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Game Makers Getting Smart - Cut prices at 3 months
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Looks like game publishers are finally clueing in on how to curtail used game market. Release a title at $60 for the must have first folks, then about 3 months later drop the price to $30 or $40. Its happened with several ubisoft titles recently.
For me personally it makes a world of difference. I'd much rather buy a game new for say $35 and have it go to the publishers / creators pockets than a used game shop, but the $60 is a bit insane for my blood.
If any publishers are reading this please note this trend. I'm way more likely to pay $35 for a new game, keep the game, then later on if I liked it even spend 5 or 10 bucks on DLC.
For me personally it makes a world of difference. I'd much rather buy a game new for say $35 and have it go to the publishers / creators pockets than a used game shop, but the $60 is a bit insane for my blood.
If any publishers are reading this please note this trend. I'm way more likely to pay $35 for a new game, keep the game, then later on if I liked it even spend 5 or 10 bucks on DLC.
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Seriously. the $=£ bullshit needs to stop. Valve just got in on that shit with Steam and that means I won't be buying Steam games for a while.
Oh wait...never mind.
Actually, they sell them for 70Yuan, which is like $10 US, but we are talking abotu Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, and counter strike. All you WoW players though, eat your heart out at paying only $2-5 US for a month.
Nah not for a few months since the pound became worthless.
Still, 65-70 dollars at the moment is still a price hike for no reason. On Steam they use £1 = $1 as do Ubisoft on their online store and EA.
And people in America complain of high prices. I have not felt I got a good deal on a game for a long time, which is why I buy fewer and fewer and games.
Because over in China, it's kinda expected that you have 3 or 4 accounts per person.
But yeah, we get raped on most things. At one point we were paying well clear of four times the price for an equivalent HDTV.
The only reason I bought the new PoP game is for the LE that was only through the pre-order promotion. It didn't even take a whole week before the price fell to $40.
6 months just give them enough time to patch everything right.
If you can afford the wait give it one year.
You will be buying games at around US$30.
And 1 year is more than enough time for them to patch everything right.
Madden is about 10 bucks new after a year.
Can you... buy Chinese time cards and use them on NA accounts?
No. World of Warcraft is run by a different company than Blizzard in China.
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Tell that to Nintendo.
The reason I haven't rebought a DS is that the cart prices on anything other than shovelware never go down.
I was in a big box earlier today and I saw the pokemon gamees still at $34.99, which was a little surprising until I saw a copy of Super Mario 64 still priced at $29.99, and it was released like four years ago.
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When sales are still strong enough then why should they drop the price? They'll have done their maths somewhere and your 'head up their ass' is their good business sense.
Seriously. Nintendo knows money.
Of course.
They make $$$ with every Wii sold.
Unlike Sony who still lose money for every PS3 sold.
1) You get a cheaper game with all bugs fixed or added content release.
or
2) You get a Director Cut/Extra version with extra contents.
Is it worth to be an early supporter buying the game on the week of release?
1) You get to play it immediately
2) You pay MORE
3) You get bugs
4) You wait months later for patches
5) You wait months later for added content
6) You lose out if one year later they re-release the director cut version of the game with added content
I live in Beijing. Games are 5 yuan per CD or 10 yuan per DVD. I doubt you can even buy legit copies of any games, so 70 yuan is an absurd price.
You're a sucker. Where's your token Chinese girl to assist you in bargaining? All foreign males have at least one Chinese girl.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
I was just starting to write that but you beat me to it.
For instance the Unreal Tournament 3 online scene dried up in less than a year. But I think its a damn fun game.
Only for the starting content.
But buying later gives u more content and a better polish game.
The solution?
Join a NEW server.
Win Win situation.
1) Cheaper Retail Price.
2) Better contents and fixes.
3) Still has people doing lowbie contents with you.
Refering to MMOs.
Maybe the game market is on the ball with the economy, or something. Wish I could ask the same of our banks and automakers.
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Yeah, in the stores here Twilight Princess still costs the same as when it was released. It's actually more expensive than most new Wii games.
Sure, for successful MMOs. Look at AoC or Tabula Rasa. Fun for a while, then everyone left leaving them pretty barren. I also think he was referring more to non MMO games.
Uhm...actually if you goto any of the Federal Software Stores here in Nanjing you can get legit games with legit cd-keys for 70RMB... Its just that the selection is years if not decades old.
You can also go on steam I'm told, but I don't have a chinese account and don't want to buy software thats useless when I travel.
Thanks for supporting piracy by buying the illegal stuff though, thats tops of you.
Also, I have a Chinese Fiancee, not just a girlfriend :P But yea, I imagine its hard not to get one if you come over single.
If my favorite game developer shuts down due to financial reasons I'd be mightily pissed, but if my local gamestop shuts down I couldn't care less.
There has to be an in between solution, and for some reason only Ubisoft is clueing in. Well, them and the Apple Store. Lets the developer sell directly to the consumer, and the developer gets to keep most of the dough (AND avoids all the annoying business stuff like hosting and payment processing). I wish most transactions worked like that.
But they still make assloads off PS2s, which they're still selling consistently
And Nintendo makes like 5$ per wii
Call of Duty 4 is still like £50 new or £35 preowned, or similar.
And it's gotta be at least a year since it came out.
And it's only Call of Duty 4, as far as I've noticed.
Why is that?
Nintendo is the worst, bar none. They do not drop prices, ever. The only time I've ever seen a Nintendo game drop in price was when it went Player's Choice, which we don't even have this generation.
Halo 1 took about the same time
This generation has been pretty horrible for price drops. I feel really bad because I would have bought Folklore at some point had it dropped like most of last gen's games did, but I still only see it new for 60 bucks. That's insane!
The other thing that bugs me is something like what they did with Gears of War. I want to try it out, again based on other people's hype. But I was waiting for it to go to at most 30 bucks. So what do they do when it starts to get around that price? They discontinue that version and re release another version at 40 dollars. Then I had to wait for that one to drop in price.
That's true. Back in Thailand, I remember paying the equivalent of $10-$20 for games. Legit copies, though MOST stores you find there sell bootlegs.
Bootlegs you paid by the CD which makes the legit games even more appealing if they come on many CDs (I guess now it'd be DVDs though)
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I don't exactly support piracy, at least I was a huge buyer before I left 'civilization'. When I went to New Zealand for Christmas I bought legit UT3 and when I went to Canada I bought Spore. Its just that where I am I can't buy legit games. Even if someone says they are selling legit, the CD-key is guaranteed to have been written down and spread about like chlamydia already.
For example when you buy a PSP here it comes hacked from the box. They pre-hack it before they sell them to customers! And i guarantee the sales persons have no idea how to un-hack them. They show you a binder full of photocopies of game boxes and you choose which you like and they install them on your psp memory stick for free.
I love computer games but I live in stinky Beijing. Would you just not play the games you like if you were in my position?
I think missing out on extra content is the main down side of buying on release.
In these days with the internet and social media being a medium of a game release, bug fixes, patches and added content add to the amount of contact and discussion regarding the game. Its part of the life these games go through.
Im not saying that everygame should be unfinished, half completed and buggier than an ant sandwich but fully perfect games tend to rate top scores, get played and then dropped. It kind of why i prefer PC gaming to console gaming, for the possibility of fixes, content and more.