Has a AAA ever declined in price as quickly as Mass Effect: Andromeda?

It's currently only 20$ CAD on sale and the regular price is 30$ CAD. It's not even that old and I've seen countless discounts on Origin along with the 10hrs demo trial. Many 50% price cuts barely a month after its release and NVIDIA giveaways. Horizon: Zero Dawn was released a month before and it price hasn't dropped off a cliff like ME: Andromeda.

Well of course Horizon hasn't, it sold well and is an exclusive. Comparisons that would make more sense are games like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Assassin's Creed: Whatever, and Dishonored 2, and the answer is yes.

Yeah, around Xmas you can always find the October, November releases knocked off for the holidays.

Andromeda isn't very good though so I'd imagine they'd rather be selling it at 60 large.

Infinite Warfare dropped hugely from memory

Doom was half off like a month later

Wrong. They are still charging $60 on the PS Store and Steam.

OT: No surprise ME:A was both a commercial and critical flop. I enjoy it but the majority of fans hated it with passion. It's a better game now after tons of patches than it was at launch but Bioware and EA screwed up big time. So much so that they are taking a break from the franchise now.

Evolve, Battleborn, Brink, Duke Nukem Forever

A few things have happened as to why AAA games have decline. (But not all AAA games have decline)

First, most systems are now online and connected to a high speed internet connection. Publishers know if something doesn't work they can always push out a patch later. Compare this with cartridge based consoles where it has to work when it's released because they can't fix it. This has lead to a bug creep so someone can get a game out before others

Second, people buy games primarily because of hype. Titanfall 2 and COD Infinite Warfare are examples. They know people will line up to buy a game they know nothing about simply because of the hype train. There really isn't a need to make a good game anymore.

Third, people continue to buy games after a publisher releases absolute crap, apparently they have really short memories. Remember when BF4, AC3, and Batman Arkham City ran like crap and had a shit ton of patches released so they games would be playable? And yet people still went and bought the very next version of the game thinking it would be better. And they were shocked, SHOCKED I tell you that they released games a year later that were broken.

I'll just point out I enjoy Andromeda since launch and I thought it was worth the $70 I pay for through EA Origin and the animations didn't bother me as much as everyone did but the game was fun, just nowhere near as good as ME3. Even Dead Space 3 wasn't all that bad but that's another story.

It can be found for $30 on kinguin which is where I buy most of mine.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Really depends on where you buy from but yeah for main stream retail that's a pretty quick drop.

The real question is: Was the game ever worth 60 to begin with ?

@freedomfreak: sunk like a rock... Poor game. I rather liked mankind divided, though it brought nothing fresh to the formula.

horizon is ~50% off right on the european psn store

34euro

I thought it was shit. I regret giving a bunch of SJWs my money. I'm glad it sold crap.

Bioware were one of my favourites but they let me down and its unlikely I will be buying Anthem unless I get assurances.

I believe you have a chance to win this game for free at Nvidia.

And goes on sale every 2 weeks. lol

This is what I was going to say. I bought Doom shortly after launch at GS on sale for 20 bones.

I was also thinking, Spore. lol :P

I was surprised how highly regarded both The Witcher 3 and Metal Gear Sold V: Panton Pain were in 2015, both sold really well, and yet they were both dirt cheap by the holidays.

I remember looking around GAME and found a new copy of DOOM for like £20 after barely a month of release lol

Was ME: A ever full price? I saw it new at Gamestop like a week or two after launch for $39.99. I kinda wanted to buy it but I want my first Mass Effect game to be one of the good one's lol

Mirror's Edge Catalyst comes to mind :(

This is why I rarely if ever buy games at full price outside of Nintendo titles.

I got this for $15 from Best Buy, and it seemed relatively recent after release. Great game, though!

Battleborn, at least on PC.

so was titanfall 2

Plenty. Prey was 30 euros off like 3 weeks after its release. That question is odd because it depends much on the region you're living in. some games go down in price quicker in some regions than others.

A lot of these games should have gone down ages ago

Doom (2016) went on sale at many retailers for 29.99 like 2 weeks after it was released. I was so happy i didn't pay full price.

Ryse was on sale for $35 by May of 2014 IIRC

Rayman Legends

I think I got 60 bucks of value from coh2 lol

@DocSanchez: can you explain further to why you regret buying it?

Did you guys here that This Studio Bioware Montreal was absorbed by the EA team that is working on the Battlefront 2 story? Glad to hear that no one is losing their jobs.

I was a huge fan of the original trilogy and truly hope they will start work in at least the next 5 years on a new one. Maybe now that Hudson came back to Bioware he can get it on track.

Every Need For Speed game.

I think all EA games drop pretty quick.

I paid around 40 euro for COH2 and it turned out to be my most played online game ever.

Definitely got my money out of that :)

Sometimes 60 bucks feels cheap for a game... Other times it feels way too expensive.

@k--m--k: ive gone into a bit of detail before but suffice to say the list is very long. I am not one to pour cold water on everything and I tend to enjoy things for what they are but Bioware have been failing a lot recently and nowhere more than ME A.

Doesn't EA do this for practically every game?

Just a couple weeks ago, BF1 was 20 bucks for the base game and 65 for the premium version + base game.

Titanfall 2 was also 20.

The gaming community has been conditioned to simply buy games during heavy discount sales. We all know by now that you just need to wait a few months before that newly released video game you want to buy is down 25-50% off. Everyone's operating on razor thin margins, no matter whether you make an indie game or AAA game.

It's a vicious circle that will be very hard to get out of. In fact, I think many of the video game publishers now factor sales into their business model.

The only exception to the rule is Nintendo, where their games hold their value because they've never succumbed to the discount culture.

I was first thinking of Homecoming something or other that was about North Koreans taking over the US. It didn't look that bad really but bombed hard.

Also Evolve, but that was on them with all the DLC charges/rapes. They need to make a Left for Dead 3 already.

I am actually playing through Andromeda on PC right now and have played for 35 hours. I think it is a good game and it is much better since the patches. I am playing it on my 4K TV at 65% resolution scale (close to 1440p) 60fps Ultra. The game looks stunning, especially the environments. Not many games have this much detail in textures and lighting. It's a shame the dumb fucks at EA didn't delay the game again and allow the developers time to finish it. The game would have scored higher and not had such a negative reception. Now Mass Effect is on hold and BioWare Montreal had to merge with EA Motiv. Such a shame.

It's better to be 2-3 years behind. You can pick up GOTY editions for £20.