Moderator: maddog986
ORIGINAL: Perturabo
There's also GoG and HumbleStore. Both do discounts and are pretty popular. GoG recently started including new games.
ORIGINAL: Perturabo
There's also GoG and HumbleStore. Both do discounts and are pretty popular. GoG recently started including new games.
The community wishlist for GOG is a long, long, long list, even if you remove all of the games aren't "Good and Old" by definition.ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore
They almost have to sell new games. GOG will never survive selling old titles because they'll reach a climax someday when everybody will have all of them they want. I browse there from time to time but I have all the games from there I see that I want. So, it's a worthless site to me anymore. I want something NEW!
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Sigh... Calm down, Steam alarmists. There's not much reason for Sliterine to tie themselves to Steam; their profit margins are probably RAZOR thin as is, so why would they let Steam take a cut?
Steam already does not take a cut if you buy from anywhere outside of their client/store page.ORIGINAL: Terminus
Sigh... Calm down, Steam alarmists. There's not much reason for Sliterine to tie themselves to Steam; their profit margins are probably RAZOR thin as is, so why would they let Steam take a cut?
Sarcasm? Why, what's that?ORIGINAL: Boomer78
ORIGINAL: dutchman55555
ORIGINAL: Boomer78
Steam isn't just taking over the gaming world, it has been scientifically proven to kill brain cells.
Now that's one scientific study I simply must see. Source? Or, as Reddit would put it, OP will surely deliver...
It's been scientifically proven that some people just don't understand sarcasm.
ORIGINAL: Alchenar
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Sigh... Calm down, Steam alarmists. There's not much reason for Sliterine to tie themselves to Steam; their profit margins are probably RAZOR thin as is, so why would they let Steam take a cut?
I don't think you know how profit margins work. (hint: the more units you ship, the lower your unit price needs to be to make a profit)
Umm, say what?ORIGINAL: Alchenar
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Sigh... Calm down, Steam alarmists. There's not much reason for Sliterine to tie themselves to Steam; their profit margins are probably RAZOR thin as is, so why would they let Steam take a cut?
I don't think you know how profit margins work. (hint: the more units you ship, the lower your unit price needs to be to make a profit)
ORIGINAL: Lützow
Yeah, but unlike PanzerCorps the vast majority of Matrix products doesn't really fit to Steam portfolio and Matrix would cannibalize themselves if titles as WiF or WitP AE are offered with a 75% discount every now and then.
ORIGINAL: dutchman55555
Umm, say what?ORIGINAL: Alchenar
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Sigh... Calm down, Steam alarmists. There's not much reason for Sliterine to tie themselves to Steam; their profit margins are probably RAZOR thin as is, so why would they let Steam take a cut?
I don't think you know how profit margins work. (hint: the more units you ship, the lower your unit price needs to be to make a profit)
"Profit margin is the percentage of selling price that turned into profit." (Profit margin) Units sold doesn't enter into it, bro.
Which is why I could not and cannot understand why M/S, upon acquiring AGEOD, yanked all their games from Steam. There was no demand or pressure (from Steam) to discount these games. The only thing I can think of is that they were a lower regular price on Steam than M/S wanted them, so to block an avenue to AGEOD games at a lower price they removed them from Steam. IIRC "price consistency" was an argument for the contraction...it would be sad if "price consistency" meant "making certain each unit sold was priced as high as possible".ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Bottom-line, Valve isn't going to put a game on sale without the developer/publisher's consent, although they will take the initiative to ask the owner if they want it to be. That those of us who would prefer wargames to shift to Steam or other similar forms of modern digital distribution also hopes that they will enter regular discounts is only by implication, but essentially "wargames should shift to Steam" and "wargames shouldn't be selling for such high prices" are two separate and distinct arguments. If Slitherine really wanted to, they could keep Panzer Corps at the current price point forever and ever and there'd still be a significant incentive to want to buy a Steam copy over the current model.
Off the top of my head, Out of the Park Baseball 9 has sat at 9.99 USD for years.
ORIGINAL: Alchenar
ORIGINAL: dutchman55555
"Profit margin is the percentage of selling price that turned into profit." (Profit margin) Units sold doesn't enter into it, bro.
No, it's Net Profit over Revenue. Guess what happens to the number needed for net profit when revenue goes up but costs remain static (because virtually all of the cost of a digital product is incurred in development, assuming you aren't spending on marketing)?
The more units you ship, the lower your unit price needs to be to make the exact same profit . Leave the unit price where it is and your profit increases.ORIGINAL: Alchenar
I don't think you know how profit margins work. (hint: the more units you ship, the lower your unit price needs to be to make a profit)
ORIGINAL: dutchman55555
Which is why I could not and cannot understand why M/S, upon acquiring AGEOD, yanked all their games from Steam. There was no demand or pressure (from Steam) to discount these games. The only thing I can think of is that they were a lower regular price on Steam than M/S wanted them, so to block an avenue to AGEOD games at a lower price they removed them from Steam. IIRC "price consistency" was an argument for the contraction...it would be sad if "price consistency" meant "making certain each unit sold was priced as high as possible".ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Bottom-line, Valve isn't going to put a game on sale without the developer/publisher's consent, although they will take the initiative to ask the owner if they want it to be. That those of us who would prefer wargames to shift to Steam or other similar forms of modern digital distribution also hopes that they will enter regular discounts is only by implication, but essentially "wargames should shift to Steam" and "wargames shouldn't be selling for such high prices" are two separate and distinct arguments. If Slitherine really wanted to, they could keep Panzer Corps at the current price point forever and ever and there'd still be a significant incentive to want to buy a Steam copy over the current model.
COD 1 & 2...the most discount you'll see in a sale is 25%. Most Ubisoft games will also do a perfunctory 25% cut. Whereas the #1 and #2 games on my Steam wishlist (Lumines and Lumines: Advanced Pack) have not had any form of discount for the entire 14 months I've price-watched them.ORIGINAL: aaatoysandmore
Off the top of my head, Out of the Park Baseball 9 has sat at 9.99 USD for years.
I believe that has been at a steady 75% off for years though $39.99 was the origional price. Even 2014 is 50% off now.
What, on Steam? I have a couple of pre-acquisition AGEOD games that I bought on Steam. When in my Library if I click on the link to their Store Page it just boots me to the front page of Steam's store. Same with using the Search field on that front page...type in the names of various AGEOD titles and nothing is found.ORIGINAL: wodin
Though I have seen some around only the other day.ORIGINAL: dutchman55555
Which is why I could not and cannot understand why M/S, upon acquiring AGEOD, yanked all their games from Steam. There was no demand or pressure (from Steam) to discount these games. The only thing I can think of is that they were a lower regular price on Steam than M/S wanted them, so to block an avenue to AGEOD games at a lower price they removed them from Steam. IIRC "price consistency" was an argument for the contraction...it would be sad if "price consistency" meant "making certain each unit sold was priced as high as possible".ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Bottom-line, Valve isn't going to put a game on sale without the developer/publisher's consent, although they will take the initiative to ask the owner if they want it to be. That those of us who would prefer wargames to shift to Steam or other similar forms of modern digital distribution also hopes that they will enter regular discounts is only by implication, but essentially "wargames should shift to Steam" and "wargames shouldn't be selling for such high prices" are two separate and distinct arguments. If Slitherine really wanted to, they could keep Panzer Corps at the current price point forever and ever and there'd still be a significant incentive to want to buy a Steam copy over the current model.
