SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Correction: Welcome to the world of Sony controlling your one digital game store.
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The Sun: PlayStation has increased the price of the original Horizon: Zero Dawn from $14.99/$19.99 to $34.99/$39.99
Correction: Welcome to the world of Sony controlling your one digital game store.
Rising_Hei
Member
This is why we HAVE to boycott digital-only consoles.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
dragonyeuw
Member
I have to wonder. Nintendo I think has more 'collectors' and I'm pretty sure their split of physical/digital encourages physical to stick around for the foreseeable future. Consumer patterns on PlayStation/Xbox ( especially the latter) inform their platform holders to push digital only hardware.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
That's £3600. That's a lot of money to play games, not to mention th cost of games as well.
I might however just grab a lower spec laptop and spend the rest of my life playing Football Manager and older Total War games. That'll do me.
DragonNCM
Member
At least I will get my Days gone remaster soon !!!
Regginator
Member
I feel filthy for "defending" a billion dollar corp, and it's definitely shitty from a surface level, but obviously they do this in order to stop people from getting the PS4 version dirt cheap and then only paying 10 bucks for the PS5 upgrade.
And if I were to play the devil's advocate, at the end of the day, the overwhelmingly vast majority of potentially interested players already have this version (either bought or free during COVID), and if for whatever miraculous reason you've missed out, then nothing really changes for you
: the remaster will still cost 50 bucks, and now the PS4>PS5 route costs 50 bucks too.
And if I were to play the devil's advocate, at the end of the day, the overwhelmingly vast majority of potentially interested players already have this version (either bought or free during COVID), and if for whatever miraculous reason you've missed out, then nothing really changes for you
: the remaster will still cost 50 bucks, and now the PS4>PS5 route costs 50 bucks too.
DryvBy
Member
I have a PC and it's much more expensive.
graywolf323
Member
obviously this sucks but I have a question for everyone that is treating it like some unique evil, what’s your counter proposal? obviously they aren’t going to offer the $10 upgrade while having a way to buy the old version and the upgrade for far less than the remaster costs
so would you rather they didn’t have the $10 upgrade? I have a feeling most of you would be complaining about that instead then, plus they’re even offering the $10 upgrade for people that got the game for FREE from the Play At Home Initiative
so would you rather they didn’t have the $10 upgrade? I have a feeling most of you would be complaining about that instead then, plus they’re even offering the $10 upgrade for people that got the game for FREE from the Play At Home Initiative
except as has been pointed out several times in this thread Sony isn’t remotely the only or first publisher to do this
yep I mean Zero Dawn has sold what? 25 million copies?I feel filthy for "defending" a billion dollar corp, and it's definitely shitty from a surface level, but obviously they do this in order to stop people from getting the PS4 version dirt cheap and then only paying 10 bucks for the PS5 upgrade.
And if I were to play the devil's advocate, at the end of the day, the overwhelmingly vast majority of potentially interested players already have this version (either bought or free during COVID), and if for whatever miraculous reason you've missed out, then nothing really changes for you
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
My comment to the person I replied to is that this isn’t a “digital store” problem. It’s not. It’s a digital console problem.
Having a platform where that single platform holder controls the only store you’re allowed to buy from is the problem.
Not sure what you’re replying about?
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SyedDanishAnwar
Banned
I was talking about games. Once you save up for a PC, games are much cheaper than console versions.
DryvBy
Member
No they're not. I buy physical and physical is typically way cheaper. For example, guy look at Woot.com and see those Nintendo games? $40 each. On the console, it's $60 still.
I've been on Steam for some 19 years. What you're saying used to be the truth.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Obviously, but this is legit from a consumer perspective. It's not cheating. The reasoning is correct, but not as a justification. Those remasters (every remaster) should only exist as an update patch, not as a new title.
SyedDanishAnwar
Banned
Steam is not the only platform for buying games.
For instance, Horizon Forbidden West on PS Store is selling at $30 at the moment.
You can buy the same game from GameBillet at $19 and GameSeal for $10.
cash_longfellow
Member
Cool story…another one putting words in my mouth. Another one on the ignore list.
DryvBy
Member
I'm aware. I'm a PC gamer too lol. But that's not always the case.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Why did you buy the Horse Armor DLC?
dragonyeuw
Member
I didn't ( I don't think my comment inferred I did?). I'm saying the moment we gave the publishers an inch, they took a mile.
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Esppiral
Member
And people still buys digital only consoles....and worse defend them, it explodes my mind....
Cyberpunkd
Member
Yup, and that is a great thing since I don't think the base game (which will be SKU upgraded to the Remaster) will be featured on sale for some time. Bought it on Steam for 12.50€ a few weeks ago.Still less than 10 euros on key sites for pc, fuck you sony
#4ThePayers
ReBurn
Gold Member
You said "we" should have said "fuck you" at horse armor, implying you were part of the "we" that bought it but shouldn't have.
