So, I just bought Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy off of ebay for about $45.50 (including S&H).

Now, that ^ was a good deal, considering that most other (legal) copies are going for about $60.00 and above! I'm wondering, "Why?"

The game is 5 years old (older than my "newest" comp. ). I know it's a great game and all, but I want to know why it is so high in demand!

Enter your input. Or don't. Whichever is fine with me.

I haven't played that game but the usual reason for older games to cost alot is that they are becoming rare & if the demand is still there sellers will want more for it.

I once found Mechwarrior 2 Titanium trilogy (Graphics accelerated version of Mechwarrior 2 & it's two expansions: circa 1998) for $70

Prices go up for weird reasons. Remember about a year ago when the price of a Playstation One console shot up to like $1,200 just because some dj wrote a review on amazon saying it was the best cd player he ever owned?

Hmmm... I supose that makes sense... Except I've noticed that there are a lot of older games high in demand, than cost less than half of their original price! However, I have noticed that it's only the PC version of the game that's going for such a high price. Not the Xbox version. I have heard, however, that the PC version is highly moddable, so that's probably part of it...

Oh, Mechwarrior is a great series. I used to have the older ones, but there was some incompatibility issue with my "new" computer. I now have Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance only (on my computer. The other ones are laying around somewhere...

@WoogieMonster: I didn't hear about that. That's pretty funny.

i got halo 2 for like 40 pounds 4 months afters it released on PC kinda says a lot

Col John Sheppard

isn't that about 80 US Dollars? Here I think the Fallout 3: collectors Edition is going to be a bit much at 69 dollars.

Yea also the box sets are a killer for high prices as well, never get the box set of bioshock, nearly a 100$ canadian. also it has (SecureRom).

Never get bioshock for pc, get it for the ps3 or the xbox 360. It angered me alot that you had register online and 99% of the time, they where down.

took it back asap.

It's all supply and demand, some games have more copies produced, and don't have replay value, so their price tends to go down, some games have fewer copies produced, or have high replay value, so can actually go up in price depending on where you are buying it from. It's really when the game becomes so old that current hardware doesn't support it any more that most games really start getting cheap. It also depends alot if the manufacturer is still making the game or if it's all resale. If the game is still being made, the resale price tends to be closer to the retail price, if the game is no longer being made, the resale price can be either higher or lower depending on what people want to sell it for. Despite being both old and out of print some PS1 games can still cost $10-20, even used.

+ with fuel costs gone it up shipping it to said place costs a bit as well

Col John Sheppard

Well, it arrived two days ago. Unfortunately I need Admin rights to play it (no thanks to PunkBuster ), and my dad is paranoid about me having an Administrative account, so, every time I want to play it, I have to log in to his account, change my account to Administrative, then go back to mine, switch my account back to limited, but I keep the Admin rights. *Sigh* So tedious...

Is there any way arround this that one knows? Please, do tell!

During the install, it should have prompted you with the option to install the game for use by all users. If you do not want to reinstall the game, the setting can be changed while logged in as an admin, however I do not know how to walk you through it. Ask your dad, he may know. If not, there's always google.

Yes, I have tried google, and I came up with quite a few results. Unfortuneately, none of those results yielded me any answers...

Ah well, I'll fiddle with it tomorrow morning...

while you fiddle you should also be aware that the game is indeed highly moddable ( both mac and pc versions are they use the same pkg files ) and you can download entire new one player campains to keep you slicing and dicing happiyl there is even a blood mod out there if you so desire to paint the walls red

not very jedi now is it ?

Its far cheaper on GAME. Its only £15 or something like that i think. But its out of stock . (Because of the great price I guess)

Well, I think I've got it working now. About the gore mod... I did'nt like the blood part, because it looked a little too fake to me, so instead, I just got the "Dismeberment" mod...

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When a lightsaber cuts someone, there should be no blood, because the saber would instantly cauterize the wound.

As for it not being very Jedi-Like, well, that's why the player can choose the Dark Side as well...

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Really? Guess it is time to sell my copy then.

I have Jedi Academy and Doom 3 in unopened boxes. Good to know I can get my money back.

NOTE: This is not an offer to sell here...please do not PM me about them.

LHammonds