Yeah, I’m using them as an example of an underwhelming product that nevertheless has a market at its price, which millions of people regularly purchase knowing how shit it is because the price is tolerable for a guilty pleasure.
Measuring the time in percentages here doesn’t make sense. A 1 hour difference on a 3 hour game can easily be chalked up to variance (even the estimate of 3-4 hours has a 1 hour range) but 10 hours off a 30 hour game is enormous. If we also made it $50 instead of $5 and argued for time per dollar as a value metric, sure, those would be equally misleading, but time per dollar is less important as the total cost decreases. Nobody would say a 2 cent movie ticket is half as worthwhile as a 1 cent ticket. They’re both approximately as valuable as the experience itself because the cost is negligible.
underwhelming product that nevertheless has a market at its price
So if we agree that this game is an underwhelming product, why are we surprised it’s getting refunded? Unlike the big mac where you probably know what you’re getting in advance, this one is being misleading with spuriously inflated play time. Very spurious, since it seems likely half or more of players are finishing in less than 2 hours.
Yeah, I’m using them as an example of an underwhelming product that nevertheless has a market at its price, which millions of people regularly purchase knowing how shit it is because the price is tolerable for a guilty pleasure.
Measuring the time in percentages here doesn’t make sense. A 1 hour difference on a 3 hour game can easily be chalked up to variance (even the estimate of 3-4 hours has a 1 hour range) but 10 hours off a 30 hour game is enormous. If we also made it $50 instead of $5 and argued for time per dollar as a value metric, sure, those would be equally misleading, but time per dollar is less important as the total cost decreases. Nobody would say a 2 cent movie ticket is half as worthwhile as a 1 cent ticket. They’re both approximately as valuable as the experience itself because the cost is negligible.
So if we agree that this game is an underwhelming product, why are we surprised it’s getting refunded? Unlike the big mac where you probably know what you’re getting in advance, this one is being misleading with spuriously inflated play time. Very spurious, since it seems likely half or more of players are finishing in less than 2 hours.