What's the deal with the sale pricing?

[Caradog]

Every sale it gets more expensive.

Are the devs punishing me for waiting?

Could have had it for less the 10£ a few years ago, then it was frequently 12.49. But now it's 17.49....I'm sure the base price was lower at one point.

[Cougarific]

Read the "Price Increasing" announcement here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/848450/allnews/

[Pisaro]

So why you don't buy it for less then 10$ few years ago?

When see a game and I will definitely play this game because I like it I buy it. Sale or no sale, doesn't matter.

[Venturai]

Epic even gave it away for free when they got their Epic Store up and running.

Originally posted by Caradog:

Are the devs punishing me for waiting?

What are you waiting for, permission?

[wilky]

Cash grab by the devs. It's almost unheard of for a game to increase in price years after its release. The normal expectation is that the sale price should become even deeper, but I think they're just trying to cash in on the publicity from Below Zero (almost) being at 1.0 launch state. Even though no updates were actually made to this game.

[Caradog]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Read the "Price Increasing" announcement here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/848450/allnews/

Doesn't really cover why the older game has the same base price, in spite of being 3 years old now (older really with EA). And even on sale is more exspensive the something like Skyrim with all its DLC (which alone probably is roughly the same length as this story)

as for why I didn't get it when it was like 7.50 back then I was jobless and couldn't afford it. Since I've been waiting for that sale again, yet it just keeps going up. Never knew games appriaciated in value so much.

[FMP]

Originally posted by Caradog:

Doesn't really cover why the older game has the same base price, in spite of being 3 years old now (older really with EA).

They upgraded thd engine and broke a lot of things.
They ignored that for a little bit
Decided they could tap into the Nintendo Switch market.
Started to fix thr PC version to be portable to the switch.

All that dev time needs paying for so new customers become cash cows for a still broken game on PC and a soon to be released Switch version.

[wilky]

Originally posted by Serious Postal Worker:

Originally posted by Caradog:

Doesn't really cover why the older game has the same base price, in spite of being 3 years old now (older really with EA).

They upgraded thd engine and broke a lot of things.
They ignored that for a little bit
Decided they could tap into the Nintendo Switch market.
Started to fix thr PC version to be portable to the switch.

All that dev time needs paying for so new customers become cash cows for a still broken game on PC and a soon to be released Switch version.

Still waiting for this bug/performance fix PC update....

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

"cash grab by the devs.." lol - i mean ok - 120,- euro is something but 20?

oil price is a cash grab, pharma products are a cash grab, etc etc... - but honestly - Subnautica? i wish it were like that *g* because that would mean this world has no big problems anymore :p

[Caradog]

Originally posted by wilky:

Originally posted by Serious Postal Worker:

They upgraded thd engine and broke a lot of things.
They ignored that for a little bit
Decided they could tap into the Nintendo Switch market.
Started to fix thr PC version to be portable to the switch.

All that dev time needs paying for so new customers become cash cows for a still broken game on PC and a soon to be released Switch version.

Still waiting for this bug/performance fix PC update....

So you're saying its more expensive and now has more issues? Maybe I will continue to hold off then.

[FMP]

Originally posted by Caradog:

Originally posted by wilky:

Still waiting for this bug/performance fix PC update....

So you're saying its more expensive and now has more issues? Maybe I will continue to hold off then.

Yup.
You can join the experimental branch and treat Subnautica like its back in Early Access for those that missed it the first time.

[admiral1018]

Even though I think this game would still be a great value even at $60 US, I can see why some people find it off-putting that the game has had a price increase despite no new content being added and none of the long-standing bugs being fixed in the "stable" build.

If the devs at least justified the increase by saying they plan to eventually add something new to the base Subnautica game (like some content from BZ), then it would at least be defensible. But as it is now, I don't think I've ever seen a dev do what UWE did with the pricing.

[wilky]

If it makes anyone feel better, I purchased this game on sale 2.5 years ago (Nov 2018) for $18.74

The current sale price is only $2 higher. Not really breaking the bank.