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Chazore said:
HollyGamer said:
Great , more platform holder more competition and we get more cheaper price . Gamer win

Is that how I managed to snag CoD for the low, low price of £60?. Only on Battle.net?.

Did i mention that COD will be cheaper ??? 



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CoD games aren't cheap on Steam either, even the older ones. These are the current Steam prices:



Conina said:

CoD games aren't cheap on Steam either, even the older ones. These are the current Steam prices:

Honestly, except during Steam sales (if you're lucky ebiugh to find what you want in sale), I've never found Steam to be very cheap. Sure, you can buy a lot of random games that you will never play for a lot cheaper during the sales, but that's it. I always compare the prices between Steam and PSN before buying digital, and usually I end up buying on PSN... 



Faelco said:
Conina said:

CoD games aren't cheap on Steam either, even the older ones. These are the current Steam prices:

Honestly, except during Steam sales (if you're lucky ebiugh to find what you want in sale), I've never found Steam to be very cheap. Sure, you can buy a lot of random games that you will never play for a lot cheaper during the sales, but that's it. I always compare the prices between Steam and PSN before buying digital, and usually I end up buying on PSN... 

Ehh, I don't really think that's most people's experience. Certainly not mine. I actually think the fact that Steam has good sales on high quality games so consistently makes their big sales look worse by comparison. You often find a big game marked down like 15-30% off every day so the big seasonal sales don't seem quite as big



Hiku said:
BasilZero said: 


Valve already gave a bigger cut last week - they arent claiming the full 30% that Sony, Nintendo and MS charges for digital....if they can meet some requirements - I think selling a certain amount or something.

Epic Games thanks to Tencent will be buying exclusivity deals unfortunately which sucks especially since they'll be able to determine when and how much a game goes on sale - I dont think they'll be as open to lower the prices as Valve does on their store but who knows.

Yeah, I heard about that. From what I've been told, this model benefits the biggest publishers who tend to sell a lot, and not for the others, which is why Epic Game's low cut across the board is appealing. Not only that, but publishers also don't have to pay a license fee for using Unreal Engine 4 on Epic Game's store, so that results in an even better cut for UE4 games.

A $60 game would only need to hit the goal of 166k sales (10 mil in overall monetization) in order to cut Valve's take down, and I believe it's a progressive system, which I believe the next marker would be achievable at only 250k sales (15 mil in overall monetization). 

That's pretty small actually for AAA. Basically even flops could fit that sales mark. But yeah, for the smaller guys it sucks. 



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Conina said:

I prefer Steam over EA Origin a lot, but that's a very unfair comparison IMHO.

EA gave a lot of their own good games away for free in these four years (March 2014 to July 2018 is a much longer period than two years), How many Valve games did Valve gave away for free on Steam? None? Almost none?

Valve gives other developers a platform to promote their newer games with freebies of their older games and seems to expect such freebies now and then... but they aren't giving away their own games and probably aren't paying developers for freebies either.

So it's better to do it for 4 years and then transfer over to a sub based model, where nothing is actually free?.

 

Yeah a correction was needed on my part, but nay a pat on the back, not when the service is done away with and replaced with a pay per month model, which is the complete opposite of free. 

At least their games go on a regular sale yearly, while with EA's you'd be struggling to find their latest going on a decent sale (without having panic mode enabled, a la BFV).


Seriously though, if you're gonna do the freebie game, keep it u, don't lure me in and then take it away once I'm inside that garden. 



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"

Chazore said:


Seriously though, if you're gonna do the freebie game, keep it u, don't lure me in and then take it away once I'm inside that garden. 

Did you tell the same to relatives (f.e. uncles & aunts) who gave you birthday and christmas presents as a child but stopped it years later when you became an adult?

 

How did EA lure you in? The "on the house program" was with no strings attached. Every game you got for free in that program you can still use and redownload.



Conina said:
Chazore said:


Seriously though, if you're gonna do the freebie game, keep it u, don't lure me in and then take it away once I'm inside that garden. 

Did you tell the same to relatives (f.e. uncles & aunts) who gave you birthday and christmas presents as a child but stopped it years later when you became an adult?

 

How did EA lure you in? The "on the house program" was with no strings attached. Every game you got for free in that program you can still use and redownload.

That'd work for everything and everyone right?.

 

I'm talking about luring other people in. I wasn't lured into EA's garden via that program. 



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"