Next gen EA games to cost £55
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As someone who always waits to get games 50% or more off, I will say I will be waiting for more than just 50% next generation if this is true.
Especially considering console games down here cost $90. Yes, that is US dollars.
Especially considering console games down here cost $90. Yes, that is US dollars.
Makes no real difference to me since I don't buy from EA.
So much for digital games being made cheaper though...
So much for digital games being made cheaper though...
You guys also have around twice the acerage income of someone in the US. You complaining that Australia's games are more expensive than the US's is like me complaining that India's games are cheaper than in the US. Atleast thats what I have heard.Soopy said:
Now, I may be wrong, but don't you Americans already pay close to $70 anyway after sales tax? But yeah, that's a shit price either way. Good thing I'm not too invested on going next-genHazy992 said:
When you calculate product costs between countries you take each countries tax rate into account, instead of transferring one to the other. Higher taxes in the UK are balanced out by not having to pay health insurance etc. So to find out the true cost someone is being charged, you take away the tax rate added onto it, in this case VAT from the UK which is valued at 20%. I guess I could have adding on US tax rates to the typical US price (It's $60 right?) but since the US taxes change from state to state it's simpler to remove tax from the equation than to add it.wintercoat said:
And for the other point, product prices increase at the rate of inflation for the most part, so the only time you can get away with not raising them at inflation level is either if you've found a way to make games more cheaply or if you were horribly overcharging beforehand. Although some of that most have been taking place, because game prices have actually been rising slower than the price of inflation. Maybe it's the growing market or maybe it's because of wages not rising with the cost of inflation in the games industry?
Welcome to my life as an Australian, Call of Duty: Ghosts is $98 NORMAL editionHazy992 said:
https://www.ebgames.com.au/featured/playstation-4
And this is exactly why it is good to have Steam. $60 is already bad enough for me and EA wants to makes things worse. I can imagine myself saving for an entire year only to spend it mostly on Black Friday Steam Sales.
This is clearly bad news, but if EA wants to take piracy to a new level so high it reaches the top of the next multiverse, who am I to stop them?
This is clearly bad news, but if EA wants to take piracy to a new level so high it reaches the top of the next multiverse, who am I to stop them?
Oh yeah! Now normal games here in New Zealand costing $130 (slightly worse than the Australian dollar but without the high minimum wage to counter it) can cost upwards $150! Perfect! That's around as much for groceries each week, and guess which I'd rather spend on - things on which to live, or terribly average games?
When I still bought current-gen console games at gamestop, they cost 700 crowns which is about 100 dollars nowadays.
Now this was a few years ago so they may have lowered the price for games now, but I sincerely doubt it.
EDIT - Just checked Origin, BF4 will cost 699. so that's about a hundred bucks for the base game on console.
Fortunately there are sites which do undercut the prices on games quite a bit. For example I got The Last of Us for the equivalent of about 70$. I'm mainly on PC nowadays though so it's a bit better.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it sucks and I can sympathize.
Now this was a few years ago so they may have lowered the price for games now, but I sincerely doubt it.
EDIT - Just checked Origin, BF4 will cost 699. so that's about a hundred bucks for the base game on console.
Fortunately there are sites which do undercut the prices on games quite a bit. For example I got The Last of Us for the equivalent of about 70$. I'm mainly on PC nowadays though so it's a bit better.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it sucks and I can sympathize.
I always do now, because I can manage to get games at $80 that way, which is a good $50 cheaper. The only issue is that it takes a good while to arrive and shipping is always a bit risky (and you need a credit card to purchase them). So I'm fortunate there, but local prices will still be ridiculous. I believe in Australia (and by extension New Zealand) there was going to be an inquiry about why prices for technology (not just games, but also things like iPads, software and the like) were massively overpriced. They increased the prices here when the dollar was crashing, but when it went back to normal around 20 years ago, the prices stayed just as high. I believe it was Apple, Microsoft and other companies that were in the line of fire, but I haven't heard any progress on that at all. Anyway, the aim was to make games the same equivalent price as the rest of the world.Anthony Corrigan said:
Probably the worst I've ever seen here was when I tried to purchase the Tomb Raider Collector's Edition for the PS3, and the price was $210, while in the US and Europe it was the equivalent of only $90!
So EA, one of the biggest problems in modern gaming are being twats? Just color me shocked and surprised. Surely from such an ethical company we expected nothing of the sort! Mercy! As far as I am concerned they can just move along and find some other sucker.
As an aside: Does anyone else HATE these new ads that take up the far end of the text box? I don't know what the escapist was thinking but this is ridiculous.
As an aside: Does anyone else HATE these new ads that take up the far end of the text box? I don't know what the escapist was thinking but this is ridiculous.
Kind of funny to see how many people here are upset by this considering in another thread yesterday news about EA raising their game prices in India was met with many first worlders saying the price hike was a good and fair thing.
Honestly I don't feel EA is the bad guy here. Its those of you in the gaming public that have shown you are willing to throw your disposable income at these companies like panties at a Tom Jones concert for every shitty little piece of nickle and dimming DLC (day one and otherwise), gimmicks, cosmetic cashshop items, etc these asshole companies bring out. It was only a matter of time before they decided to up the ante and see just how much more of your hard earned cash they could get away with.
When you continue to reward companies for bad behavior they are only going to continue to behave badly. In other words if you want to stop these people serving you shit, you're going to have to learn to first, stop eating it.
Honestly I don't feel EA is the bad guy here. Its those of you in the gaming public that have shown you are willing to throw your disposable income at these companies like panties at a Tom Jones concert for every shitty little piece of nickle and dimming DLC (day one and otherwise), gimmicks, cosmetic cashshop items, etc these asshole companies bring out. It was only a matter of time before they decided to up the ante and see just how much more of your hard earned cash they could get away with.
When you continue to reward companies for bad behavior they are only going to continue to behave badly. In other words if you want to stop these people serving you shit, you're going to have to learn to first, stop eating it.
yea didn't get much of a result though unfortunately and I don't know what the government can do about this even if there was bipartisan support, free trade was meant to fix this but instead it was another way we as consumers got screwedVoulan said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtgsS41lk
Next Gen AAA games are costing developers a LOT of money. EA wants to maintain current profit levels, but they don't dare touch US prices. So, they are putting higher prices on everyone else.