I'm so excited about the spring sale

[Jackie Paper]

Only to probably be disappointed.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Make the mega thread tomorrow.

[ezwip]

These companies bumped their heads charging $69.99 for a new release. Bring on the sale!

[RPG Gamer Man]

Wait until the new GTA game comes out. It will be at 100 dollars then.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by ezwip:

These companies bumped their heads charging $69.99 for a new release. Bring on the sale!

Publishers have been charging us the local equivalent of 90+ USD for base games for years now. You know what that means? Even the discounted price is ridiculous. Thankfully, true competition still exists in the physical market. So now I game a lot on consoles where a game sold discounted on Steam at the equivalent of 70 USD only costs me between an equivalent of 20 USD to 40 USD -- brand new. Plus, games often drop to that or lower long before Steam even gets past the 20% discount phase.

Also if the game does exceptionally poorly, you can get amazing deals on it -- even poor games are worth playing when they cost less than a burger. I've paid as little as the equivalent of 3 to 5 USD for games sold on Steam at 90 USD (and discounted at best to 30 USD).

In other words, Steam sales cannot compete. Publisher's are pricing the platform out of consideration.

I used to buy over hundred games a year on Steam at one point. Now I buy less than 10.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by ezwip:

These companies bumped their heads charging $69.99 for a new release. Bring on the sale!

Publishers have been charging us the local equivalent of 90+ USD for base games for years now. You know what that means? Even the discounted price is ridiculous. Thankfully, true competition still exists in the physical market. So now I game a lot on consoles where a game sold discounted on Steam at the equivalent of 70 USD only costs me between an equivalent of 20 USD to 40 USD -- brand new. Plus, games often drop to that or lower long before Steam even gets past the 20% discount phase.

Also if the game does exceptionally poorly, you can get amazing deals on it -- even poor games are worth playing when they cost less than a burger. I've paid as little as the equivalent of 3 to 5 USD for games sold on Steam at 90 USD (and discounted at best to 30 USD).

In other words, Steam sales cannot compete. Publisher's are pricing the platform out of consideration.

I used to buy over hundred games a year on Steam at one point. Now I buy less than 10.

I actually don't buy very much anymore. I now buy anime's which are still super expensive, but cheaper than video games on dvd/bluray. If i win a bingo game at a church, then i use that extra money to buy a video game.

Also, once the new GTA game comes out, all games will go up to 100 dollars each, even for basic version. Companies are auto inflating the prices on their games on purpose. IT is also why Nvidia also sells a set amount of XXX GPU's. They create their own shortages on purpose. They even got caught doing it before in the past.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

I actually don't buy very much anymore. I now buy anime's which are still super expensive, but cheaper than video games on dvd/bluray.

I'm curious what you consider super expensive for anime.

It's a sad fact that if you live in Japan, it's cheaper to import anime than buy it locally -- which is why many DVDs/BDs use hardcoded subtitles -- it's supposed to make us think buying a series locally for over 600 / 700 USD is better than paying a fraction of that and seeing subtitles in English or whatever.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

I actually don't buy very much anymore. I now buy anime's which are still super expensive, but cheaper than video games on dvd/bluray.

I'm curious what you consider super expensive for anime.

It's a sad fact that if you live in Japan, it's cheaper to import anime than buy it locally -- which is why many DVDs/BDs use hardcoded subtitles -- it's supposed to make us think buying a series locally for over 600 / 700 USD is better than paying a fraction of that and seeing subtitles in English or whatever.

I consider anything over 50 us dollars expensive in the anime dvd/bluray. For example, Sword Art Online costs me 200 dollars. That was way too expensive, but i bought it like 5 years ago, so it probably went up in price since then. I only found it legally on one site. I did find bootleg copies, but i prefer to actually own legal versions of anime.

BTW, play asia is one of those sites that sells bootleg copies of DVD/ Bluray's i found. I found a devil is a part timer anime there and i clearly saw it was bootleg copy as it had custom menu's not from the actual version of the actual anime as i found a legal version of it and did a side by side comparision.

There is alot of bootleg crap now floating around for anime's too, and if your not careful, you will buy some crap that someone pretends that is legit. Kinda like the fake versions of pokemon games floating around too.