Dear Capcom,
I am seriously thinking about cancelling my pre-order of RE Revelations. When I found out you were charging $50 for the game I was outraged and vowed never to pay that much for a portable game. I stick by that. I only pre-ordered it from Amazon because it was $39.99, even back then. I had totally forgotten about the Circle Pad Pro thing until just now. I had also forgotten only Gamestop (home of the pre-played games even if they say "new") was the only way graced with selling it. So the pad is $20. Which brings the price of the game, at least in my eyes, to $59.99, the price of a full-on console game like Skyrim. I feel you have been on a mission to rip off its customers, starting with RE Mercenaries, which brought on a whole can of backlash against you. When the save system info became common knowledge, that game fell into the cellar. I remember it being ranked around #800 at one point shortly after launch in the Amazon videogame bestseller list.
And don't even get me started on the 3DS. Obviously, they intended to have a 2nd circle pad. I mean, look at the empty space beneath the xyba buttons. Its a blank space. Those buttons could have been moved down and a right circle pad put even with the left circle pad. But they had to rush that system out with lame games. The 3DS still hasn't come out with any impact games except their own tired retread first party titles. Again, I am seriously thinking about cancelling my preorder of RE Revelations. I was already dumb enough to pay an extra $80 for buying the 3DS at launch. Now I have to make it an even $100??
Don't get me wrong, I played the demo of Revelations, and I want the game, but if it's gonna cost me $60, I might as well buy a console game. Inversion and Kingdoms of Amalur come out the same day as RE Revelations. The Amalur demo was pretty fun, even thought it seemed an amalgamation of other games instead of an all new experience. But I still have my hands full finishing Skyrim right now, so I'm not really looking for a sword and sorcery experience at the moment.
The game I think I'm going to buy is Inversion. I haven't really heard much about it, but its from Namco, whose games I usually like, and it looks pretty awesome. Plus, Amazon is offering a $10 credit on it. I have already pre-ordered The Darkness 2 so that pretty much covers the horror action side of things.
So that's about it. I reject your game and your company, dearest Capcom. I'm not buying what you are selling. You need to listen, because I am not the only one making this decision around the world when it comes to your games.
So wait, it sounds like you're upset that the Circle Pad Pro costs $20, which neither has anything to do with Capcom, nor is that peripheral required to play Revelations.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, Revelations is a huge game that uses a beefier cartridge to allow for near-current gen visuals and production value, plus a 10-12 hour campaign, and a robust multiplayer mode. It's well worth the $49.99 it was originally going to cost, but negotiations with Nintendo allowed Capcom to offer it for $39.99, so it's no more expensive than any other 3DS game, even though the cartridge costs more to publish.
So what are you complaining about?
Yeah, you're right in the end. I guess I'm just frustrated because I want the game, but I hate the fact that I have to spend another $20 if I want the improved control.
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