gotta love a good price hike

[Wrecked...]

well rip. been waiting for for ages for this to come out. got the notice today that it is finally here! was about to buy 4 copies so i can play with my kids, but they increased the price, SO now i'll be waiting for a sale... hopefully there will be additional content by the time the first sale hits. here's to hoping. and waiting. again.

[Average Jew]

On gamepass btw if you wan't to save cash that way.

You can get gamepass on one MS account and then use that account to download the game on the other PC's and it will be playable on all of them at once as long as you aren't all signed in on the same account. Unless you're already subbed it should only run you a few bucks.

I do this all the time with my friends & family.

[Coldhands]

People complain when a game is full price in Early Access, and they complain when it goes up to full price on release. There's just no winning.

[Jaggid Edje]

The release announcement from a week ago did say it was going up to $39.99 on release.

I never buy games during early access, but I always follow them, wishlist them, and actually read all of their announcements if I'm interested in the game.
A price hike for full release is pretty common for Early Access titles, but developers pretty much always tell the community ahead of time that it is going to happen, so when I know it's going to happen, I buy the game a few days before the release.

[ED13]

lol cry some more, thats how some early access games roll

[DasWulf]

"Steam Early Access enables you to sell your game on Steam while it is still being developed, and provide context to customers that a product should be considered "unfinished." Early Access is a place for games that are in a playable alpha or beta state, are worth the current value of the playable build, and that you plan to continue to develop for release"

Emphasis on "are worth the current value of the playable build". As such, developers using Early Access often have lower prices during the Early Access phase. This is common knowledge.

If you feel that $10 is too much for you, and you chose not to buy it during Early Access, then just get you and your kids an XBOX game pass (the XBOX app is installed on Windows already). This will allow you all to play Grounded for a discount. At the moment, it costs only $1 to access the game via that method. After the first month, if you don't cancel it, it will cost $10 a month, which is still fine since you get access to a huge library of games.
You can cancel right away, and still get the full month of play for $1. If you want to cancel the subscription service, you still get a discount when buying the games outright on that platform.

No excuses.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/pc-game-pass?OCID=AIDcmmiixzwwab_SEM_8f332c4a31f615ec36844f794f92b405:G:s&ef_id=8f332c4a31f615ec36844f794f92b405:G:s

[Traitor]

This has been known for some time now.....

[Plumpeach]

Here in my region it went up by more then 10$ lol. By double.

[John Titor]

I think they gave us ample notice that the price was increasing $10 more dollars. Your loss. Game is great

[Plumpeach]

From their post:

"Grounded will enter its full release on September 27, 2022, on Steam for $39.99. You can purchase Grounded for $29.99 during this early access period before the game releases."

Don't see how that is 20$. But maybe cause they don't care about my region lol.

At least some pubs of major games still care.

Its okay I got family share and cheap game pass.

[[BHA] Parazac]

Originally posted by Wrecked...:

gotta love a good price hike.

there was no price hike, it was selling at an Early Access rate till full launch.

the way early access usually works:
* early adopters get the game at a reduced price, they then test it and give feedback.
* once the game is fully released, the game then sells for its normal price.

your only option now is to wait for a sale.

when that may be no one can say other than the Dev's, some games go on sale at the first steam sale after launch and others can take years before they go on sale.

all you can do is add it to your wish list and keep an eye on it.

[Dog]

be a better parent. ya cant even get your family Grounded. smh

[wopa]

and why its the Devs fault you dont bought it in 2 Years for a normal Price??
it was the same Thing with Ark, EA for 20 and on Release for 60 ! Still have the same Bugs since EA haha. I stopped playing Ark bcs it was the first Dev Team ever the sold a DLC for an EA Game! Buy the Game Pass and you get it cheaper!

[Tommy Wiseau✔]

Originally posted by Wrecked...:

well rip. been waiting for for ages for this to come out. got the notice today that it is finally here! was about to buy 4 copies so i can play with my kids, but they increased the price, SO now i'll be waiting for a sale... hopefully there will be additional content by the time the first sale hits. here's to hoping. and waiting. again.

They almost ALWAYS increase the price on release.

[TamanduaGirl]

When I bought it 2 years ago they already made it known the price would increase with full release.

I've seen a few people think release day is supposed to be a discount for games on release then are shocked when it goes up instead but I have no idea where they get that idea from. It's common practice that both EA or prepurchases might give a discount then go up to full on release.

EA it's a discount because we get to play early but are acting as their testers looking for bugs. Prepurchase discounts help get the early sales higher for more buzz.

[Sketchazoid]

FFS, is everyone blatantly acting oblivious to what Early Access is? It's not like it's some foreign mysterious concept. The deal has always been you buy an unfinished game at a discounted price, when the game get's it's final release it's price reflects that. You're paying less because you're buying a game in development still.

I swear, some of you people are absolutely brain dead.