What is This Price?

[D.A.R.K.]

What happened with the price? Early Access was like 1/3 of this price, after release they triple the price or something? What's going on?

[seven]

Early access price was 30USD. On release it went to 40. It's now on sale at 26. It's the lowest it's ever been.

[HikariLight]

Well in EA you paid for part of a game. With the full release, your paying for the full game.

[FoamySlobbers]

player demand, is what controls the price.

[Ebon Wolf]

EA is always cheaper. lol

[Dragon_Dude1]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

What happened with the price? Early Access was like 1/3 of this price, after release they triple the price or something? What's going on?

10 dollar increase. What did you smoke?

[Crazyfaith]

Originally posted by Dragon_Dude1:

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

What happened with the price? Early Access was like 1/3 of this price, after release they triple the price or something? What's going on?

10 dollar increase. What did you smoke?

Not everyone lives in the USA james

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by Crazyfaith:

Originally posted by Dragon_Dude1:

10 dollar increase. What did you smoke?

Not everyone lives in the USA james

Yeah, he thinks $10 = 10 everywhere.

[Vanilla Fish]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Originally posted by Crazyfaith:

Not everyone lives in the USA james

Yeah, he thinks $10 = 10 everywhere.

Turns out that making a vague outrage thread leads people to have to assume some details.

[Dragon_Dude1]

Originally posted by Crazyfaith:

Originally posted by Dragon_Dude1:

10 dollar increase. What did you smoke?

Not everyone lives in the USA james

I don't live in the USA Karen

[Dragon_Dude1]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Originally posted by Crazyfaith:

Not everyone lives in the USA james

Yeah, he thinks $10 = 10 everywhere.

Well technically speaking, that's how it works. Different currencys may jump in price but it's all relative, and your the one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about a small price increase

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by Dragon_Dude1:

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Yeah, he thinks $10 = 10 everywhere.

Well technically speaking, that's how it works. Different currencys may jump in price but it's all relative, and your the one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about a small price increase

Actually no. Steam has a suggestive price based on the region because Valve knows how poor some countries are compared to others. I'm from Brazil, and my currency is Real, if you do the direct conversion, US$1 = R$ 5,27, just that would be R$ 52,70, but the suggestive price reduces this value highly to make it fair so Brazilians are able to purchase the game.

My surprise to see this stupid high price (R$ 199,00) is because Grounded isn't an AAA game. AAA price here in Brazil is between R$ 180,00 and R$ 350,00 (if the AAA is US$ 60,00 or US$70,00 and the company is greedy as hell). Companies like EA and Activision are charging around R$ 280,00 for their new games... Blizzard, the greediest of them all, is charging R$ 350,00 for the basic version of Diablo IV (the expensive version is R$ 499,00, completely stupid).

THE THING IS... Grounded ISN'T an AAA game, that's why it's only US$29,99, AAA games are US$ 60,00 and US$ 70,00, Grounded, a game that is US$ 29,99 being R$ 199,00 IS EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE, that's why I'm shocked because they simply exploded the price here on Brazil... Brazil isn't the poorest country in Steam Price Suggestion, so I can't even start thinking about how stabby Obsidian Entertainment was with the poorest countries out there.

Just for comparison's sake, a US$29,99 game should be around R$ 89,00 at max (the newest version of Steam Suggestive Price), and the oldest one would be something around R$ 58,00. Now, do you understand why I'm surprised to see this huge value? This game doesn't worth this much, this game isn't an AAA game, and it's only acceptable to purchase (here in Brazil) at -90%.

[Dragon_Dude1]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Originally posted by Dragon_Dude1:

Well technically speaking, that's how it works. Different currencys may jump in price but it's all relative, and your the one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about a small price increase

Actually no. Steam has a suggestive price based on the region because Valve knows how poor some countries are compared to others. I'm from Brazil, and my currency is Real, if you do the direct conversion, US$1 = R$ 5,27, just that would be R$ 52,70, but the suggestive price reduces this value highly to make it fair so Brazilians are able to purchase the game.

My surprise to see this stupid high price (R$ 199,00) is because Grounded isn't an AAA game. AAA price here in Brazil is between R$ 180,00 and R$ 350,00 (if the AAA is US$ 60,00 or US$70,00 and the company is greedy as hell). Companies like EA and Activision are charging around R$ 280,00 for their new games... Blizzard, the greediest of them all, is charging R$ 350,00 for the basic version of Diablo IV (the expensive version is R$ 499,00, completely stupid).

THE THING IS... Grounded ISN'T an AAA game, that's why it's only US$29,99, AAA games are US$ 60,00 and US$ 70,00, Grounded, a game that is US$ 29,99 being R$ 199,00 IS EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE, that's why I'm shocked because they simply exploded the price here on Brazil... Brazil isn't the poorest country in Steam Price Suggestion, so I can't even start thinking about how stabby Obsidian Entertainment was with the poorest countries out there.

Just for comparison's sake, a US$29,99 game should be around R$ 89,00 at max (the newest version of Steam Suggestive Price), and the oldest one would be something around R$ 58,00. Now, do you understand why I'm surprised to see this huge value? This game doesn't worth this much, this game isn't an AAA game, and it's only acceptable to purchase (here in Brazil) at -90%.

You're complaining about the price increase, this game isn't priced near a triple A game. The devs gave notice LONG before the price increase dropped when the 1.0 release came out, and you made the choice to not buy it when it was cheaper. this game is only priced at 50 CAD after the increase, so according to the conversion rate you should actually be paying roughly 195BRL plus any taxes you may have. I bought the game at early access price for 39.99 CAD which is roughly equal to 155BRL. The price didn't increase all that much, and like I said they posted it a while back about the price increase. So either pay for the full release or find a cheaper game to play.

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by Dragon_Dude1:

You're complaining about the price increase, this game isn't priced near a triple A game.

I stopped to read here... You don't understand that exists other countries and what Steam Suggestive Pricing mean. I'm gonna give you the short version:

Here on Brazil, the company is charging an AAA price game for this non-AAA game.
Here on Brazil, Grounded is too expensive for no purpose, it doesn't worth AAA value.

Done.

[seven]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Originally posted by Dragon_Dude1:

You're complaining about the price increase, this game isn't priced near a triple A game.

I stopped to read here... You don't understand that exists other countries and what Steam Suggestive Pricing mean. I'm gonna give you the short version:

Here on Brazil, the company is charging an AAA price game for this non-AAA game.
Here on Brazil, Grounded is too expensive for no purpose, it doesn't worth AAA value.

Done.

I think a lot of people don't understand how it works. It's not just a change in currency, it's like a different exchange rate for different studios. Lot's of game will be like 1 or 2 reals for every USD, but other games will be say 5 reals. So that's like buying a $40 game (like Grounded) but having to pay $200 because it's from obsidian.

[NEMESIS2K5]

Almost all early access prices are at a lower price. Early access does not always guarantee a final product though. That and you are paying for beta access. I've seen some games go under and the EULA states the early access expense (investment) cannot be refunded.

At $40 thought this game is wholly worth it in my opinion.