| Carl2291 said: I dont even think Mass Effect 3 is on Steam in all honesty. I know ME and ME2 are though. I could understand them not wanting to undercut the retailers by too much. I mean, in cases the cost of the game on PSN is more than the cost of the game at a game store. Thats just taking it too far. How can they expect it to work if theyre charging those prices? How can they expect the consumer to choose that version en masse? The only incentive there is, is that you dont have to leave your house. With how prices fluctuate at retail, if they want DD to succeed on consoles they need to offer better prices. Its one of the things PS Plus gets so right. Good deals. |
Oh, derp. I misread that store price as Steam. Well, whatevs! My point stands! (Okay, not really.)
I'm really not sure whether to blame the platform holders or publishers, but I do get the sense that the former are pretty reliant on retailers and so don't want to cheese them off. But however much TotalBiscuit and the like deny it, killing used/physical games is going to be far, far worse for consumers of consoles than it was on PC because there is a ridiculous amount of competition on PC. If Steam is gouging you, you can very easily go to GOG or whomever. Sure, there's technically competition with consoles because you always can (and should) buy a Playstation over an Xbox or whatever, but most people who only have a Playstation are going to feel locked into that ecosystem and will be highly susceptible to paying whatever price is asked of them if there aren't retailers who need to move the physical products on their shelves and PSN is the only option.
