Unofficial "We Refuse to Spend $3 On One Song" Thread

[Ehfahq]

For the most part DLC costs are ridiculous. Unfortunately gamers still pay it so they will keep over charging. Take a stand, and then stick by it, if you don't like it. If enough people pay the $3, get used to paying $3 for everything.

One song +16 charts for 2 bucks is ridiculous?

I disagree.

[hmxhenry]

HMXHenry has spoken!!! Let it be.

Hey, I'm not the end all and be all when it comes to discussion, especially not when it comes to user generated content, I just want to make sure discussion stays reasonable. Do you think $3 in general is expensive? That's fine, and you can say that, and we already have another thread dedicated to RBN pricing. I just don't want new threads popping up every time someone thinks $3 is too much for this song, or $2 is too much for that song, or that $1 song should be free, etc.

[kraven]

One song +16 charts for 2 bucks is ridiculous?

I disagree.

Where did I say that? $2 a song is reasonable. More games than just Rockband have DLC.

[kitlerc]

$3 is only catered for awesome songs that everyone knows. "Atomic" is not one of those songs.

[Reygnier]

Everything HMXHenry said, I respect, just because he likes Dr. Doom, and that makes him awesome.

In my case, I have yet to spend any money on the RBN, because I'm having problems getting online with my xbox.

I'll never pay 3 bucks for any song, and I might spend 2 bucks for some songs, but they all get push back into my queue list of songs to buy because songs with a $1 price tag have more priority to me.

Since the price tag can change, I'll wait until then. If they never go down, then I'll just buy other awesome songs instead.

[Ehfahq]

Where did I say that? $2 a song is reasonable. More games than just Rockband have DLC.

It really wasnt clear. You said that most DLC costs were ridiculous in a thread about RB DLC. So I connected the dots.

$3 is only catered for awesome songs that everyone knows. "Atomic" is not one of those songs.

Atomic rules.

[kingtonyx]

The thing for me is I bought three AWESOME All That Remains songs at one point for the same price as this one song.

It's like going to Taco Bell when you're drunk, you're always going to get 5 things from the 89 cent menu instead of one large item...

"Atomic" is a great song. I mean I had it on my RB3 list and everything.

[Casto21]

Here's how I look at it. Many more people are likely to buy a song they're on the fence about for $1 than $2 (let alone $3).

If you get 30% that's 30 cents for a $1 song, or 60 cents for a $2 song, clearly you get more per $2 song.

But...

The $1 song is apt to sell at least 4x as much, thus the band would actually make twice as much money. Not to mention the increase in numbers of listeners to that band, which could lead to increased sales in their other music and products, and an increased chance that their songs will make it to the PS3 / Wii (due to high number of sales) and thus be even more profitable.

This is just made up numbers. I'm not saying that they couldn't be true in some cases but I could easily just make up numbers that give reasoning for charging $3

"The $3 song is apt to sell only 80% as many as it would at $2 but based on the profit per track it would be a good idea"

It's all speculation at this point. I agree that for some (and probably most) tracks selling them at $1 could sell more then twice as many as it would at $2, but it's its conjecture. EMI putting tracks at $3 to see how they sell could be a way for them to get hard numbers.

And for a band like Blondie, which is a big name who is no longer producing music and is already in the game, generating new fans is not as much of a concern. If you are playing RB you know who they are and I don't think putting "Atomic" at a cheap price point will create new fans.

[T-Hybrid]

$3 is only catered for awesome songs that everyone knows. "Atomic" is not one of those songs.

What's funny is if you applied that statement to our existing DLC library you'd suddenly realize that $3 would become far less of an outlier and far more of a common occurance.

[shimwood]

Regardless of what one person thinks, somebody else will have a different view. Heck, I just dropped 240 MPS on a Twins MLB jersey for my 360 Avatar the other day. To me, being able to show off my favorite team's colors was worth the price of the item. And I'm sure if I told another person (even a Twins fan) that I did that...they'd look at me like I'm crazy.

And what's funny was when the 360 Avatar Marketplace hit, I scoffed at the idea of buying gear for them. But then look what happened, something I liked enough came along and I did it.

I thank FSM every morning for my giant cotton swab. Possibly the best DLC I've ever purchased.