All Square Enix publish games are on sale right now except Nier Automata

[Tifa Lockhart]

Why? Even NieR Replicant is 50% off right now.

[SypieX]

+1 I waited for sale, I'll buy nier replicant but i want this one too

[WrathSE7EN]

This game barely goes on sale so if it doesnt get a discount in winter sale, it wont get any till golden week sale.
square enix treats this game the same way bandai does to dark souls games, they dont bother putting them on sale knowing people will buy them anyway at full price.

[GOLDMAN000]

this game has never been on sale the whole year ,I end up buying GOW today it surprisingly cheaper Even RDR 2 is cheaper right now

[Dexter]

Originally posted by WrathSE7EN:

...
square enix treats this game the same way bandai does to dark souls games, they dont bother putting them on sale knowing people will buy them anyway at full price.

[Nishimo]

Yeah, I was waiting for a sale too.
This game never goes on sale.
Probably won't be in the Steam Winter Sale next week since this SE Sale says it will go till Jan 5th.

[Mako]

Probably trying to boost Switch version sales a bit.

[JJInferno96]

I literally skipped out on buying the Switch version on sale during Black Friday. Just because I wanted the game on PC instead.

[sageyo]

litteraly planned to buy it on sales the 16 like it was one year ago, and it's not. Thought they'll do two sales a year but just only one in 2022, absolutely wild

[@R+5]

+1

ive been waiting this game to be on sale, but it looks squeenix is doing what is squeenix does best: ignore what people want, and expect that small discounts persuade people to buy more recent games.

And you know what, since people are still buying rather than making more noise about this bs, and other lame stuff they have done, they will keep doing it until the company breaks or becomes absorbed by microsoft, ea, or worse (if thats possible).

people should stop buying new overpriced games from square until they begin to learn a bit from devs like sega, who after some serious fails, became more responsive to players, and now they are respected in general, and perceived less hostile and self-centered (squeenix each year looks a lot more like konami, which has become less relevant).

[Pancakes11]

They might be waiting to put this on sale until the winter sale starts on the 22nd. Thats my guess anyway.

[@R+5]

Originally posted by Pancakes11:

They might be waiting to put this on sale until the winter sale starts on the 22nd. Thats my guess anyway.

unlikely: sales dont update at the last minute. check steamdb:

https://steamdb.info/app/524220/

the last time this game had a discount was march, and before that one, in december of the previous year: if they didnt added this time, it was to try to push the new game.

as i commented earlier: its just their typical japanese console-centric market.

they always do similar bs when they want to push a new game that no one, or very few cared about (ie what they did when they were trying to sell the chrono nostalgia games, before actually offering the pc version of chrono trigger, which was one of their worst pc ports, and they only half-fixed it after independent devs and fans already hacked it to make it less terrible).

[YVIR]

Yeah, the game never goes on sale. Have been waiting for almost a year and a half. If by 2024 it doesn’t go on sale I will have to acquire it from other sources

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by YVIR:

Yeah, the game never goes on sale. Have been waiting for almost a year and a half. If by 2024 it doesn’t go on sale I will have to acquire it from other sources

You could have played it on Game Pass for $1 a year and a half ago. The Steam version of the game's sadly identical to Microsoft Store version now, so there's no benefit to owning it on Steam.

[YVIR]

Originally posted by Kaldaieℵ₀:

Originally posted by YVIR:

Yeah, the game never goes on sale. Have been waiting for almost a year and a half. If by 2024 it doesn’t go on sale I will have to acquire it from other sources

You could have played it on Game Pass for $1 a year and a half ago. The Steam version of the game's sadly identical to Microsoft Store version now, so there's no benefit to owning it on Steam.

I wasn't aware of that. Had I known I would have certainly bought it there. Anyway I'll wait for it to go on sale

[Kaldaien]

Yeah, usually Square Enix will put a game on sale around the time its sequel is published, or the game's ported to a different platform. They ported the Xbox One X version to PC and put it on Game Pass a few weeks before NieR: Replicant shipped.

It probably went on sale on Steam around the time the Switch port was released... dunno, too lazy to check :)