Battlefield 2042 is $60 right now. One of my friends on Steam plays Battlefield 2042 and I thought hey, that would be pretty cool to play with him. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that much because that game came out a long time ago and was extremely poorly received and like, I’m sure it would be really easy to buy that game or get it now since it’s been so long and again, very low reviews. The game is $60!! But when it goes on sale, it’s like 8$, so 80% off. Truly unbelievable. Why do they do this? Like, they’re basically trying to kill the game or something because no one in their right mind would pay $60 for this game, so 90% of the time when it’s not on sale, no one buys it or wants to try it out… Also, lots of old games that are “on sale” constantly for like $5 and the base price is 40-60$, so it makes it seem like SUCH a good deal, when in reality, the value has just depreciated…
They never seem to lower the base cost of anything, making it deceptive. Is it really 80% off of a $60 game if no one in their right f*cking mind would pay that much for it ever?
To get sorted to the top of the lists for biggest discount. To claim bigger losses in copyright infringement cases. And to increase the perceived immediacy to buy it to get a good deal to take advantage of impulse buying whereas if they have time to think about it they may not buy it at all. Plus rich people don’t care how much something costs, so you’ll get a few of them here and there buying it at full price.
So much this
You’re allowed to say fucking on the internet
Just a habit, on lots of subreddits now, you get AutoMod deleted or banned from their subreddit if you use curse words. This happened to me on PC gaming subreddit. I got hit with a Perma ban there 3 months ago and they wouldn’t tell me why I kept messaging them over and over again, told it was for excessive profanity. Apparently lots of my comments use the f word so that’s not acceptable.
Reddit turned into a fucking cesspool of circlejerking degenerates trying to act like they’re the holy guardians of the internet.
It’s a huge platform, but every day it dies off more.
I started to censor myself too on other platforms because sometimes they have warnings like “Are you sure you want to post this?” and I feel like they’re shadowbanning my comment.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure you’re getting put on a list. They probably have it designed that way, people who use offensive language often or certain words, add them to an internal list and restrict their interactions with the rest of the people heavily.
Well fortunately there’s none of that shit here!
The PC side of this is not all that bad, outside of EA and Ubisoft.
Meanwhile, Nintendo doesn’t even have sales. Games that launched with the switch are still $60-70.
Nintendo in my experience:
Physical: Get it right on release day (or in the first week after) in retail for about 40€, otherwise you will have to rely on rare good retail discounts to get it below 55€
Digital: Don’t you even dare to think about discounts
I don’t know how to feel about Nintendo pricing. On one hand, all of their games keep their value long after release, but that also means they are hard to get cheaply. I know when I sold my 8 3DS games a few years ago, I made about 230 eur which was pretty good for some used games. I dont play their games anymore but I’m not sure I’d even want to now since they never drop in price.
Yes, because the only people buying Nintendo Switch games are the ones who don’t care about the price in the first place. If you want to save money on switch games you just pirate them
I haven’t owned a Nintendo console for many years now because I kept waiting for the cost to go down (it never has).
Nintendo does have sales from time to time, they’re just rarely great discounts. If you have a switch and you wishlist games they will email you if your wishlisted game goes on sale.
Also Black Ops 2 is still $60 for the base game and $50 for the season pass. THIS IS A 12 YEAR OLD GAME.
I didn’t know it was distributed by Nintendo!
This has nothing to do with the gaming industry, specifically. This is a basic (very effective) marketing strategy. But typically federal regulations prohibit them from advertising something as “on sale” perpetually so it has to be advertised at retail price for x% of the time.
Do you know how feasible is lowering the price permanently?
You can put a new permanent low price. You just can’t market it as “on sale” or otherwise discounted.
Doing that bankrupted jc penny.
It’s an attempt at market segmentation. Those who really want to play will pay full price. Less ardent fans wait for a sale.
Did your friend make you want it enough to pay full price?
Did your friend make you want it enough to pay full price?
For $60, I would NEVER buy a game that has mostly negative reviews on steam hahaha
It’s an amazing game, actually 😂
It’s also regularly on sale for around $15-20. OP would do well to wait. They probably don’t even have to wait long.
double post :/
Look, you will have a sizable contingent of people shelling out an additional $20 to $80 just to play a game a few days early, with little to no other benefits. Their impatience is capitalized on.
Not sure where you’re seeing $60. PC Digital purchase through Gamestop is $40.
But this is a problem with digital stores vs. physical.
The physical disc on Xbox is as low as $5 at Gamestop:
https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/products/battlefield-2042---xbox-series-x/297328.htmlDigital is still $70.
The physical disc on Xbox is as low as $5 at Gamestop
Except one still needs to be extroted monthly by PS+ or Xbox Gold to play online.
Can you not get it from a key reseller? As long as your buying it above the minimum sale price it’s probably legit.
As well as OP’s problems getting dud keys, I would warn that key resellers often contribute to the pickpocketing industry.
Tourist gets lost in Indonesia, kid grabs his wallet. In the time between then and when the tourist calls their bank, the kid buys as many legitimate keys of Game XYZ as he can using the tourist’s credit card, and sells them to G2A.
The bank refunds the fraudulent transactions, but even if the key retailer (eg, Greenmangaming) reports the transactions to the game dev, the dev is often pressured to not revoke the keys since it just leads to poor press off later customers that believe themselves “legitimate” for spending money on the game.
Sites like isthereanydeal.com give more legitimate tracking info and avoid key-sharing sites; the copies sold were obtained directly from publishers. They can also give price history to give you an idea of whether the game will go on sale again soon.
Yeh, I dislike them, but in situations like this, would probably look at using one.
I avoid the ones where you buy from a user. (Can’t remember which ones I have used, don’t use them often)
I’ve used CD keys and G2A in the past and had keys failed to work because they had already been used. Lukewarm customer service on both. I don’t know if I would trust that
It might be due to Valve’s legal and business actions
Steam employee email:
“We wouldn’t be okay with selling games on Steam if they are available at better prices on other stores, even if they don’t use Steam keys.”
For some people, it’s worth $60. It’s really that simple.
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This will be true in the future, but you are absolutely incorrect today.
Uhhh what? Are we talking about the same things? Steam doesn’t do sales to individuals. If they put a game on sale for $8 it’s that price for everyone, unless I’m missing something?
