** DIABLO III - ONE WEEK AWAY - PRE ORDER NOW **

[HAz]

Pretty expensive compared to other shops.

was waiting for someone to say it.

 

[Bleek]

if blizzard sold it cheaper, who would buy it in shops? , same reason for most online stores

They have the monopoly on the digital download though, hence why I believe they've kept their price high.

 

[Quick Mustard]

I just wish you guys offered instant CD Key emails as I'd shop a lot more for games here!

 

[Disjunto]

They have the monopoly on the digital download though, hence why I believe they've kept their price high.

they're not stopping people from downloading it if they've purchased a boxed copy, every copy is a digital copy once attached to your bnet account.

 

[valkynaz]

They have the monopoly on the digital download though, hence why I believe they've kept their price high.

Basically forcing people into going digital and paying extra for less so that they can play it straight off the bat. I'm guessing people who really want to play it as soon as possible don't want to run the risk of going retail and it turning up mid-day on the 15th.

But then again you could just buy it from some retailer and ask them to open the box and send you the CD-key before it is shipped out, like QM wants.

 

[Bleek]

they're not stopping people from downloading it if they've purchased a boxed copy, every copy is a digital copy once attached to your bnet account.

They're the only people selling a digital copy of the serial, everywhere else is physical copy.

 

[Bleek]

Basically forcing people into going digital and paying extra for less so that they can play it straight off the bat.

Agreed, £45 is silly money.

 

[PsychoPigeon]

Guild Wars 2 doesn't have a monthly subscription though so it's understandable that they charge a higher price.

They have a cash shop, essentially you're paying for a what would be normal free-to-play game but buying the box too. It's awesome how they've manipulated people into defending labels so they can do this.

 

[valkynaz]

I hadn't known about the cash shop but it's surely changed my opinion on the matter now.

 

[dakaiez]

They have a cash shop, essentially you're paying for a what would be normal free-to-play game but buying the box too. It's awesome how they've manipulated people into defending labels so they can do this.

If the cash shop sold items that changed the game completely then that would be a problem, most if not all the things in the cash shop are purely aesthetics. It was the same in GW1 and was the 2nd biggest played game after WoW.

I don't see the problem, so many people are moaning about the cost. Yeah it is a little high, but then so was SWTOR at £40 at release with a £9+ a month sub cost.

 

[Narj]

Will this activate on Steam?

 

[dakaiez]

Nope. Battlenet games from what i can tell don't get put on steam at all.

 

[Narj]

Nope. Battlenet games from what i can tell don't get put on steam at all.

Bah. :/

 

[Tyron]

OCUK, you should offer a instant cdkey email for those who buy this, you'll find you get a lot of custom that way because some people don't want to wait for it.

+1

Cdkey sites are making a killing these days.

 

[platypus]

You should so be giving away a CE in a competition.

 

[platypus]

Will this activate on Steam?

No why would it? It is distributed and activated by Blizzards installer, from Battle.net.

 

[MrH]

Bit pricey for the game, but then again I did drop £45 for the digital copy.

 

[Frenzy]

If you get CE in I'll buy one of those...

 

[whiskycycle]

They have the monopoly on the digital download though, hence why I believe they've kept their price high.

Damn annoying that it won't even let you install until go-live either.... pre-load currently seems to mean "here's a copy of the installer, you'll run it when you say we can" rather than "here's the installer, get it done so you're hot to log on once we switch the servers on".

Ah well, let the killing commence next week.

 

[MrH]

Damn annoying that it won't even let you install until go-live either.... pre-load currently seems to mean "here's a copy of the installer, you'll run it when you say we can" rather than "here's the installer, get it done so you're hot to log on once we switch the servers on".

Ah well, let the killing commence next week.

You can install the game on the 14th, one day before the release date so you should be fine.