Tiger Woods 12 - £57.99 on PSN!!

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Wow, just looked through the PSN Store for the first time in a while & noticed TW - The Masters on sale for £57.99! :eek:

What's going on with their pricing?
 
There's a few on there at silly prices. Even some older games are £30 but you can pick the boxed version up for less than half of that.
 
msmalls74 said:
Ask EA they are the ones who set the price.
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Don't think I'll bother with that! ;)

My point still stands - the pricing is crazy whoever has set it, but more crazy would be the poor mug that pays it!! :eek:

Especially when you can pick it up for under £18 on a certain big online site...
 
Yeah we saw this last night and had a good laugh too.

I don't recall paying more than £40 for a game since I was 12 and the SNES launched, not about to start now either!
 
the prices seem a bit better on the Xbox. It would still always be cheaper to buy the boxed version. I'd like to see the next gen have a full download service but only if it was done properly. If they did it right, it would be really good and you would end up playing games that you wouldn't otherwise buy.
 
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Slogan said:
This will become about the normal price for a game when DLC truly gets a hold on the marketplace.
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I hope not & don't really think it will. I'd like to think people would refuse to pay such prices.

I think there would be an outcry.
 
deSade said:
I hope not & don't really think it will. I'd like to think people would refuse to pay such prices.

I think there would be an outcry.
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People will pay it if it means they get something better or unique, when compared to the basic version of the game. They price it £39.99 because they can get away with that as the norm, then they throw in some stuff they could have included with the game originally as DLC.

I don't necessarily hate DLC and I can see the benefits of it. However, dirty deeds like being unable to get 100% on a game without buying DLC content for it, is the greed beginning to creep in. And I can see that getting worse for gamers as they dream up new plots to fill their wallets.
 
deSade said:
I hope not & don't really think it will. I'd like to think people would refuse to pay such prices.

I think there would be an outcry.
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People are mainly rubbish at boycotting things, remember the Modern Warfare 2 thread in the PC Games subsection? There's was a huge following of people saying they were refusing to buy it after the dedicated servers debacle but come launch about 99% of those people had pre-installed it and were already playing it from day one.

Let's say for arguments sake that Call of Duty 10 or whatever is only going to be available via download and it's going to cost £59.99 I wouldn't be at all surprised if the vast majority of people simply paid it whether they liked that price or not. Of course that's quite a big statement and it's only really based on the threads I've seen on here, it's just my opinion.
 
I was looking through the ps store a couple of days ago, they do have some reasonably priced games on there which is a lot better than it was, however you can still find almost everything cheaper elsewhere. Then you spot the Tiger Woods and FIFA 12 prices and just lol.
 
I think it's a bit of an extreme example, but to think that you can buy 3 brand new, boxed copies of a game for less than you can download it in the store, then something is seriously wrong!
 
Could the the old sofa stores pricing ploy. Stick it up at a ridiculous price for a couple of weeks, then put a big 75% off sticker on it and sell boatloads.

Then again it's EA, so them taking the proverbial isn't entirely out of the question. One of these days they might pull their head out of their nether regions.
 
Bennie-Mac said:
I was looking through the ps store a couple of days ago, they do have some reasonably priced games on there which is a lot better than it was, however you can still find almost everything cheaper elsewhere. Then you spot the Tiger Woods and FIFA 12 prices and just lol.
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I was gonna buy Fifa 12 on there the other week cause it was late and I couldn't be bothered going to the nearest supermarket to pick up a copy. I thought sod it, I'll pay £39.99 for it just this once.

I did actually LOL when I saw the price. Mental!:D
 
I think it's more to do with EA being worried about high-street and online retailers pulling their titles if their DD prices are too competitive.
 
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