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Final Fantasy XV $34.99 on Amazon PS4/XB1

Marty Chinn said:
The game came out less than a month ago. Buy it and return it to wherever you bought it from. It's within the return window. There's no reason anyone should not be getting this price if they paid more.

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Even if the game is opened and the dlc codes used?
 
I just bought it. Checked amazon at the right time. But I paid $7 for expedited shipping. Still great deal. Cant wait to play FFXV on my PS4 Pro
 
Lol.
Why would anyone in the US even keep buying games at launch?
It used to at least take a few months to see significant price drops on big releases. Now it seems like every big game is 50% off within 2-3 weeks of releasing. Even games that are, as far as we know, selling within expectations like Battlefield 1


This post is 100% fueled by salt from the fact that where I live games take months to drop in price and even then it means they are dropping from $70 to like $60 or $55
 
Fbh said:
Lol.
Why would anyone in the US even keep buying games at launch?
It used to at least take a few months to see significant price drops on big releases. Now it seems like every big game is 50% off within 2-3 weeks of releasing. Even games that are, as far as we know, selling within expectations like Battlefield 1


This post is 100% fueled by salt from the fact that where I live games take months to drop in price and even then it means they are dropping from $70 to like $60 or $55
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Lots of people buy at launch and then sell their games. For single player stuff it ends up being about the same overall costs.

Buy for $60 sell for $40. Versus buy for $40 sell for $20. Etc. Holidays can be a different beast though. Albeit many major retailers (Amazon aside) offer holiday price adjustments for non-bf/cyber Monday deals through January.

Also some people like to be apart of the zeitgeist of playing and discussing a game at launch. Mp populations also dwindle for some games after awhile.

The most annoying thing for me is these games being launched before they are done. So you get bad performance, missing features, etc. Seems to be happening a lot more this generation.
 
they need the game in peoples hands and systems in the hopes they can convince them to buy the DLC.

they want a certain ammount of users by the time the DLC hits.

my guess
 
Buying it by itself would net you tax and shipping costs that would equal you to around how much best buy and target are planning to sell it for next week.

On top of that New egg had it for similar pricing with a code. Got my $40 copy yesterday :)!

This is why I never buy games day 1, its just pointless.
 
Bought it on release day for £50 and I have no regrets. 95 hours in and still playing.

That's a lot of time back for my money.

Usually I would wait for the first major price drop (benefit of patches), but for certain games I will always day one.

So what if it falls even half the price or more a month later? I get to play a game I want to earlier. The savings aren't enough to prevent this being an attractive idea.
 
Still working my way through Skyrim again which led to me cancelling my FF preorder.

At this rate I'll probably hold off until after Persona 5...just knock out a few backlog games in between and grab FF when it hits sub $25ish.

Great price for those looking to get in, bad reminder for those not willing to wait.
 
Bit of a stupid sales question, but I'll ask here since it seems to be moving a lot faster than the other sales threads - is it better financially for a publisher to sell more games at a discounted price, or sell less games at full price? I've been surprised that Sony seems completely content to be selling The Last Guardian at full price pretty much world wide, whereas FFXV (Titanfall 2, etc) dropped in price quite quickly. Is it because TLG is a more niche title, so they probably wouldn't move that much product even with a price drop? I don't regret buying FFXV when I did, but I've been really surprised to see how quick the price drops have been for AAA games this year on console, I don't remember it being like this last year.
 
fidelio_forte said:
Bit of a stupid sales question, but I'll ask here since it seems to be moving a lot faster than the other sales threads - is it better financially for a publisher to sell more games at a discounted price, or sell less games at full price? I've been surprised that Sony seems completely content to be selling The Last Guardian at full price pretty much world wide, whereas FFXV (Titanfall 2, etc) dropped in price quite quickly. Is it because TLG is a more niche title, so they probably wouldn't move that much product even with a price drop? I don't regret buying FFXV when I did, but I've been really surprised to see how quick the price drops have been for AAA games this year on console, I don't remember it being like this last year.
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Don't think it really matters to publishers. It's the retailers offering discounts and eating the costs if they are discounting initial shipments no?
 
henhowc said:
Don't think it really matters to publishers. It's the retailers offering discounts and eating the costs if they are discounting initial shipments no?
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Ah, that makes sense. (You can really tell I don't work in distribution/sales!) I guess retailers aren't that worried about discounting TLG at present, then. Maybe there isn't a lot of copies to shift. It's been such a weird year, everything went on sale so quickly.
 
I've been doing a little better about day 1'n games that I don't seem to play until they go on sale anyway :P. Just waiting on a digital sale for this one though. I have all these big games I got on sale sitting around collecting digital dust while I play Stardew Valley as it is.
 
Fuck... do I pull the trigger on this? I kinda wanna save my money for when the story patches come...
Plus, DQ8 and Tales of Berseria are due out next month
 
Psa.

Game is gonna be $39.99 at bb next week. If you have gcu that's $31.99. Launch buyers from bb don't forget to price adjust.

$31.99+ $10 rewards. Not too bad.
 
henhowc said:
Psa.

Game is gonna be $39.99 at bb next week. If you have gcu that's $31.99. Launch buyers from bb don't forget to price adjust.

$31.99+ $10 rewards. Not too bad.
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If you price match this Amazon price at BB, do you not get GCU on top? I've never price matched at Best Buy but was thinking of swinging by today.
 
Square games drop like flies in the UK as well. Deus Ex already £17.99.

FF15 still holding its price in the UK for now though.
 
Owensboro said:
If you price match this Amazon price at BB, do you not get GCU on top? I've never price matched at Best Buy but was thinking of swinging by today.
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Ymmv but they aren't supposed to based on the fine print in their price match policy. I generally don't bother trying as they've never given me gcu on top of a price match with a competitor. They are supposed to with price adjustments (that's in the fine print too)
 
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