Yeah, I can see how my comments might have come off as shit-posting. Reading it back, I get that. Wasn't really my intention though. Honestly I had just jumped on PSN ready to pick up the game (I remember liking the beta somewhat) and was a bit annoyed to see not even a slight discount. Sixty bucks, still. When it's super cheap retail. Idk, that annoyed me. I posted on gaf about it.
I only buy digital games, so I guess that's on me. Just figured there would be some kind of discount... posting it, really made that guy very mad though. Sorry, guy.
Edit: what's with those links to my old posts? lol totally out of context, and one of them isn't even about this game.
Why are you quoting me? I didn't say it and the guy that did was banned. Your post did seem a bit negative but his remarks were super rude and uncalled for. He could have explained his issue with your post without calling you an asshole. I do sympathise with his frustration however, there are lots of people that frequent the OTs on GAF just to periodically shitpost on a game that they do not play, and I really dislike that.
It's shame they haven't adjusted the digital price but if I were to hazard a guess I would say it's because they do not want people to buy it at the moment. Which might sound unusual but if they are antiicpating a free to play launch in the future, where characters would cost money, then being able to buy the paid version (where you would get all of the characters for free) for a very low price might devalue their prospective free to play model.
In the UK you can buy this game for £4 at retail. They can't match that price digitally realistically, so why drop the price at all? It would just encourage people to get a 'full' version of the game, where Gearbox would make little to nothing from it. Perhaps they believe that if they release a free to play version they could get more out of it, as people would buy characters etc and a cheap digital version beforehand would reduce the value of that later proposition.
That's purely speculation though. Other explanations include that they plan to lower the price later, or they just haven't bothered because they don't care about the game and it's sales all that much at this stage. One could argue that the writing has been on the wall for some time, and there's little Gearbox can do to turn things around.
In either eventuality in all likelihood it's worth picking it up for the retail price if you plan on playing it in the future. The retail version could easily be a bargain compared to typical free to play model (Paragon and Smite both charge around £15 to unlock all characters).
Katamari's the one man Battleborn Defense Force on GAF, only he takes the defense part way too seriously. I like the game, but I'm not going out of my way to defend it.
You don't defend a game by insulting people. I'm happy to defend this game and any game I like against criticism, with civil debate. That seemingly isn't Katamari's style.
