Are we being priced out of new PC releases?

Are we being priced out of new PC releases?

  • Yes, I’m done with day-one AAA pricing

    Votes: 31 36.9%

  • I’ll still buy day one, but only for must-have games

    Votes: 17 20.2%

  • I mostly wait for sales now

    Votes: 52 61.9%

  • I’m moving to subscriptions services

    Votes: 6 7.1%

  • Other / depends

    Votes: 5 6.0%
  • Total voters
    84
Fulcrum29 said:
The booking . com was ruling was interesting. Though it isn't applicable to digital vs physical retail. Yes, sure, price alignment is a possibility, but that doesn't explain the pricing now applicable to games that aren't available on physical media.

Also, MS Gaming punted xCloud and consoles again... For them, the only really reason to support PC is due to Europe and Japan, so now they are promoting xCloud. Gaming companies have long tried to make cloud gaming the most attractive option. The DRAM situation is being exploited to promote alternate services.

In MS Gaming's case, sure, increase the prices to drive Game Pass adoption in territories. Not everyone is in that pool. Though you can count EA, and Ubi, among Game Pass, though they have way more decent discounts than MS Gaming.

Now exclusives are back on the menu, and it has garnered much support. I think it is crazy, but hey, MS wants to sell XBOX, Sony wants to sell PlayStation, and Nintendo sells Nintendo. The problem is that third-party exclusives are now being dangled...

What these people want the market to be, is crazy. Forced adoption is wrong, as is the ZAR pricing. My big problem is that digital media or content can be managed to PPP. This is why I question as to why SA is not being treated as an emerging market anymore? I am pretty sure that ZAR abuse is a problem that publishers, and distributors, don't know how to address. It is the same thing with coupons being pulled due to scammers.
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Who knows why anymore it is annoying
 
Fulcrum29 said:
There are outliers, but it isn't the norm. This is changing, our region is getting reviewed.



Even with a proper Steam sale, the ZAR pricing is still more expensive than USD pricing. This is the point nobody can grasp, it seems SA consumers are willing to pay more than the USD as long as there is a discount sticker attached. Weird.
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I can only comment on the games I follow and are interested.
New warhammer rogue trader dlc US price $17 but SA price $10.29/R168.
Gothic 1 remake USD price $49.99 but ZAR price $34.06/R556.
Nova Roma USD $29.99 but ZAR price $18.29/R299

Published either by themselves or small publishers using ppp.

Then the big publishers

Star Wars Zero company USD price $49.99 with Zar Price R799.95
Fable $70 and ZAR R1299
Blood of the dawn walker $70 and ZAR R1299

Above published by EA,Microsoft and bandai namco.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword $69.99 but ZAR $61.20/R999 so capcom slightly better then the other big publishers but not by much.
Tomb Raider legacy of atlantis $59.99 but ZAR $52.65/R860 so amazon same as capcom slightly better but great.

So from what I am seeing for me the big AAA publishers are screwing us over and the AA and indie publishers pricing is still fairly good.

Whether you are right and its an overall industry change only time will tell.
 
I'm a big Metro fan but **** Deep Silver, we have by far the highest delta between suggested price and actual price for any region on Steam for Metro 2039. This is just a joke, people in SA are just going to pirate the game at that price. It's not only them, it seems to be most of the AAA publishers but this is just the latest example.

This is for the deluxe edition because it doesn't show the suggested price on the main page for some reason:

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FM27 is going to be the first game in years that i will 0-day purchase; earlier if they allow pre-orders.
 
DYreX146 said:
I'm a big Metro fan but **** Deep Silver, we have by far the highest delta between suggested price and actual price for any region on Steam for Metro 2039. This is just a joke, people in SA are just going to pirate the game at that price. It's not only them, it seems to be most of the AAA publishers but this is just the latest example.

This is for the deluxe edition because it doesn't show the suggested price on the main page for some reason:

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Deluxe edition was like R700 on Epic store on the day preorders opened before they almost tripled it the next day.

Games cost too much in SA
 
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Yeah some reason steam seems to think we should be paying more
 
NR7 said:
Deluxe edition was like R700 on Epic store on the day preorders opened before they almost tripled it the next day.

Games cost too much in SA
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On the day they opened pre orders for Metro Exodus on Steam they made a mistake with the SA pricing and I managed to get the deluxe edition for R469, no such luck on Steam this time around. I didn't think to check Epic though damn, I would usually wait for a sale but I think even when it gets heavily discounted it will still be very expensive considering the base price.
 
Lupus said:
Yeah some reason steam seems to think we should be paying more
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It's actually not Steam dictating these prices but the publishers themselves, in fact the Steam recommended pricing is actually very reasonable if you look at my earlier post, but publishers choose to ignore these recommendations by doing a direct currency conversion - plus adding a whole lot extra on top for us for some reason.

Even if they converted the $100 base price directly to rand it would still be almost R300 cheaper.
 
Magnum said:
Got a "Out of memory " error last week. at this rate no one will be playing games anymore. They have massacred my babies
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Can I introduce you to retro games:

RETROBAT Official - Emulation station powered for Windows

RetroBat is a software distribution designed for emulation and to be the easiest way to enjoy your game collection on Windows.
www.retrobat.org www.retrobat.org

Loads of Gen1-Gen8 games can be played on lower end PC's
and there are loads of them. Currently have over 20K games on my media PC.

And for R1000 you can even make em portable:
www.aliexpress.com

BOYHOM R36H PRO/R36HPROMAX Retro Handheld Console Linux+ARKOS Open Source WIFI 4.2 Inch IPS 64GB Portable Game Player - AliExpress 44

Smarter Shopping, Better Living! Aliexpress.com
www.aliexpress.com www.aliexpress.com
 
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AlphaJohn said:
Can I introduce you to retro games:

RETROBAT Official - Emulation station powered for Windows

RetroBat is a software distribution designed for emulation and to be the easiest way to enjoy your game collection on Windows.
www.retrobat.org www.retrobat.org

Loads of Gen1-Gen8 games can be played on lower end PC's
and there are loads of them. Currently have over 20K games on my media PC.

And for R1000 you can even make em portable:
www.aliexpress.com

BOYHOM R36H PRO/R36HPROMAX Retro Handheld Console Linux+ARKOS Open Source WIFI 4.2 Inch IPS 64GB Portable Game Player - AliExpress 44

Smarter Shopping, Better Living! Aliexpress.com
www.aliexpress.com www.aliexpress.com
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If his complaint was that fuel is too expensive, would your solution have been to suggest a donkey?
 
I don't want to buy brand new AAA because it is such a high price then you have to hope it is a game and not a message board for some team's feelz or a rehash/remake/grab cash cause of nostalgia trap.
 
AstroTurf said:
I don't want to buy brand new AAA because it is such a high price then you have to hope it is a game and not a message board for some team's feelz or a rehash/remake/grab cash cause of nostalgia trap.
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Easy fix, don't buy AAA slop.

Buy R800 AA. It's better.
 
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