I don’t think I’d pay $70 for any game, seems pretty extravagant for a game.
Though I remember getting Star Wars for NES as a kid and it being £50… which is about £5,000,000 today, adjusted for inflation.
I’m more excited for Return to Monkey Island than I have been for any other other game within my life, but I wouldn’t pay $70 to purchase the game. A rip-off is a rip-off, no matter how great the product may be. I wouldn’t willingly allow a company to scalp me for money, just because I’m a fan of something.
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At $70, I’d first watch 10 minutes on youtube. Then, if I can even remotely relate to the art, I’d buy instantly.
Assuming youtube or demos didn’t exist, yes, I’d certainly buy at 70$, no questions asked.
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For $70, I would be expect a physical copy, presented in a nice big box and with a few goodies included inside. No way, no how would I ever pay $70 for a digital download.
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No matter what, I’ll buy the game on release. No, I won’t wait for any review or even read one if there is one before I can play it. I’ll shut down my internet and play this game by myself. I don’t want to know what anybody else thinks about it until I’m ready. I don’t care if there is a physical copy or any other goodie or if it’s a digital copy only. Even if it is 70$. If it is 70$ I would wish to get all of this, but I’m going to buy it anyway, even without any of this. I’ll do it the second it comes out.
No I’m not going to wait for a sale. I just don’t care and want to know anybodies thoughts until I am ready with that game.
Again. MI1+2 and even 3 are by far my favorite games of all time. By far. Nothing else comes close.
So no matter of it’s price or what’s included, I’ll buy it and play it immediately and I won’t come back here, to twitter, facebook or to any other place on the internet until I finished it all by myself and got my very own opinion about it.
Am I a fanboy? Partly. Yes I’m going to do everything to get it, no matter what.
But it’s still possible I don’t like it at all. And I’m going to tell if so.
I just don’t want anybody to tell me if this game is good or not. I don’t want to see anything about it at all. I really appriciate there are not more screenshots or anything else out there, I’ll find out by myself.
Edit: I loved to be part of the kickstarter for Thimbleweed Park. I loved the development blog and still love the forum. It was so damn cool to see how this game came to life.
But For RTMI, I realy don’t want to have anything but the completed game and start it like I never read anything about it.
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I’ve only skimmed the comments, but I personally would just buy the game whatever the price was.
I don’t really buy games so to keep it at that very basic level, this is something special for me. If I’m on a message board regularly talking about this thing and reading about it for hours and hours every month, I’m buying the thing.
Then as far as the price itself, the way I think of it I used to pay $60-80 for cartridges 25 years ago when that was a lot more than it is today and I was a teen with no disposable income. So I couldn’t see a problem with $70 this many years later as an adult with a career and no kids or anything. I get that this is all very specific to my situation and you guys all probably have a better frame of reference for what is a reasonable price in 2022 for a game than me, so I’m probably not the demographic for pricing this kind of thing.
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I think that ultimately the main reason to keep it at 20 bucks is because of the final dialog option for the first game 
Also, that was how much Thimbleweed Park was so I don’t see them straying that far from its pricing. 70 bucks is the sort of thing you see from big budget AAA titles, not gonna happen here. I expect the box if they do one would be around that price, though.
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No, because it’s a matter of trust.
I loved all the Lucasfilm adventure games back then, not only the Monkey Island 1 & 2. Even Indiana Jones, Loom, and of course Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders.
All of them have the same creators in common. And those creators are behind this new game, RTMI.
That’s it.
So, I trust Ron, David, Dave and all the cast behind.
I sense it will be the last adventure game, worthy of being called that way, and I don’t mind the price.
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I agree that $70 is unlikely, but I was wondering how much the people in this forum would have payed this game to understand how much it is worth for us, not just from a materialistic perspective but also from an emotional point of view.
Would you pay $70? If not, what would your maximum limit be?
Also, for those who wouldn’t pay $70 for this game, can you think of any other game/sequel that you would be willing to pay $70?
Another Ace Attorney series.
The last one, “The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles”, which was of 2 parts, 5 cases each, was released at 40$. I would have payed even 50$.
how much it is worth to us? good question… to me, it’s worth about $500 I’d say. In the sense I’d rather have 500$ less and play RtMI, than not play it and keep the $500.
At $501, I’d probably not buy it and think it over 
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Maybe imagining the action of actually paying for it could change the outcome of the decision, for some of us.
If to you RtMI is worth $500, does that mean also that you would be willing to actually make a payment of $500 and see your credit card or bank account charged that amount, to get the game?
If my only choices are:
- have $500 less and play
- keep the $500 and not play
I would certainly choose 1 and be willing to see the credit card charged. I’m not sure I get your point in other words…
For $501, I’d probably choose 2
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This sounds like it’d make a good poll
I paid much more than $70 for Thimbleweed Park, with the kickstarter, big box release and merch and all. If there is a cool big box release for RTMI, I might end up paying something similar for that.
In general, I don’t mind paying €60 for a game that I can play for many many hours, like Elden Ring or Cyberpunk 2077. But there’s only a rather limited replayability in point & click adventure games like Monkey Island. Maybe you get 10-20 hours out of it. So a price around €20 feels much more fitting than €60 - €70.
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I demand more.
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I don’t know, my enjoyment per minute™ is likely to be significantly higher in Monkey Island. Those 10-15 hours or whatever will be much more satisfying than the 30 you might put into the other games mentioned.
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It might retail for more than the $19.99 TWP did, for various reasons. Personally I have no problem digging up $50 for it- even for a digital download only.
Anything higher - well… it’d better be proportionally better and thus worth it.
Then again, I spend more on charity or fines and they have less potential joy to bring.
My breakdown:
$9.99 for the base game (as if produced by anonymous- being a generic product that bears the Monkey Island name)
+$9.99 for having it be written and designed by Ron
+$5.99 for having David be on the team
+$3.99 for having Dave on the team
+$9.99 for having Land, McConnell and Bajakian doing new music
+$2.99 for including (generic) voice acting
+$4.99 for having Dom doing Guybrush’s voice
+$4.99 for having Alexandra doing Elaine’s voice
+$0.99 for including Murray in the game
Actually, at $50 it’s already a steal.
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My breakdown:
- $19.99 for whatever Ron & Co. will send in my general direction
- +$19.00 for Hernando being there
Meanwhile, in the Batcave…
(Source)
I didn’t expect that “every”.
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