Pc games are gettting expensive!

And it's probably $60-$70 for the game in the U.S.

badger906 said:

thing is its not the game makers that set the product value, its the stores..

Game are the worst for profiteering in the uk! they are selling games like bf3 and cod mw3 for the pc for £42.99...

Not quite true, at least not for the direct download of games off of, say, Electronic Art's website. There's no re-seller, no distribution/packing, or material costs at all involved for those. Yet they (last I checked) charge the same as the ones on store shelves, with the material costs (disk, case, booklet etc), shipping cost and resellers cut. It's disgusting, IMO and this type of cutthroat business practice is what did kill the economy, and what is preventing its recovery (their excuse for not hiring and etc. these days is that people aren't spending any money... well, DUH! Companies do not understand that they have to GIVE IT TO GET IT (if they aren't employing Americans, how can they expect Americans to be able to spend money?! All I'm saying).



And sinbin, I know if they did go entirely digital jobs would be lost (but probably only from China... they certainly don't manufacture anything here at home in the US anymore. Having PC games go entirely or else majority of the time, digital download, wouldn't even affect Gamestop and other types of companies because as they've been complaining, PC games are being under-sold out to these damned Console Systems), but you know what... the sake of a few over in Communist China producing all of our stuff shouldn't drag down everyone else and equate to having a heck of a lot more of our money being sucked out of our wallets, because of these corporations using the minimal digital content manufacturing to a disk, booklet and cheap plastic case as an excuse to hike up prices by 50% or more (production on a single game probably costs them less than $7, with having a machine rip the game onto a disk or two, then a machine printing the booklet, and having either a machine or a person slap them into a plastic case and shove them into a box). If these gaming companies don't want to stick with a fair and honest price for these games in physical copies, then that's why I suggested they rely mostly on digital, for those who don't care about having a disk and frills. Then they have no excuse for charging $50-60, sometimes even $80 for games, as again, digital downloads cost these companies maybe $10 in bandwidth a month to host JUST that single game file on their server.

Then again, for those who still want a physical copy for one reason or another, then fine. Get the overpriced physical copy, and everyone else who's happy with downloading the same one for less without the manufacturer and reseller costs being gouged out, then that should also still be an option. By "entirely" I was really getting at "mostly", as I know there are hardcore gaming fanboys who like to display their games and that's fine. But the rest of us just want to play the game and not have to spend a week's worth of part-time, $8.50/hr pay on them to do it. That's just insane and I for one would like some of what these titan CEO's and Presidents have been smoking! They keep asking why we're not spending and they're struggling... well, that's why. Too high of prices, people have little to no money because they are all offshoring to other Nations, and we're sick and tired of being ripped off and are aware of it now, so aren't falling for it as readily as we normally would if we had jobs and money to blow (those days are long gone, I fear).

EvilOzzmess said:

badger906 said:

thing is its not the game makers that set the product value, its the stores..

Game are the worst for profiteering in the uk! they are selling games like bf3 and cod mw3 for the pc for £42.99...

Not quite true, at least not for the direct download of games off of, say, Electronic Art's website. There's no re-seller, no distribution/packing, or material costs at all involved for those. Yet they (last I checked) charge the same as the ones on store shelves, with the material costs (disk, case, booklet etc), shipping cost and resellers cut. It's disgusting, IMO and this type of cutthroat business practice is what did kill the economy, and what is preventing its recovery (their excuse for not hiring and etc. these days is that people aren't spending any money... well, DUH! Companies do not understand that they have to GIVE IT TO GET IT (if they aren't employing Americans, how can they expect Americans to be able to spend money?! All I'm saying).



And sinbin, I know if they did go entirely digital jobs would be lost (but probably only from China... they certainly don't manufacture anything here at home in the US anymore. Having PC games go entirely or else majority of the time, digital download, wouldn't even affect Gamestop and other types of companies because as they've been complaining, PC games are being under-sold out to these damned Console Systems), but you know what... the sake of a few over in Communist China producing all of our stuff shouldn't drag down everyone else and equate to having a heck of a lot more of our money being sucked out of our wallets, because of these corporations using the minimal digital content manufacturing to a disk, booklet and cheap plastic case as an excuse to hike up prices by 50% or more (production on a single game probably costs them less than $7, with having a machine rip the game onto a disk or two, then a machine printing the booklet, and having either a machine or a person slap them into a plastic case and shove them into a box). If these gaming companies don't want to stick with a fair and honest price for these games in physical copies, then that's why I suggested they rely mostly on digital, for those who don't care about having a disk and frills. Then they have no excuse for charging $50-60, sometimes even $80 for games, as again, digital downloads cost these companies maybe $10 in bandwidth a month to host JUST that single game file on their server.

Then again, for those who still want a physical copy for one reason or another, then fine. Get the overpriced physical copy, and everyone else who's happy with downloading the same one for less without the manufacturer and reseller costs being gouged out, then that should also still be an option. By "entirely" I was really getting at "mostly", as I know there are hardcore gaming fanboys who like to display their games and that's fine. But the rest of us just want to play the game and not have to spend a week's worth of part-time, $8.50/hr pay on them to do it. That's just insane and I for one would like some of what these titan CEO's and Presidents have been smoking! They keep asking why we're not spending and they're struggling... well, that's why. Too high of prices, people have little to no money because they are all offshoring to other Nations, and we're sick and tired of being ripped off and are aware of it now, so aren't falling for it as readily as we normally would if we had jobs and money to blow (those days are long gone, I fear).

I agree with you 100% on this. This is why I wait for the prices to hit $30 because I refuse to pay more for it than that, and if the company doesn't like it, tough diddly, they can kiss my white rear-end and live with it, because I have all the time in the world to wait for these games to drop in price (mainly because I don't work, or go to school).