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Dotsisx, aka Rita El Khoury, joined Symbian-Guru.com in September of 2007, and has been writing awesome content ever since. Rita often explores the normal user aspect of Symbian-powered devices, and offers in-depth thoughts on various topics. You can follow Dotsisx on Twitter at @Khouryrt

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  • One interesting thing that has been mentioned several times is the price of Ngage games...
    I agree with what Ricky says about the pricing.
    ("Ngage is doomed" post) The pricing is too high for such a game. Consider this, A game which lets says costs even $4 lesser would still be about $8 which when converted to Indian Rupees(USD1=INR 42.16) comes to approx. 340 bucks. Imagine paying that much for a game, I could easily buy a computer game(original) in that much money and play on my computer!

    I think its time Nokia paid attention towards pricing of services it wishes to offer. Whether its US or India or anywhere else!
  • Sandy
    I agree with you Aditya. People keep saying that N-Gage games cost same as a packet of cigarette, but it may not be the same elsewhere. Forget about PC titles, a 512 MB memory card costs the same in India. I remember Vishal Gondal of IndiaGames once said that even $5 would be high for Indians. Another saying goes, you have bought the phone for thousands, can't you pay some hundreds for games? The answer is, NO. The phone is a (almost) static investment, which I'll probably use for 1-2 years and can keep it forever. But with these games (specially with the depth N-Gage games offer) I'll just be entertained for a few hours, how can they be compared even? And in India, you can't even buy games if you don't have a credit card. How many of the school/college-goers have credit cards? Nokia are throwing away customers themselves.
  • Cheung Yuen Wong
    It was me who mentioned that it costs the same as a pack of cigarettes. >_<

    That said I totally agree on that the games should be priced accordingly to a specific location and not just a raw conversion of the currency as is.

    It would be a good chance though to go to the N-gage feedback site and give your feedback.

    I know I'm going to.
  • Hm interesting thought on the conversion rate for games prices. I think this issue should be mentioned.
  • Sandy
    Actually I put up this question almost 1 year ago (just after the Go Play event) in the official N-Gage forum and was flamed by the members. Looks like Nokia thought their way and did little of market research, because Java and Gameloft's Symbian games cost 1/4 of N-Gage titles here. I know now you'll all start about relative quality, but barring COTD, there hasn't been any game worth the money (if you consider that we can't even play online, this makes online games useless for us).
  • I am not a gamer.. so I shan't comment much on it.
    The average game sold by the network operators costs about 50-100 bucks ($1-$2.50). This again is a bit expensive, simply because the cracked versions are available so easily.

    Now you have Ngage, in its current iteration offering better quality but for a hefty premium! Who is going to buy them?

    The point about online playability is also valid by Sandy. With India still formulating a 3G policy and no auctions happening in the near future, there seems little use of online gaming to us.

    This raises a few important questions,
    Do we have any use of a Ngage platform, especially if the new features will be rarely used? (Indian perspective)
    Is the cost of these new games then justified?
  • Ali
    OK...
    whats bad here is the fact that when they make the price of ngage games special for each region then other applications and services will be special for each region too..thats not wise.
    OK..am living in Iraq and my primary income without any extras is 800$ and am just graduated but i know thats not available for every country but its not only for ngage...what about cars HDTV or computers...they r all sold globally and there price is constant...so i think u must forget this.
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