Do you think Game Prices in India are HIGH?

[rajasekharan]

yeah , me too , i buy it if its AWESOME , thats all....

but the O.S will always be pirated..., i prefer it that way(to compensate the money spend in games)

again all the most of s/w that i use are pirated ones, 3dsmax, maya, combustion, after effects, photoshop ....

 

[thewisecrab]

If the prices are so high it results in increased piracy as it is difficult to convince a person 2 buy a 1330-1500Rs game if it available for 50 bucks in pirated market
If piracy has to be curbed, then the prices have to be slashed.
U cant blame the person if he is buying prated goods as the prices are too darn high.
Is any1 listening????

 

[faraaz]

@thewisecrab: Game software type companies dont need to compete with pirates on price. Your justification is something like ... if Honda prices the City so high, people are just going to buy stolen Cities for 1 lakh! If you want to stop carrs being stolen, you have to slash prices! Make sense?? I didn't think so...

 

[rajasekharan]

honda is a man made thing , every honda is not produced the way you copy s/w to the next cd and sell...so the price is extremely justified for honda

remember that

i still feel , the prices are way too high

 

[neerajkumar_4]

my thoughts again 999rs for games like OB, crysis are pretty cheap deals..!!!!

ur thoughts on OB and crysis??

 

[DiCsA]

my thoughts again 999rs for games like OB, crysis are pretty cheap deals..!!!!

ur thoughts on OB and crysis??

I found easily OB in Chennai and I bought it. But where did you find Crysis ?

 

[faraaz]

@rajasekaran: That's your choice...feel free to steal stuff!

 

[Tech_Wiz]

Any good game for 999 is fine. But 1.5k+ things are out of question.

AOE III Expansion 1600+ thats WAYYY to high as original AoE III Vanila is 1100 atm. :$

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

Any good game for 999 is fine. But 1.5k+ things are out of question.

AOE III Expansion 1600+ thats WAYYY to high as original AoE III Vanila is 1100 atm. :$

Yup any game for Rs 999 is totally kool . but paying Rs 2510 for a Game Xbox 360 (or 2799 for a PS3 Game) is definitely costly !

Although now most 360 Games come for Rs 1895 but still 999 would be the sweet spot .

 

[rajasekharan]

for me its 700 or even 800 . . anything above , i cant afford .

 

[Tanmay]

Ohh yeah ! Some games especially Console are very highly priced ! A single PSP Game costs around 2500rs whereas the PSP itself costs only 7k !

Although some gaming companies like EA for e.g. have all its games priced at 999Rs even the newly released Crysis !

 

[sagsall4u]

the orange box is for 500 bucks i think...
NFS MW @ 800 black edition.. its a collectors item ppl
hitman blood money @ 500
its not all bad ppl and i wudnt buy crysis if it was for a grand coz it has to be that spl

 

[DiCsA]

the orange box is for 500 bucks i think...
NFS MW @ 800 black edition.. its a collectors item ppl
hitman blood money @ 500
its not all bad ppl and i wudnt buy crysis if it was for a grand coz it has to be that spl

I bought the Orange Box @999Rs In Blore.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

strictly speaking, the highness or lowness of the cost of an item is always expressed relative to the average income of the average buyer.

so if you were working in the US, you would find it easier to buy games there, than if you were working in India and buying it here. Despite the absolute cost, the price factor is still higher in india.

Now with dollar going down, I think its about time we started trying to earn something here and make the word expensive a part of history. Even RS 500/- for a game is costly, by Indian standards.

If you want to be a legal and happy gamer, be unmarried, work in some IT company day and night till you turn 50 in the US, hoard gold, return to India, and game on till you die. Trust me, you will die with a smile in your face and a joy in your hand.

 

[sagsall4u]

is it possible to install the same game in 2 PC's....
then the cost can be shared. (only 2 or 3 hardcore gamers)
i'm not saying 10 ppl share a title...but 2 or 3 can that way we can buy a new game every month .........

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

is it possible to install the same game in 2 PC's....
then the cost can be shared. (only 2 or 3 hardcore gamers)
i'm not saying 10 ppl share a title...but 2 or 3 can that way we can buy a new game every month .........

well first u can play game , then uninstall it , n then ur friend can exchange game with you n so on .

 

[wirelessraj]

…wonder why there are no PC titles


Robert Bowling, the Community Relations Manager at Infinity Ward, was commenting in his blog that Infinity Ward pulled some numbers over the past week and they were shocked at the number of PC Call Of Duty 4 players that were playing the multiplayer version of the game using stolen, cracked or pirated CD keys. While Bowling did not release the exact number, in order to get his attention the number had to be very significant.

And now it is time for our soap box stump speech. Once again, we cannot stress the importance of not engaging in this kind of behavior! It harms the gaming community as a whole and it really makes PC developers just want to give up on the development of software for the PC platform and stick with console development, where the piracy rate is lower. Over the last couple of years we have seen some of the best developers stop producing games for the PC platform, and some have opted to wade into the less pirate infested console waters.

The bottom line is that games cost a lot of money to produce these days; if developers cannot recoup their investment, they are going to stop producing games for the PC platform. If you want to try something before you buy it, use the demo…don’t pirate the game. Developers deserve to be paid for their work. Think about that the next time you are considering using a hacked version of the game or a keygen to create a key to play the game, rather than buying it.

SOURCE

 

[User Name]

i think when game Developers start producing games in India it will be cheaper.

 

[abhijit_reddevil]

strictly speaking, the highness or lowness of the cost of an item is always expressed relative to the average income of the average buyer.

so if you were working in the US, you would find it easier to buy games there, than if you were working in India and buying it here. Despite the absolute cost, the price factor is still higher in india.

Now with dollar going down, I think its about time we started trying to earn something here and make the word expensive a part of history. Even RS 500/- for a game is costly, by Indian standards.

If you want to be a legal and happy gamer, be unmarried, work in some IT company day and night till you turn 50 in the US, hoard gold, return to India, and game on till you die. Trust me, you will die with a smile in your face and a joy in your hand.

Yes, game prices are high in India, even if it costs Rs.999 or Rs.1499 or Rs.1999 or whatever. It indeed depends on the income to expense ratio. In India, the average salary is of an average person is maybe Rs.12k to Rs.15k. It sure hurts when people want to buy games that are Rs.999/Rs.1499. Here for a person who wants to buy a Rs.1500 game CD/DVD has to pay almost 10% of his monthly salary (say Rs.15000) to get it.

Scenario is not same here in US. Newer games sell for $49 or $59 or whatever. Somewhat old ones sell for $29 or $19. Considering the average salary of an American to be somewhere between $2.5k to $3k, it is not expensive, considering he is spending less than 2% of his monthly salary to get a original brand new game for PC or console for $49 or whatever. It's simple maths. Not only newer games, one can buy used original games for less than half the price of the new one here and...legally. Well, not only PC games, console games are not expensive, even consoles are not expensive. PS3/XBOX 360 retails for around $400 here. So many people buy that here with original console games costing $49/$59. Here also we consider the average US salary to be between $2500 and $3000. Not only computers and computer games, the scenario is same here. One can get a top of the line SLI enabled quad core desktop for around $2500. Used cars can be got for $5000, and so on...

Summary: It all comes down to income vs. expenditure ratio.

 

[entrana]

they just have to slash the prices a little i dont think that is too hard to understand. after all more people will buy it and their income would be more ..