Has Rise of Lyric Gotten A Price Drop?
Things continue to go downhill for Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. It seems that retailers have begun to give the game a price drop and there’s no evidence suggesting that it is due to a sale despite the US having sales to mark the American football Super Bowl.
The game now goes for $30 on Amazon. It has a similar price on Best Buy and Wal-Mart. Costco has it listed for $5 less from full price. Toys R’ Us, GameStop and Target have it at the full price of $50. It seems what was a Christmas discount has turned into a permanent one.
It has only two months after the game released and already it looks like retail stores are seeing a price drop as a necessary move. Whether the other retail stores will follow remains to be seen. Things are not 100% set in stone so time will tell.
This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.
Mmm.
This piece of new is so apparent that I find the fact you posted it almost begging for 100Rings to go “LOLOLOLOL” and start some argument that didn’t need to exist.
Nah, it’s something that caught my attention.
Price drops are always critical for games.
I feel that the only reason 100Rings even comes on here is to troll people and start pointless arguments.
You know, I think that that comment actually kept him away. . .
I don’t see a post by him anywhere on this page >.>
You sure seem to fear him.
Who cares what some lunatic says if you are fundamentally convinced that he doesn’t have a point?
I don’t fear him. XD he’s just annoying.
When arguments becomes about a person instead of whats being said……..
I wouldn’t buy it even if it costed a penny.
I wouldn’t even play it for free.
I wouldn’t play it at all.
I’m waiting for the price to hit $20 before I buy it. That’s a little bit more than what I payed for Sonic 06, I want an opinion as soon as possible, and I’d tolerate having to pay that.
I’ll be buying a second copy 🙂
I didn’t see this ^^^ coming. 😀
Uh… I don’t see why anyone would want to buy the same game twice for the same system, but okay.
AWWWWW
I could have gotten it cheaper than fifty bucks? Drat!
Still not cheap enough.
It’s a lot cheaper than $50.
I got the game for $30 on amazon last month so this isn’t really new
It’s the fact that it’s still $30 and that the price drop wasn’t just temporary for the holidays.
Good find, but its actually been $30 for a while. I noticed that price on the second week of January. Its still too high if you ask me.
I know but it’s something that snuck under the radar and was only brought to my attention yesterday.
Yeah, its not like Sega came right out and announced the price drop.
Just like Lost World, which was mediocre but nowhere near the insane levels of boredom and shit like Boom.
Actually, I find Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric to be a good game. I will not deny its glitches and flaws, but it’s still fun and entertains me for hours on end.
Fun is not a quality of a good game. Anything can be fun. That doesn’t make it good though.
Technically, it does.
Fun is a subjective thing that both cannot be completely dismissed when it comes to judging games. To completely dismiss fun as a factor in a game is like dismissing a person’s enjoyment of explosions when judging movies.
Waiwaiwait. Did you just say “Fun is not a quality of a good game” with a straight face? Wow….
Bethany, happily trot back into the herd of Sonic slaves feeding in the pasture of Sonic Boom. And take your “fun” with you.
Than you.
(Like seriously, no one cares what you think is fun lol.)
I see what you mean. 😉
With all due respect, the bar for “fun” and “quality” has gotten too low these days. Not just for Sonic, but for gaming in general. Even if you find it fun, there’s always room for improvement, but if you let Sega get away with this, they’ll think, “Oh people are okay with this shoddy product we made, so we don’t have to put effort in future stuff either so we can make easy money!”. You’re paying money for this, you’re a customer. Don’t allow Sega to slack off with their titles like they have been for the past 5 years and more. Push them to do better so you can get more bang for your buck. If the silent majority really is okay with RoL… well, I don’t hold any hope for Sonic’s future as a franchise.
If we’re to be truly technical, “good” is subjective as well.
Tomoki said everything best, so I shall point to their comment in agreement. ^
Story was entertaining, had it’s good moments. But the game-play and levels itself was pretty shitty. Kind of like Sonic 06
……..How the hell was that poorly written story entertaining ??? Shadow showing up out of nowhere and being a dick ? Lyric being the cliché evil guy who hates everyone for no reason ? Those dumb, and painfully unfunny jokes ???
And bitch please, ’06 at least played like a Sonic game, and some stages had a cool level design, like Kindgom Valley or Crisis City.
Well, much like the patch, I don’t see this helping the game’s rep. At least the people wanting to pick it up to see how horrible it is won’t need to waste as much. 😛
Just what I was waiting for! I do legitimately want to play Rise Of Lyric despite the glitchiness and the blandness. There’s something to learn from every experience and ROL still seems like it’d be fun to me………*Coughcoughalsoikindahaveacrushonlyriccoughcough*. I just wasn’t going to buy it full priced after seeing how bad it is. I’m willing to spend thirty on a game like this.
I hate Sonic and I wanna know if this game will restore my enjoyment of the series.
You’re out of luck on this one.
Waitwut… Seriously, we need to stop meeting like this.
I’d still get it to have in my collection, but not for $30.
still nope until it’s $5.
Honestly, I think people’d appreciate this more if they played The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3DS.
Not the best game of 2014, but NOT the worst.
Donnie please save my comment?