Ubisoft now charging PC gamers £45 for each of there latest PC games

DarrenM343 · 3 Jan 2015 at 07:42

I'm guessing they make enough from the lower priced sales elsewhere and enjoy the bonus of someone occasionally paying top whack, or there really are a lot of people who prefer to pay full price through the good Steam or UBI themselves.

tracertong · 3 Jan 2015 at 09:21

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Surfer · 3 Jan 2015 at 13:19

AWPC said:
With all the DLC most PC games come with across the board its more like £50-70 unless you wait for digital sales nowadays.

Compared to the std £44.99 price point in the early 1990s its still pretty cheap actually !

Standard price of pc games £44.99? I think most games were around £29.99 - £34.99 except a few pc games. (simulation games etc which were in the £40+ bracket but in those days it wasnt just a digital code..you got a lot of detail, instruction manual etc )

Cheapest price for me was the c64/speccy era £1.99 for loads of games and and the full price games were under a tenner...e.g. £8.95

Amiga games more expensive but i was a bit naughty with them which we wont go into

arknor · 3 Jan 2015 at 15:21

AWPC said:
With all the DLC most PC games come with across the board its more like £50-70 unless you wait for digital sales nowadays.

Compared to the std £44.99 price point in the early 1990s its still pretty cheap actually !

44.99 in the 90s lol what?

even on consoles it was far from standard, I think the only 45-50 games I bought was re2

I bought my first comp around 2000 and the standard price for games was £20-£30

you could get classic games for £10 (a few year old 9/10 - 10/10 games)

anyone remember how much GOTY boxed editions were back around then?

jkb · 3 Jan 2015 at 15:24

They can charge whatever they want, I won't be buying them.

arknor · 3 Jan 2015 at 15:31

jkb said:
They can charge whatever they want, I won't be buying them.

yea I was tempted to buy the crew for £20 but then there's the season pass to get the complete game for another £20 so just put me right off.

DLC sucks, I remember game expansions now they were worth paying for and came a long time after the games release not within days or as part of the games install...

So far I've avoided ubisoft games and don't even have an account with uplay, I think I've about given up on EA as well who are basically the same a ubisoft now (ie trying to push rrp prices to 44.99 and doing season pass rubbish)

Mark A · 3 Jan 2015 at 15:33

When I had a PS1 new released games were £50 from Game as I used to buy the Tomb Raider games on release day. After a while they would go into the Platinum range which were £20 each, which was a great system I thought.

What you have to factor in with consoles is that you can complete the game in a few days and then take it back to game to trade in, or sell it on ebay. I completed GTAV on PS£ and sold it for a profit a few days later! Or even just rent the game for like £5 or whatever.

With PC you're stuck with it, so £70 for the game and dlc is a joke really. Then they wonder why people pirate games.

spoffle · 3 Jan 2015 at 15:35

r3d zombie said:
was it not rumored that Steam take 30%?, would account for Ubisoft's inflated pricing.

30% at the top, larger publishers who turn over more will get a better price due to th volume.

That being said, a 70% is significantly more than they would get from traditional physically media sales.

tracertong said:
Jesus wept. Do you do that every time you see a typing error ? If so get a friggin life.

It's not an error, the OP thinks that's correct. On a similar note, why are you putting spaces before question marks?

arknor · 3 Jan 2015 at 15:40

Mark A said:
When I had a PS1 new released games were £50 from Game as I used to buy the Tomb Raider games on release day. After a while they would go into the Platinum range which were £20 each, which was a great system I thought.

What you have to factor in with consoles is that you can complete the game in a few days and then take it back to game to trade in, or sell it on ebay. I completed GTAV on PS£ and sold it for a profit a few days later! Or even just rent the game for like £5 or whatever.

With PC you're stuck with it, so £70 for the game and dlc is a joke really. Then they wonder why people pirate games.

yea you raise a good point there console games might be £50 but you can get a lot of that back so they aren't really more expensive than PC it's more like a rental almost.
a good reason why pc games should never rrp for around the same as console games like people will try to justify pc game price rises.

PC might have some piracy issues but I bet it's tiny compared to 2nd hand sales on the consoles which is just as good as piracy in lost income if not worse since a pirate likely wouldn't have bought the game anyway

V F · 3 Jan 2015 at 16:13

arknor said:
44.99 in the 90s lol what?

even on consoles it was far from standard, I think the only 45-50 games I bought was re2

I bought my first comp around 2000 and the standard price for games was £20-£30

you could get classic games for £10 (a few year old 9/10 - 10/10 games)

anyone remember how much GOTY boxed editions were back around then?

Quake 3: Team Arena when it was first released in 2000 was £26.99. Thick box. You know the days when you actually had to put your name down and deposit in the shop. Then many months later get a phone call that it was in and take a 30 minute drive to pick it up.

Most GOTY Editions I remember were about the same. £26 to £29.

