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Topic: Pricing :uhrr: (Read 3852 times)
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sidereal
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So I played for a few weeks in December and then let my trial expire, mostly for lack of free time. Now I'm thinking of getting back in. I go to my turbine account and they want to charge me $39.99 for a digital download. Technically I already have the download, so they're really charging me 40 bones to flip a bit in my account settings. I understand they want an up-front fee and all. But when I go to Amazon, I see they're selling the physical Moria box for $29.99. And I've read that people are getting it at Best Buy for $25.
That's just stupid. How can Amazon undercut the company who makes the game, especially when they have to actually send me a box and Turbine just has to poke their database? It's enough to turn me off the whole project. Stupid, stupid.
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THIS IS THE MOST I HAVE EVERY WANTED TO GET IN TO A BETA
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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Virtually every form of digital distribution does this. I can only assume it's greed or mismanagement. Steam is about the only one that actually runs 'sales' on their digital downloads.
Hell, Age of Conan actually charges $2.99 if you need to download it ON TOP of the game.
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Jherad
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I find Rachel Maddow seriously hot.
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Steam is about the only one that actually runs 'sales' on their digital downloads. Right, but even Steam typically charges more than you pay in-store when not on special offer. IIRC, Steam wanted £10 more than I paid for DoW2 on release day. And now that I've registered the game with Steam, I can still download it again if I need to.  |
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sidereal
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Steam at least has to take their cut.
If Turbine charged me $25, their profit on that sale would be. . $24. Because it costs them almost nothing to 'sell me the game' by giving me an access code. They don't even have to pay for bandwidth, since I already downloaded the trial. The credit card processing fee would be just about it.
On the other hand, if I buy it from Best Buy for $25, BB will take its cut ($4-5? Total guess), plus they actually had to press a disc and produce all of the goop in the box. . instruction manual, etc. Then ship it to Best Buy. Maybe another $3. So now their profit $17.
So they're losing $7 a sale to make me drive to Best Buy and fill up landfills with crap I don't want.
Brilliant business model.
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Jherad
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I find Rachel Maddow seriously hot.
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Steam's cut should be no more than BB's, or any other retail store's.
But yeah, I agree with what you're saying on Turbine. If it isn't greed (sorry - a 'convenience surcharge'), then perhaps they have an agreement with the likes of BB not to sell lower than price X and undercut them? I have no idea if agreements like that exist.
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Trippy
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They do that cause otherwise the B&M retailers would get all pissy and stop carrying the boxes.
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sidereal
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And no sooner do I point out the foolishness (okay, over a month later) and I can get the serial for 10 bones. Take that, you brick&mortar beeyotches.
Signing up this eve.
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Yegolev
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Brandywine.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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sidereal
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Indeed. One of my dudes (Snowbones) is still in the kinship from the trial.
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