🚩 Red flag: price reduction ?

[Masterpeing]

Why its cheap in green man gaming, and steam??? its a red flag? i should wait?

[randir14]

Probably because tactical games aren't big sellers unless it's something like Xcom.

[Masterpeing]

Originally posted by randir14:

Probably because tactical games aren't big sellers unless it's something like Xcom.

iguess but i gonna wait

[uncle nick]

Yeah nah, just smart marketing plan trying to entice shoppers away from that hugely popular buyer frenzy event known as Amazon Prime day sale. Steam summer sale doing the same.

[Demo]

Originally posted by Masterpeing:

iguess but i gonna wait

If you wait, it's not going to be on discount after release, and then you'll end up missing out. And then what are you going to get. There's no other tactics game coming out with AAA budget for next few years.
You said you'll wait, well, enjoy the wait, it might be a while lol.

They put it on discount, because 30 is a much better price for something that's not a super mainstream release (in fact, most releases can't really justify 40 or 50 price point, the only releases that are priced at 50 from the get go are something like Forza or COD).
If the game came out with a 25 price point like Boltgun, would you complain about it then? It'd be even lower than JA3 is now. But they set it at that price point from the get go. So where's the difference to you.
Well good luck missing out on a easy discount, I'll go buy some nice food from a restaurant with that money on release day, make a toast to you haha.

[Dumeka]

Originally posted by Masterpeing:

Why its cheap in green man gaming, and steam??? its a red flag? i should wait?

Never saw a price reduction prior to a release on steam?
It has been this way for ages now and it has nothing to do with the quality of the game.
they are doing it to make people preorder and at the same time "reward" them for doing so.
After the release the price will be changed to the regular price again.
So if you want a good game at a lower price you shouldn't wait.
You can also check the dev logs, watch youtube videos of the gameplay and inform yourself before you buy it.

[Razamanaz]

Since Steam's refund window timer doesn't start until release there's no harm in pre-ordering. You get a better price than release without any drawbacks.

[Cacheelma]

It's barely 20USD here with regional pricing. And that's not a good sign, especially for such game with good name and potential hype factor. I didn't even know it's coming out THIS soon until today. Where's the marketing?

[Aad]

Originally posted by Cacheelma:

It's barely 20USD here with regional pricing. And that's not a good sign, especially for such game with good name and potential hype factor. I didn't even know it's coming out THIS soon until today. Where's the marketing?

There is enough marketing and hyping done (I suspect some false accounts too) but the more the game is reaching it's final shape the more it becomes clear many classic features from JA are simply left out.
Wouldn't pay 20 bucks from some badly written game with a bad art style. Only the name that is stamped on it says it's a JA game.

If I were you, just wait a little. It'll be on sale soon enough.

[Oddball_E8]

Originally posted by Aad:

...the more the game is reaching it's final shape the more it becomes clear many classic features from JA are simply left out..

Like what?

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by Cacheelma:

It's barely 20USD here with regional pricing. And that's not a good sign, especially for such game with good name and potential hype factor. I didn't even know it's coming out THIS soon until today. Where's the marketing?

This is first time I see someone complains about too low regional price in their own region, lol.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by uncle nick:

Yeah nah, just smart marketing plan trying to entice shoppers away from that hugely popular buyer frenzy event known as Amazon Prime day sale. Steam summer sale doing the same.

No, the price cut is not at all linked to steam sale, the price cut is since pre order sell start.

As some arguing already pinpointed, the game sells boxes too and the price was also made for boxes, and Paradox isn't a tiny publisher and didn't want break the industry implicit law of same prices for boxes and digitals.

So they "invented" this poor man trick to make a better tuned evaluation of digital price independently to box price. But if it works fine enough it could make an emulation for games for which the amount of boxes sold is estimated quite low.

[Rampage]

Originally posted by Razamanaz:

Since Steam's refund window timer doesn't start until release there's no harm in pre-ordering.

You cant be serious, still asleep in 2023

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by Rampage:

Originally posted by Razamanaz:

Since Steam's refund window timer doesn't start until release there's no harm in pre-ordering.

You cant be serious, still asleep in 2023

Explain your post please.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Originally posted by Rampage:

You cant be serious, still asleep in 2023

Explain your post please.

There's nothing to explain, Rampage is believing humans are clones of himself and obviously must think as he does, so he can't understand there are broken clones of himself.

[Masterpeing]

Originally posted by Cacheelma:

It's barely 20USD here with regional pricing. And that's not a good sign, especially for such game with good name and potential hype factor. I didn't even know it's coming out THIS soon until today. Where's the marketing?

+1 i will wait a 50% off or what ever... this have too many RED FLAGS