pc game prices

Not necessarily from EA. Just from the industry in general.

If you think about, EA are pushing Origin so much as they are competing with Steam who have had the PC wrapped up since the transfer from physical DVD to downloads. Its a big market for just 1 firm but, who have enough funds to better the steam service.

EA have such a huge catalogue that they can offer without any other party recieving benefit from EA's sale.

I'm not pro EA however.
 
MM-Seat said:
Not necessarily from EA. Just from the industry in general.

If you think about, EA are pushing Origin so much as they are competing with Steam who have had the PC wrapped up since the transfer from physical DVD to downloads. Its a big market for just 1 firm but, who have enough funds to better the steam service.

EA have such a huge catalogue that they can offer without any other party recieving benefit from EA's sale.

I'm not pro EA however.
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+1
competition is good for everyone
 
Crysis 3 - Hunter Edition (PC DVD) - Windows 7 / Vista / XP
Buy new: £39.99
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I bet EA see that Activision can get away with charging £40 for there COD games and are now going price there top games at the same price..
 
Such a ****ing joke, flat out refuse to ever pay more than £30 for a PC game (GW2 excluded due to the type of game etc. and on the flipside to GW2 i also have always refused to pay £30 + a monthly fee)

The masses need to stop rebuying the same **** activision are feeding them in the COD games for a start (£40 for what seems to be nothing but new maps and a 3-4 hour long story :/)
 
RedStarRiot said:
Finally see that Crysis 3 and Dead Space 3 are available on a certain rain forrest site but more expensive than the console versions and matching the Origin price. Hope EA cant force prices to match origins.
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you need to vastly improve your search skills and look to other places, even this here site has it cheaper for starters ;-

Crysis 3 Overclockers Price £29.99

Why buy games on release for top price anyway ? I can maybe understand AAA MMO's or the rare 'must have' FPS but most PC gamers are prudent enough to wait a month or two for the prices to practically halve.
 
I assumed the reason for console games being dearer than PC games was that Sony and Microsoft received a percentage of each games sold. That's why console games are £10 dearer than the PC. I could be totally wrong though:) but if true EA can not justify a hike in the prices of their games.
 
I am still suprised that Skyrim is being sold for £35 on steam, it came out months ago. All the modern warfare games seem expensive also (not that I play those).

I am quite happy paying £8 for something in a steam sale to a top end of £25 for something I really really want but wouldn't go beyond that.
 
I thought console game prices are higher because they have to pay commission to Sony, MS etc?

What is the justification for raising PC game prices by the same amount? :confused: I smell skullduggery and will simply not pay console commission-included prices for a PC game.
 
The-Plethora said:
I am still suprised that Skyrim is being sold for £35 on steam, it came out months ago. All the modern warfare games seem expensive also (not that I play those).

I am quite happy paying £8 for something in a steam sale to a top end of £25 for something I really really want but wouldn't go beyond that.
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It costs millions to develop one of these games, some games cost over $50m to make. And in fairness, Skyrim is worth it.
 
I'll just wait 1-2 weeks when the price drops by 50~% and buy then..

Console games being higher is OK because you can resell them. With PC games you can't..
 
PC games always drop drastically around 4 weeks post release, so I will just wait till then. The only thing you can do is vote with your wallet, if the games don't sell at this price then the publisher has no choice but to reduce the prices, really is that simple but the mugs will fork out the cash like they always do.
 
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