Nice, my local EB is really good with price matching. I know alot of people hate EB, but my local is really friendly.
I don't hate it, but I rarely see the point of going into one apart from console launches. its a question of value.
So, this week, Battlefront comes out with something like 12 maps and is more or less multiplayer only. It's less than $70 at most places and looks fun enough that if it click, you'll play it for a while, but will you play it enough to justify the price?
What is your metric for value?
A long time ago, I made a deal with myself. If I got at least *1 hour of gameplay for every $10 I spent on it, then that was okay. Halo 3 and Bioshock were the rare examples of $99 being the cheapest I could find either. Both provided me with more than 10 hours and both were a lot of fun. This past year, I think only Lego Dimension cost more than $70 at launch (and that was a gift). Batman, Gears Remastered, Rare Replay, Metal Gear and AC easily paid for themselves, Mario Maker and Splatoon only just, but Yoshi and The Order didn't. According to my stats, I have played CoD: Blops 3 for more than a day- though I think a fair bit of that is idling in menus whilst off doing other things. It's more like 12 hours when combining the campaign and the multi. So that's paid for itself.
Over the years, I figure games like Borderlands, Fallout, Skyrim, GTA, AC, Crackdown, Orange Box, CoD MP, Zeldas and 3D Mario games more than make up for the stuff that I quit early like Watch Dogs, Shadow of Mordor. I don't sell or trade games anymore so whatever I don't like ends up staying on my shelves. Part of the reason I don't get more digital games is that there is rarely much incentive to do so with the prices we get charged here.
So do you care how much playtime a game gives you when compared to the cost of acquisition? It's not so much if a fun game is full price yet very short, but more the games that aren't as much fun compared to the price you paid.
Yes, maybe I should just wait two years and get everything when Big W dumps old stock or Steam sales. But I like playing games at launch and being part of that conversation.
*of course, I don't include the console purchase in this as it'd make me nuts when buying multiplats. Hmm I want Skyrim on PC but the PS3 has been neglected lately...
