Episode One price confirmed

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The price of revoltion is, according to Eurogamer.net, $19.99 (just under 12 pounds sterling for Brits, or near 17 euros for Euros). That's how much "4-6 hours" of gameplay with HL2DM, HL1DM Source and HL2 itself not required (it's not clear whether the cost will differ for HL2 owners). The name change is just that - a name change, and there is no shift in content, despite the fears of cynics. Good news: "Episode 1's complexion and density is markedly richer than Half-Life 2." And of course, it's due on Steam on the 24th of April.[br]
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[br]To recap:[br]</br>$19.99[br]</br>Here's a currency converter, in case you're too lazy.
 
The image is misleading. How hard is it to find a 20 dollar bill :(
 
I bow to you O great gods of Steam!
 
Looks pretty reasonable to me, especially if you don't own hl2 for some odd reason, and hence doesn't have hl2dm and can't play mods.

Would owners of Episode 1 who doesn't own the original hl2 will be able to play hl2 based mods?
 
You pay like 40 quid for full blown games, yet they can be beaten in 8 hours. And 12 quid for episodic? Yes please.
 
4 - 6 hours of gameplay for who? They said HL2 was 20 hours. I finished it in about 6. So i guess i will finish EP1 in 30 mins! I hope im wrong.
 
Sweet. I'm buying no matter the price- this IS Half-Life 2, after all.
 
Sulkdodds said:
The price of revoltion is, according to Eurogamer.net, $19.99 (just under 12 pounds sterling for Brits). That's how much "4-6 hours" of gameplay with HL2DM, HL1DM Source and HL2 itself not required (it's not clear whether the cost will differ for HL2 owners). The name change is just that - a name change, and there is no shift in content, despite the fears of cynics. Good news: "Episode 1's complexion and density is markedly richer than Half-Life 2." And of course, it's due on Steam on the 24th of April.[br]
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[br]To recap:[br]</br>$19.99
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I am confident that it will be worth the USD 20 price-tag to me, but I think it could have been cheaper. Bundeling it with hl2:dm sweetens the deal for virtually nobody, and unless hl:dms is a 100% remake (unlike hl:s) it will contribute very little to the overall value.

Hopefully the quality of the episode will be very high, and I do like the sound of "Episode 1's complexion and density is markedly richer than Half-Life 2." and hdr.

Anyway, for me USD 20 is enough to pay for a show at the local movie-theatre, a soda, and the tube back and forth so it is highly unlikely that I will be unhappy with my purchase.

.bog.
 
kinda worrying that for $25 (canadian) I get 4-6 hours worth of gameplay and not much else ..for double that I got hl2/the entire valve library/DoD:S ...ok that's a lie ..HL2/valve games came with my 9600xt + $10 for DoD:s

not really complaining it's just that I dont like getting less for more

still wont stop me from getting it, and all future episodes
 
eurogamer said:
As to pricing and content: "For HL2: Episode 1 we're targeting four to six hours of new single player gaming plus HL2 DM and HL DM: Source for $19.99 - HL2 not required," he confirms. "For Episode 2, we're planning a similar offering at the same price."
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"Similar offering", huh? Similar as in 4-6 hours of episodic content + already available mp-content + new mp-content? Whatever could that be....

.bog. dreams of ricosource
 
ríomhaire said:
$20 retail or steam?
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19.99 is the price of the package on steam.
Thus far the only retail option announced is buying hl2:a bundled with hl2 in a "platinum edition", which will include hl2+hl2:a+cs:s+dod:s and is highly unlikely to be priced at 19.99... :p

There will likely be a retail package containing more than one hl2 episode later when more episodes have been released, but that is not likely to happen this year.

.bog.
 
Sorry to be upset, but Valve better add more to that $19.99 package than just an expansion that only promises more episodes. And the price of Episode 2-x will be the same? Goodness.

Their claim of the expansion being more "dense" is nice advertising. But we'll have to wait to see the game's media to make that judgement.
 
How could I not get a new Half Life game. Cannot wait.

Wait, damn im broke, ahh, slight problem...
 
Average PC gamer goes out for a meal. Sees two restaurants side-by-side, a McBurgerThing filled with industrial effluent and a quaint little family-run establishment serving delectable morsels of exquisite, traditional home-made foods.

"OMG," they say, looking at the family-run restaurant. "THATS LIEK SO EXPENSV!"

They think for a moment, weighing up the different possibilities by mass of foods provided. A McBurgerThing Pig Mac Bucket Family Meal costs n, and weighs m kilograms, whereas the menu on the wall of the other restaurant has all the dishes individually priced, and a wine list. A wine list, of all things!

So average PC gamer complains. Bitterly. "TEH MCBUGGARFING IS LIEK SO CHEAP! LOL! GET LOADS OF FOOD! DONT WNAT TO EAT TAHT EXPEMSIV CRP FROM OTHAR PLACE, ILL HAV EATEN T IN SECONDS! WTF???"

Even though one dish from the decent restaurant costs less than the bucket of effluent from the burger chain.

The moral of the story: you're all cheap bastards... ;-)
 
boglito said:
19.99 is the price of the package on steam.
Thus far the only retail option announced is buying hl2:a bundled with hl2 in a "platinum edition", which will include hl2+hl2:a+cs:s+dod:s and is highly unlikely to be priced at 19.99... :p

There will likely be a retail package containing more than one hl2 episode later when more episodes have been released, but that is not likely to happen this year.

.bog.
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where does it say anything about steam? http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/260568.asp thats been up for awhile now, dont know where you have been. why would you need hl2dm if you are buying the game from steam?
 
