Really?oldtaku said:Spec Ops: The Line hit $33 today... sold!
Didn't you know that trolls have immunity to facts? It's true! Facts have no effect whatsoever on a troll.FelixG said:Feed the troll fire, or in this case Facts. It kills em!DVS BSTrD said:Valve, don't feed the troll.
oldtaku said:Spec Ops: The Line hit $33 today... sold!
I honestly lost faith in the steam community when Spec Ops hit like #5 of top sellers on the North American client. Amazon had it for $25 and no one bought it. People are head of heals for steam that they'll willingly pay more to buy it directly from them than save a handful of money.Ed130 said:Well another $33 to Valve and 2K!
The problem with this is that Valve/Steam isn't throwing up just games that have had their sale periods come and gone. When you throw up something like Max Payne 3 or any new game the question that no one has data on is whether or not people are realizing that hey X game is released near the steam winter/summer sale, if I wait like 2-3 weeks I will save at least 33-50%. That is a huge drop off in price for such a little time period. And I really think that does cheapen the product because it really just tells you that hey that product really wasn't worth the initial asking price if they are willing to knock off the price this fast.Orlake said:Most of these games have had their release periods, the good folks at Valve are just reviving them for an encore.
Amazon can be really finicky with downloads if you don't live in the US. An attempt to download a soundtrack turned into a series of loops that ended with a "sorry this service isn't avalible outside the US."Rednog said:oldtaku said:Spec Ops: The Line hit $33 today... sold!I honestly lost faith in the steam community when Spec Ops hit like #5 of top sellers on the North American client. Amazon had it for $25 and no one bought it. People are head of heals for steam that they'll willingly pay more to buy it directly from them than save a handful of money.Ed130 said:Well another $33 to Valve and 2K!
This plus Valve realise that if you do something nice fr your consumers every now and again, they will remember it and be more likely to want to buy from you in the future.dragongit said:In short.
EA likes money, and thinks thing should be expensive so they get all the money. If a game is 60 dollars it must be 60 dollars. There is no compromise.
Valve also likes money, but so do developers and publishers. They may get less off these games during sales, but a lot of them are old games that have not had many salse in a long time to begin with. Valve figures out if they put them on sale for a limited time, it encourages people to buy them if on impulse alone, not only generating revenu for Valve but for the developers of these games.
Bottom line, EA is greedy as sin, where is Valve likes to get paid as anyone else,but they figure the long term gain outweighs the short term.
Valve hasn't released this data previously as far as I know.Clearing the Eye said:Is this the third article on this site within a week or so containing more or less the exact same information?
Is Valve paying you guys to run stuff about them or something? We get, we get it; they're better than EA. Let's stop talking about this like it's current or relevant. You can only say the same thing so many times and the comments are always copy pastes of the previous ones.
Plenty of EA products in the summer sale. Even Crysis 2, which was the first game to be pulled from Steam to promote Origin (and returned last month) had a 75% discount sale. That couldn't have been done without EA's approval.s_h_a_d_o said:So, given EA's disinterest in cheapening their IP franchises (and, you know, selling product), I hope Valve saw fit to exclude any and all EA titles in the Summer Sale.
Type in a fake U.S. address. I am from the Netherlands, and they didn't even correlate my credit-card information with the address I've given them. Bought Spec Ops for a good price.Ed130 said:Amazon can be really finicky with downloads if you don't live in the US. An attempt to download a soundtrack turned into a series of loops that ended with a "sorry this service isn't avalible outside the US."Rednog said:oldtaku said:Spec Ops: The Line hit $33 today... sold!I honestly lost faith in the steam community when Spec Ops hit like #5 of top sellers on the North American client. Amazon had it for $25 and no one bought it. People are head of heals for steam that they'll willingly pay more to buy it directly from them than save a handful of money.Ed130 said:Well another $33 to Valve and 2K!
How does that make you lose faith in Steam's community? If anything, I think it is telling that people are more willing to pay extra cash and put up with Steam than save money, because the service works so well.Rednog said:oldtaku said:Spec Ops: The Line hit $33 today... sold!I honestly lost faith in the steam community when Spec Ops hit like #5 of top sellers on the North American client. Amazon had it for $25 and no one bought it. People are head of heals for steam that they'll willingly pay more to buy it directly from them than save a handful of money.Ed130 said:Well another $33 to Valve and 2K!
That's what I was thinking. It seems like every time I've come to this site for a while, there's been another news article or feature about Steam and the words said by EA. I've no idea how accurate they are--you know how "reliable" reports are when it comes to quotes.Hammeroj said:...But didn't they already come out against these stupid comments (made primarily by EA)?
Really?The Human Torch said:Type in a fake U.S. address. I am from the Netherlands, and they didn't even correlate my credit-card information with the address I've given them. Bought Spec Ops for a good price.Ed130 said:Amazon can be really finicky with downloads if you don't live in the US. An attempt to download a soundtrack turned into a series of loops that ended with a "sorry this service isn't avalible outside the US."Rednog said:oldtaku said:Spec Ops: The Line hit $33 today... sold!I honestly lost faith in the steam community when Spec Ops hit like #5 of top sellers on the North American client. Amazon had it for $25 and no one bought it. People are head of heals for steam that they'll willingly pay more to buy it directly from them than save a handful of money.Ed130 said:Well another $33 to Valve and 2K!