EA Looking To Increase The Price Of Playstation 4 Games Overseas - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Thanks to an FAQ on the UK’s online games retailer website GAME (really…that’s the name of the site), we have learned that only one major third party publisher has confirmed the next-gen pricing for their games. That third party publisher is good ol’ Electronic Arts, and it looks like the ‘Evil Empire’ we all know and loathe is trying to pull a fast one this generation by increasing the retail price of their titles by $5 overseas. “At present, the only publisher to confirm costs of their next generation games are EA, attaching a price of £54.99. No other game prices have been confirmed. We will of course update our listings as and when this happens. And if the price changes before release day, you will always pay the lowest price.” After a strong E3 2013 showing, many a gamer (including myself) found themselves hating on EA just a little bit less after things like the cancelling of the ‘Online Pass’ program and the Mirror’s Edge 2 announcement. All those warm and fuzzies must have been too much for EA, as once again the internet’s vitriol has risen to a crescendo over the price hike… “Putting aside the fact that it’s EA, is there actually any real justification for such an increase? We’ve heard from multiple sources that it’s quicker and easier to code for next-gen consoles (specifically for PS4 as opposed to PS3, with development time said by Cerny himself to be back down to PS1 levels), and the new hardware is not unlike a PC. So if anything, surely the cost of development in terms of time and difficulty has come down – if not enough to allow them to reduce the rrp, then at least enough to negate any increase due to (in theory) ‘larger’ and more complex games. I mean, as the PC elitists are always so keen to point out, that platform has had several generational hardware increases in the time PS3 and 360 have been around, but their prices haven’t increased by £5 a time” – Paranomia / Push Square[/QUOTE] [url]http://pixelapocalypse.ctrlalttech.com/ea-looking-to-increase-the-price-of-playstation-4-games-overseas/[/url]

Fuck off EA

Try it.

ea has taken a couple steps forwards then shoots themselves in the face, repeatedly. What the fuck are they trying to accomplish except their own downfall?

If I'm reading this corrently, they're referring to "overseas" as the UK aye? £54.99 is about a £15 or £20 jump in price, not a £5. I'd shit my pants if I was couging out £50 a pop for a game. [img]http://gyazo.com/06f89cd878dbe44b97a99d71d62e0c65.png[/img] Jesus tap dancing christ, is this what people are paying on the origin store!?

Prices are already double here VS USA. They can go fuck themselves up their hairy satanist ass.

At least the PS4 is region free, just buy the games online and have them shipped if its cheaper that way

Sweet, $300 games for Australians

70 dollars for a fucking video game what is wrong with you EA hell I haven't spent more than 25 dollars on a game in well over 2 years

And next thing they gonna whine about why do people pirate/secondhand their games.

[QUOTE=Si`Sik;41397875]If I'm reading this corrently, they're referring to "overseas" as the UK aye? £54.99 is about a £15 or £20 jump in price, not a £5. I'd shit my pants if I was couging out £50 a pop for a game. [img]http://gyazo.com/06f89cd878dbe44b97a99d71d62e0c65.png[/img] Jesus tap dancing christ, is this what people are paying on the origin store!?[/QUOTE] how bad is that???

i'm not surprised, EA is a Greedy corperation that makes Poor games.

Looks like they quickly forgot they got awarded that worst company 2012 thing for that kind of bullshit.

[QUOTE=J!NX;41398658]how bad is that???[/QUOTE] Pretty bad depending on which titles you look at, 'The last of us' is and was a very popular title over here I got for £40.00; that's the general price tag of a very hyped game but typically you're looking at £35 give or take; of course it is different by store and title, MW for example I've seen still being sold for £25/£30 in some places and it's years old.

For some reason I thought that was Euro, which would be 70 US Dollars. That battlefield 4 preorder, 54.99 pounds, is 83 goddamn dollars. I remember when games were $40 new :(

Hey guys, if we stop buying their games, maybe they'll stop doing this? Maybe..?

[QUOTE=.Isak.;41399090]For some reason I thought that was Euro, which would be 70 US Dollars. That battlefield 4 preorder, 54.99 pounds, is 83 goddamn dollars. I remember when games were $40 new :([/QUOTE] i'm not defending the decision to raise games prices a bit, but games cost a LOT less to make "back in the day."

LOL like I am going to give EA £54.99 for a game.

[QUOTE=Cabbage;41399204]LOL like I am going to give EA £54.99 for a game.[/QUOTE] cool! but millions of other people are going to! being conceited won't make EA not want to make money.

Yet another reason not to buy any of their games. What a joke.

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;41399301]cool! but millions of other people are going to! being conceited won't make EA not want to make money.[/QUOTE] Honestly, $83 for a game is beyond reasonable. Yes, games cost more, but christ. Someone making $10/hr would literally need to give up a whole day's wages just to buy a game. Once it reaches a certain level, the average person just isn't going to be able to afford brand new games anymore. They'll resort to the game-trading and piracy that Microsoft was trying to crush with Xbox One. I get that they cost more, but they also tend to sell more, and eighty goddamn dollars for one video game with a play length of maybe 4-5 hours is beyond unreasonable.

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;41399148]i'm not defending the decision to raise games prices a bit, but games cost a LOT less to make "back in the day."[/QUOTE] Yet they were more expensive. Here is clearance pricing for some SNES games back in the day: [img]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Starmenclock/PricingSNES_zpsf5f820bb.jpg[/img] Also making cartridges for mass production was way more expensive than making discs.

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;41399148]i'm not defending the decision to raise games prices a bit, but games cost a LOT less to make "back in the day."[/QUOTE] If the extra cost went into development, I'd have no problems. My main issue is the advertising budgets for these games make the production cost look like pocket change. MW2 for example, used something like $40m on production, well over $200m in advertisements! Sure it's more expensive to produce a game, but the internet has made advertising and hype cheaper to achieve - with official blogs and youtube videos, you can cut down costs massively - there's no need for TV ads, huge billboards (and building sides!) and the like - the target market all watch youtube LPs and whatnot. If they shifted the AAA marketing budget and took 20% of it over to production, then it'd more than cover production costs, whilst still getting good exposure. It's plain and simple money grubbing, which is a pity, as I was hoping EA were starting to improve again.

I don't buy any games unless they are under £30... noticing more and more games priced at £40 - 50 when a month down the line they drop... unless its EA in which case it always seems to stay the same, Really hope other publishers don't follow them but that appears to already be happening. [QUOTE=.Isak.;41399471]Honestly, $83 for a game is beyond reasonable. Yes, games cost more, but christ. Someone making $10/hr would literally need to give up a whole day's wages just to buy a game.[/QUOTE] For me that would cost me 8 hours worth of work or 1/6th of my base wage...

I don't think I've ever bought a game for more than £30 (roughly $45), and I probably never will (apart from GTA V).

Being honest, if there was a game I was really excited for being published by EA I would eventually just say "Ah fuck it" and buy the game, but with the currently they're not even giving me a full game for that price; within 2 months there's be a super cool DLC package or even worse, a day 1 DLC package, for about £15 quid and this is spread out over a few months resulting in me paying the same fucking price as the game and a bit more just to get these extra features that should have been in the original game. Don't even get me started on the 'season' pass that every game is doing now.

Can't wait for the Corporate videogame crash. EA will have to restructure and the PC market and most other non 800 million dollar marketing budget publishers will come out pretty decent.

Kiss my dick and then spoon a strimmer EA

Nice way to make even more people hate you, EA.

The cost of a console game on release in Sweden is about 599 sek or ~$88. PC games are usually a more reasonable 399 or ~$58. I just buy stuff from Steam nowadays because fuck it.