GameStooge is outraged by Electronic Arts' Xbox Live Arcade price gouging.
Excerpt: "Electronic Arts has taken out the price gouging gun and shoved it straight in your face, in an outrageous and stupid way.
Apparently, Hasbro Family Game Night is a 235MB host to buy each of the games. Separately. For $10 each.
Yes, you have to buy each game of the bundle that Wii and PS2 owners get for a single price. Considering there are going to be seven games, that means you're going to be paying $70 for something that costs other systems $30. That's a helluva price jump for Achievements - and not all of the games are available yet. Boggle, Sorry! and Sorry! Sliders will be out sometime in the future.
No, seriously, Connect Four and Battleship for $10 *each*? Someone on XNA can whip up a 99 cent clone of them, and probably make them interesting."
Join Wallace Phelps, of The Married Gamers, as he reviews Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show.
Major Nelson's Blog writes:
"This week, Xbox LIVE Gold members can get the following Hasbro Family Game night titles for 50% off."
This is the second time this deal has come around so if you didn't get the games the first time now would be a time to complete the collection. Suprised I haven't seen any deals on MS point cards. I think the main reason for this sale is that the new FGN3 is not coming to XBLA, at least it hasn't been announced. Personally I have played the new one and would not buy more than Life, Yahtzee Hands Down, and maybe Mouse Trap. Definately not worth the full disc price. Sorry Hasbro but bad move leaving the FGN XBLA fans in the dust.
X360A report about three upcoming games to feature in Hasbro's Family Game Night on Xbox Live. The titles are Connect 4x4, Jenga and Pictureka.
owners just play flash versions in their browsers?
passing on this tripe
This is EA we're talking about, here. Of course they're going to squeeze as much as they can from people. I hear that MLB 09 comes with a code in the box that you need for online play, so you can't just buy a used copy of the game without having to pay to play it online. They're a Joke.
I downloaded the "room" yesterday and it all felt nice and fun...then realized I had to pay 800 pts for each game! I was initially completely shocked and angered! Each game? I mean each game feels like a $5 purchase at best!
Then I started to think about things...specifically EA's parnter in this Hasbro. If I were to go out and buy each of these "board" games I would pay the following according to Amazon.com (keep in mind I found the most basic form of the game at the cheapest price for the physical game not software versions):
Connect Four - $14.99 US
Sorry - $16.99 US
Battleship - $26.00 US
Yahtzee - $8.99 US
Scrabble - $19.25 US
Bogggle - $13.97 US
Total for all 6 = $100.19 US!
So...I realize there are slight differences to playing on a board game vs a video game. but that all said...the pricing truthfully is better than what you would pay for if you bought them at an actual store.
I think EA and Hasbro should have come in at the $5 to $8 range on each game, and thus nobody would be as crazed about it but at $10 a game ...some of those are actually pretty good deals considering.
Corporate greed...is anyone else sick of it?
(And I'm a free-market Libertarian...)