Gamers aren't a homogeneous group. There was nothing "gamers" could have done to stop paid cosmetic DLC at the time. It's always been an optional thing. Plenty of people at the time called horse armor stupid and refused to buy it, which is really all we can do. There's no organized gamer union or anything.
Raising the price of the digital game ahead of the remaster is another moment for gamers to push back and not buy, but if there's a physical PS5 release for $50 a lot of people complaining about this digital price increase would run straight out and buy the disc for their collection, praising it as Sony showing love to physical bros.
dragonyeuw
Member
'We' could just as easily imply the greater gaming population but I'm not going to get in the semantics of how you perceived the comment. I did not buy horse armour but I didn't separate myself by saying 'you' as if I exist in a bubble. Its just how I phrased the comment, so hopefully that is clear now.
Anyways I didn't say gamers were a homogeneous group but generally companies push as far as they think the consumer can go and the general gaming populace more or less said it was OK, same with something like paying for online gaming( on the console side).
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Xaeroxcore666
Member
They'll buy 10k PS5 Pro anniversary bundle to a scalper on Ebay and yet defend that shit...
Im sick of seeing this game
laynelane
Member
I recently looked up a game price (SMT V) on Steam, the PS store, and the physical version. It was most expensive on Steam (full price) and least expensive on PSN (sale price). Physical was in the middle in this case. It just goes to show that price fluctuations do exist (sale prices, in particular) and, no, games are not always cheaper on PC. As well, I also buy physical and agree that it's normally cheaper than any digital store.
Bojji
Member
You should compare normal price vs normal price, physical will almost always win. I also sold SMTV for 80% of money I paid for it, that's the biggest advantage of discs.
Sales are temporary, usually when I want to buy some game on Steam/PSN it's not on any sale lol.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Insider Gaming also reporting on this now.
insider-gaming.com
PlayStation Doubles Price Of Horizon Zero Dawn After Remaster Announcement
After announcing Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered at State of Play, PlayStation has doubled the price of the original game on the PS Store
insider-gaming.com
darrylgorn
Member
TransTrender
Gold Member
Hah, digital get fucked
I think I paid $8.99 or $6.99 for my physical copy years ago.
I think I paid $8.99 or $6.99 for my physical copy years ago.
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Fake
Gold Member
Insider Gaming also reporting on this now.
PlayStation Doubles Price Of Horizon Zero Dawn After Remaster Announcement
After announcing Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered at State of Play, PlayStation has doubled the price of the original game on the PS Store
Good guy Sony. We need to help them pay off 400m from Concord.
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Yeah true, I should have been more detailed lol. Should have said digital pricing is typically more expensive in general and I noticed some of the digital prices went up like the Souls games for example so it’s no surprise that Sony has joined in on the price increases as well based on their current trajectory. Yeah, I did kind of go off topic though when Sony is the primary subject here.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Most of us didn't cheer for MS to pull out the race. We didn't like that they were spending $80 Billion to buy a few major publishers that housed over 15 separate studios. If anybody was cheering it would have been because they didn't like MS trying to buy their way out of the mess they've created for themselves.
Cyberpunkd
Member
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I want a digital only future, but with the prices of before the digital only future.
You know, when you could buy a 2 year old AAA game for €10 in a sale.
Why are you against a company like Sony releasing an attachable disc drive for people that want it?
Cakeboxer
Gold Member
Double is a little and inflation just started Wednesday and only that one game is affected?
Don't get me wrong the outrage over this is excessive, but your excuse is even worse than the homework eating dog.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Which doesn't matter in a world where Sony keeps selling disc drive add-ons.
This is utter shite. Didn't Cyberpunk and the witcher do the same thing? I guess MS made them do it too? This is normal. It sucks but let's not spew utter bullshit.
Bojji
Member
They produced very little amount of them.
midnightAI
Member
The sheer number of sales of the disc drive tells me they haven't
Cakeboxer
Gold Member
It seems so. Sony knows exactly how many PS5s and PS5 digital they sold, so they also knew how many disc drives could be needed. Yet they are sold out and go for 160-180 Euro on Ebay.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
They've made alot more than you seem to think. They aren't sold out for long. Maybe a few days to a week and then they are back in stock.
Bojji
Member
We will see, so far everyone that wanted drive had entire console SKU for them to choose before buying console, disc drives were a niche product. Now A LOT of people wants to buy them for Pro.
lifa-cobex
Member
Calling it now.
PS6 won't have a disc drive.
Or the first batch of PS6's won't have a disc drive. The disc drive version will release six months later.
Unhinged people will double dip.
Never underestimate the ability to separate a fool from his money.
Sony is proper testing the water recently for some bad shit.
PS6 won't have a disc drive.
Or the first batch of PS6's won't have a disc drive. The disc drive version will release six months later.
Unhinged people will double dip.
Never underestimate the ability to separate a fool from his money.
Sony is proper testing the water recently for some bad shit.
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Bojji
Member
Yeah, I bet it will be optional from day 1. Many games also will be digital only.
This is Sony/Publishers ultimate goal and they are getting there, cheered by idiots that promote digital future. Those idiots will pay higher prices as well, haha.