How much did you pay for Batman: Arkham Asylum

chaparral · 18 Sep 2009 at 21:10

How much did you guys payed for your copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum ???

My local game retail store had it forsale at £35 :eek:

But can't seem to find it forsale cheaper then £24.99 online

LeJosh · 18 Sep 2009 at 21:13

That's the going rate I've seen it everywhere. I'm going to wait.

Richy1204 · 18 Sep 2009 at 21:31

As its new £24.99 from shops online

Wait a few weeks it will drop

chaparral · 18 Sep 2009 at 21:58

Though i remember some people on here say they bought it for £17.99 :confused:

Daniee · 18 Sep 2009 at 23:21

I got it for £24.99, but they have sent it me twice!

Kenai · 18 Sep 2009 at 23:23

chaparral said:
Though i remember some people on here say they bought it for £17.99

There are several popular retailers who will do £35 RRP games for £17.99 on pre order - it's pretty much standard practice now.

Then up to £25 on release.

It's to encourage pre ordering.

Morgoth · 18 Sep 2009 at 23:39

£16.50 less quidco.

Teknobry · 19 Sep 2009 at 00:40

http://www.g2play.net/store/Batman-Arkham-Asylum-CD-Key.html

£11.47.

***************** Or if you know someone with the disk use that.

Such talk on these forums is not allowed.

Quixote · 19 Sep 2009 at 01:09

This isn't a boast, i'm not particularly well off at all but £24.99 is very cheap for a massive budget brand new game with a really well - tuned PC conversion ?
It's only just a bit more than half the price of the XBox 360 and PS3 versions despite being better. I mean, if it was a shoddy by numbers port, i'd like to pay less but some people are just getting greedy. You have any idea how much it costs to make these games ?
I love all the steam weekend deals, retro/ indie games and random bargains, in fact they make up the majority of my game purchases but this sort of price is right in line for blockbuster PC new releases, historically.

AbsenceJam · 19 Sep 2009 at 01:23

Quixote said:
This isn't a boast, i'm not particularly well off at all but £24.99 is very cheap for a massive budget brand new game with a really well - tuned PC conversion ?
It's only just a bit more than half the price of the XBox 360 and PS3 versions despite being better. I mean, if it was a shoddy by numbers port, i'd like to pay less but some people are just getting greedy. You have any idea how much it costs to make these games ?
I love all the steam weekend deals, retro/ indie games and random bargains, in fact they make up the majority of my game purchases but this sort of price is right in line for blockbuster PC new releases, historically.

If you pay more it doesn't make the publisher or developer any extra money, just the retailer........

Quixote · 19 Sep 2009 at 01:33

AbsenceJam said:
If you pay more it doesn't make the publisher or developer any extra money, just the retailer........

That might be true, although I'd be surprised if the average purchase price didn't feed back in any way at all. My point was simply that a £25 price for a new release blockbuster game is neither unreasonable in comparison with other games and platforms or historically unusual for that type of release on the PC platform.

Gimpymoo · 19 Sep 2009 at 02:37

£30 from STEAM.

MrMagoo · 19 Sep 2009 at 03:04

Free special offer code

(had the code sitting here for almost 2 weeks so as soon as I could download/install it on the 18th I did

) - Very good so far :!

FlukeRogi · 19 Sep 2009 at 05:48

Quixote said:
...i'd like to pay less but some people are just getting greedy.

What would you rather happen - have those people go and download a torrent, or actually pay some money for a legit copy? If they were genuinely greedy, they wouldn't be paying anything at all.

CookieRocks · 19 Sep 2009 at 11:57

Nothing, code came with my GTX275

Skaface · 19 Sep 2009 at 13:02

Going to wait until closer to Christmas and nudge the missus into getting me it if it's cheap enough. My only other hope is a sale on Steam.

I don't think I've paid more than 20 quid for a game in years.