EA is quietly jackup their game prices!

[Chiefkage]

well done EA now i have to pay more than 10 usd for a decade old of your games. (: (:

https://gamerant.com/ea-games-steam-more-expensive/

[Myke]

Get em on origin or GOG then.

[Not BnW]

in ea we love
the call me profit

[Xautos]

northowlman eredeti hozzászólása:

Get em on origin or GOG then.

The Origin platform doesn't have a complete library of older games of theirs, GOG doesn't have anything on Mass Effect or The Sims 3 for example, so it's unlikely they have much in the way of EA products.

Looks like EA wants to try get greedy knowing some of these games from the past can be gotten on Steam and only on Steam.

[Myke]

Xautos eredeti hozzászólása:

northowlman eredeti hozzászólása:

Get em on origin or GOG then.

The Origin platform doesn't have a complete library of older games of theirs, GOG doesn't have anything on Mass Effect or The Sims 3 for example, so it's unlikely they have much in the way of EA products.

Looks like EA wants to try get greedy knowing some of these games from the past can be gotten on Steam and only on Steam.

Origin has a bunch of old games. Even the ones that ran on DOS. What's it missing that's only on steam?

[Chesmu]

They are EA; What do you expect?

[Drystoner]

In other news, water is wet.

[AustrAlien2010]

Maybe they have to ask more money for their games to keep that website up?
It's all marketing. As long as they can keep you (the gamer) talking and writing about it here, they reach that goal of making you advertise it for them for free.

It doesn't matter if what you say is negative or positive.
They want you to name their brand, tell others about it (brand awareness), and they are successful in making you do that, as exhibited here. You're doing exactly what they want you to do.

[Xautos]

northowlman eredeti hozzászólása:

Xautos eredeti hozzászólása:

The Origin platform doesn't have a complete library of older games of theirs, GOG doesn't have anything on Mass Effect or The Sims 3 for example, so it's unlikely they have much in the way of EA products.

Looks like EA wants to try get greedy knowing some of these games from the past can be gotten on Steam and only on Steam.

Origin has a bunch of old games. Even the ones that ran on DOS. What's it missing that's only on steam?

Oh? Well go look then and tell me they got every one of their older games as far back as the late 90's on their origin platform. i know for sure some games in some of their series are missing.

[Lupo89]

EA Hikes Up PC Game Prices, But Only On Steam

If i am not mistaken i have read long time ago that valve had some kind of policy that did not allow publishers to sell the same game cheaper in other platforms,, other than sale time periods or something like that.
Ether way this really sucks for customers, and I am here wondering who is protecting us from such practice.
https://kotaku.com/ea-hikes-up-pc-game-prices-but-only-on-steam-1841501022

[Start_Running]

Read the article carefully.

[J4MESOX4D]

Publishers can charge what they want. If people don't like it, they don't buy it. Valve takes a 30% for every copy sold so some publishers will take that into consideration with their pricing especially ones that have a home platform where they take the full 100% of income per transaction.

[Tito Shivan]

Start_Running eredeti hozzászólása:

Read the article carefully.

Did I understand it wrong or is EA just applying regional pricing on their games?

[Ogami]

Tito Shivan eredeti hozzászólása:

Start_Running eredeti hozzászólása:

Read the article carefully.

Did I understand it wrong or is EA just applying regional pricing on their games?

Nah, the games already had regional pricing. And the new prices are very inconsistent.
Some prices are now double what they were before, others cut to half, and both in the same region.
There does not seem much rhyme or reason to it.

Also ORIGIN has regional pricing too and these new Steam prices are ALL higher then what you would pay on ORIGIN.
Of course EA wants users to buy on their own platform but its still a bit shady.

[Snezhanno]

Здарова пацаны кто нибудь продаёт скины)?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Misread, my fault.
OP if they were price matching, then clearly you fail to read the blog...

They're not price matching, they're rising the prices.... As in They're Charging more on Steam than on Origin as it's cheaper for everyone for the full price tag on Origin ATM, hence not price matching.

Also publishers, and devs are free to change their prices of their games whenever they please, may it be on Steam, Gog, Epic, Origin, Uplay, Xbox, PSN, Nintendo, and etc ...