I wonder what has happened in the last 4 years that has turned adventurers into the beaten and sycophantic lot they’ve become? As for the above quotes of $50-70 for a 20 hour game … where are you spending those inflated prices? I’ve never spent more than $25 for any adventure and for that I expect a return of about $1/hour of gameplay.

Whether their prices are fair to you is all anyone must answer for themselves but don’t piss down my back, saying that Telltale is fairly priced. The fact is, they are overpriced.

I doubt the people who are buying full priced games without knowing what they go into aren’t the ones complaining here.
Basically, if the other games flop or if the company goes under, you’ve spent a good 34€ on a game that you only get to play about 5h.
There are also people who base their buying oppinions solely on the review of the game, but since only 1/5th of the game has been released, there isn’t much to go by.

Anyone else see a step of illogic here?

Yes, both of your premises are bullshit.

So you are willing to go out and pay anywhere between $39 and $59.95 for a brand new game from a massive publisher, play it for 5 minutes decide its crap and never play it again. And then say oh well it was a crap game.

Then telltale comes along asks you to pay $34 for a game, which is damn cheap compared to most publishers (and indeed cheaper then buying the episodes separately anyway). And you cry murder because this game you won’t be getting all at once, and if you decide after 5 minutes you hate it then you have apparently paid for another 4 games as well. Anyone else see a step of illogic here?

Yes it is a marketing decision, however it is a smart marketing decision. You pay a premium to the publishers of a “AAA” game for something you find you dislike and shrug. So why should Telltale not have that same opportunity? Not everyone is going to like their game when they buy it, but offering a large demo (The first episode of Tales can be 8+ hours) for less then $10 is not something that the big publishers do, so indeed why should you complain when Telltale doesn’t either. For $34 you are getting 5 episodes which equate to a longer game then most full-priced adventures or games of other genres.

The big publishers have the money and resources to offer large demos and often don’t, so shouldn’t you ask of it from them first before a smaller publisher like Telltale?

The original games did the same thing once or twice, but in those cases, it was obvious that it was for comic effect only. Usually Guybrush being too scared to speak his mind or something.

I’m not sure if ToMI attempted the same, if it’s a bug, or if they just ran out of time when doing the voiceovers.

Don’t lose heart though, it’s only that conversation, basically, and maybe one or two lines elsewhere in the rest of the game.

I don’t see the pricing thing as too big an issue. If they called it something other than episodic content then a lot of people wouldn’t have anything to moan about. As many wise people have said, if you think it’s a con, wait until the whole thing is done.

Why exactly do we need to keep downloads small again? This isn’t the 90s. Most people are on broadband

Well, hardcore gamers may be happy with gigantogames but not all normal people are ready to spend hours downloading and installing gigabytes of game when they could really be doing the whole of it in the span of 20 minutes. I for one was happy that I could install something new without first shifting around 3 gigs of data to make room.