blizzard games and CoD games barely seem to move in price
would love to pick starcraft 2 cheap but yea...PC game prices
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blizzard games and CoD games barely seem to move in price
would love to pick starcraft 2 cheap but yea...
(and no it dosn't include a copy of D3)blizzard games and CoD games barely seem to move in price
I'm still waiting for a cheap Starcraft 2. And if you pre order early you can still get games cheap, Amazon have their prices around £22/24 early on then around 3 or 4 months before release they shoot up. Which reminds me to pre order Aliens Colonial Marines while its still pretty cheap.
Nope, legit sites like quidco and topcashback. I think with quidco it's £5 a year out of your earnings and the rest you get and topcashback is everything you earn you get.
There is nothing illegal about them at all and you get cashback on most sites you shop through, just sign up and use affiliated linkes via the website to earn and use the site to check the cashback rates for certain items. It takes a couple of months once tracked before you receive it, which is the only drawback but it is free money back none the less.
only games i buy when first released is MMO's or FPS games (only for online play) anything else i will wait for prices to drop, though i did get BF3 for £23 on release, so no idea about all this price rise stuff, id say they have gotten a tad bit cheaper.
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The only obnoxious things that I have noticed recently are both the Diablo 3 and Guild Wars 2 digital editions are ridiculously priced.
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I usually wait them out these days, although I got Skyrim on release last year.
Playing Saints Row 2 picked up recently for £2.50 off steam
Playing Saints Row 2 picked up recently for £2.50 off steam
been buying games from about 1995 andd they where between £25 to £30 then and apart from a few rip off companys all games are still that price today when they come out as for then reason downloadable games are that price they have to be or they would be under cutting games shops which would in turn hurt the industry
Most PC Games were £24.99 on CD/DVD now we're looking at £39.99 with no media and no hard copy manual. Skyrim is still £34.99 on Steam and £33.98 at OCUK albeit available elsewhere at less.
I'm not seeing the same increase in console games so why the increase in PC games and at the same time locked into an on-line system. Inflation would affect both PC and console games wouldn't it?.
Andi.
The trouble I see with some recent games is the download only option, download prices seem to take a long time to drop. The 'supplier' has no material investment so no need to shift stock.
Andi.
Companies don't have infinite bandwidth it does cost money to host and distribute them and it certainly isnt pretty much free.
PC gaming is stupidly cheap of which a few examples are Anno 2070 for £12 or my pre-order of BF3 LE £17, King Arthur II £11, Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion £16. All of those games were either pre-release or purchased a week or two later, if people are paying £40 for games on release more fool them
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Steam sales FTW. £30 for BF3 is the most I've paid recently, £30 wasted tho
EVERYTHING costs more at the moment, that's just transport costs/inflation etc. Also, the PC is not as common as it was a few years back so it's no big surprise.
However, games do tend to crash in price relatively quickly. Unless you REALLLLLLY want a game (and it's not by Activision as they keep prices artificially high) then just wait a month.
However, games do tend to crash in price relatively quickly. Unless you REALLLLLLY want a game (and it's not by Activision as they keep prices artificially high) then just wait a month.
but hang on a minute guys, you all beleive the news
inflation is only at 3.4%
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442343
Beleive that you beleive anything.
inflation is only at 3.4%
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17442343
Beleive that you beleive anything.
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Steam sales ***. £30 for BF3 is the most I've paid recently, £30 wasted tho
Yep, I have spent far too much money on new releases, only to find them a fraction of the price a month or two later. I don't make this mistake anymore.
