Steam sales cheapen IP's says EA rep

Gamespot link Now someone needs to tell these EA people to stop smoking crack,

Firstly, there is a diffrence in what a product cost to make, and what its worth to consumers, don't confuse the two EA, kingdom of amular reckoning may retail for $60 in order to recoup your investment, its not worth $60 to a lot of gamers, ask the dev studio about sales at that price.

Secondly, if it wasn't for steam sales or sales some of these games would not sell enough to be relevant, make a list EA, of sales of any game at a high price and then what happened after the price drop, in fact without a sale there is very little if any money to show in return for all that effort.

Finally what about origin sales, what about giving away free ME2 codes for purchases of DAO 2 when it was getting harsh reviews at that time, did those actions cheapen bioware's IP's, or any other EA IP's for that matter.

They wouldn't be saying that if Origin was the one getting all the sales.

So does EA, so I guess it's even.

I remember buying Batman AC 1.5 weewks after its release for 50% off on origin :lol:

bad game design and obvious franchise milking cheapens IP's.

EA existing cheapens IP

F*** intellectual property and f*** EA money hoarding scum, can't even take their hand out of the customers pocket for one second to let them enjoy a sale without QQing. Reading this kind of crap makes me want to go and download about 100 gigs worth of EA "intellectual property", although to be hoenst I can't even be assed because they don't even make good games hahaha.

F*** intellectual property and f*** EA money hoarding scum, can't even take their hand out of the customers pocket for one second to let them enjoy a sale without QQing. Reading this kind of crap makes me want to go and download about 100 gigs worth of EA "intellectual property", although to be hoenst I can't even be assed because they don't even make good games hahaha.

ShimmerMan

bad game design and obvious franchise milking cheapens IP's.

mAArdman

That describes about 98% of today's games, sadly.

I remember buying Batman AC 1.5 weewks after its release for 50% off on origin :lol:

kozzy1234

This is very very basic economics... What would you rather do? Sell 1000 games for 60$ or or 10000 for 15$?KalDurenik

Dont care what they think... Just got the Rockstar Pack for EUR50 and thats one great deal for me :)

F*** intellectual property and f*** EA money hoarding scum, can't even take their hand out of the customers pocket for one second to let them enjoy a sale without QQing. Reading this kind of crap makes me want to go and download about 100 gigs worth of EA "intellectual property", although to be hoenst I can't even be assed because they don't even make good games hahaha.

ShimmerMan

So does EA, so I guess it's even.

topgunmv

Lol, touché.

GOG said the same thing and they too, use the very same model.

I find it easy to hate EA but why you GOG? why??

i think they have a point. steam sales have caused me to buy and play many games, also mediocre games that i would never have come near otherwise. since time to play them all is limited i have not bought many games this year and i only buy games now that i'm sure are good but also that i can buy at a discounted price. last time i bought a game at full price must be years ago, even though i have the budget to pay more and even consider some games worth more as what i paid for them. but i have so many games to play that i can wait for sales and discounts without problem which i know will come either in summer or around christmas.

because other game retailers need to follow this trend to stay in business, i suspect the whole games publishing industry is on a collision course with a bursting bubble. peoples won't keep on filling up their games libraries with games they will not play, no matter how cheap you offer them at.

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F*** intellectual property and f*** EA money hoarding scum, can't even take their hand out of the customers pocket for one second to let them enjoy a sale without QQing. Reading this kind of crap makes me want to go and download about 100 gigs worth of EA "intellectual property", although to be hoenst I can't even be assed because they don't even make good games hahaha.

JigglyWiggly_

So does EA, so I guess it's even.

topgunmv