SineSwiper wrote:Yes, $8 for Super Mario RPG is expensive. I just downloaded everything anybody ever made EVER! In the history of gaming. For free. I have so many games, I need to buy a new HD to store them in. A new fucking HD!
Why would I pay $8 for a single 15-year-old game? I can pay that much for new XBLA games.
Even I think that $8 for one of the best 16-bit RPGs is a decent deal if you don't already own the cartridge. You're talking about a game that you're going to play for 20-25 hours, looks relatively good even now for a sprite-based game, and you know is of very high quality. There are a shitton of PSN or XBLA games that are not nearly of the quality or length of that game that go for a lot more. There's much more to the value proposition than whether or not it's an older game re-released. That fact shouldn't automatically deem it to be too expensive.
It's not about whether or not you can get it for free. I never have to buy any game ever again for the 360, PS3, Wii, DS, or PSP either if I don't want to, they're all available online, often a couple of days before you can buy them. And it's not THAT hard to modify the systems to play burned games. You gotta be a part of the consumer base if you expect stuff to come out. The industry has to keep making some money in order to keep producing. I'm all for making a statement and not buying unless it's priced right but just because you can get it for free doesn't mean you should.
What about this: I own many of the carts that I would want on my arcade machine (I don't want everything, just some select ones). Is it OK for me to d'load a ROM of them to put on my arcade machine if I already own the cart?
