today while surfing around on a couple of online gaming sites i noticed the absurd price tag on Dragon age at d2d, 65 dollars, and since i live in Denmark i would have to add another 20% in taxes to that, good thing i already bought it off steam for the cheap price of 50 euros (taxes included) right?.
no!, while feeling slightly superior to d2d, i told a friend of mine about the absurd price at d2d and how lovely and wonderful steam is, after once again making fun of me for paying for games he then send me a link to a danish online game shop where i could buy dragon age for 42 euros, and that was a boxed version of the game, whit a cd and manual and everything, one of those i have long since stopped buying because they usually costs 10+ more euros than a digital copy.
at first i thought it was just this one game, but then i took a look around on the other games i had recently purchased and noticed that every single one was 8-10 euros cheaper, and there was free shipping and they sent pre-purchased games out the day before release date so that i would have it on the very day it got released.
my idealistic view on the world started falling apart, i always thought that since there where no expenses such as shipping from America to the small and deserted Scandinavia, cds, manuals, nice little boxes and all that, that the virtual copy of a game would be that much cheaper, sure i wouldn't get to feel the child like glee of holding the little box, but that was a small prize to pay if i got a better euros pr game hour ratio, but all that was apparently my imagination, i doubt that this really is a "shocking truth" for the rest of you, but for me it was.
today i learned that steam are justs as greedy and evil as the rest of the world and that i have been paying 20% more for my games for the last year or so than i needed to (100% according to my friend, but he will burn in videogame hell).
no!, while feeling slightly superior to d2d, i told a friend of mine about the absurd price at d2d and how lovely and wonderful steam is, after once again making fun of me for paying for games he then send me a link to a danish online game shop where i could buy dragon age for 42 euros, and that was a boxed version of the game, whit a cd and manual and everything, one of those i have long since stopped buying because they usually costs 10+ more euros than a digital copy.
at first i thought it was just this one game, but then i took a look around on the other games i had recently purchased and noticed that every single one was 8-10 euros cheaper, and there was free shipping and they sent pre-purchased games out the day before release date so that i would have it on the very day it got released.
my idealistic view on the world started falling apart, i always thought that since there where no expenses such as shipping from America to the small and deserted Scandinavia, cds, manuals, nice little boxes and all that, that the virtual copy of a game would be that much cheaper, sure i wouldn't get to feel the child like glee of holding the little box, but that was a small prize to pay if i got a better euros pr game hour ratio, but all that was apparently my imagination, i doubt that this really is a "shocking truth" for the rest of you, but for me it was.
today i learned that steam are justs as greedy and evil as the rest of the world and that i have been paying 20% more for my games for the last year or so than i needed to (100% according to my friend, but he will burn in videogame hell).
