Next gen game prices... EA games for 75

[Cerveza mas fina]

 

 

 

[Flannel Boy]

Worst corporation twenty-two years running for a reason!

[brob]

been a while since I paid more than $20 for a game. I can usually wait em out. And the few I can't I'm fine spending hella dough on.

[archnemesis]

Hopefully Mirror's Edge 2 is a Kinect only game so I can continue to ignore EA.

[Human Snorenado]

Or, you know, those are just placeholder prices set by the retailer on the assumption that next gen games will see a price hike.

Plus, those are useless YUROPEEN prices.

[archie4208]

I'll just buy them during a Steam sa...

...ah shit.

[Rahxephon91]

Oh geez. Please no.

If it's EA, well I mean all I hope I want is Battlefield.

[Trent Dole]

Well there's very, very few retail games I'll jump on at for full price anyway. Have to be really fucking good or something that'll eat up a considerable amount of time and be an enjoyable time eater.

[chronovore]

Or, you know, those are just placeholder prices set by the retailer on the assumption that next gen games will see a price hike.

Plus, those are useless YUROPEEN prices.

I thought the only useless euro-peen we had around here was the yurOPeen who started this thread.

(sorry, Kosma, had to go for the dick joke!)

At US$75, and with the used market being gutted by DRM schemes, this generation is starting the marathon by shooting itself in the foot.

Is there a good "we are doomed" gif for the games industry?

[chronovore]

Ack, god damnit, I am seriously pissed off now.

With the DRM scheme, we could have seen prices drop to US$50 and rely on the larger number of sales, or even go for additional IAP in the form of DLC.

This is a nightmare. I feel like I might end up agreeing with Himumu's "classist" assessment of these moves! Someone hold me, or slap me.

[Diunx]

Someone has to pay for those always online servers or "cloud" like the cool kids call them.

[Flannel Boy]

Someone hold me, or slap me.

I'll do both. 

[Human Snorenado]

Ack, god damnit, I am seriously pissed off now.

With the DRM scheme, we could have seen prices drop to US$50 and rely on the larger number of sales, or even go for additional IAP in the form of DLC.

This is a nightmare. I feel like I might end up agreeing with Himumu's "classist" assessment of these moves! Someone hold me, or slap me.

There was never going to be a price drop.  NEVER.

[Great Rumbler]

messing up my PC game prices

Nah, PC games will still be $5 on Steam. 

[Mr. Gundam]

We're slowly creeping back to the expensive cartridge prices (ie. Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star IV, etc.).

Remember how CD-based games would help lower prices?

[Joe Molotov]

We're slowly creeping back to the expensive cartridge prices (ie. Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star IV, etc.).

Remember how CD-based games would help lower prices?

Remember how you could sell used games?

[Mr. Gundam]

We're slowly creeping back to the expensive cartridge prices (ie. Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star IV, etc.).

Remember how CD-based games would help lower prices?

Remember how you could sell used games?

Yep.

I buy used games from time to time, but I cannot remember the last time I sold a game.

[tiesto]

We're slowly creeping back to the expensive cartridge prices (ie. Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star IV, etc.).

Remember how CD-based games would help lower prices?

If only we were creeping back up to the quality of CT and PS4... then I wouldn't mind paying that kinda cash...

[Flannel Boy]

We're slowly creeping back to the expensive cartridge prices (ie. Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star IV, etc.).

Remember how CD-based games would help lower prices?

They're not using CDs anymore.  :lenowned

[cool breeze]

I wouldn't read much into these prices; the 360 and PS3 versions of these games are listed at 70 euros as well.

[DCharlieJP]

This is why I chuckle every time I hear the iTunes defence of this DRM stuff.  Man, if Xbone games were 99 cents or free, I would not bitch even one iota about their stupid DRM.

yup - no one is sitting around going "how can we get games into more customers at lower costs so we can go to a high volume/low cost model" everyone is going "fuck, slash each others throats for the people who are left and stop them from providing a cheap route out"

[Cerveza mas fina]

This whol biz is fucked, why instead of budgeting more realistically we get drm and price hikes. This can never work out well.

I remember right before the cd market was totally destroyed by mp3 cd's where going up and up in price. At some point you had cds for like 25/30 euro in think 

[mjemirzian]

It's kind of sad that EA's own Origin client has less DRM than their games on X1/PS4.

If I can go Offline Mode for weeks at a time (or indefinitely) on Origin, that's a way better deal than 24 hour DRM checks.

[Rufus]

Origin has competition to contend with but they also know how easy their platform would be to circumvent (as does Valve). All you have to do is exchange an executable and you're set. On PC they have to be relatively nice, or there would be no market for anything but MMOs, MOBAs and online shooters.

[mjemirzian]

You're right.

I just find it ironic that EA games with the least intrusive DRM can be found on EA's own online service.

[Rufus]

Yeah, Origin is definitely not the devil it's made out to be.

[Eel O'Brian]

for a while there i was getting much faster dl speeds on origin compared to steam

[radioheadrule83]

This would probably mean £60-65 in the UK ($93+ USD). If this bears out, I'm not buying anything new from them. I'll consider buying the likes of FIFA in the bargain bucket and maybe buy an online play license for games I care about.

This company seems to be doing everything possible to lose ground to Activision and maybe even the likes of Ubisoft / 2K.

Those prices are horrible all over anyway, not just EAs stuff... what's the source?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Amazon France

[cool breeze]

Dead Rising 3 is listed at $60

next gen only game

[nudemacusers]

please convert to freedom dollars

[Powerslave]

IIRC the only game I ever bought at launch/full price was GTA San Andreas.

[Snuflupagulus]

please convert to freedom dollars

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

[cool breeze]

Next gen games are definitely still $59.99.  No increase (in America, at least).

[chronovore]

This is why I chuckle every time I hear the iTunes defence of this DRM stuff.  Man, if Xbone games were 99 cents or free, I would not bitch even one iota about their stupid DRM.

Yeah, but the 99¢ model is also not really sustainable either. And I'm seriously hoping all the games I'll get to play in the next decade won't be IAP-driven, social-network-groping TownVilleFarmMatchThrees.

[chronovore]

Which leads me back to the US$40 + IAP argument, but then I look at the (deserved) backlash against Square for that $5+IAP-driven Final Fantasy they just launched, and realize I'm probably wrong about that, too.

[chronovore]

Wait, wait... you're saying INTERNET BACKLASH doesn't necessarily correlate to an adverse affect on SALES?

 

[Smooth Groove]

more like Neo Geo gen