Jimquisition: Don't Charge Retail Prices For Digital Games

[Sewa_Yunga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IxBjzCXAyo&feature=g-all-u
Diablo 3 amazon 35 pounds shipping included and next day delivery
Diablo 3 cd key without packaging 45 pounds
Australia $100

Origin battlefield 3 $80
CDKEYHOUSE $20 but also online cd keys so wth

Buy any AAA game at all in Australia close to release $100
Anywhere else at all $30-40 less almost guaranteed

Steam Max Payne 3 $90
Amazon $60

This is retarded yo, I thought they wanted more people to buy online

You wanna see something retarded?

Diablo III digital download at battle.net: ?59,99
now here it comes
Diablo III key at a site selling game keys: ?69,99

yep. You're paying them extra money for some extra inconvenience.
I wonder if someone actually fell for that

Edit: I should add that retail prices are set from ?44 to ?49 (or rather were set, as it's sold out everywhere)

 

[Tradjus]

The reason they're not leaping to take advantage of monopolizing the market is twofold. First of all, it'd be illegal for them to own all the distribution channels for a product that they produce. Secondly, even if it wasn't, distribution channels already exist that it's easier too just continue to use rather than setting up and maintaining, at their own expense, new ones. Thus, they must keep the maintainers of the old channels of distribution happy by maintaining price equality between digital and physical retailing, or even skewing the pricing in the favor of physical retailers.