MrMarvelous · 3 Jan 2015 at 16:23

They always used to be cheaper until now. PC gaming is getting bigger and mroe mainstream, developers want the same cut they get from the consoles. You have to do a bit more work now by shopping around or alternativley saving yourself some money and not buying Ubisoft games to avoid disappointment.

mmj_uk · 3 Jan 2015 at 16:29

Gamers should just buy consoles, PC gamers are second-class citizens and have been for a long time when it comes to multiplatform titles. The main plus for PC games was the cheaper prices but now that is being corrected you're better off with a console.

spoffle · 3 Jan 2015 at 16:33

MrMarvelous said:
They always used to be cheaper until now. PC gaming is getting bigger and mroe mainstream, developers want the same cut they get from the consoles. You have to do a bit more work now by shopping around or alternativley saving yourself some money and not buying Ubisoft games to avoid disappointment.

Nope, PC games have always had a larger cut than consoles on a per item basis due to licensing fees to the console manufacturers. It's also not about PC becoming more mainstream, it's just about greed.

pooley · 3 Jan 2015 at 16:35

mmj_uk said:
Gamers should just buy consoles, PC gamers are second-class citizens and have been for a long time when it comes to multiplatform titles. The main plus for PC games was the cheaper prices but now that is being corrected you're better off with a console.

We will never surrender!

MrMarvelous · 3 Jan 2015 at 16:51

spoffle said:
Nope, PC games have always had a larger cut than consoles on a per item basis due to licensing fees to the console manufacturers. It's also not about PC becoming more mainstream, it's just about greed.

Wow, didn't realise that. So what Ubisoft is doing here is potentially annoying the PC user base with broken releases and stupidly high prices.

AWPC · 3 Jan 2015 at 20:36

arknor said:
44.99 in the 90s lol what?

even on consoles it was far from standard, I think the only 45-50 games I bought was re2

I bought my first comp around 2000 and the standard price for games was £20-£30

you could get classic games for £10 (a few year old 9/10 - 10/10 games)

anyone remember how much GOTY boxed editions were back around then?

RE2 was late 1990s in early 1990s £44.99 was the std price point for many PC CD games or even some floppy versions:

Day of The Tentacle CD-Rom £44.99
Fate Of Atlantis CD-Rom £44.99
The 7th Guest £69.99
Star Wars Rebel Assault £49.99

After a few years PC games went down a little to £29.99-£39.99 in mid to late 1990's with inflation they cost a lot of money compared to recent games :eek:

you could also walk into the Virgin Megastore Tottenham Court Road on release weekend usually & pick up a new PC game up to £10 cheaper then it went back up to full price & perhaps 6 months later it started to drop in price so you could grab a bargain then or wait for the re-release around £10.

GOTY boxed editions usually included the mission packs & were around the same price it would take up to 2 years before they were sold cheaply though as the retail PC games market used to price protect & keep prices high for a long time as there was no competition in the high st & few companies offered cheaper prices online.

Back on topic saw ACU for £17-20 on G2A probably the cheapest it will be for a few months.

ZombieFan · 3 Jan 2015 at 23:09

AWPC said:
RE2 was late 1990s in early 1990s £44.99 was the std price point for many PC CD games or even some floppy versions:

Day of The Tentacle CD-Rom £44.99
Fate Of Atlantis CD-Rom £44.99
The 7th Guest £69.99
Star Wars Rebel Assault £49.99

After a few years PC games went down a little to £29.99-£39.99 in mid to late 1990's with inflation they cost a lot of money compared to recent games you could also walk into the Virgin Megastore Tottenham Court Road on release weekend usually & pick up a new PC game up to £10 cheaper then it went back up to full price & perhaps 6 months later it started to drop in price so you could grab a bargain then or wait for the re-release around £10.

GOTY boxed editions usually included the mission packs & were around the same price it would take up to 2 years before they were sold cheaply though as the retail PC games market used to price protect & keep prices high for a long time as there was no competition in the high st & few companies offered cheaper prices online.

Back on topic saw ACU for £17-20 on G2A probably the cheapest it will be for a few months.

Yep, this is spot on. Do a search for some PC magazine scans. In PC Zone Issue 1 (April 1993) most games are sold between £34.99 and £49.99. Dune 2 sold for £34.99, while Ultima Underworld 2 and Lemmings 2: The Tribes sold for £39.99.

These were day one prices. Most titles dropped to a £20-£30 range after they had been out for a year or two.

ShakeNBake · 3 Jan 2015 at 23:46

chaparral said:
Has anyone else noticed that Ubisoft are now charging £45 for all there latest releases.....

Far Cry 4 £44.99 http://store.steampowered.com/app/298110/?snr=1_4_4__tab-PopularNewReleases
The Crew £44.99 http://store.steampowered.com/app/241560/?snr=1_4_4__tab-PopularNewReleases
Assassin's Creed Unity £44.99 http://store.steampowered.com/app/289650/?snr=1_4_4__tab-PopularNewReleases

Am praying other game company's are not going to copy them..
I thought it was bad enough with Activision charging £40 for there COD games..

don't buy any games from Ubisoft / Activision if you are not happy with the price, problem solved ;D

I'm not touching any of those 3 games with a 10-foot barge pole personally.

Darujhistan · 4 Jan 2015 at 01:11

They won't be charging me £45, maybe £5.

Semiskimmed · 4 Jan 2015 at 02:13

Saw this during the steam sale. Saw a ubicrap game with 33% off and it was thd same price as regular releases.

As said, theyre not charging me £45 for one of their titles lol