"CB" (jrcb)
06/11/2015 at 13:46 • Filed to: Rants, Steam
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"CB" (jrcb)
06/11/2015 at 13:46 • Filed to: Rants, Steam | 5
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(Apologies that this isn’t the right place to vent since it’s a car forum, but I needed a place to have an outburst)
So the Steam Summer Sale begins today, which is pretty groovy. Went to check on the price of GTA V since I’ve been interested for a while. I checked a few days ago, and could have sworn it was $69.99 CAD, which is a pretty penny. Today’s price? $67.48, normal price $89.98. To prove I’m not crazy, here’s a graph, source is !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
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See the points at the end of the graph? That’s the price jumping from $69.99 to $89.98 today.
Honestly, fuck this. If you’re going to put something on sale, put it on fucking sale . Don’t jack the price up and then say “hurr durr, look at the savings!”, because savings of two bucks is a load of horseshit.
I’m honestly pretty pissed off right now. Normally Steam is a rad place to snag games for low prices, such as Receiver for $1.74 on sale, which is awesome for a simple game I sunk six hours into. But this? This is some shady business right here.
EDIT: Apparently the price raised because they’re automatically attaching Shark Cards (online money) to them. So if you want to buy the game on its own, you’re shit out of luck.
Rico
> CB
06/11/2015 at 13:52 |
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Lol we used to do this at Best Buy when I worked there in high school. I worked in Home Theater and we’d jack up prices a week before Black Friday, Christmas and Superbowl week and have a “sale” during that week at regular prices and pretend people were getting a great deal.
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> CB
06/11/2015 at 13:53 |
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Post this on Reddit.com/r/gaming and there will be riots. It’s a big audience, they even tore into Gaben after the paid mods fiasco. But he did show up and is apparently active over there.
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CB
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 13:53 |
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Sure. Burner Reddit account, away!
Delta Five Nine
> CB
06/11/2015 at 13:57 |
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The sale is pretty broken right now so I wouldn’t take this as intentional yet. The “sale” price in Euro was higher than the normal price for a bit I heard. When I saw it earlier, they had brought GTA5 down from $60 USD to $30 USD, now it says from $85 USD to $60 USD so yeah, it’s likely broken.
Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa
> CB
06/11/2015 at 13:57 |
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R* has decided to do something incredibly dumb, by putting another game + one of those cards for currency, this is why there is a price spike. You can’t get the game alone at this time, yeah, even at a regular price.
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CB
> Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa
06/11/2015 at 14:01 |
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Yeah. What if I don’t want a currency card? Fuck that.
lonestranger
> CB
06/11/2015 at 14:01 |
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I’ve already purchased GTA V in Canada on Steam, and can confirm that it was originally CAD $69.99.
Xyl0c41n3
> CB
06/11/2015 at 14:02 |
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Stop being so Canadian. Be angry!!! Don’t apologize for it, because that is some straight bullshit right there, Steam!
(Kidding, CB. You know I love ya!)
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CB
> lonestranger
06/11/2015 at 14:03 |
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The money packs are being forced onto the game at the moment. The money only makes it easier to buy shit. I just want to buy the game on its own, and I can’t.
PS9
> CB
06/11/2015 at 14:04 |
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I don’t agree with putting the game ‘on sale’ when it still costs full price. But it’s not as shady as you’re making it out to be. It’s not ‘This game costs $90 now so we can say we’re selling it at a discounted price’, it’s,’This $60 game now comes with $20-30 worth of stuff for free’
Again, I don’t agree with how they are presenting the sale, and yeah it sucks that you can’t get GTA V at a discounted price for the summer sale, but they didn’t just jack up the price just to make it look discounted. That’s how much it would cost to get all that stuff as a package if there was no sale.
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CB
> PS9
06/11/2015 at 14:05 |
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On one of the sale pages, it looked like I could buy it on its own without the money cards. But there’s no option to buy it without the cards, so I don’t really see it as a sale, especially when the cards only add money to your in-game bank account. Doesn’t seem like a “sale” to me.
Sam
> CB
06/11/2015 at 14:07 |
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Yup, that’s the cause. One option is GTA:SA + GTA V, another is Max Payne 3 + GTA V, and the final is cash card + GTA V.
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CB
> Sam
06/11/2015 at 14:08 |
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That’s bullshit. I don’t know what the end cost to Rockstar is for the cash cards, but it can’t be that much.
BeaterGT
> CB
06/11/2015 at 14:19 |
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I see your frustration but I feel like you almost have to expect this with the new release/blockbuster games. Like you said, the real treasure is picking up 6 new games for under $15-20.
Funktheduck
> CB
06/11/2015 at 14:24 |
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Didn't know the summer sale started today.
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PS9
> CB
06/11/2015 at 14:26 |
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It wouldn’t if you don’t value the other things they’ve added to the bundle. Maybe you already played your fill of GTA[everything not 5]. Maybe you don’t care for Max Payne 3. Maybe you’re not interested in the online mode, or maybe you’d rather earn the in-game cash there instead of paying to win.
...buuuut a thing not being valuable to you isn’t the same as that thing having no value. That stuff has value on the steam marketplace, and selling all of it + GTA V for $60(or $69 CAD) instead of the $80($90 CAD) it is otherwise worth would mean that it is in fact sale priced.
I don’t like the idea of putting GTA V on ‘Sale’ for exactly what it’s supposed to cost. It sucks that a GTA V sale doesn’t result in a copy of GTA V that costs less than $60. But given that buying now means getting more than you would before/after the ‘sale’ pricing, I’m not seeing much room for complaint. There really isn’t going to be a legit way to get GTA V for less than $60. The thing on PC sold (and continues to sell) like hotcakes, so they have no reason to drop the price. At least they were nice enough to give GTA fans and others who haven’t played the previous games a way to get into the whole franchise (the 3D era of it anyway) at reduced cost(for everything that isn’t GTA V).
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CB
> PS9
06/11/2015 at 14:34 |
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The issue I have with it is the lack of option. Yeah, it’s cool that you can basically get it for normal price with added stuff, but I have no need for GTA:SA since I’ve played it already, I have no interest in Max Payne 3, and the cash cards I just don’t care about. The thing is, these things probably cost very little money to the developer to sell now: GTA:SA has been out for what, ten years now? So they don’t lose money on selling it for next to nothing. Max Payne 3 is three years old at this point, so I’m not sure how much they’re making on that one. But the shark cards probably cost next to nothing for the developer. It’s just a little bit of code that gives you more money. Might mess with the balance of the game, but really, not a huge thing.
Really, I’m just annoyed that they’ve completely removed the option to buy it on its own, since the things they’re bundling it with are probably costing them next to nothing to sell. It’s a good deal if you’re interested in those items, but I’m not.
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Shady Balkan Subject, Drives an Alfa
> Rico
06/11/2015 at 14:52 |
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You will not belive how often this happen all over the world. My country picked Black Friday as a thing even if we don’t have anything resembling Thanksgiving, because we like foreign things and other shit. Last “Black Friday” I collected prices for 10 desired products on a popular Amazon like site here, iPhone, GPUs, TVs etc. and compard them to their discounted prices, 8 out of the 10 products were selling regular price, even if they claimed they were 25 - 40% off.
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Delta Five Nine
> CB
06/11/2015 at 15:01 |
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You’re angry they didn’t put a game that was VERY recently released on sale the way you want. There’s literally no downside to the current sale offering. Consumer entitlement.
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Sam
> CB
06/11/2015 at 15:54 |
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The cash cards are literally free money for Rockstar. It’s just giving them real money for virtual money on your character in game.