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Paying $65 for a nine year old game
2008-09-19, 1:41 PM #1
So I was recently clued in into the game Planescape: Torment. I figured I'd try to pick it up since it seems like a good game. I go up onto Amazon to look for it. Are you ****ing kidding me? Who the hell pays those prices? Those are more than even new releases! Am I missing something? Does the game cure cancer?
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2008-09-19, 1:42 PM #2
Well, you are on the internet. So..
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2008-09-19, 1:43 PM #3
nascar racing 2003 season can reach prices of $100+ on ebay

also planescape torment has people asking even higher prices on ebay


funny how not too long ago this game was easily found in jewel case form for $10 WITH ANOTHER GAME
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2008-09-19, 1:53 PM #4
It's available on Gametap for 99 cents for the first month. Play it for a month, end your subscription, and voila. Of course, Gametap is horribly buggy for me, but it may work better for you.
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2008-09-19, 1:53 PM #5
List price: $79.95. That's more than guitar hero, complete with the controller!!
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2008-09-19, 1:54 PM #6
System Shock 2 and Planescape Torment go for insane bucks on eBay and I guess Amazon.com is just worse.

Then again, I got SS2 unopened in 2007 for just 4 euros from a Salvation Army shop. M'hm.
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2008-09-19, 1:57 PM #7
Try and find a boxed copy of Chrono Trigger.
2008-09-19, 2:11 PM #8
Final Fantasy 4 & 5 for Playstation cost me about 40 dollars when I bought it from a used game store not to long ago.. ;0
2008-09-19, 3:29 PM #9
Geez, I remember seeing Torment in discount places for several years. It seemed like some kind of classic which you could pick up everywhere for about 9 Euros. I paid something like that years earlier and it was still around for dirt cheap.
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2008-09-19, 3:42 PM #10
Wow, on Amazon.co.uk there's a copy going for £80 ($146). I think I have it lying around here somewhere, that little ***** is going straight to ebay!

Also I paid £30 for a copy of Toonstruck (my disk was old and scratched) but after trying everything I still can't get it to work acceptably and I'm tempted to buy a crappy old computer and install 98 just to play it :-(
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2008-09-20, 1:24 AM #11
i gotta say, torment is one of the best games ever, but i bought it for five bucks in a two pack with another game.
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2008-09-20, 3:06 AM #12
It pretty much does cure cancer.
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2008-09-20, 4:49 AM #13
Seeing as how the only way to buy the game nowadays is second hand, and that means no money goes to the developers of the game, I personally don't see much reason not to just torrent it. But that's just me.
2008-09-20, 9:51 AM #14
Yeah, that's the conclusion I've come to. Once the creator is no longer in a position to profit from his work, why artificially make it a limited quantity?
2008-09-20, 10:00 AM #15
which is why they should either release the game on steam or make it legally free
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2008-09-20, 10:30 AM #16
I was gonna see if GOG has Planetscape Torrent, but not yet...
2008-09-20, 10:33 AM #17
Originally posted by DrkJedi82:
which is why they should either release the game on steam or make it legally free


Well, yeah but they're lazy bureaucrats, so that will never happen.
2008-09-20, 10:51 AM #18
Originally posted by Vincent Valentine:
I was gonna see if GOG has Planetscape Torrent, but not yet...


it's planescape... not planetscape
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2008-09-20, 10:59 AM #19
I've never noticed that til now.
2008-09-20, 11:10 AM #20
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