Ubisoft game prices?

[Histfire]

Why do people tolerate the £49.99 price tag of their games? Digital delivery takes out shipping and distribution (lessens it a ton at least, compared to those still sworn to disc games). These prices are about as jaw dropping as Sony and Microsoft content delivery over their consoles.

It's an unspoken rule in game sales, but typically in physical format from a real world store games tend to have a good £10 knocked off straight away, to stay competitive with everyone else. RRP (recommended retail price) is usually £50... the game is then sold for £40. However, this is in regards to console games. Even in real stores, the sale price of PC games for a long time has been cheaper, so why is it that Ubisoft and their chums at Valve are selling their games at ludicrous prices? Pure greed.

Looks like I'll have to be buying my games elsewhere. As a PC gamer £50 is a complete and utter joke. I have the financial means to buy games, but I just won't buy it based on principle. If people support £50 games, then they'll increasingly become the norm on the PC platform. This is what happens when millions support DRM. Let us hope that game key sellers aren't blocked in the future.

[Darkhosis]

i looked at far cry 4, and it's $49.99 in US, but $45.32 equiv in UK, which is bizarre, since the Steam guidelines dictate that UK should pay the highest price for games, but ..

this is what games are supposed to look like:

$19.99 ($19.99) 0.00%
£14.99 ($22.65) 13.31%
19,99€ ($21.74) 8.75%
CDN$ 21.99 ($16.46) 17.66%
¥ 1,980 ($16.08) 19.56%
140,00 kr ($16.46) 17.66%
NZ$ 23.99 ($16.18) 19.06%
₩21,000.00 ($18.03) 9.8%
R$ 36,99 ($9.85) 50.73%
419 pуб. ($6.16) 69.18%

yen must be falling last week or so, seems japan is getting cheapest "global" games now instead of norway & new zealand. zut alors

[HLCinSC]

To be fair, you are not taking into account inflation or the rising costs of major games.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/04/24/video-games-should-be-more-expensive/

[Histfire]

Escrito originalmente por CharlestONE:

To be fair, you are not taking into account inflation or the rising costs of major games.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/04/24/video-games-should-be-more-expensive/

Well then the world over, people should be paid more to cover for inflation... oh wait, that doesn't happen.

Well if this pricing bull carries on, other websites are just going to sell it cheaper and undercut Valve. Their greed is shocking and will ultimately turn around and bite them in the ass. Screw inflation as well games went from £30-35 to £50 in the space of a few years.

[tmwfte]

Escrito originalmente por Mr. Crow:

Well if this pricing bull carries on, other websites are just going to sell it cheaper and undercut Valve. Their greed is shocking and will ultimately turn around and bite them in the ass. Screw inflation as well games went from £30-35 to £50 in the space of a few years.

Publishers set pricing. Publishers set their sales discounts. Here and on every other legitimate authorized reseller. The difference with digital download sales is that ultimately you're buying from the publisher, rather than from the middleman/distributor. Sure, you'll be buying it from Steam, Amazon, GMG, etc., but unlike a physical retailer they didn't buy the stock, they're just facilitating the sale (almost like consignment but not quite).

If you do a quick search of the boards, you'll see this very common issue brought up time and time again.

[ KARR™]

Escrito originalmente por Mr. Crow:

Well then the world over, people should be paid more to cover for inflation... oh wait, that doesn't happen.

Well if this pricing bull carries on, other websites are just going to sell it cheaper and undercut Valve. Their greed is shocking and will ultimately turn around and bite them in the ass. Screw inflation as well games went from £30-35 to £50 in the space of a few years.

Well people DO get paid more, this is why there are yearly pay rises. The UK has been suffering with a very poor economy over the past few years and some people may have had pay freezes, making the situation worse.

Games are cheaper now than they have ever been.

Back in 1986 Zelda for the NES cost £59.99. This is a game that fitted onto a tiny cartridge in the space of a few Megabytes. Taking inflation into account, in todays money, that is £162 for that game. But games don't cost that much, they are 3 times cheaper than they should be following inflation.

Secondly, games back then didn't need a lot of extra work put into them. You didn't need HD graphics, huge texture, voiceover artists, HD sound effects, orchestral work, etc. Adding these into the mix and games should technically cost - A LOT - more than they do!

(Also bandwidth isn't "free" and generally costs more than it does to mass replicate a few cd cases and dvd disks)