Serious Sam Rip-off

[old.Paul B]

Nice to see that Take2 Interactive have decided to rip-off British consumers once more.

In the states Serious Sam has a $19.95 price tag, just right considering that the game can be finished in a few hours.

However over here Take2 have decided that the normal pound for dollar conversion doesnt give them enough of an obscene profit margin so they appear to have put an RRP of £25.99 nearly double the price of the US edition.

Frankly I'm totally p*ssed off with this money grabbing attitude and I wont be buying a UK copy of Serious Sam. (However I accept thats an easy attitude to take when I'm going to Canada next week...)

[Edited by Paul B on 26-03-01 at 15:07]

 

[Nibbler]

Tut

 

[Wij]

Gits !

Ah well. It's worth it to me. When's it out ?

 

[old.Cpl_Custard]

/me isn't getting it. Purky out of principle

 

[old.Cpl_Custard]

should be purly

 

[old.Mr.Bee]

15.31 Ex VAT
£17.99 inc VAT

@ jungle.com

shop around..may even be a better deal out there!

 

[Wij]

Aha. Nice info. Thx !

 

[Ch3tan]

Yeah guys calm down, only fools actually use the RRP. The RRP is there for political reasons between companies not too be the actual selling price.

 

[old.Mr.Bee]

heh..gameplay and EB are selling it for a higher price...hmmm

 

[Embattle]

I thought it would cost £20.....oh well guess not

 

[Ono]

Does anyone know if the game requires a CD Key?

Also, does it fit onto a standard 650mb CD or do I need to get one of those 700mb ones?

 

[old.SUp3rFM]

It doesn't needs a cd-key

It fits on a 650mb cd

/me has it

/me pulls of his wodden leg and a parrot

 

[*Exor*]

Find an FTP with it on. Who says you have to pay for games?

 

[Wij]

hehe, cheeky warezers

 

[Embattle]

Originally posted by *Exor*
Find an FTP with it on. Who says you have to pay for games?

Well if no one does then there won't be any games to copy

 

[Ono]

That's right Emb.

That stint at Gameplay has done you a power of good

 

[Embattle]

Most Games I buy....after all they don't cost much and more often than not I get my moneys worth.

 

[old.Kez]

Serious Sam is leet.

but it runs wank on meh PC and crash0rs in w2k if I change any of the video settings.

so a new gfx card / partition for me then

 

[Embattle]

Yes I found that it crashed as well when I tried the Test2 of the game.

 

[Wij]

Upgrade to Win98 then

 

[Testin da Cable]

I'm not gonna say _anything_ about M$ today

 

[Nibbler]

If you want to find the best price on a game go to http://www.videogameseeker.com, its a price search engine, it's extremley handy

 

[old.Quorthon]

What spec PC do you need to realistically play the game at decent resolutions?

(I mean the REAL specs, not the wank ON THE BOX spec which is probably a PII-300, 32mb RAM and 8mb gfx card). Will a P3-600 and GF DDR on 128mb RAM do it????????????


Q

 

[Wij]

Easy. It plays fine on my 2nd box which is P3@504, GF1 SDR, 256meg PC100. I doubt that the extra ram will mean more to the game than your extra cpu and vid mem bandwidth.

 

[old.Japes]

Strange. I popped into my local EB a couple of days ago, and Serious Sam was going for 20 quid, along with quite a few other new/recent titles that I assume aren't selling at all/too well.

Dunno why EB are selling certain titles minus VAT and others with VAT? Weird policy. Why not extend it to all titles, ffs?

 

[Ono]

Erm, Are we allowed to say anything bad about EB now?

 

[Wij]

SS was released ? Thought it was in April ?

 

[Embattle]

Last I had seen its due for release April 13th.

 

[Wij]

That's a Bank Holiday is it not :/