep profits up, LOWER YOUR MSRP on games! $29 is a fair price for a great game and $20 is good for an average game. Until game prices go down, I will continue to copy PS2 games and use them with my PS2 mod chip. Crash Bandicoot for PS2 sucks majorally with 5 minute load times, and they expect $50 for this game? Give me a break....
Don't support such a lazy, disservice oriented company. Prod's at BBUy don't care about you or your dollar because they don't get commission - but their managers and supervisors do....
read www.bestbuysux.org for reasonss why this company sucks @$$. -LAKORAI