Comments on: Fallout 3: Now 20USD more expensive on Steam

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:09:00 +0000

Go and see COD5.
STEAM – 77USD with taxes
Local distributor – around 51 with next day delivery (Bulgaria)

By: Patchouli Woollahra

Patchouli Woollahra — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:43:00 +0000

I’m taking that extra 20 dollars in cost as fees for ensuring that I will always have a copy of Fallout 3 to play provided I have a sufficient amount of bandwidth to bring the copy over (assuming I don’t decide to backup the installer locally as well, something I’ve done with the larger Steam titles of late).

But the fact that we cannot choose to preload the game at all irks me totally. You know, if you don’t have the executable files for a game, all that gamedata is just a fancy unusable collection of bits. That’s the point of preloading on Steam. Bethesda’s not fully grasping Steam’s capabilities, and it is a annoying pity.

By: Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:29:00 +0000

I can’t say as I’m particularly wedded to having a physical copy.

By: Frans Charming

Frans Charming — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:43:00 +0000

Yea I think I would.

By: SignpostMarv Martin

SignpostMarv Martin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:32:00 +0000

Wouldn’t you rather pay the extra € so you can have a physical copy ?

By: Frans Charming

Frans Charming — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:02:00 +0000

The fallout 3 price on steam is actually about 6 to 7 euros cheaper then in the stores here in holland. It is 54.99 on steam for me.

Though one store has it for close to steam price, still steam is a euro cheaper.

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By: Alan Cyr

Alan Cyr — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:03:00 +0000

Be glad you don’t buy anything from Adobe. They’ve thought for years that $1 = £1, or near enough.

By: SignpostMarv Martin

SignpostMarv Martin — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:37:00 +0000

I had a similar issue when making my decision to purchase Spore- though without the regional markup (I think)- something like £34.99 minus the £4.99 cost of the Creature Editor for a downloadable only version that I'd have to pay extra for if I wanted to re-download it again over the next 2 years (I use Windows, so that's likely), vs £25 for a boxed copy from Amazon for pre-ordering it...

Hrm...

As one of Second Life's foremost statisticians, could you share a few comparative stats of the price of games amongst the various terretories and the estimated level of piracy of those games within each territory ?

I wouldn't be surprised if Oz turned out to have higher levels of piracy, what with the historical release delays you get down there.

p.s. my captcha word was "pronocar". srsly.