RockyRan Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 God damn you, Activision and your dirty, dirty greed. Look what you've done, you got a bunch of money grubbing publishers trying their hand at $60 games now after your CoD crap infested the market with that "$59.99" price tag. Now Bulletstorm is launching at $60? Are they high? I still blame the audience, though, for buying the damn games at that price. Good God, I hate it when consumers take it in the ass with no complaints whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 From what I can tell it's mostly Activision and EA, but it still pisses me off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Ah, sneaky inflation. I was pretty bummed that DAII was $60 - I feel like I remember it being $50, but I didn't pre-order it early enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) Yeah, when I saw some of the prices of $60 on Steam, I thought I was seeing things... then cleared my eyes and made a face. Highway robbery man! Sorry boss but I'm not touching those games for a while. I'll wait for a Steam sale you scums. Edit: Fucking scums, $60 for Crysis 2? I could bite at that price but god damn, I'm going to find some other means to cut down on the price. Edited February 18, 2011 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirandello Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Disregard price. Look for coupon codes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 There's been a few $60 games before this (even from Activision-Blizzard, like SC2.) If the development costs are the same then why not have the prices be the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 No demo, not available in my region and a $60 price tag. I'm sorry Bulletstorm, I trusted you, I wanted us to be friends. I'm gonna go play your sea dog sister without a hint of remorse. And thank you spoiled gamers for the $60 dollar and constant DLC ripoffs. You bastards don't how many Chaos Emeralds are in the first Sonic game. *waves walking stick* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 No demo for PC anyways. It's obvious where they plan on making their money with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 I think Epic is still butthurt everyone said UT3 was shit and is now getting back at PC gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Ubisoft do it too. As for Crysis, we get that for £30, same with Dragon Age II.(On Steam at least) It is ridiculous. There's no effing reason to do it. They tie up the games with DRM, they make shitty ports, and now they're jacking up the price and acting all surprised when we fucking complain and don't buy their games. For any console playing readers out there I should point out that normally the upper limit of PC games is £30(or $50 in the states, which I'll get to later). Whereas on console it's usually £40/$60. That extra £10/$10 increase is from the licensing that pays to MS,Sony n Nintendo. Now no one owns PC, there's no license required to develop games for it. Meaning that extra £10/$10 they jack onto the price of PC games is completely arbitrary. Just pure greed. As for the $50 thing, we sometimes get games over here at £35. Which at first we treat as them trying to slowly jack up the price without us apparently noticing. (which it probably still is) but now knowing US PC prices are $50, I'd say it's more to keep things on par. As for our PC games been cheaper most of the time, Europe is a lot more PC gamer friendly. So I'd take a guess that at lower prices they recoup their costs much easier. Also most PC companies are local to Europe, so distribution is much easier. Though you'd thing knocking prices down to like $45/$40 to match EU prices would make more sense to encourage folks to pick up PC games in US. Though I guess that might be too much of a gap under the more profitable console version. Anyway if the games go for £40/$60 on PC I'd skip them or wait till they're on sale. Message with wallets and such. Or maybe heavily pirate it, since they pay more attention to pirated copies than their sales. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 That extra $10 is paying for the steam royalty or the cost to sell it at retail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 That extra $10 is paying for the steam royalty or the cost to sell it at retail. Which is of course why console games cost $70. Because there's that extra $10 fee that is for selling at retail, that is of course not included in the $60 fee already.... And only a handful of games from a handful of publishers are charged this "Steam royalty" or retail fee whereas 95% of games don't have to pay it. (btw the word your looking for is distribution fee, royalties is normally what you get when you have creative input on the work. And the distribution fee on Steam I'd imagine to be much lower than that of retail since the profits for developers selling through Steam tend to be higher than retail.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maritan Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 I think Epic is still butthurt everyone said UT3 was shit and is now getting back at PC gaming. lol, my thoughts exactly. Anyway, that is some grave shit. As I mentioned earlier, If you want cheap new games try searching online stores for keys of EA games. They're from Russian retail copies and usually region free. The price is 15$ for everything. Stores like plati.ru should accept international cards and paypal without any problems. You pay, you recieve CD-key, you play. And it's legal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Though be aware that Valve have a nasty habit, though it was only on MW2 so probably Activision, of knocking your account off and removing the game if you buy a key through the Russian sites for use on a Steam game. So while it's legal, they can be dicks about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 What do you mean, "knocking your account off"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) Disabling it would be my guess. Which is my main fear with Steam: how a single little thing can cost you your hundreds of games. I love Valve and Steam, but I really hope at some point there will be some legal thing that prevents them from doing that. They should not be allowed to hold hostage like that games you've already paid for. Edited February 18, 2011 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Is it a violation of the Steam ToS to use activation keys from other regions, or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 The last game I spent a full $50 on was Half-Life 2, so I sure as heck won't be buying any games for $60. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 No I think it was Activision strong arming them since a fair few folks used the fact Russia is sold dirt cheap copies of games (since Russia make like $60 a year.. Martin can fill you in on how much they make). Enterprising Russian then sell these dirt cheap keys onto rich, but tight, westerners like ourselves, for like $15. Thus depriving Bobby Kotick of his rightfully earned $60 game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Sorry for the slight offtopic, but since we mentioned disabling Steam accounts? How exactly does that work? I honestly wish someone would write an article or thread with "This is how you get banned on Steam and this is what being banned on Steam disables for you". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) Well basically disabling means your account is locked and you can't access it anymore. It can happen for a range of reasons, from you doing a chargeback because they wouldn't refund a game, to simply paypal screwing up your payment. Though a disabled account and a ban are two entirely different things. A ban is only VAC (Valve's anti-cheat system) related. You still have access to your account and games, you just can't play on VAC-secured servers anymore. And only Valve games and Steamworks games (Civ V, New Vegas and the last two COD, for example) use VAC. Edited February 18, 2011 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excel_excel Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 60 dollars? Right now on xe.com that equals roughly €44. ...and preordering Portal 2 right now on Steam for me is €45. Crysis 2? €50, same with Bulletstorm. And this is a DD platform.....agh. EA and Activision aren't the only ones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 So were people who got their accounts deactivated because of the MW2 thing able to do anything about it? Cause if not that sounds like class action lawsuit to me. 60 dollars? Right now on xe.com that equals roughly €44. ...and preordering Portal 2 right now on Steam for me is €45. Crysis 2? €50, same with Bulletstorm. And this is a DD platform.....agh. EA and Activision aren't the only ones That's a separate issue, though. That's Valve treating it as if $ = €, which they've done for a while too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 So were people who got their accounts deactivated because of the MW2 thing able to do anything about it? Cause if not that sounds like class action lawsuit to me. I'm not sure, really. Whenever stuff like that is brought up on the Steam forums, the Valve Legion gets all up in arms about how it's all in the EULA and how buying games on Steam means agreeing to it. Though I think in this particular case they might have just removed the game from the accounts instead of disabling them. I could be wrong, but it just seems like a special situation where Valve might have made an exception (since they were apparently forced by Activision to act). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Premium price for premium content on the premium platform for premium people.....right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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