Holiday Addon pack announced
Sagana:
I'm just *not* paying $60 for a game other people can buy for $40. Heck, maybe I'll start waiting 2 years to buy the games until they finish putting all the stuff in it :p by then it might work right too :p
(sorry, I'm still being annoyed by the whole concept - I shouldn't be penalized for spending my money sooner than someone else and keeping the company in business for the last however long it's been.)
MissDoh:
Oh gee, I took the survey about that and definitely said no to such package since I feel it is a rip off. They mention a suggested retail price of 19.95$.... they should be out every 3 months.
I would prefer they give it away on the Sims 2 site or simply include them in a new ep but no... they have to reach in our pockets again, can I scream please!!! :o
Nightlife should be (unless something else sounding way more interesting than business or non-stop request fo pets comes out) the last expansion pack I ever purchase.
God they drive me completely crazy and I honestly never thought they would go to that extreme to make money upon us. Put me in a cage please and throw away the key :P
And for those who might wonder, yes I am Missdoh2 on the "official" bbs.
Now look sad and say "Doh!" (quoted from Homer Simpson)
baratron:
You know... I must be weird. Because I actually don't think that $20 US is too much to pay for a bunch of new items, special features and interactions.
I used to justify spending out on Sims 1 paysites by looking at the amount of enjoyment I got from The Sims compared to the amount of time I spent playing it. Let's forget pleasures like eating out or going to the theatre, because they are too expensive for most people to do often. Even cinema is expensive - £7 per person for a typical film in greater London (more in central London). Let's take renting a DVD as an example. Now, renting a new release for 2 nights costs about £3.50 - for 1.5-2 hours pleasure. That's £1.75 per hour.
In comparison, my Sims 2 game cost £30 for the base game, plus £20 for University. That's a total of £50. I spend 15-20 hours playing it per week. I've had it since April, easily 6 months. I can't be bothered to add up exactly how many weeks, but let's say 4 weeks per month x 6 months - that's 24 weeks. So Sims 2 has cost me £2 per week - for easily as much pleasure as I'd get from watching a DVD, if not more, because the game is interactive. Although video games are expensive to purchase initially - by the time you've played them for hours, they work out as about the cheapest form of entertainment you can get, excluding completely free things like library books, and free-to-receive television channels.
I know that within the Sims 2 community there are people from all income levels - from the professional classes right down to people on benefits (or worse, if you consider the mess that is the US "welfare" system) and that for some people, $20 US is a large amount of money. But when compared to other forms of entertainment, when you consider the number of hours of pleasure you'll get from an EP, it just doesn't seem that much. £1.75 per hour for the DVD rental up against 10p per hour for Sims 2... and many people have had their games longer than me, and play for more hours a week than me.
I do wonder how much of the complaining about the cost of EPs is due to people simply not thinking about how many hours they'll play for, and how much is a wry acknowledgement that the EP will come with 40 new objects, 5 new NPCs, 10 new interactions, and 20 new bugs ::).
Motoki:
I don't see where the interactions are anything all that special or there's that many of them. There's what, a New Years party, which is basically a house party called something else with "fireworks" (a little cinema scene I am guessing), and a visit by Santa. I didn't see anything else that would be considered a new interaction unless you count food. Maybe there's more stuff, but I doubt there's a whole lot more to it. I know they sent out that survey a while back about doing mini packs that contained mostly items based around a theme so this sounds basically like that. Considering that the full expansions are $30, yes, I do think $20 is a bit steep for a small pack of very seasonal items that generally won't be of interest for most of the year.
KellyQ:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 12, 01:24:16
I don't see where the interactions are anything all that special or there's that many of them. There's what, a New Years party, which is basically a house party called something else with "fireworks" (a little cinema scene I am guessing), and a visit by Santa. I didn't see anything else that would be considered a new interaction unless you count food. Maybe there's more stuff, but I doubt there's a whole lot more to it. I know they sent out that survey a while back about doing mini packs that contained mostly items based around a theme so this sounds basically like that. Considering that the full expansions are $30, yes, I do think $20 is a bit steep for a small pack of very seasonal items that generally won't be of interest for most of the year.
What he said. ;)
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