Pics or it didn’t happen.

Fair enough point. I was on a bit of a time crunch so I made a concious decision not to do screencaps. In the future I’ll be sure to have them.

“Hell, they’re even tired of the $60 price tag and went just over 1/2 that, at $40.”

Seriously? Products sell at the price the market will bear. The reason Halo sold at $49.99 and didn’t go “Platinum” until the release of Halo 2 was because people still wanted to buy it at that price three years after release. “Platinum”, “Players Choice”, and “Greatest Hits” are just labels that say “We couldn’t sell this anymore at full price, so will you buy it now? PLEEEEEEASE?”

I have to disagree with you here. “Willing to” and “want to” are not the same thing. Halo was revolutionary for its time and its impact on the console FPS genre. While I agree that games are going to sell for as much as people will pay for them, I cannot believe that people would rather pay more than less. The issue of modded consoles and pirated software would be moot if this were true. This model also does not apply to most other games that are released. They don’t have the staying power of being a genre-defining franchise.

Also, please define “just” because I might just say *smirk* that “$70 is just over half of $100″. To me, that statement is ludicrous, and yet it’s only three and a third percent more expensive proportionally to your suggestion. If claiming that 40 is near enough to half of 60, then the intent seems to me to be to exploit people’s displeasure to handle basic math.

I think Barbie said it best, “Math is hard. Let’s go shopping!”

Tim’s Definition of
Just Over

– numbers falling in between half and 3/4 of what would be considered the “full” number 40 is 66% of 60, so I probably should have switched to 3rds and said that its 2/3′s of the $60 release. Fair argument and I’ll try to be more mathematically accurate in the future.

“Hell, they’re even tired of the $60 price tag and went just over 1/2 that, at $40.”

Seriously? Products sell at the price the market will bear. The reason Halo sold at $49.99 and didn’t go “Platinum” until the release of Halo 2 was because people still wanted to buy it at that price three years after release. “Platinum”, “Players Choice”, and “Greatest Hits” are just labels that say “We couldn’t sell this anymore at full price, so will you buy it now? PLEEEEEEASE?”

Also, please define “just” because I might just say *smirk* that “$70 is just over half of $100″. To me, that statement is ludicrous, and yet it’s only three and a third percent more expensive proportionally to your suggestion. If claiming that 40 is near enough to half of 60, then the intent seems to me to be to exploit people’s displeasure to handle basic math.

I remember reading an article that mentioned how people in a study without the aid of rulers or tick marks were able to identify fractions of a line with numerators as high as 12. Forty dollars is equal to two-thirds of sixty, not fullPrice/2+epsilon where epsilon is “very small such that epsilon^2 is very near zero”.

I think Barbie said it best, “Math is hard. Let’s go shopping!”

-Mike