Latest game pre-order pricing.

What with a million sites to get games from surely I am not the only one that searches for the best price. Eve if you are amazingly lazy just stick the game name into Google followed by pc hit shopping you'll save from that instantly. I only use origin when I'm buying from Mexico or Brazil ;)
 
I'd imagine it's because it's win-win for the seller.

If people pre-order at £50, they get an "extra" £20, if not, when they drop the price to £30 after release, everyone goes "ooh, bargain!" and rushes out to buy it. :p
 
Pretty much all pre-orders are £20-£25 at one stage. Just need to shop about, most people got Dark Souls 2 for £17 before it was out. Just need to know where to look.
 
Take it to the extreme and you could just play games 3 or 4 years after they released. The graphics card to run the game will cost fifty quid secondhand maybe and the game will be a fiver.
Meanwhile add it to your mortage payment for compounded inverse interest, boring but it'd work and Im still fine with gta4 style graphics personally or at least Im not gigantically impressed that often with modern graphics/gameplay

modern pricing is a bit weird sometimes, but i have yet to pay more than £30 for a game, flatly refuse to
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25 quid new was the set price back in the 90's as I remember. Adjusted for inflation, that'd make +50 quid your walk-in price. Generally I think everythings cheaper now
 
I miss the £24.99 days.

But since most people who play on PC aren't morons...or at least i like to think so, people generally don't pay stupid amounts willingly.
 
Don't preorder, simples.

Even the new Wolfenstein which was well received on release dropped to £18 in the steam sale like a month after it came out anyway.
 
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