![]() ![]() Since they have offices and depots here, they can safely make their products cross the border without having to pay taxes which is an absolute aberration. If you buy games from amazon in france, you can have lower prices but they use a trick of not having to include VAT (19,6% round here) in the price. New games on Steam for us have an average price of 10 to 20% lower and it's going down to 50% a year later and even 75 to 90% cheaper during special discount periods. In france, physical stores sell new games on PC from 65 to 80 dollars and I don't even speak about console games which are more like 80 to 90 dollars. Very interesting subject which is one of my main concern these days : games pricing.įirst a few things about pricing on Steam. PS: I wanted to edit the title but just realized that this seems to be no longer possible. I for one hope that the Mac App Store will lead to some conclusions on the end of publishers that ripping off users with digital games at physical prices and S*** like won't get them anywhere and that their future is much darker than they think off if they follow this path ![]() My view on the matter is that the mac app store targets mass market, similar to Steam and Impulse, but that unlike the later two, the mac App Store will ensure competitive pricings, not "monopoly and cartel" price fixations that helped Steam and and big publishers to offer games at 3x the price you pay in stores (here in europe its laughable, .uk costs a fraction of steam and that for a physical distribution + packaging fee etc) without any real costs or competition (due to no second hand, no "store next door", no aged games, running out of space. So what do you think, what kind of chance to entertainment programs really stand on the mac app store if they try to get away with the Steam "out of reality and sanity" boxed prices for pure digital distributions or any kind of 40 bucks+ for games at all? Īccording to official words though it seems that apple pulled it cause the 7GB size of the game lead to more or less always corrupted installs on the end user machines. Well by Jan 7th its already gone again and going by the mail I just got from, they have at least on other platforms reduced the price already to 40 bucks. ![]() Don't know if you realized it but Feral Interactive had the funny concept that getting through Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 at 50 bucks on the mac app store on Jan 6th. ![]()
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