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  I think a lot of people function in percentages though. From a consumer point of view. They see 50% off a... : K1Bond007
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    I am with Luminair on this one. 4 episodes of zombies running at you while fun in coop didn't strike me a... : mc-fine
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      you should try playing it for more than 45 minutes before you decide its worth $25 :) Roughly 6-9 hour... : brainchild420
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        Well I don't want to pay for the game, play and then form an opinion about its value. By that point they ... : mc-fine
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          The demo was 1.5ish levels....hardly a good chunk of the game....but enough of the game to keep playing f... : Jimbo Ro
          • I am guessing most of that was co-op with is the meat of the L4D experience. They probably felt giving an... : mc-fine
    • Which tells me you haven't played much of it. I've easily put in over 40 hours in L4D. I definitely got m... : Bantis
  • This is spot on. People are pretty easily fooled when it comes to dealing with relative values. At a half : psamathos
  • This is very true. If you are going to buy, say, a pen set for your desk and it costs $15, but the sales... : bipolar
  • Dozens of people, myself included, have been expecting a $30 price tag since before it was released. I... : Freon
• it would have been nice if they didn't rush the game out before the holidays to get those 360 discs stamp... : brainchild420
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  I think you're a little confused. There was a huge increase in sales because it's a $50 game. People are ... : psamathos
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    I think you bit off more than you can chew calling me the confused one : Luminair
    • I think psamathos might be right. If Apple sold the Macbook (for example) tomorrow for 500 dollars, they... : digweed014
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    I completely disagree. I never bought it because it seemed like an cool mod, not a full price game. 2... : the city
    • different people's opinions. some people think it's worth 50 dollars, as while it may not have a ton of c... : Drakoniac
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      I've put more hours in to this cool mod than any other game I've bought in a long time. There's no questi... : aeg1x
      • Well, different strokes. I don't think it's worth 50 dollars. : the city
• I have to disagree. I'm not surprised that the sales jumped by that much because the popular opinion was ... : Stucky_101
• yea definitely. i really considered buying it this weekend but not with DoW 2 coming out so soon. at 50 d... : mega man
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  More like price segmentation at work. They came out with it at $50 and all the people who thought it w... : Schnapple
  • good read : SlingBlaze
  • I'm just reading Joel on Software, which is basically a collection of all his 2000-2004 columns. Good rea... : code-e255
  • Bingo. : Godhatesfatpeople
• People have already made good comments about the psychology around price, but I'd like to cast my vote th... : S1ing B1ade
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  It doesn't agree with you at all. You could do this with any recently (amazing) released game and the out... : YummiGummi
  • Equally true, although the prospect of Valves ongoing support is a massive added incentive compared to ot... : MeestaNob
• well $20-30 is a sweetspot to a larger amount of people for any game as well. but it's funny this is prob... : thebigbeefsandwich
• Disagree a bit, I bought it at $25 because I think it's a $37.50 game. : Sixcos
• The only problem is that is how economics works of COURSE more people will buy it at $25 than at $50 that... : SlingBlaze
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  With that logic, most console games are $5 games. Can be played for, and beaten, in an hour or two... ... : Jimbo Ro
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    Console games are be beaten in an hour? Which $60 console game can you beat in an hour. Let alone you s... : SlingBlaze
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      Any sports or fighting game. : Jimbo Ro
      • Oh and Fallout 3. : Jimbo Ro
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        A lot of those games would probably do better with staggered prices. I don't see the value in shelling ou... : mc-fine
        • Isn't Madden one of the best selling games every year? : Jimbo Ro
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        What? Yes you can play ONE game of hockey in less than an hour, but just because you play one game of ho... : SlingBlaze
        • Which is pretty analogous to Left 4 Dead. : crummynz
• oh for christ sakes... the market has spoken and some consumers are cool with fucking competent digital s... : leadgold
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  i've gotten WAY more than $50 out of L4D. It was well worth buying at full price imo. : Demius
  • Agreed. The play time and fun per dollar is orders of magnitude higher than many other games. The only ... : DinK
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  Or maybe, juuuust maybe...People like sales? : MCbigdude
  • i can't think of any other reason why i have so many unplayed games in my steam acct... .... keep buyin s... : Demius
• I didn't know the market speaks in broad assumptions. : heartsauce
• It's the perception of it being a good deal. It's like $19.99 isn't $20, so you can buy it at "less" t... : Derringer
• To the people saying "it was worth $50 to me:" Did you know it was worth $50 *before* you bought it or di... : nudel
• Agreed. L4D is a great game, but it's really little more than an updated version of Gauntlet. $50 was far... : Rehevkor
• You have no concept of marketing, or psychology. The point is that a 50$ game was marked down to 25$. ... : icedcool
• Yes, the market has spoken. L4D is a $25 game... for [i]som/i] (me included). The thing is, though, if... : lolife.se
• most people up in here totally missed the point. the left 4 dead sales increase is a special case. why ... : Luminair
• Arguing about whether a game is worth $x dollars on the internet is meaningless because the value of a d... : SenorSpine
• Your logic is a bit flawed here. : Milleh