It’s beyond insane to me that a $70 “AAAA” game (kidding, it’s AAA) dips down to the absurd price of $5. I’ve never seen anything like it. Wish the entire Sims 4 “collection” if you can call it that was $5 total, would be incredible, or Starfield.
Because it’s badly reviewed and sales have dried up…?
Also because it is loaded with microtransactions, so they can make that back and more if they get you hooked.
Because recent AAA games are so trash noadays and also the main thing is that the price of the game isn’t their main source of income anymore.
Sell game cheap get em hooked on spending more money in game on used condom hats or whatever garbage they sell in their games
These are old games
The price regularly seen is just there to make them seem that they have more value than they actually do
They’re showing their true value.
Instead of lowering their prices over time and so sales are less significant of a percentage, they keep the original price indefinitely and just have lots of sales. This makes the percentage off much higher than if they had depreciated the regular price as it should. Pretty common these days.
This also pleases the Steam Store algorithm god. A big spike will bump the game up in the charts, then the algo will serve it to more people in the store and more people will buy it. The more sales momentum a game has the more the algo will show it in the recommended sections.
Luckily I started to only buy games after comparing on isthereanydeal.
This shit winds me up so much. It used to be that a game would be full price for 6-12 months before moving onto a budget label at a vastly rexuced price.
Nowadays games are full price forever, except for the few days a year when they go on “sale” and get reduced to what they should’ve been all along. During which time the publishers get to act like they’re being altruistic and doing us a massive favour.
The slow burn lowering prices over time also maintains a bit of long term income for a maintenance team to patch and improve the game. This game is 2 years old and is getting slammed down to $5, that says to me they’re just trying to cash out on whoever is left that wants to buy it but hasn’t, and then I’d bet this game never sees an update ever again afterward.
There are people willing to pay $80 for your game, $60, $40, $20, $10, and $5. You might be able get someone willing to pay $10 to pay $15 with good marketing, but you will never get them to pay $60. So when you’ve gone through most people willing to pay $60 and $40, you might as well go through the rest of the market. It doesn’t cost you that much more than you’re already spending on servers, so why not make that extra money.
I pirated the game and it included all the DLC. Then I played it for a few hours and was glad I didn’t spend 5 dollars on it.
$70 price is for people who are really impatient and then sales are to capture price sensitive people over time. Not unusual. It’s why I wasn’t bothered by the $70 retail price, since I knew I’d never have to pay it. It’s just a tax on the impatient.
Bro, it’s the Autumn Steam sale…it says so in giant letters on top of the steam store page.
but 80% is a lot more than the usual 10-20%
These sales always have crazy deals like this. It’s nothing new. Some are better than others.
Yeah, but the 10-20% sales are for good games.
EA Game 🤮
Also, some Steam sales are amazing. 90% off, is great, but not that rare.
Unbound was basically dead on arrival, its practically just heat with re-shade and barely any actual new content.
With the same shitty unoptimization I might add. These games were horribly optimized for what they are. My 8750 and 1060 should not be struggling with this game at 1080p
It’s funny I was going to buy it until I saw EA account required and Denuvo.
Is there a way to exclude specific anticheat like denuvo from ever showing up in the store? Would love to add tags to perm exclusion list or something
There’s a couple of curators that “review” DRM in games. It’s not perfect but it helps.
@[email protected] This is the curator I use
Thank you!!!
Not that i’m aware of, you really just have to read the store page before buying a “game” (license).
Because it’s not just about money, that’s why you hear about the number of copies sold more than gross revenue, it represents number of interested people that can buy another product at X dollars. Every now and then exec put up big sales, pump the numbers up before the big reports.
That’s also why Nintendo games neeever go on sale.
It’s called idiot tax. (hint: not the discounted price)