Follow-up from Cargo Cult post, I think its content rather than time. If they say that its richer than HL2, idk about that because HL2 is a very good game. And expansion packs cost usually $20. I'm getting a welding job very soon too and it should be paying over $10 an hour so $20 is'nt too much. :naughty: The only problem is I don't wanna get a credit card because credit cards are evil. But I do have a debit card. I hope Steam accepts debit cards in the very near future! :thumbs:
 
I'll be getting since the price isn't that expensive for the content+ HL1:DM which I love.
 
50/20hr = 2.5 $/hr for HL2 and now 20/5 = 4 $/hr for Ep1. Thats a pretty significant hike. Also considering that there was almost no useless "lets add another level for the heck of it" crap in HL2, this really isn't great news.

This is a bit disappointing, but the value is not in the number of hours I waste playing the game but the experience. I'm hoping that by "denser" they mean the overall quality of each second is even higher.

But whatever the price, Valve knows that nearly everyone will buy this.
 
$27 AUD for 4-6 hours of play? DVD's for that price have more content.
 
Man I could have sworn they said the price was going to be $12.95. Did they actually say that or am I going insane? Anyway seems that will be the price of both Sin: Episodes and HL2: Episodes.
 
Great price hope valve isnt losing on this. Cant wait for HLDM:Source oh and wth? You dont need HL2 to play! Thats weird..But cool i guess.
 
No reason you'll need hl2 to play it, it'll d/l all the needed content (which is pretty much everything, minus the maps and some models).

I'm hoping that people who already own hl2dm will get a discount, since it'll be stupid too pay for something I already have - 15-16$ looks decent price for people who already have hl2dm.
 
The 13$ price was talked about before it was planned for the episode to come with HL2: DM and HL1: DM source. I'm hopping the price will be cheaper for those that already have hl2: DM.

Either way , 20$ isn't too much to ask for when there are game priced at full and are in the same gameplay time of the episodes and between me and you , we all know that the gameplay in Episode 1 will be better than of those "full games" , so why the sour face?
 
$20 is too high for an expansion. $50/20 hrs = $2.50 per hour and that price includes the development of the game engine as well. $20/5 = $4.00 and an expansion is primarily just additional levels and story so I feel that 15$ is far more reasonable a price point.

Sound like a ripoff to me.
 
I hope you'll be able to just buy ep one, but I don't think you'll be able to. This is an intelligent (albeit deceitful) decision by valve : go around and say "you get 3 games for 20 bucks !" when no one is going to not have HL2:DM already (who is going to buy ep1 and not halflife2 ?), and hl1:dm was supposed to be a bonus to begin with (read back a few friday updates), and i can bet it's just a copy-paste job like half-life source was (no real added value).

"4-6" hours of gameplay for 20 dollars ? Who are they kidding ? First of all, it's going to be 3 actual hours (As always, the duration is exaggerated. who finished halflife2 in 20 hours, again ?). Who is saying the content is "markedly richer" ? Valve ? Sounds like a reliable source, as they are selling the product ! Oh please.

This is a "limit" price. Not as high as to make people think they'd deserve an entire full game-long campaign, but just enough so people still buy it.
 
Sounds fine to me...sorta.

Maybe THIS time they did not exaggerate like they did with HL2?

Either way I'll probably spend a whole 10 hours total from admiring the maps...
 
RP. said:
No reason you'll need hl2 to play it, it'll d/l all the needed content (which is pretty much everything, minus the maps and some models).

I'm hoping that people who already own hl2dm will get a discount, since it'll be stupid too pay for something I already have - 15-16$ looks decent price for people who already have hl2dm.
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Wow people are cheap. HL2:DM came FREE with HL2. You payed 50$ for HL2 not HL2 and HL2:DM all that is extra.

Valve should price HL2:EP1 20$ even without the Extra stuff.

nagual7 said:
I hope you'll be able to just buy ep one, but I don't think you'll be able to. This is an intelligent (albeit deceitful) decision by valve : go around and say "you get 3 games for 20 bucks !" when no one is going to not have HL2:DM already (who is going to buy ep1 and not halflife2 ?), and hl1:dm was supposed to be a bonus to begin with (read back a few friday updates), and i can bet it's just a copy-paste job like half-life source was (no real added value).

"4-6" hours of gameplay for 20 dollars ? Who are they kidding ? First of all, it's going to be 3 actual hours (As always, the duration is exaggerated. who finished halflife2 in 20 hours, again ?). Who is saying the content is "markedly richer" ? Valve ? Sounds like a reliable source, as they are selling the product ! Oh please.

This is a "limit" price. Not as high as to make people think they'd deserve an entire full game-long campaign, but just enough so people still buy it.
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LOL? I did i beat HL2 1st time in about 20 Hours Gameplay took 3 days. Oh and no im not bad at games iv been playing FPS games for 4 years. People jet through games, dont find all the secrets, dont find all the story clues. No i didnt load the game every 2 secs must have loaded a total of 6-8 times from having low health.
 
Considering most expansions cost 35 or so bucks and are typically six or so hours worht of content, I don't see how anyone can be griping about 5 hours for 20 bucks.

Also, everything on Steam, just about, comes standalone. Hopefully Episode 1 will too. I already have HL2: DM and HL:S DM was supposed to come free to anyone who owned HL:S so there's no incentive for me to get the bigger package.
 
Is I the only one who thinks 12 USD is a bit stiff for 6-8 hours gameplay. ?

When I buy a game a wanna have it.
 
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