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Electronic Arts' Price Gouging at Its Worst

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GameStooge is outraged by Electronic Arts' Xbox Live Arcade price gouging.

Excerpt: "Electronic Arts has taken out the price gouging gun and shoved it straight in your face, in an outrageous and stupid way.

Apparently, Hasbro Family Game Night is a 235MB host to buy each of the games. Separately. For $10 each.

Yes, you have to buy each game of the bundle that Wii and PS2 owners get for a single price. Considering there are going to be seven games, that means you're going to be paying $70 for something that costs other systems $30. That's a helluva price jump for Achievements - and not all of the games are available yet. Boggle, Sorry! and Sorry! Sliders will be out sometime in the future.

No, seriously, Connect Four and Battleship for $10 *each*? Someone on XNA can whip up a 99 cent clone of them, and probably make them interesting."
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Published: 263 days 3 hours ago | Article | Xbox 360 | Wii | PlayStation 2 | Gaming
 
 

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n4gn4gn4gn4g - 263 days 6 hours ago
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1 - Wouldn't PS3 and Wii
owners just play flash versions in their browsers?
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JonahFalcon - 263 days 6 hours ago
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No, they're just $10 "downloadable" content.

Also, Scrabble has no Vs. CPU option. WTF?
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DJ - 262 days 20 hours ago
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1.2 - Yeah.
I just download videos off the web straight to my PS3. Never tried any of the flash-based web games, though i'm sure they work just fine.
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Kushan - 262 days 20 hours ago
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This is EA we're talking about, here. Of course they're going to squeeze as much as they can from people. I hear that MLB 09 comes with a code in the box that you need for online play, so you can't just buy a used copy of the game without having to pay to play it online. They're a Joke.
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VaTechfan90 - 262 days 18 hours ago
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2.1 - I hear that MLB 09 comes with a code in the box that you need for online play
umm EA doesn't make MLB 09 sony does
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Kushan - 262 days 18 hours ago
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I think there's 2 different series with the same license?
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VaTechfan90 - 262 days 17 hours ago
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I don't think so atleast not in America theres just MLB 09 the show made by SCEA and MLB 2k9 made by take 2 interactive. I could be wrong though it would't be the first time lol
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Kushan - 262 days 17 hours ago
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MLB 2k9 is what I'm thinking of. My mistake for thinking it was EA, though, I don't care for baseball games, I don't even come from America =P
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Dlacy13g - 262 days 19 hours ago
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3 - I find myself at a bit of a cross road on this one....
I downloaded the "room" yesterday and it all felt nice and fun...then realized I had to pay 800 pts for each game! I was initially completely shocked and angered! Each game? I mean each game feels like a $5 purchase at best!

Then I started to think about things...specifically EA's parnter in this Hasbro. If I were to go out and buy each of these "board" games I would pay the following according to Amazon.com (keep in mind I found the most basic form of the game at the cheapest price for the physical game not software versions):

Connect Four - $14.99 US
Sorry - $16.99 US
Battleship - $26.00 US
Yahtzee - $8.99 US
Scrabble - $19.25 US
Bogggle - $13.97 US

Total for all 6 = $100.19 US!

So...I realize there are slight differences to playing on a board game vs a video game. but that all said...the pricing truthfully is better than what you would pay for if you bought them at an actual store.

I think EA and Hasbro should have come in at the $5 to $8 range on each game, and thus nobody would be as crazed about it but at $10 a game ...some of those are actually pretty good deals considering.
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JonahFalcon - 262 days 17 hours ago
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Um, you can't compare. You're paying for PHYSICAL PIECES for the board games. You're paying for the manufacturing costs of pieces, boards, and cards. Physical objects.

Let's look at a more direct comparison:

PS2 version: $19.99
Wii version: $36.99

THE XBOX LIVE ARCADE VERSION DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A BOX OR DISC TO PRESS.
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Covenant - 262 days 17 hours ago
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Corporate greed...is anyone else sick of it?

(And I'm a free-market Libertarian...)
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iheartSONY - 262 days 16 hours ago
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5 - At it AGAIN!
Ya EA will never stop its ways. I think $5 a game and a $20-$30 for all the games would be the right price for this. Oh well if you want a "complete" EA game you have to pay up the wa-zoo! Ill pass!
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