Eurogamer iPhone app costs £2.39

Charging over two quid for some reformatted website content seems a bit fresh.

Wheres the VG247 iPhone app Pat?

Rupert showed us this at the Expo and it looked pretty good. Two quid didn’t seem too bad to me given that it doesn’t have any adverts in it and you can stream EGTV vids.

Of course, I don’t have an iPhone.

They sure know how to make money.

£2+ for an App like this is a shocker.

If you use the same logic people use to downplay Xbox Lives cost that you could argue that you only pay 20p per month, or 0.005p per day in a year.

downplayers are just either stupid or sheep possibly both

An iPhone app for VG247-news would be kind of sweet, actually. I’d pay £2.39 for that.

I’ll look into it.

VG24-7 actually works pretty well on iPhone’s Opera anyway, though.

Seems a bit redundant to pay for an app that displays the content of a site that already works with iPhone’s Safari browser.

Maybe if it did something special like offer versions of their Flash videos converted to MP4 so that they work on the iPhone…

I love the outrage on the Eurogamer comments thread – as though £2.39 is robbing their kids of their inheritance or something.

It’s this kind of “world on a stick for the cost of a Twix” mentality that’s going to impact the ability of the App Store to attract the most talented developers with the most to give.

Why is nobody doing web-apps for the iPhone anymore?
Especially for news-sites like this, web-apps make more sense than regular iPhone apps.

I’d love to see a VG247 formatted webpage for the iPhone!
Don’t do standalone app.

Slash, that’s exactly what it does do.

Did I say Opera? I meant Safari.

since vg247 doesnt actually offer any video content themselves, you might as well put an icon that goes to their rss feed on the springboard.

vg247 offers the odd bit of video, Pat sucking at GoWIII for example

Yeah, there is the Viddler. Nothing too devoted so far like EGTV anyways.

I have vg247 bookmarked on my ipod touch and it works a treat, i can get on the site so much faster that way then having to use an app. Just have to zoom in a bit to get the main panel to fit the screen.

having an app would be a bad idea considering all the outside links you have in your news stories, which would take you out of the app and then in to opera anyway.

I’ve got a IGN and Gamefly app, and both are waaaaaaaay behind with the latest news, so much easier to use the browser.

I don’t see the problem with the price at all. There are no adverts and the guy who is making it doesn’t work for EG, and well, he’s a great chap who I shared a few drinks with at the expo.

Nobody seems to complain about gamespy asking people for money to not see ads afterall.

Oh my god… £2.39!! That’s such a rip-off!! Oh no, hang on, it’s not 1973.

I got it and wish I hadn’t. Too feature light by a long way. Forum is useless as it’s just latest comments of *everything*. No way to restrict that. No way to look-up a review of a particular game either – which you would have thought would be feature no. 1. Comments on articles seem to be broken when the comment thread is over 50 comments.

It costs less than a Happy Meal from MacDonalds. If I had an iPhone, I’d consider buying it.

It’s alright, everyone – the guy who made it is ‘a great chap’. Move along.

“Oh my god… £2.39!! That’s such a rip-off!! Oh no, hang on, it’s not 1973.”

lol

I’ve got a IGN and Gamefly app, and both are waaaaaaaay behind with the latest tiffany necklaces news, so much easier to use the browser.