Doesn't anyone find L4D particularly expensive on Steam?

Mojo · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:43

On steam, the overall price is 58 dollars, which equals (at current exchange rate of 1.5) 41 quid!!!!!!!!

Based on the fact that ****** and **** and my high street retailer are selling it for 25 quid and less, is something amiss?

*edit* get rid of possible competitors

FrenchTart · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:45

You can get it for £20 from certain places apparently (I don't know where exactly though).

I paid for it when it was £33 on Steam and felt it was a tad bit expensive...but now I've played it I'm more than happy to have paid that amount

$58 = £38 according to google, but that's still a rather hefty amount

Lyon85 · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:47

This has been discussed. Steam purchase was only for us who had been waiting years and wanted a head start on the demo and final game, which at the time came to £31.

Coolasmoo · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:47

I got it for £22 from the big online retailer and its been posted today

neoboy · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:48

Well the river online place does it for just under £20.

Duouk2000 · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:51

Yes, the price is a joke. Fallout 3 is the same, CoD4 was like that for a long time as well.

Strife212 · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:53

CoD 4 was 70 dollars wasn't it? (For AGES, only recently changed) Why in gods name would anyone buy that.

Coolasmoo · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:54

They are crazy if they think most of us would pay that much for new releases compared to online retailers

Duouk2000 · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:55

Strife212 said:
CoD 4 was 70 dollars wasn't it? (For AGES, only recently changed) Why in gods name would anyone buy that.

Yeah, it was actually more expensive than the £35 most shops were trying to squeeze out of people.

VaderDSL · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:55

Strife212 said:
CoD 4 was 70 dollars wasn't it? (For AGES, only recently changed) Why in gods name would anyone buy that.

Because the publishers set the prices, combined with Tax and recent poor £ > $ means they are often incredibly expensive. I imagine people like EA etc. will never offer their games cheap through steam due to them using their own download service.

Coolasmoo · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:57

VaderDSL said:
Because the publishers set the prices, combined with Tax and recent poor £ > $ means they are often incredibly expensive. .

But COD 4 was mega expensive even when the pound was worth something back in Nov last year

VaderDSL · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:58

Coolasmoo said:
But COD 4 was mega expensive even when the pound was worth something back in Nov last year

Aye the publishers of COD4, Activision? set the price steam have to sell at I imagine.

Duouk2000 · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:02

EA and Activation were both cheeky sods with PC games last year, all of their new releases retailed for £5 more than they should have been.

Dist · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:07

Its only expensive on steam because they cant lower the price any more to be in line with UK shops. The game is $50 on steam, this is in line with other US shops, but is expensive when compared to our shops. If they were to lower the price on steam so it matches what our shops sell it at, then its basicaly selling it under price in the US.

Duouk2000 · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:09

Prices are region dependant and in some cases lower for US folk.

Delvis · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:12

Duouk2000 said:
Yes, the price is a joke. Fallout 3 is the same, CoD4 was like that for a long time as well.

Strife212 said:
CoD 4 was 70 dollars wasn't it? (For AGES, only recently changed) Why in gods name would anyone buy that.

It still is stupidly expensive!

If you look, it's actually MORE expensive than the new COD on Steam

dbmzk1 · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:13

Dist said:
Its only expensive on steam because they cant lower the price any more to be in line with UK shops. The game is $50 on steam, this is in line with other US shops, but is expensive when compared to our shops. If they were to lower the price on steam so it matches what our shops sell it at, then its basicaly selling it under price in the US.

It's a digital download service. It would be incredibly easy for them to offer us a cheaper price and in £ too. But Valve can do no wrong...

Delvis · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:14

dbmzk1 said:
It's a digital download service. It would be incredibly easy for them to offer us a cheaper price and in £ too. But Valve can do no wrong...

Nope.

Other than pricing games too high on steam

VaderDSL · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:14

dbmzk1 said:
It's a digital download service. It would be incredibly easy for them to offer us a cheaper price and in £ too. But Valve can do no wrong...

But Valve don't set the pricing? At least for games they don't publish, they sell it at whatever they are told to sell it at.

HangTime · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:16

Personally I think we are rather spoilt with PC gaming prices, I mean they don't actually cost any more than 10 years ago (arguably less if you shop around online). Over that time period prices in general must have gone up by at least a third so I don't really begrudge paying £30 for decent games.