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The Witcher 3 lowered in price to $14.98 on Epic Games Store, making it ineligible for current $10 promotion
- Thread starter Empyrean Cocytus
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If you'd consider it a credit with an expiration timer (and minimum purchase to use), that's literally what this is. Which is to say: a coupon.
Damn I JUST realized Epic Games Store still doesn't have a cart. Shows how little I use it to not notice that
That doesn't fly with manufacturers in the real world. You can get away with semantics when you're a big company like Walmart or Amazon and you're trying to get around legal MAP agreements by doing a "See the real price in cart" or special promotions, but manufacturers will absolutely pull their products from retailers who devalue them. (And other retailers will tattle on the ones that are undercutting)
Epic doing this kind of thing at all is pretty brazen and not something most online stores would be able to get away with if they didn't have the money to throw around.
It would be funny if that were the case, just to see this thread suddenly turn on the decision
Big brain theory right here.
Maybe Epic has so much respect for CDPR that they decided it wasn't right for them to create the perception of devaluation with their coupon.
Yea fuck how the GOTY or whatever edition is always on sale digitally sub $20 on psn but is not eligible with hearts of stone/blood and wine DLC I bought years back. So I have to buy the regular Witcher 3 which is steadfastly chilling at $40+ during the very same sales. Always.......
Part of me wants it to be true just for the laughs.
And this is me without coffee, you should see the stuff I come up with after having a cup.
They are undercutting other online stores (like their own), which CDPR would like to have a good relationship with. They also probably do not receive 100% of the profit from Epic as they would from GOG.
The perceived value of a product is also important. Ask Beats or Apple.
Sorry, what?
It is actually pretty ironic that CDPR wants to value their product highly and Epic has so much Fortnite money to throw around that they are the ones fiscally losing in this scenario, but the lines of communication are so poor that the former is the one making the same amount and the latter is losing out so the former bowed out. That just shows how skewed everyone's view of online game storefronts is.
Epic are only undercutting GOG insofar as they are saying "we're taking the hit on this so you, customer, can pay less for it". If CDPR didn't want that, why even put the game on there!? Why put it on a competing store if you didn't want competition? That's what I'm saying.
Then its not a matter of how much they make as they could have simply delisted the game temporarily. It was just made available today for a 70% discount which is the lowest it has been on all store fronts. That its not advertised anymore like it used to be doesn't mean the game would still be valued at $15 by the consumers.
That's how we get to Galaxy Brain. We may not be able to handle it.
CDPR saying they want to expand sales to a store like Epic without Epic getting 100% of their sales for the next few months is totally fair.
Because Epic continues to do shitty things. If it's CDPR pulling this shit than they are just as guilty as Epic. CDPR is a known shit company anyway so it's not like they are blameless.
Yeah that's why I said consumer expectations have been decimated by Steam sales over the years. This is literally a coupon for a storefront but yet everyone is talking like everything is cheaper. The store is taking the hit, not the developers.
It's pretty fucking self-defeating if they're wanting to expand to a store known for ludicrous deals, isn't it? That's kinda their own fault at that point (and on Epic for not warning them of the upcoming coupon.)
Edit: Also, getting 88% of $15 from people who might not have ever bought it otherwise if it wasn't $5 out of their wallet (as evidenced in this topic) is a lot better than getting 0% from those same people.
It looks like they found a way around the ludicrous deal and people are attacking them for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They are taking the hit while hoping future sales will be made on EGS as well. Why would someone buy on Steam or GoG for $15 if "people just bought it for $5 thanks to Epic distributing free coupons"?
Yeah, because it's petty and shitty to do what they did rather than actually participate and literally make the same amount of money.
Sorry, what? I'm not sure what you're saying here. If your argument is "don't buy on EGS because then your library will be on EGS" then...yeah?
But if companies don't want their games to sell on EGS maybe don't put them on EGS? This is Epic providing value for people by giving them a discount on most anything in the store. Epic's losing money because they're fucking flush with that Fortnite dough and are willing to lose it for the sake of bringing people in, so people buying the games save money because of this, and the developers make the same amount either way.
It should be win-win-win all around but this needless heady crap that Supergiant and CDPR pulled based on the presumptive consumer supposition of value is deflating.
Yeah, so here's the situation:
Person buys TW3 on GOG at $14.99:
---CDPR makes 100% of $14.99
Person buys TW3 on EGS at $14.99 using coupon that makes it $4.99 for the purchaser:
---CDPR makes 88% of $14.99
Person buys TW3 on EGS at $14.98:
---CDPR makes 88% of $14.98
I don't even think it's on sale on GOG right now, but still this changes nothing about how much they make short of turning off those who would have bought it for $5 of their own money.
