The Shrine

I know some of us mentioned the other week that Steam dropped the price of L4D by 50% (to $25) for a weekend, well apparently it was an experiment by Valve about the price of games.

Well... that weekend resulted in a 3000% spike in sales, beating the launch week of the game.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57308

I'm sure Zeus will love news like this But it's no secret that games are a bit on the expensive side.

When I had my store, I discovered that $30 ($20 USD) was the "sweet spot" for game pricing just like the $200 USD ($250 Cdn) is for hardware. I musta sold over 20 copies of Breath of Fire 3 when it dropped to that price.

I've been arguing for years that companies need to look at the market for the games they're releasing when preparing a budget and understand that you can't charge $50 USD ($60 Cdn) for everything. Some companies get it but most don't.

apparently the big heads over at microsoft listened to Mr.Steam. DEAL OF THE WEEK IS BACK! YAHOO!!!

I guess this means I can get braid now. All hey have to do is lower bionic commando and I'll be a happy man who is still indecisive about noby noby boy.

bovine wrote:apparently the big heads over at microsoft listened to Mr.Steam. DEAL OF THE WEEK IS BACK! YAHOO!!!

I guess this means I can get braid now. All hey have to do is lower bionic commando and I'll be a happy man who is still indecisive about noby noby boy.

Too bad I can't get Braid at that price....

EDIT: Noby Noby Boy is only $5? Wow, very nice. I'd get that in a heartbeat....if I had a PS3.

At least I'll finally be able to play Braid without getting goosed. I'm being forced into piracy by the 'Shaft

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6204953.ht ... p;story;10

Zeus wrote:
At least I'll finally be able to play Braid without getting goosed. I'm being forced into piracy by the 'Shaft

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6204953.ht ... p;story;10

Microsoft is forcing you to pirate the game by making it available on PC? How so? This is also through Impulse, which while a good alternative to Steam, isn't easily pirated. Just like Steam it checks before letting you launch it.

Tessian wrote:

Zeus wrote:
At least I'll finally be able to play Braid without getting goosed. I'm being forced into piracy by the 'Shaft

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6204953.ht ... p;story;10

Microsoft is forcing you to pirate the game by making it available on PC? How so? This is also through Impulse, which while a good alternative to Steam, isn't easily pirated. Just like Steam it checks before letting you launch it.

By charging the premium. Since I can't download the $10 version this week (I ain't Gold), I'll just grab the downloadable version once it's available

Zeus wrote:

Tessian wrote:

Zeus wrote:
At least I'll finally be able to play Braid without getting goosed. I'm being forced into piracy by the 'Shaft

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6204953.ht ... p;story;10

Microsoft is forcing you to pirate the game by making it available on PC? How so? This is also through Impulse, which while a good alternative to Steam, isn't easily pirated. Just like Steam it checks before letting you launch it.

By charging the premium. Since I can't download the $10 version this week (I ain't Gold), I'll just grab the downloadable version once it's available

so be a little less cheap than usual and use one of your 20 million 48 hour cards to buy it and play some gears or some shit with poeple for a couple days.

Chris wrote:

Zeus wrote:

Tessian wrote: Microsoft is forcing you to pirate the game by making it available on PC? How so? This is also through Impulse, which while a good alternative to Steam, isn't easily pirated. Just like Steam it checks before letting you launch it.

By charging the premium. Since I can't download the $10 version this week (I ain't Gold), I'll just grab the downloadable version once it's available

so be a little less cheap than usual and use one of your 20 million 48 hour cards to buy it and play some gears or some shit with poeple for a couple days.

The 48 hour cards aren't Gold memberships, they just allow you to play online

But my 1-month ones for GTA4 are Gold memberships, I forgot about that. Well, if we get a game going this weekend, I'll buy Braid as well. Thanks for the reminder.