![]() Quoting: Tuxee Quoting: pb> "this is impacting us so heavily" Truth to the matter is : broke people aren't the issue here. Games are already underpriced as hell (considering the amount of manhours put into those), and the market saturation doesn't help in anyway, but lowballing the price in everyway possible by all the people that can afford them (already underpriced) only push a cheaper price to grab more attention, to do so costs are cut and the whole quality suffer, so people want to pay less and so fucking on. Because it's not just the dev that's getting screwed. But the whole thing mostly sit on the terrible fucking shitty idea that people want games dirt cheap.Īt least piracy may get you to buy it full price later, buying it 90% off by region abuse is just shitting in the cook pot of vidya. Sure, there is a tiny bit less rip off here as it's not going G2A way. Mesh that with sales, and I'm even starting to doubt we would see much higher than a ×2 (like ×2.something, OK I guess).Īnother thing to note, is that, an history of devs' comments would point out that pirating the game ends up a lesser evil of just blatantly ripping off the devs, be it that way or worst the G2A way.īut knowing this history and people I know that aren't as much gameheads as I am, they will do that to pay less over paying what they can. They wouldn't see a ×3 or ×4 the playerbase of that region. Let's be honest here, it's not what's happening : if only people that wouldn't be able to afford them in their own region pricing did that, devs wouldn't do that. Ok, but what if people who go to such extreme measures are from other poor countries that *don't* have regional pricing and instead are paying "regular" prices in usd or euro? and it's their only realistic alternative to just pirating the game? Quoting: pb> "this is impacting us so heavily" What do you think to this issue? Let us know in the comments. Dead Cells is not exactly an expensive game when you look at what's available on Steam, something they touch on in the post, and it is regularly discounted too so they say "this is impacting us so heavily".Ī sad day for people buying it legitimately in Argentina & Turkey, and another issue smaller developers have to deal with. The developer thinks that "it is extremely likely that people are changing their region to take advantage of a 70-90% reduction in price". Usually, developers can see that the percentage of sales in a country matches up to the player count in that country but in this case for Argentina & Turkey "their % of total sales is 3-4x the amount of the % of their total players". Writing in an announcement on Steam, the developers noted how these two countries have made up a "significant" amount of their sales over the last year but this has not come with an increase in the amount of players there. This is an issue that we've seen come up before, with people working around Steam's regional pricing to access lower prices elsewhere. Motion Twin / Evil Empire have announced that Dead Cells is increasing in price in Argentina & Turkey, as it seems too many people were taking advantage of the cheaper prices from other countries.
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