BioShock Infinite announces DLC Season Pass, buy access to 3 DLCs for 30% off

On Steam it’s $29.99 for Aussies, instead of the US price of $19.99. So if you want it, I suggest going Greenmangaming where it’s still $19.99. They upped the price on Bioshock Infinite to include the Aussie tax eventually, so I think it’s very possible it won’t stay at that price for too long.

… though even if they do bump it up, you might be able to use the Aussie coupon (GMGAU-3J9MF-MUINW) to get it back where it should be.

EDIT: I’m seeing a lot of hate in other places for the Season Pass. I’ve pre-ordered it personally, because I’m excited about the game, and because it’s all single player DLC, which I prefer (Minerva’s Den > map packs imho). I might end up regretting it if the game doesn’t live up to expectations, but I personally like the idea of a Season Pass, getting the full ‘complete’ game in advance. It’s worked out well for Borderlands 2 for me so far (being $24 at the time helped).

Yeah, all definitely good points.

Buuuuut, I feel like I’ve always been pretty spot on with my estimation of whether games will be good. I’ve pre-ordered a lot of games, and none of them have been less than an 8.5 (in my internal scoring system).

Aliens Colonial Marines always looked like a shit in my opinion, even when it looked better than it does now (wtf did you do Gearbox???), I still thought it looked below average at best. The same with Rage – there were a lot of game jornos saying it was going to be great and I was wondering what they were smoking.

Last few games I’ve preordered:

Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Xcom Enemy Unknown, Dark Souls (before the resolution patch, because i knew it would arrive), Deus Ex Human Revolution, Guild Wars 2 and Ni No Kuni. I did also pre-order Crysis 3, which I haven’t played yet – loved the first 2 so I’m sure it’ll be good (for me).

No regrets so far… If Bioshock Infinite sucks then I’ll be burnt I guess, but it’ll be a first. Is it worth it financially? F*ck no. With Steam sales aplenty I’m sure just a few months wait will halve the price on most games, but I don’t mind paying good money for a good game… When I was a kid and didn’t have much money, games cost $100+ and I still saved up and bought them, so picking up Bioshock Infinite + all its DLC for $60 on day one doesn’t bother me one iota.

TL:DR Pre-orders definitely aren’t worth it, but I do it anyway.

submariner:
We use to get that as one game, after we carefully looked over the legit reviews for the game. IMO the cost of a game has been raised by stealth, as people believe they are getting a game and an expansion for their money. It really is brilliant marketing.

Games used to cost $100+ when I started buying them regularly, and there were no online reviews, as there wasn’t much of anything online back then. You had to buy a $25 magazine to get a review, and it wasn’t even very easy to find them. The games were often atrocious both in graphics and gameplay, weren’t available until weeks or sometimes months after release (until the physical discs came to Australia), but we loved them anyway, as there were only a few good games released each year in total.

So back then I’d spend $300-$400 each year and get 2-3 crappy games and a bunch of gaming magazines. Today I can spend that same $300-$400 and get 5-6 AAA games on the hour they are released, plus dozens of amazing indie games, plus hundreds of older titles during Steam sales, all the while getting continuous free video game reviews and information streaming over the internet.

I definitely agree 100% that they are trying to train people to always pre-order, not buy used games, and heaps of little other things in order to get as much money out of us as possible. They’re greedy corporations, it comes with the territory, but personally I feel like I’m paying a whole lot less and getting a whole lot more than I used to.