The official word has finally come down about FASA Studio's Shadowrun. The game is going to drop for both PC and Xbox 360 on May 29th. The really appalling part about all of this is the pricing. PC owners will be getting the game for $49.99 while 360 owners will have to pay a ridiculous $59.99.
My frustration with this news is two fold. The first problem I'm having is that this game is being priced so high and it is shipping with only 9 multiplayer maps and absolutely no single player campaign at all. After seeing what went down with Epic and Gears of War I think it's far to assume additional maps are going to cost us a big chunk of MS Points. I mean seriously?! At least Gears had a single player campaign even if you could cruise through it in a really short amount of time. This price tag is discouraging because it could indicate a growing trend of getting half games at full price. This is not a trend I intend to support so this game won't be getting any of my dollars until the price comes down to a number more suitable to what's on the disc.
My second issue is that the PC game is actually going to cost $10 less than the 360 title. I mean we already pay a yearly premium to play games online and you want to charge us more than our PC counterparts who can play games online for free, make use of mods (for most games), and they get to use the standard shooter configuration of keyboard and mouse. I would really like to know who's genius idea this pricing scheme was.
While we are on the topic of brilliant decisions, why in god's name would this game be released in the middle of the Halo 3 beta? A much smarter move might have been to push the release one week when folks were done with the beta and salivating for more. Players might pick this up to get their fix and alot more copies could have been pushed out on release day. Releasing it on May 29th is going to give reviewers and internet loudmouths, like myself, plenty of time to complain about the lack of content and that may sway a lot of folks not to pick up the title.
I would love to know who is responsible for these crackpot decisions. Perhaps we should give them half the salary and twice the hate mail.
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Games for Vista kids also require the Gold subscription to XBL if they want to play cross platform. Pretty dumb when PC games are traditionally online for minimal cost if anything :-P.
yeah but games for vista kids can play with games for vista kids for free. We can't do this via XBL. We've gotta pay no matter what which is retarded.
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