Would you ever pay 10quid to play on Friday instead of Tuesday?

[alex3d]

I'd much rather know if online players would pay extra to play on the weekend. Publishers could easily justify the extra fees due to higher server requirements. People with regular jobs wanting to play wouldn't really have any other option, would they?

[deKay]

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hambur^H^H^H^H^H^Hvideo game today.

[mdn2]

It really can't be viable if only 7% of people on a gaming 'enthusiasts' forum are impatient enough to waste their money on getting a game a few days early. The general public would probably be less inclined to do so.

[fat flatulent git]

I very rarely buy games on release anyway, but I would always wait a few days if a game was going to be ten pounds cheaper. So I would never pay ten pounds more to get a game on a Friday instead of a Tuesday.

[Clipper]

I'd like it if they could just decide on consistency in Uk as to whether we are releasing globally alongside US or whether we are sticking to our "traditional" following Friday.

This halfway house of some do some don't is irritating.

[Stanley]

Surprised people are saying no. Games coming out on a tuesday is pretty mad, so for the price of a cinema ticket you could play a game you've been excited about over the weekend when you have lots of time (presuming of course you have a standard Mon-Fri job), I totally would if it was a big game.

What does the price of a cinema ticket have to do with anything? It's the price of a couple of meals, or a portion of a bill. It's a months Netflix or Spotify if you want to compare it with other entertainment.

Games are luxuries and extremely expensive as it stands. Anyone willing to pay £10 to play one three days earlier has more money than sense.

[JohnC]

Pay £10 more for an extra 3 days of pre-patch bugs.

[Jolly]

Not really what you're asking, but I really don't like Tuesday releases.

Friday releases are all like 'woohoo! It's the weekend!' where as Tuesday releases are all 'urgh, it's only fucking Tuesday'.

[RFT]

It's weird - the Tuesday thing in the states is a relic of the issues of distribution across such a large area. US release Tuesdays were always publicised as a "ship" date, because you needed that time to get the stock in all the stores from sea to shining sea in time for the weekend - and the lack of a store embargo was related to the difficulties of policing it when there were so many stores over such a wide area.

With that in mind, it's surprising that US release dates haven't gravitated towards friday, as distibution got better, as that was always the practical intention.

I don;t particularly care about what day of the week it settles on, as long as we can all agree on one. Some euro countries release on thursdays.

Of course, It's worth mentioning that Forza 6 did almost exactly what was proposed in the OP back in september, where people who payed for the top-whack version of the game with VIP and the season pass got access 10 days before everyone else...

[RaoulSilva]

The first time I remember a new game coming out on a Tuesday was Halo 2, so they could do the Halo 2's day pun. I'm not that bothered about release days any more as I rarely buy a game at launch, I'm getting Fallout 4 tomorrow and the last time was for GTA:V

[Stanley]

Sonic 2sday was the first one I remember.

[Dudley]

Plus as one of the forum contingent still able to take a week off to play a game, Friday is great, home from work, week off, game on the mat/downloaded to the PC.

Tuesday? It's halfway through the holiday when the damn thing turns up.

On the plus side, one of those weeks is this week and Fallout 4 just arrived.

[deKay]

Sonic 2sday was the first one I remember.

It's the last one I remember too.

[Minion]

I voted Yes but I would only do it for my most anticipated like Fallout, I totally would have paid the extra £10 on friday if I had been offered the option.

[chris on the moon]

I need new games as soon as possible because I have played every single video game I am remotely interested in to the point of exhaustion and I am very thirsty for new video game

[alexander]

I wouldn't pay, but I imagine this could work for something like FIFA or COD (equally Madden/NFL in the us).

[Ork1927]

I think it would get very messy -

Shops having a midnight launch on a Friday night, but with a £10 premium - no other launch? Someone walking in on a Monday afternoon to buy the game gets charged the extra tenner, but if they'd waited until the morning after they wouldn't have to pay it.

Online shops having two pre-order prices then potentially having issues when premium customer gets his game Friday, but so does non premium as they've started sending the next lot out?

[Majora]

I would but only for a very select group of games, because I'm impatient.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Friday night is usually the night I go out dancing so it suit me better for Tuesday release if I want to play it asap.

[Sane]

Just think of it as the Tuesday before Friday.

[NEG]

Play stuff release day? I play stuff years later, when I'd bought them at 88% off in a long forgotten Steam Sale in the first place.

I'll play you one day, Morrowind. One day.

[descriptor]

Never, Capone. I would never, ever do this.

[K]

I paid £55 for an under-the-table copy of GTAIV on the Friday before release, and I easily got ten quids worth of enjoyment out of it over the course of that weekend - if nothing else for the satisfaction of seeing all the "where the fuck did u get that?" messages pop up from friends, but also for the thrill of going nuts in next-gen Liberty City. It was a fucking great game, especially for the first few hours while you explored the city and tested out how much carnage the engine could handle.

That said, I can't imagine doing it again. Unless it was GTA 6 or something, and I'd also paid a few hundred quid for my partner to go away on a spa weekend on top of the £10 early access fee.

[macosx]

If you are paying Game prices you are paying ten pounds over the odds anyway so tbh ten quid on that; £64ish would make this a no goer for a Yes person. If it was £10 over Amazon or Shopto then no worries. I'd get my £10's worth on a solid weekends entertainment.

[Fry Crayola]

Is the entertainment diminished by playing it three days later instead of four days earlier? It's all a bit like one of those riddles where, due to some shonky maths work, it appears to the casual observer like some extra money has appeared out of nowhere.

[NEG]

I'd pay £10 to not be advertised a DAY ONE edition on the box. Outside of it being insulting to tie content exclusive to that release (because you don't respect gamers whom get it even slightly later? Fuck you) but it also makes the game cases I've seen look really ugly.

Keep special editions as physical tat only. Sell a fucking complete game. Fuck micro-transactions and season passes on top of what I just paid. Why the fuck does an RPG like Disgaea 5, the only disc game I own on PS4 from the consoles release day, have a fucking £30 season pass?!

...and relax.

[deKay]

Well, all these people need to get in the sea.

[deerokus]

As long as they pay the forum £10 to get their snorkels early.

[Timmo]

There's a pretty good example of this actually happening here. I think it's gone now since EA Access came in but in the past I've paid pretty much £10 to play FIFA a week earlier. It was an EA initiative back on Xbox 360. They gave you other stuff for your money but no-one cared about anything other than the early FIFA access. A number of us in the Football League forum did it, in fact, probably buoyed on by one another. Hence my answering 'yes' to the question in the poll.

Another example is buying the American version of games on PSN. I was able to get Far Cry 4 and Bloodborne early, for example, by buying them off the US store. It's annoying that all the characters have American accents but I can cope with that. Anyway it costs about £38 to buy games off there so it's not paying more, but it is of course foregoing the opportunity to sell the game on. Bloodborne was never going to get sold but I would have sold Far Cry on.

I've since bought MGS:V and Fallout 4 boxed so I can sell them on.

[MattyP]

Jeez don't give the publishers any more ideas to extract more cash out of us?!!!!

Hated the fact they did this with Forza 6. Really spoils the launch buzz around games and fragments the gaming community. However just capitalism at play really....

They probably release games on Tuesday for charting sales figures reasons I guess. If they count from Tuesday to Sunday for example week 1 sales are going to look much more impressive.

They'll be some commercial reason behind it for sure.

Personally I can wait to play to the nearest weekend.