WHY DID THE PRICE JUST INCREASE?!

[BryanChung]

WHY DID THE PRICE JUST INCREASE?!

[Black☆Star]

Steam will probably lose a lot of potential customers if it keeps this up. Way to dangle the carrot in front of us then swiping it away after a couple days.

[Bah]

引用自 Black☆Star：

Steam will probably lose a lot of potential customers if it keeps this up. Way to dangle the carrot in front of us then swiping it away after a couple days.

It's not Steam's fault.

Steam has NO CONTROL over the prices on here unless its a Valve game. 2K sets the prices. Even if you see a game go onsale on Steam (i.e. Daily Deals, Winter Sale, etc), that price is decided by the publisher. This game has been $59.99 in the US region since the day it appeared as a pre-order on Steam. Focus your anger towards 2K.

As for why its gone up? My guess is that they want people in every region to pay the same price and with all the new currencies on Steam being accepted, 2K wanted the price to be the same for every region rather than regional pricing (i.e. Mexico and Russia typically get games cheaper than the US). Its not fair to raise the price IMO, but Steam have to abide by the publisher's wishes due to contractual obligations.

If you see a price on Steam that you like, BUY IMMEDIATELY unless you are going to wait for a sale price. Don't wait if you can afford it. Once you have the game in your library, they're not going to take it away (unless you use a stolen credit card or something like that) or make you pay more.

[Processor]

I don't see the $60 price tag to be an issue. All anyone has to do is wait for the game to go on sale on Steam to get it for cheaper (obviously that might not happen this year but we could see a 10%-15% off sale during the Steam Xmas event). That might also be why 2K decided to make it $60 (knowing that sales will happen and when they do, more people will buy it during a sale so they'd basically be selling for what it's actually worth).

They have another reason to make it $60.... there's literally no other NBA games for the PC platform. When you're the only one with a particular game-type, you can rake in the cash.

[Bah]

引用自 Processor：

I don't see the $60 price tag to be an issue. All anyone has to do is wait for the game to go on sale on Steam to get it for cheaper (obviously that might not happen this year but we could see a 10%-15% off sale during the Steam Xmas event). That might also be why 2K decided to make it $60 (knowing that sales will happen and when they do, more people will buy it during a sale so they'd basically be selling for what it's actually worth).

You don't even have to wait that long. I preordered for $45 on Greenmangaming (an authorized seller) with the 25% off coupon on their front page.

[Spanky Pie]

引用自 Processor：

I don't see the $60 price tag to be an issue. All anyone has to do is wait for the game to go on sale on Steam to get it for cheaper (obviously that might not happen this year but we could see a 10%-15% off sale during the Steam Xmas event). That might also be why 2K decided to make it $60 (knowing that sales will happen and when they do, more people will buy it during a sale so they'd basically be selling for what it's actually worth).

They have another reason to make it $60.... there's literally no other NBA games for the PC platform. When you're the only one with a particular game-type, you can rake in the cash.

That's not what the thread's about. It was around 33USD for SEA countries yesterday, and now it's around 44USD. If they priced it at 44USD after the currency changes, there would be no problems. But now I feel cheated because they never announced that they were going to be increasing the prices.

[optimistic realization]

Double the price of all the previous NBA 2k games on here. Good luck with that. For 30 I was thinking of biting this year, passed on it last year because it looked like more of the same. But, for 60, na, I'm good. You're going to shut down your online servers in a year anyway. And, if you want a single player experience one edition to the next doesn't make much of a difference. If you've got 2011 or 12 or 13, you're already good.

They had the pricing right before. PC is too competitive for 60 dollar sports games. There are too many other good games on PC, it's not like consoles. lol For 60 I can get 6 nice games or 2 great ones.

[Bah]

引用自 Mic Blades：

Double the price of all the previous NBA 2k games on here. Good luck with that. For 30 I was thinking of biting this year, passed on it last year because it looked like more of the same. But, for 60, na, I'm good. You're going to shut down your online servers in a year anyway. And, if you want a single player experience one edition to the next doesn't make much of a difference. If you've got 2011 or 12 or 13, you're already good.

