Comments on: Opinion: Fixing the prices of Games On Demand

By: name

name — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:42:04 +0000

i realised that yesterday, i went into EB to buy the new wolfenstien game and put my pre order for the ps3 slim down when i saw mas effect in the sales bin for 30 AUD.
30 AUD V 90 AUD (i think haven’t checked for a while)
30 AUD or 90 AUD which one would you choose?
no wonder M$ got sued so many times in europe for monopolizing the market.
i dont understand how they can get away with this, i thought price gouging was illegal.
whats stopping them from charging so much for everything else, besides customers wont buy it……….. or will they, wifi and HDDs seem to be selling well.
thats why i hate M$.
there a complete total rip off.
and they have no freaking idea how to support there systems.
windows vista is a PERFECT example, the company i work for has over 10000 computers, june this year we bought 6000 new comps and ALL with XP instead of vista because all the programs we need to use wont work with vista.
great organization M$ release a OS and have 90% of PC software incompatible with it fu***ng brilliant!

By: ME!

ME! — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:46:39 +0000

Brilliant article. 100% correct. Well written. Well done.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:53:49 +0000

It seems like the game industry is afraid of reactions of the retailers. The market is not ready yet to go full digital and the game industry still depends on the retailers.
They are preparing the move to games on demand, but they can’t put lower prices on digital downloads than on retail prices due to the contracts with the retailers which are in place…
Eventually things will start to shift, it’s just a matter of time when retailers will only be selling the hardware.

It’s not a matter of greed, it’s political…

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:43:18 +0000

^ That was my comment. Forgot the name, and the placement is awkward..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:42:09 +0000

Good point, Anonymous.

Also, it seems legit that Activision raised their price in the UK, at least from what I read in the linked article. I wonder why the author of this article linked an apparently justified article in an attack of a sensible business practice. Sure, Activision could afford to keep the price the same; they’re going to sell boatloads of copies of that game. It’s still not a charity. It’s a business.

What Microsoft is doing is trying to sell these games at an inflated price for the convenience. To a lot of people, apparently, it is worth it. For those of us who are more thrifty, it’s not a cool move. We’d love to be able to play these games without having to go out and buy a used copy, or get up off our lazy asses and throw the disc in, but hey- at least we do have other options.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:31:14 +0000

Why would gamestop do that? Getting advertisements on xbox marketplace wouldn’t make up for the loss they would take for selling fewer used titles. Which is where they make the majority of their money.

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:10:35 +0000

12.99 for a used cod2 at gamestop? That doesn’t even factor in what it would be on ebay. 2.99 please.

Their pricing is ridiculous and i won’t even consider making a purchase, until they lower their shit.

By: the people.

the people. — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:07:05 +0000

M$ are a greedy bunch of cunts. They are in the console business to make money. They want your money and they will do anything to get it. They will rip you off, lie to you, cheat you, steal from you, con you, deceive you, blackmail you and finally murder you to get your money. (all these have been done by the company to get your money. It is true. Just search the web for the answers).

By: Smoke

Smoke — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:43:55 +0000

Agreed, i doubt they will ever do this though.Like everyone said if people keep buying them why would they stop? Thirty dollars for Call of Duty 2 is F**** crazy but if you look at the most downloaded titles it was #6 last week,i couldnt believe how many people are buying that game for that price.

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By: Nick Simberg

Nick Simberg — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:08:34 +0000

@ squirrel tacos:

A RROD won’t scrub your hard drive, you’ll just have to wait a month for your 360 to get back and pop your old hard drive with all your saves/data/games/etc. into the new one. Of course, if you’re not on Xbox Live at all times, you’ll have to transfer over your licenses using your computer in a still incredibly tedious process if you ever intend to play the games while not signed into Xbox Live.

It’s a nice idea to let us download full games (especially if bigger hard drives ever become cheaper, Microsoft!), but, at these prices, it’s just not justifiable. I hope they don’t sell a single copy.

Unfortunately, Microsoft may just use it as a new opportunity for Gold Member’s Deals of the Week… they’ll cut the prices on these overpriced games, guaranteeing some sales, and neglect some XBLA gems and DLC that didn’t get as much attention as they deserved.

By: squirrel tacos

squirrel tacos — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:38:30 +0000

I have an xbox 360, and when the update came around with the games on demand thing, honestly, I thought it was kind of stupid. Most games are cheaper or the same price at Gamestop or Best Buy, which is where I get My games from. With games on demand, it is saved to your hard drive, but if you get the red ring of death, like I did last year, you will lose a lot of money. I say go buy a hard copy of the game, and save it to your hard drive if you want to. Logically, Games on Demand makes NO sense.