$59.99 PC Games, will it last?

[Nmil-ek]

Hi guys I'm from consumer standards, someone says theres been £10 of value added to PC games reccently? Anyone seen where thats went yet? Thinking maybe the developers left it under the kitchen sink or something.

 

[Keava]

I'd actually start looking closer at retailers rather than publishers. I don't know why they rip you off so much in US but here in Poland MoH costs same as every other PC game, same with EU steam, price is every other AAA PC game.
Must be you Americans have apparently more money to burn on gaming...

 

[Keava]

It's not the retailers. It's Blizzard who chooses to sell SC2 for $60, it's EA that decides to sell MoH for $60, it's SE that decides to sell FF XIV for $50, etc...

Then why it only affects US? I'd understand that if they wanted me to pay 180 PLN which translates to ~60 $ for MoH (like Blizzard did with SC2, but that's Blizzard, they wanted to make things their way) but the price in all the shops i know in my city is at 129 PLN which is equal to ~ 42$.
Same with Steam, which operates on single pricing for whole EU (except those pesky Brits), asking 49.99 euro for MoH, same as for every other new game release.

 

[Mcface]

I'm sure they won't go back down, but I don't agree with it being purely because production cost has gone up. I think they just realized they can get away with the price increase anyway, and almost all of the games in this price-range so-far for PC has made tons of money, that wouldn't have changed if it was at it's previous level.

I'd be willing to bet it's because there is less money being made in the PC game market.
It used to be cheaper because it was easier to put out, since the code was already formatted for PCs, and they are generally easier to code and program games on.

But with the thousands and thousands of pirates, it no longer makes sense to charge less. They need to charge the people who actually pay more, to make up the difference between the 20 thousand people who will steal the game.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

It's called inflation. We are going to see a metric fuck ton more of it in coming years.

This. You folks need to understand that inflation is happening.

 

[Firetaffer]

I don't see what you're talking about, new games are $120 here.

 

[the_maestro_sartori]

I've heard this before and I still maintain that it's not hit the UK like this at all. My mate's pre-ordered Fallout Vegas for the x-box, and paid £39.99 to do so. I've done so for the PC at the lovely cost of £23.99.

PC games in England, on release, are so much cheaper than their console counterparts.

edited to add-
PC exclusives are a different matter. I still had to shell out £40 for Starcraft 2.

 

[Amphoteric]

Games for PC are £24.99 in the UK which is $10 cheaper.

 

[SilentBobsThoughts]

Hmm, that'll be till they make 3D games, then they'll go to £60.

But you could wait for the price simmer, that happens about after a month.

Say that to MW2 lol, I saw that 2 months ago still brand-new £50.

 

[Flames66]

$59?!?! I won't pay more than £10.

 

[Socken]

Wait a minute... Console games are $59.99?
Christ are we getting ripped off over here, a game is ?69.99 here, that's $97.72.

What the hell.

 

[Del-Toro]

I use Steam, I never bought anything over 40$

So... doesn't affect me

Then there's the daily specials, which can drop pretty good games down to something like $20 when they are still 40 or 50 in stores, (most of the games I got were on sale)

 

[DominicxD]

Of course it wont last!

$69.99 is so close now.

 

[Nifty]

I'm sick of hearing about developers whining about how much it costs to develop a game. If it's so expensive guess what? Spend less. Have they learnt nothing from Shenmue?

 

[Worgen]

I hope it goes away, stupid publishes like activision over price their shit because they know it will sell well even costing too much, I refuse to pay 60 bucks for pc games, hell I refuse to do it for console games also, usually the only new console games I get are limited editions so at least I get some stuff that makes it worth it but 60 bucks for a disk, a game that might last 8 hours and a pamphlet? fuck that noise

 

[Worgen]

Maybe not because the "strictly" PC gamers will ***** and complain about how its "unfair" and "that they deserve better than stupid console gamers". Pffft, elitists piss me right off.

as soon as console gamers realize you dont HAVE to pay monthly for multiplayer then you may have a point