Can anyone justify EA's new PC Game price tag? - Games

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Well they are making up for their torrented games, look what happened to crysis and how big that is going to hit sales.

50$ after that inflation becomes 54.05$

[QUOTE=XxLiquidxX;28179338]Well they are making up for their torrented games, look what happened to crysis and how big that is going to hit sales.[/QUOTE] You mean that market strategy ? oh yeah sure that will impact the sales, to a few millions!

I just buy older games. For example, instead of Bulletstorm, I will be playing Phantasy Star Universe.

Oh no I am so sad and PS2 games used to be 70 dollars new in sweden oh no what do I do when they are cheaper than before [editline]21st February 2011[/editline] Oh wait games cost more to make now

They're doing it for money, like said before. The reason they can charge extra is because they can. If they sell the game to 1,000 people, 800 will still buy it, but 100 won't. The 100 don't matter because that extra 10 or so dollars makes up for it. EA is trying to justify their 60 dollar price tag for Crysis 2 by saying it's a "limited edition." The thought of a special edition creates urgency, so the customer thinks "Oh, I'd better buy this now or else it'll be too late," which results in more people buying.

[QUOTE=cloud_strife;28178422]If you think 50k is low, you're either rich, or too young to have had enough jobs to understand the current job market.[/QUOTE] Depends on plenty of things. If you have a family and a house, 50k a year isn't very good. However, living alone in an apartment in your mid-twenties, 50k is a fuckload Anyways, on topic, i'm living in canada and paying $80 for console games. the AUD and CAD are literally exactly the same (1 CAD = 1.001 AUD) so i really don't understand why australians are paying as much as they are. I could never imagine paying that much here. Games have always been $70-$80 here

[QUOTE=Samiam22;28161310]He JUST SAID don't post stuff like that. Can't you READ[/QUOTE] no he's australian can't you READ

[QUOTE=fenwick;28161409]Game prices used to be much higher... -snip- N64 games used to be $70. Quit whining.[/QUOTE] It's because cartridges were more expensive than discs.

[QUOTE=XxLiquidxX;28179338]Well they are making up for their torrented games, look what happened to crysis and how big that is going to hit sales.[/QUOTE] Hmm, too many people are torrenting our game to make it profitable, I know! We can charge the legit buyers 10 dollars more to make up for the lost profits! :downs:

[QUOTE=Watevaman;28165813]Out of curiosity, what do other things cost in Australia and New Zealand? Like what are houses selling for, what is an average salary, etc?[/QUOTE] In the town that I live in (Ngaruawahia) the medium salary is 20,300. Bread costs $3, Coke $2, the house I live in is valued at around $280,000 about a year ago. Its got 3 bedrooms, two lounges, a dining room, a bathroom, two little storage rooms and a big back yard. Phone bill for 60 min international calls, unlimited national calls and 50gbs broadband is around $150. For texting its 2000 texts to a singular network for $10, we have two major networks and a third just starting up. Any other questions?

[QUOTE=Pandamobile;28162613]Not to mention that a publisher gets like 3x more money per digital sale than a retail purchase because there's not cost of good, production, shipping, etc. $60 retail game = ~$14-16 when all is said and done. $60 digital game = ~$35-42 It's just greedy to charge $60 for a digital PC game...[/QUOTE] Most digital distributors take 75 percent of the money while devs take 25 percent of it. [editline]20th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Str4fe;28169776]How many copies can you fit in one of these? -truck- Or in one of these? -Jet-[/QUOTE] I don't think it works like that (unless if they were possibly imported). I believe publishing companies take care of that, and they're located in "major" countries like the UK, US, and Japan.

Value of USD drops, sellers of goods want more USD in order to make up for the fact that USD is turning into shit. And then they just take the $ out of the price, put an € in there instead and fuck it up even more for Europeans.

I doubt that changing the PC game price to $50 will cause a problem for their business. They make perfectly enough money already.

EA could probably justify it. I'm already paying $60 for console games, why not pay it for PC too?

[QUOTE=Pandamox;28179657]Depends on plenty of things. If you have a family and a house, 50k a year isn't very good. However, living alone in an apartment in your mid-twenties, 50k is a fuckload Anyways, on topic, i'm living in canada and paying $80 for console games. the AUD and CAD are literally exactly the same (1 CAD = 1.001 AUD) so i really don't understand why australians are paying as much as they are. I could never imagine paying that much here. Games have always been $70-$80 here[/QUOTE] Bullshit, maybe in the shit hole where you live but here in Alberta I've never seen a console game go over $70 unless it was a Special edition or something. Games have always been $50-$60 here But then again you're the guy who said GoW would never ever ever come out for the PC

I'm pretty sure I paid 80 dollars for Halo:CE when it came out for PC. Never the less, I have been enjoying the lower prices.

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;28181021]Bullshit, maybe in the shit hole where you live but here in Alberta I've never seen a console game go over $70 unless it was a Special edition or something. Games have always been $50-$60 here But then again you're the guy who said GoW would never ever ever come out for the PC[/QUOTE] I pay ~70$ for a console game and 50-60$ for any PC game. I know 10$ isn't that much, but it adds up. If you buy 10 games at 60$ instead of 50$, you pay 100$ more. With that 100$, you could have bought 2 more 50$ games.

So I'm paying that price to secure a non-drm copy right? ... [b]SHIT[/b]

^^That's why you don't buy every game you set your eyes on on release.

Higher prices, more pirates. They are working in a counterproductive manner. "Not promoting anything."

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;28181021]Bullshit, maybe in the shit hole where you live but here in Alberta I've never seen a console game go over $70 unless it was a Special edition or something. Games have always been $50-$60 here But then again you're the guy who said GoW would never ever ever come out for the PC[/QUOTE] Shit hole? Pretty sure Mission in BC isn't a shit hole. I almost never see new releases go BELOW $70 here

[QUOTE=Robber;28171725]Then why would Portal 2 be the most expensive PC game I have bought in the last few months? Crysis 2, Bad Company 2, Just Cause 2, Batman Arkhum Asylum, tons of indie games, Left4Dead 1 and 2 all where considerably cheaper than Portal 2. They are obviously following the bandwagon too and I bought all of them (except for some of the indie games) when they were still full price.[/QUOTE] You were going to buy the game regardless, so why set it at a lower price and lose money? And how did you get Crysis 2 cheaper than Portal 2.

Their making up by not being noticed when Activision shits on the spotlight

[QUOTE=Pandamox;28182092]Shit hole? Pretty sure Mission in BC isn't a shit hole. I almost never see new releases go BELOW $70 here[/QUOTE] Must be if you're paying $10-$20 more than most everyone else in Canada. Funny tho, you'd think that they'd be cheaper so all the stoners could afford them.

[QUOTE=Da_Arwin;28180884]EA could probably justify it. I'm already paying $60 for console games, why not pay it for PC too?[/QUOTE] Physical copies require shipping, packaging, stocking, etc. Downloadable copies require a server and internet. Yet they cost the same.

I don't have a problem with $60 games because I don't buy games when they come out. (Ridiculously cheap sales, hooray)

[QUOTE=thrawn2787;28169252]but if anything they're getting cheaper to.[/QUOTE] Oh hell no, they are not. At all.

It costs me lets say if i go over my bandwidth 2$ extra per gig to download a product i have already bought. I live in Canada, 60Gig Bandwidth is like 40-50bucks per bill + 2$ for every gig over the limit. Yay Rogers Canada!