Personal computing discussed
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
Sargent Duck wrote:Steam is a business. Steam needs to make money. When they have their massive 75% off deals, they need to offset that by having higher prices regularly.
A lot of businesses due something similar to this.
Steam is a business. Steam needs to make money. When they have their massive 75% off deals, they need to offset that by having higher prices regularly.
paulWTAMU wrote:Cap'n, a 5 or 10 here and there adds up if you buy games regularly.
OK, if you're crabbing about 5 bucks, we're not talking to each other. A fin ceased being an important unit of wealth for me about 3 decades ago.
ShadowTiger wrote:I don't think that Steam has full control over prices. I think the publisher gets to decide when to have sales and price drops.
blitzy wrote:Oh hallelujah, it's not valves fault it's those rotten publishers! Thats a lovely little scapegoat and valve still get's to take their over-inflated cut. Publishers have absolutely no way to justify a 67% markup, 5-10% maybe, 67% is just saying 'we are going to gouge you and you're going to like it'. Please, are you next going to tell me that valve has no say over pricing in a digital distribution market they virtually control a monopoly over?
All people want is a fair price, the games can be had cheaper through retail in a lot of cases so you can't even entirely blame the publishers for the price gouging. There is a big difference in charging $65-70 'taking a cut' and outright gouging $99, when the cost in US is $59.99.
It's quite laughable really that people will apologise for this type of blatant gouging, if we were to replace valve with Apple would people still defend their pricing practices? Some probably would, but I don't imagine it would be the same people who defend valve.
blitzy wrote:All people want is a fair price, the games can be had cheaper through retail in a lot of cases so you can't even entirely blame the publishers for the price gouging. There is a big difference in charging $65-70 'taking a cut' and outright gouging $99, when the cost in US is $59.99.
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
blitzy wrote:Publishers have absolutely no way to justify a 67% markup, 5-10% maybe, 67% is just saying 'we are going to gouge you and you're going to like it'.
blitzy wrote:All people want is a fair price, the games can be had cheaper through retail in a lot of cases so you can't even entirely blame the publishers for the price gouging. There is a big difference in charging $65-70 'taking a cut' and outright gouging $99, when the cost in US is $59.99.