am I reading the price correctly??

[Paper King]

I'm sorry but 45 euros for a VISUAL novel?!!? I mean I bought stein game for 5 euros (which I know, it's very cheap ) and usually I'm willing to pay 20 euros max for a visual novel (like VA-11 Hall A ) but 45? It's almost as expensive as a triple A! am I the only one stunned by the price here?

[DPM JaMaN]

No, you're not the only one, if you search this forum you'll find a ton of similar threads, and every one of those contains lots of comments explaining why this VN is so expensive.

[Paper King]

Originally posted by DPM JaMaN:

No, you're not the only one, if you search this forum you'll find a ton of similar threads, and every one of those contains lots of comments explaining why this VN is so expensive.

ok I see the game is 70 hours long...still, the lack of gameplay (due to the visual novel play type) should make the game cheapier...but then again... that's what steam sales are for...

[ninjafriend]

im ok for the price if its a good novel, though it does seems priceyand if it has japanese sub as well it would be great. for just english sub, that limits replayability, for someone learning japanese lightly. might have rethink of getting it

[anne flank]

I just bought this a few days ago and completed one route after about 17ish hours. I had the same fears that it wouldn't be worth the steep price tag but I can personally say I think it was worth it!

[Paper King]

Originally posted by COMMANDER SHEPARD:

I just bought this a few days ago and completed one route after about 17ish hours. I had the same fears that it wouldn't be worth the steep price tag but I can personally say I think it was worth it!

Are you going to say : '' This is commander shepard and this is my favorite game on steam? '' ^^

[Corban]

People pay gladly 50-60€ for scripted corridors with 8-10 hours of gameplay, CLANNAD offers (escaping the read text) around 85-100 hours of a really really good VN.

Complaining about the price because it's not a AAA game it's kinda stupid. Translating is hard, long and expensive, and just this VN probably has more text than all the AAA released during the past year.

If you are not willing to pay it, don't worry. In past sales it has been around 18€ but please, if you are going to complain about the price go complain about AAA which usually offer less for the same price.


BTW, 5€ S;G? Please don't tell me it was a key from a dubious reseller, that doesn't help bringing more VN to Steam.

[Paper King]

Originally posted by Corban:

People pay gladly 50-60€ for scripted corridors with 8-10 hours of gameplay, CLANNAD offers (escaping the read text) around 85-100 hours of a really really good VN.

Complaining about the price because it's not a AAA game it's kinda stupid. Translating is hard, long and expensive, and just this VN probably has more text than all the AAA released during the past year.

If you are not willing to pay it, don't worry. In past sales it has been around 18€ but please, if you are going to complain about the price go complain about AAA which usually offer less for the same price.


BTW, 5€ S;G? Please don't tell me it was a key from a dubious reseller, that doesn't help bringing more VN to Steam.

I'm not just talking about the number of hours...when I mention a triple A game, it's because of the work of 200 (sometime more) peoples who spend years working on the textures, animations, character models, rigs, and more...That's why triple A are so expensive. I can understand that translate is hard but the same goes for every game.

Also the witcher 3 has over 30,000 lines of dialog and this is just one aspect of the game ( the main character's face has over 60,000 polygons! ) .

True, Clanad has over 100,000 lines but not all of them are dialogs and still, it's a visual novel, it's meant to be read, not played because reading and making choice are the core mechanics of a VN. (by that, I do not mean that VN aren't games but that their gameplay are more limited).
That's why VN games should not be that expensive.

btw I bought Stein gate on the ps store during sales, I don't buy keys.

[ゆのーさん]

i would gladly pay 200 dolla for clannad

[messem10]

The game is ~300 hours long if you read everything in it. With it being fully voiced outside of Tomoya, it isn't that bad.

If you really want it for cheaper, you can either import the PS4 version from Japan (which has the English translation on it as well) for ~$5 less or wait for the upcoming Steam sale which is slated to start on the 21st of this month.

[Poobah Gorg]

It's $17.49 right now, which per IsThereAnyDeal is the historical low for the title. There's a somewhat (but not too much) higher price on the game bundled with two shorter sequel/side games. 26.42 is as low as those have ever been, too.

[Kiira the Hedgehog]

It's a huuuuge game. I hate that people thing VN needs to be cheaper just cause there isn't gameplay.

[Compliant]

Originally posted by Yui <3:

i would gladly pay 200 dolla for clannad

This.