If they wanted people to use their store, then they maybe shouldn't have put it on others?
I bought the game at launch, physically, and DLC when they released. That PlayStation and copy of that game were stolen a few years back. I then bought a new one but elected to go all digital, I want to play the Witcher three but the base game is always $40+ even when the GOTY drops as low as 9.99. This is an oddity and I think is happening to DLC owners buy the the content twice.
"You want to dive back in the Witcher? Well you gotta buy this version that bundles content you already own. If you have a problem with that then you could always buy the 'never on sale' and highly marked up vanilla version!"
Not to mention I'm pretty sure my save wouldn't be compatible and I'd have to restart....
I mean, you could get the physical version of the base game for less than $10...but you already vowed against it....
Since I've 30+ games were stolen I've elected to go full digital yea...
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The game is meh. Combat controls suck, the open world sucks, the main character voice acting is...hmm. after buying at $15, I got into the 2nd map/level/area I put it down cause it was very boring.
It's not dickish for them to not devalue the game. It's more dickish for everyone to rave about the world. Literally those question marks are Ubisoft level but Poland is not pretty whatsoever so even the scenery sucks.
It's not dickish for them to not devalue the game. It's more dickish for everyone to rave about the world. Literally those question marks are Ubisoft level but Poland is not pretty whatsoever so even the scenery sucks.
I edited my response to the topic in. But ya, nothing wrong with not devaluing or insisting on the game be held to a standard that prevents the very patient waiting for that one sale. I do not like how people consider games to be devalued due to time instead of considering the actual game and what it offers instead.
Unlikely now that the game has been released on the store. It would be a pretty shitty practice to make the game on sale day 1 and to give it for free a week after. Also, the next free games list has leaked and it isn't part of it.
I took the "risk" of buying it after seeing that rumor (it was more speculation than rumor though) because I could refund the game thanks to the refund policy.
"It devalues the game" doesn't make much sense in this case. It's 5 years old game, they are being given away for free. Games are being added on streaming services day one... Developers would still get the full money because 10$ coupon is on Epic.
They are losing money on any product priced below like 100$ where coupon is used.
For everyone here is an example imagine if GOG is smaller retailer in your neighborhood that is there for years, then comes Epic (imagine if it is new Wallmart) and GOG agrees to sell their products there. Then one day Epic decides to run sale and because it is so big and has money to burn gives everyone coupon. So at the day of the sale there are 0 customers at GOG because product is not priced the same anymore, and GOG can't match the price.
I am more surprised that companies with their own store are on Epic because they are damaging themselves if they are not willing to match Epic prices. But I guess it is more important for them to claim how they have X amount registered users than how much money they earn from their store.
Same reason i lapsed their last coupon and will likely lapse this one.
I wanted to buy Outer Wilds but it was always lower than 15$ making it unavailable for these coupons.
I wanted to buy Outer Wilds but it was always lower than 15$ making it unavailable for these coupons.
They should have just made the price 25 bucks and eligible for the coupon, saving all those controversial buzz.
People on here will literally defend any dev as long as they make good games. Crazy.
I like CDPR, but they deserve to get shit for this. It wouldn't be so bad if the game started out at 14.98, but to drop the price by a fucking penny to avoid this weird perceived "value" of the game is bizarre. Chances are the people that haven't bought it at $14.99 wont buy it at $14.98, so you really aren't doing anything to maintain whatever perceived value you think you have without the $10 coupon. net-net, its a bad look for CDPR
I like CDPR, but they deserve to get shit for this. It wouldn't be so bad if the game started out at 14.98, but to drop the price by a fucking penny to avoid this weird perceived "value" of the game is bizarre. Chances are the people that haven't bought it at $14.99 wont buy it at $14.98, so you really aren't doing anything to maintain whatever perceived value you think you have without the $10 coupon. net-net, its a bad look for CDPR
Well... It's not like they're doing anything wrong. I also wouldn't want people thinking "oh well, I'll buy it next time it's $5" about my product. $15 is already a very low price, I wouldn't even drop the price lower than around $40 if I had such and acclaimed and sought for product in my portifolio.
EGS pays the $10. CDPR care because they want to maintain perceived value of Witcher 3 (keep it a $15 game, not a $5 game) and because they don't want EGS to be seen as the best place to get CDPR titles. They have their own store that they'd rather people go. So when EGS massively undercuts them on their own game, it's bad for them. They're right on the verge of releasing this other game you may've heard of, after all.