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And you guys make twice as much money a year on average than we do. Your point?ResonanceSD said:
Because as most people don't seem to realise that the price is set by the publisher not by the digital platform hence why you rarely see a sale on something like a call of duty title on steam compared to a valve game like l4d2 or portal.
Plus you get asshole retail stores (game i'm looking at you ) who threaten to not stock a game if it is cheaper on digital or even avaiable on digital platforms at all on launch day ( see a lot of multi platform THQ games and steam in in the UK). Which in itself is retarded when the games are often Steamworks required anyway.
Plus you get asshole retail stores (game i'm looking at you ) who threaten to not stock a game if it is cheaper on digital or even avaiable on digital platforms at all on launch day ( see a lot of multi platform THQ games and steam in in the UK). Which in itself is retarded when the games are often Steamworks required anyway.
You're joking, right? The amount of money people earn, adjusted for cost of living, has nothing to do with how easy it is to afford a luxury item? And besides, games are a luxury item on the order of books or DVDs. To hear people use that excuse, you'd think it was caviar.ResonanceSD said:
I like to think their charging for the convenience of instant download. I'm yet to buy a game from Steam it's overpriced, the only time it isn't is in sales. Dead Space 2 29.99 on steam 4,98 on Shopto. Also Amazon blows steam out of the water on cheapness.
I got facs and NF in a bundle together for $15, during a sale.targren said:
I'm also one of the pod people who bought the mercenary pack =\
What stores are you going to? How much is Skyrim? I can get it for $68 in most stores and about $35 physically shipped from the UK, it is still $90 from Steam. Prices do tend to go lower on Steam once they drop but that takes at least six months, sometimes longer. Before then you are better off buying retail or importing from the UK.Zhukov said:
Pretty much this. DLC is even worse, even on non-"mainstream" games. While waiting for Lollipop Chainsaw, I figured I'd work on my last two cheevos for Onechanbara. On a lark I went onto the XBL store.Sack of Cheese said:
Five years later, the game is $9.99, but the DLC hasn't been price-adjusted. Each of the three unlockables still costs 500 pts (about $6.25).
Ahh, no, he is right, the actual phisical copy costs around $4 all things included (a small ammount for a $60 videogame), but publishers do make around 20% more on the PC games DD version because they forgo the plataform royalty, the digital distributors charge less than the phisical retailers and they do save on the boxing and shipping.Matthew94 said:
Well... they are still selling 20 item slots on the bank for 9.99 aint they? NCSoft GW 1 store is like a trip to the 90s poor pricing and service.targren said:
Also this... the steam/GoG/Amazon/Origin offer is soo good i have stopped buying because i have too many awesome games to play, most of them bought for cheap.Blade_125 said:
Well... they are still selling 20 item slots on the bank for 9.99 aint they? NCSoft GW 1 store is like a trip to the 90s poor pricing and service.Tanakh said:
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Don't remind me... And the gem-store in GW2 is overtly selling power, now, too. Wish I had links to every time someone told me I was wrong for worrying that they'd do that "because Arenanet said they wouldn't." Hah.
Korean, also... well, i am too lazy to do the math, but it's kinda boring to see all this australian complains. It is impossible that australia has the worst videogame pricing when adjusted to the average family income, and without adjusting you are not talking economy, just QQing...ResonanceSD said:
But i do agree, fuck americans and their awesome prices.
Yeah... i am fine with them "selling power" as in lets say the equivalent of heirlooms for WoW, or even top of the line gear if gear is easy to get or not as important. You know, as long as a noob with cash can't faceroll dedicated players.targren said:
Well c, but NCSoft record on that is... sigh, i dont even want to think about it.
Goods are NEVER priced at what it costs to produce, they are ALWAYS priced at what people will pay. There are plenty of products/services businesses lose money on and then some they make TONS of money on, all based on consumers' willingness to pay. Any business who lowers the price of a good solely based on their cost going down is being run by a moron or a philanthropist.