If price per quality hour played is a metric that makes sense for you, you won't regret the money spent.

I think about non-VNs I've played for long durations and I realize that a lot of the time spent was frustrating, tedius, unfun, or fun but also too much work.

CLANNAD allows you to hold the skip button and remove almost all tedium...while still sitting there at 100+ potential fun game hours depending on your speed of reading. I CONSTANTLY laughed and frequently cried...I'll play an entire other game only to get one good emotional moment, but CLANNAD gave me dozens.

If I think about it in price per emotional moment...Yeah I'd pay $200 for CLANNAD. I feel like the rest of my life will be better because of the healthy emotional release that I found in this game but not in the real world. I feel like I'm a kinder, more sensitive person now - kinda how I felt after playing Undertale.

[Semaphia]

Originally posted by Yui <3:

i would gladly pay 200 dolla for clannad

Same.

I've not even finished it, yet it's already become, by some distance, my favourite game of all time... And to think, I probably wouldn't have gotten around to it if it weren't for a Dango Daikazoku beatmap on osu! that immediately caught my ear. Now, I can't hear that/Nagisa's theme without becoming emotional.

Don't get me wrong, I don't regret the years I've put into MMOs, the time I spent crying at the ending of Final Fantasy IX, or all the time I played instagib on Unreal... But this game is just something more.

I did my first arc completely blind (which is something I hope everyone does), and when it finished after 17~ or so hours, I was confused, seeing as how the game is meant to be 60+ hours long. I read online that you had to do each character's story individually to unlock After Story, which was a bit discouraging at first, as I thought, they'd just be side content... It can't be as good as the main story, right?

Kyou, Tomoyo, Kotomi, Fuko...

They're all masterpieces in their own right. Each of their story arcs stand alone above the emotional journey I've had in pretty much any other game, and when you put them all together, the value of that experience is, to me, a lot more than is being asked.

I can't wait to see the final few arcs. I can't wait to get into After Story, and Tomoyo After/Side Stories after that (which I bought during the Summer sale, along with the Manga, after finally starting CLANNAD after it sitting dormant in my library for a while)... And after that? Well, I did kind of buy every single "Key" game on Steam, so I'm in for worlds of joy, I'm sure of it.

[anne flank]

Originally posted by Semaphia:

Originally posted by Yui <3:

i would gladly pay 200 dolla for clannad

Same.

I've not even finished it, yet it's already become, by some distance, my favourite game of all time... And to think, I probably wouldn't have gotten around to it if it weren't for a Dango Daikazoku beatmap on osu! that immediately caught my ear. Now, I can't hear that/Nagisa's theme without becoming emotional.

Don't get me wrong, I don't regret the years I've put into MMOs, the time I spent crying at the ending of Final Fantasy IX, or all the time I played instagib on Unreal... But this game is just something more.

I did my first arc completely blind (which is something I hope everyone does), and when it finished after 17~ or so hours, I was confused, seeing as how the game is meant to be 60+ hours long. I read online that you had to do each character's story individually to unlock After Story, which was a bit discouraging at first, as I thought, they'd just be side content... It can't be as good as the main story, right?

Kyou, Tomoyo, Kotomi, Fuko...

They're all masterpieces in their own right. Each of their story arcs stand alone above the emotional journey I've had in pretty much any other game, and when you put them all together, the value of that experience is, to me, a lot more than is being asked.

I can't wait to see the final few arcs. I can't wait to get into After Story, and Tomoyo After/Side Stories after that (which I bought during the Summer sale, along with the Manga, after finally starting CLANNAD after it sitting dormant in my library for a while)... And after that? Well, I did kind of buy every single "Key" game on Steam, so I'm in for worlds of joy, I'm sure of it.

Oooh man you arre in for a ride! I love these games so much and they will stick with me for the rest of my life. Clannad is more than worth the price

[SeanZodiac]

Most of my games on my Steam library are VN. I was a little shocked at the price at first, even on the summer sale, as 50AUD roughly converts to 35 or 37 USD I think. I purchased this reluctantly and I must say I believe so far, it's worth every cent, in fact probably it's original price would be to. I can't imagine how long it would have taken them to translate this. I have only completed the sibling ark and I think I'm about to complete the Misae ark, ( I say think because I said think about an hour ago, lmao.) In the time I've between like 11 and 17 hours I would of completed 1 and half Higurashi games/Chapters.