I've Played The $300 Deadpool Game - Don't Waste Your Money

With the recent release of Marvel Studios' breaking box-office records and being largely well-received by audiences and critics, the price of High Moon Studios and Activision's 2013 video game has increased significantly on the second-hand market to cash in on this. Due to the licensing deal Activision had with Marvel expiring, the original PS3, Xbox 360, and PC versions of Deadpool were delisted from all digital storefronts in 2014. The game was then remastered for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2015 in preparation for the 2016 movie, but was once again removed for the same licensing reasons just a couple of years later in 2017.

Therefore, due to this scarcity of the game, those looking to play the title legitimately on modern platforms are looking at a massively overinflated price. According to Price Charting, the original PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of usually sell for around $30, and considering the PS3 version isn't available on modern platforms through backwards compatibility, it makes sense that these would be on the lower end of the scale, even if $30 is still quite a bit to pay for an 11-year-old game.

The Xbox One version normally sells for about $50, and the PS4 version comes in at the most expensive price, usually retailing for $90. Following the release of, however, new listings for the game on second-hand sites such as eBay now show that all versions of the game have seen a further increase and are mostly listed at over $100 USD, and some copies are selling for considerably more, with PS4 versions going for nearly $300 as of the time of writing.

Marvel has seen recent successes in AAA gaming, but a whole era has been largely lost to time due to its scarcity on modern devices.

I was fortunate enough that I got the game back in 2013 when it first launched on PS3, and I enjoyed it enough back then for its zany humor, action, and cameos. Originally, I thought the PS4 remaster was too soon — a similar complaint I had about the PS4's around the