Prediction on sale price?

[muckymucks]

The Steam Summer Sale is next week and GTAV is due for a discount, but for how much? Can we be optimistic to hope for 33% off?

[TheTertius]

From where comes the info about GTA V will be due to discount? I've seen no news like that till now. Please link the source if you can for me.

Personal I don't think, that GTA V will get a discount of more than 10%, becuase the game is pretty much to new on the PC (allthough i would appreciate more players in GTA Online).

[ubik]

R* won't discount this game much (if at all) because, they've already made their money and sales targets. They don't need to increase sale volume by discounting. There's no business case to justify doing it, so they won't.

[muckymucks]

It's just a hunch on my part. Games get discounted pretty fast on Steam, and the Summer Sale usually causes publishers to discount their games pretty nicely for us.

[Tekko]

Doubt it will be on sale, 5% if you're lucky.

[Rusty]

10% most likely, 20% for an extremely limited time of less than a day is also likely. There's no such thing as enough money and game devs/publishers make quite a lot off of the boosts that discounts bring them. Also this is Steam, hail Gabe.

[Magicktech]

Steam sales aren't what they use to be. Don't expect anything more than 10% off.

[Rusty]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ∞Phantasm:

Steam sales aren't what they use to be. Don't expect anything more than 10% off.

True enough with the sea of dreadful ♥♥♥♥ they let in the gates the last couple of years, now they throw 1000 utterly garbage games on sale and call it a job well done. But they do still have decent ones go for good discounts in the mix, it just isn't nearly as common or easy to find anymore.

[soul like that be capable of]

this is AAA that sold over 50 millions copies. dont think it will be lower than 50$.

[ubik]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TAL Rusty:

10% most likely, 20% for an extremely limited time of less than a day is also likely. There's no such thing as enough money and game devs/publishers make quite a lot off of the boosts that discounts bring them. Also this is Steam, hail Gabe.

From a revenue point of view, if they had data which showed the amount of microtransaction money they get per player, and if they feel could improve on that and make up the difference in the discount by getting new players to do more microtransactions ... then yes they might discount more than some token amount of 5% at some point. RIght now there's absolutely no reason for them to do that, and I wouldn't expect this in the summer sale. Maybe something in the Fall sale to get Xmas oriented buyers.

Look at Civ5. Game is over 5 years old and it's still selling for $30 on Steam.

GTA5 is in the class of game that Civ5 is. Don't expect any discounts anytime soon.

[Magicktech]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TAL Rusty:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ∞Phantasm:

Steam sales aren't what they use to be. Don't expect anything more than 10% off.

True enough with the sea of dreadful ♥♥♥♥ they let in the gates the last couple of years, now they throw 1000 utterly garbage games on sale and call it a job well done. But they do still have decent ones go for good discounts in the mix, it just isn't nearly as common or easy to find anymore.

Yeah, I find what use to go 75% off every sale... now usually doesn't top 40% or 50% off. As one example.

[76561198141714300]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από muckymucks:

The Steam Summer Sale is next week and GTAV is due for a discount, but for how much? Can we be optimistic to hope for 33% off?

You can already get 25% - 30% off from LEGIT resellers on the web. Those deals were available on Pre Sale btw.

[76561198141714300]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από muckymucks:

It's just a hunch on my part. Games get discounted pretty fast on Steam, and the Summer Sale usually causes publishers to discount their games pretty nicely for us.

You do understand that Steam/Valve has nothing to do with the prices ? Its all up to the publishers.

[ubik]

Not entirely true. The publisher works out discounts & promotions with Steam's sales team. They basically work out what the price will be, and what Steam's cut of that will be.

[Magicktech]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Namur:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από muckymucks:

It's just a hunch on my part. Games get discounted pretty fast on Steam, and the Summer Sale usually causes publishers to discount their games pretty nicely for us.

You do understand that Steam/Valve has nothing to do with the prices ? Its all up to the publishers.

I guess all publisher's (dark suits) sat around a big round table a year ago and said, "no more 75% off". It's a conspiracy. #Illuminati

[Øhjens]

If Rockstar was smart, they'd give it away for free,not only would I buy a free copy for myself, I'd also gift several free copies to my many friends.