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[The Game Seekers]

¥140000 ($1400) ?!
why so expensive! 😲

[GrafOrlockVII]

On my end, in USD, it's $1000. But yeah, absolutely nuts. If you look in the description, it actually mentions that this is a licensed board game aimed at business people. A quick google search shows that you can buy the board game for $150. For a board game, even a more involved one, $150 is a lot. So for this to be $1000...I'm unsure if it's a mistake or intentional greed. It's kind of sad that it's hard to tell nowadays.

[LukeRS]

Money laundering or some other scam

[Toxicology]

i agree lets hope some kid doesnt try and steal their mommys credit card to buy this. they dont even know how much money is

[Layla Spellwind]

Steam has a report function for games, it's next to Share and Embed. Best to make use of this. ^_^

[GrafOrlockVII]

Originally posted by Layla Spellwind:

Steam has a report function for games, it's next to Share and Embed. Best to make use of this. ^_^

The thing is, ridiculous pricing on the dev's part is not explicitly against Steam's TOS I do not think. It should be, for sure, but technically if the owner of the game wants to make it this stupid amount of money, what's technically illegal about that? Again, I DO NOT condone this action and wish it was explicitly against the rules. Stuff like stupid overpriced games, obvious shovelware asset flips, etc, should all be able to be reported and taken off the store. But, you can't. Here are some examples of other stupidly priced games:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2204850/Spooky_Men/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1915910/Hidden_Build_TopDown_3D/

Spooky Men was in the news lately because they, intentionally, raised the price of their game to almost a million dollars USD purely for attention for their mediocre game. But, now it's back to a much more affordable $200 (sarcasm). IF you look at the Top Down games, their whole thing is asset flip garbage that's overpriced, always on some sort of sale in a bundle for -99%, and botted reviews. It's obvious that unless this game is explicitly tied to illegal processing of money and you have proof of such, Steam won't do anything about this. I really wish they would change the TOS. Stuff like this needs to be punished so Steam isn't filled with such garbage.

[Amps]

I search for free games on steamdb most days by searching for games with >95% discounts. This reminds me of the publisher Hede that just cranks out absolute garbage. Tons and tons of it.

[Redux]

just report the DEVS

[Redux]

definitely to launder money

[puggy]

they just use steam to host and sell keys at events

[GrafOrlockVII]

Originally posted by puggy:

they just use steam to host and sell keys at events

This makes sense to me, more so than any "money laundering" accusation. Especially because it's a licensed board game aimed at business people. The odd thing, though, is that there's this and a separate "business edition", both priced equally. Still, considering getting games on Steam is not a hard or intensive process (even though it probably should be), having it hosted here for convenience and public availability makes sense...even if the price doesn't.

[puggy]

Originally posted by GrafOrlockVII:

Originally posted by puggy:

they just use steam to host and sell keys at events

This makes sense to me, more so than any "money laundering" accusation. Especially because it's a licensed board game aimed at business people. The odd thing, though, is that there's this and a separate "business edition", both priced equally. Still, considering getting games on Steam is not a hard or intensive process (even though it probably should be), having it hosted here for convenience and public availability makes sense...even if the price doesn't.

I think its still a scam or similar shady activity but it is what it is and maybe anyone who plays this game becomes insta rich

[Epiknik]

Originally posted by GrafOrlockVII:

Originally posted by Layla Spellwind:

Steam has a report function for games, it's next to Share and Embed. Best to make use of this. ^_^

The thing is, ridiculous pricing on the dev's part is not explicitly against Steam's TOS I do not think. It should be, for sure, but technically if the owner of the game wants to make it this stupid amount of money, what's technically illegal about that? Again, I DO NOT condone this action and wish it was explicitly against the rules. Stuff like stupid overpriced games, obvious shovelware asset flips, etc, should all be able to be reported and taken off the store. But, you can't. Here are some examples of other stupidly priced games:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2204850/Spooky_Men/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1915910/Hidden_Build_TopDown_3D/

Spooky Men was in the news lately because they, intentionally, raised the price of their game to almost a million dollars USD purely for attention for their mediocre game. But, now it's back to a much more affordable $200 (sarcasm). IF you look at the Top Down games, their whole thing is asset flip garbage that's overpriced, always on some sort of sale in a bundle for -99%, and botted reviews. It's obvious that unless this game is explicitly tied to illegal processing of money and you have proof of such, Steam won't do anything about this. I really wish they would change the TOS. Stuff like this needs to be punished so Steam isn't filled with such garbage.

Amen

[Hobbes]

Originally posted by GrafOrlockVII:

Originally posted by puggy:

they just use steam to host and sell keys at events

This makes sense to me, more so than any "money laundering" accusation. Especially because it's a licensed board game aimed at business people. The odd thing, though, is that there's this and a separate "business edition", both priced equally. Still, considering getting games on Steam is not a hard or intensive process (even though it probably should be), having it hosted here for convenience and public availability makes sense...even if the price doesn't.

If they're selling keys at events consistently below the Steam RRP that gets them in trouble because Steam runs an MFR (Most Favoured Retailer) clause. That's a good way to get your dev account nuked.

Basically as a dev you set a price for your game, Valve then handles currency conversions and so on, however, there's a ToS rule in the agreements that you cannot -sell below- the price you set on Steam outside of sales (Valve won't mind if say, Humble sells your game at 50% off for two weeks, as long as you do the same on Steam -somewhen-), and if you use fake sales as a means of circumventing that rule, that also gets you nuked.

[Toryn575]

Looking for someone to play test this game? I am available to do so. a game key would be nice to do so :]

[Zero]

even at 90 % off will be 100bucks goodluck with that