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

[QUOTE=SatansSin;41399129]Hey guys, if we stop buying their games, maybe they'll stop doing this? Maybe..?[/QUOTE] Haha Facepunch/Reddit/4chan actually standing behind their morals? Bfahhaha

Suggestions like this should be put in some sort of court, where the viewers are respectable people of the video game community and they all have a button.....and the Person making the suggestion ( in this case EA ) are strapped to a chair with rockets each side.....if the button is pressed more than not......the chair blasts off into the sun. If only.......

[QUOTE=Terminutter;41399505]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.[/QUOTE] Oh sweet mercy guys! This FP'er found out where publishers are losing money. He has found the one thing that publishers dream of, finding a way to save millions when producing a game. This is sarcasm by the way. Do you seriously think you know how to budget better than people who have spent years doing this? That have based entire careers around this? This is honestly like you going to NASA and telling them that they could save money with your wonderful idea.

[QUOTE=Bomimo;41397902]Prices are already double here VS USA. They can go fuck themselves up their hairy satanist ass.[/QUOTE] D: I don't remember the last time I bought a game brand new. And I thought $60 was too much, even for a new game. Steam sales have saved my gaming enjoyment. [editline]10th July 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=darkrei9n;41401200]Oh sweet mercy guys! This FP'er found out where publishers are losing money. He has found the one thing that publishers dream of, finding a way to save millions when producing a game. This is sarcasm by the way. Do you seriously think you know how to budget better than people who have spent years doing this? That have based entire careers around this? This is honestly like you going to NASA and telling them that they could save money with your wonderful idea.[/QUOTE] are you serious

[QUOTE=Ltp0wer;41401349]D: I don't remember the last time I bought a game brand new. And I thought $60 was too much, even for a new game. Steam sales have saved my gaming enjoyment. [editline]10th July 2013[/editline] are you serious[/QUOTE] Am I serious that I think people who have degrees in business have a tad more credibility than some random person on a forum who thinks they know how to budget better than said people who have years of experience, spent years learning their trade, and you know, actually have the fine details of said budgets? Naaaaah, not at all.

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;41400685]Haha Facepunch/Reddit/4chan actually standing behind their morals? Bfahhaha[/QUOTE] I haven't bought an EA product since they announced Origin.

[QUOTE=darkrei9n;41401504]Am I serious that I think people who have degrees in business have a tad more credibility than some random person on a forum who thinks they know how to budget better than said people who have years of experience, spent years learning their trade, and you know, actually have the fine details of said budgets? Naaaaah, not at all.[/QUOTE] You're right man. I mean, it's not like people with degrees and jobs could ever collectively make wrong decisions. They have all spent years trained in their fields. It's totally pointless speculating on how a company could do things differently since we don't know all the facts. I mean, why even criticize anything or offer ideas if we're not employees? EA is probably doing the exact thing they should be doing right now.

Frankly, they have every right to. And I have every right to not buy it. EA can likely keep raising it because they know they have some incredibly diamond IP's. BF4 is looking like it's the biggest thing ever, surely people want it, and they know it. Probably BF5 will be even more. Even standard prices for normal PC titles on origin on launch are 60 bucks, and the premium being 80 or more. [QUOTE=Terminutter;41399505]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.[/QUOTE] I think you're immensely oversimplifying the industry. You sound like the people who think the US government should just stop spending and everything is solved. [editline]10th July 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Ltp0wer;41401756]You're right man. I mean, it's not like people with degrees and jobs could ever collectively make wrong decisions. They have all spent years trained in their fields. It's totally pointless speculating on how a company could do things differently since we don't know all the facts. I mean, why even criticize anything or offer ideas if we're not employees? EA is probably doing the exact thing they should be doing right now.[/QUOTE] Posting on a forum for a game not even related to EA is not "offering ideas" or "criticizing" the company in question.

[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] Games need to become cheaper to make, the video game industry seems to harbor some awful practices with regard to software and asset development cost which is inflating the cost of many projects.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;41401893]Posting on a forum for a game not even related to EA is not "offering ideas" or "criticizing" the company in question.[/QUOTE] I didn't mean giving EA ideas on what actions to take, I meant giving ideas as to why EA is doing things like this. "It's plain and simple money grubbing" Which admittedly is obvious and expected, but it doesn't mean what he posted was stupid.

Dear EA: Please stop fucking everything up. Sincerely, The Consumers.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41398271]Sweet, $300 games for Australians[/QUOTE]Heh, the first time Dictionary of Numbers has made me laugh. [IMG]http://puu.sh/3zZ5f.png[/IMG]

EA likes to challenge everything, it's incredible. The prices of console games in Brazil are already high, increasing the upcoming PS4 games prices will be even worse.