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Originally Posted by JimMorrison
Nonsense. Your computer is necessary hardware to play any game at all. Therefore, the cost of the initial purchase must be ameliorated out over the cost of each game/hour.
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Nonsense. I didn't buy the computer to play games. Whether or not games even existed, I'd still have bought the same laptop. So in my case (and in the case of my friends) that's like claiming you have to factor in the cost of optical prescriptions + a pair of glasses, your normal trainers or years of eating relatively healthy food to work out how much value for money a game of football is.
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In your case Sombre, I think it's pretty simple - you can gauge your friends' tastes. Either they won't get deeply enough into Dom3 to appreciate it at its fair price - or they will. I can't imagine that anyone who likes TBS fantasy wouldn't go head over heels for Dom3, just like the rest of us have.
So, while you can argue that the purchase of the software (and CD-key) required to play Dom3 is more expensive than the software of some other games, the stigma of "costly" erodes rapidly when you look closely enough at what you get, for what you pay.
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I understand more than most what you get when you buy dom3 and I don't see it as being great value for money, despite it being one of my favourite games. All of my other top 10 games are far cheaper. Most games I would objectively consider better are also cheaper. There are games directly comparable with dom3 (well designed fantasy strategy games with lots of content) which are all a lot cheaper too.
You could say that about any game 'if you get really into it, it will be worth the cost'. It has nothing to do with this discussion. Even if I could convince my friends to take a punt un such an expensive game, which I seriously doubt, I can't be sure that they'd get deeply into it, as with any game. It's far less of a risk for me to ask them to buy a cheaper game. Especially when there are plenty of cheaper games that are as good as dom3.