The difference is that this year's title is closer to its "next gen" console cousin (PS4/Xbone) and is missing only 1 feature that those two have (that Face thing to put your own face in the game), otherwise they're the same game as the new console versions. Last years and years prior were ports of the 360/PS3 version and was missing features those versions had. I can understand the reasoning why this version is pricier out of the gate and why it was cheaper the past few years. T

That said, there's more than a few places to get this on pre-order cheaper than 59.99 (i.e. my post above), and no doubt places like Amazon and even Steam itself will have it marked down about 6 weeks after release when Black Friday sales happen etc.

No one should pay 59.99 for this at any time. There's no reason to if you shop around.

[YURAGI]

I pre ordered just in time..after 2 days the prices soared..gona be getting i5 proce next month hopefully

[DETERMINOLOGY]

引用自 Bah：

引用自 Mic Blades：

Double the price of all the previous NBA 2k games on here. Good luck with that. For 30 I was thinking of biting this year, passed on it last year because it looked like more of the same. But, for 60, na, I'm good. You're going to shut down your online servers in a year anyway. And, if you want a single player experience one edition to the next doesn't make much of a difference. If you've got 2011 or 12 or 13, you're already good.

The difference is that this year's title is closer to its "next gen" console cousin (PS4/Xbone) and is missing only 1 feature that those two have (that Face thing to put your own face in the game), otherwise they're the same game as the new console versions. Last years and years prior were ports of the 360/PS3 version and was missing features those versions had. I can understand the reasoning why this version is pricier out of the gate and why it was cheaper the past few years. T

That said, there's more than a few places to get this on pre-order cheaper than 59.99 (i.e. my post above), and no doubt places like Amazon and even Steam itself will have it marked down about 6 weeks after release when Black Friday sales happen etc.

No one should pay 59.99 for this at any time. There's no reason to if you shop around.

Crazy part is people dont believe it and its posted all around that nba 2k15 on pc will be 99% of the current consoles ps4/xbox one with the 1% off with face scan. That alone is big due to 2k13/2k14 got it guts ripped out and 2k14 on pc didnt even have the next gen graphics.

[BOT K13C]

Or u can just wait for crack and torrent it~~ Nonetheless, please do your research before posting PC is getting lacklustre or downgrades compared to the Console version..We are going Next Gen with 99% FULL Features yo!! (1% for face scan availability~)

[optimistic realization]

I don't get this argument, they're putting something in the game that should have always been there, so that makes it right to jack up the price? If anything it takes less effort to not take those featuers out than it does to manually remove them. lmao If you know anything about programming at all you know this is a fact.

[kray28]

Thanks but I'll wait for a sale....or sometime next year.

[TheIdiotGamer (tyler9754)]

引用自 Mic Blades：

I don't get this argument, they're putting something in the game that should have always been there, so that makes it right to jack up the price? If anything it takes less effort to not take those featuers out than it does to manually remove them. lmao If you know anything about programming at all you know this is a fact.

this will be like next gen (minus face scan thing, which would be cool, but I dont care about it enough to make me even THINK about me caring) and they are charging $60, ps3 and xbox 360 are paying $60, for LAST gen, we payed $30 for last gen last year WITHOUT my team, no online besdies quick match, reliable online servers and basically everything else, so were paying $60 for basically, a game with work put into it, when last year it was $30 for a game that had the same features (maybe even less) as 2k10 on all consoles.

[MadStyle_Unltd]

引用自 T1SG.BryanChung：

WHY DID THE PRICE JUST INCREASE?!

Because supposedly we finally get the full game feature wise, before they kept giving us PC players the gimped version NBA2K for PC.

[TheTiiide]

引用自 Mic Blades：

I don't get this argument, they're putting something in the game that should have always been there, so that makes it right to jack up the price? If anything it takes less effort to not take those featuers out than it does to manually remove them. lmao If you know anything about programming at all you know this is a fact.

It's quite simple.
2k14: 1/2 game = 1/2 price
2k15: full game = full price

The price went up from previous games because they're putting more in this one. They had been essentially selling the game at a price equal to the amount of content in the game.