This is not cool, 49.99?equals 78$.

Even Fallout 4 is not worth 50?

Whoever is making marketing decisions is a really unpleasant person. First this DOOM presentation stunt on Quakecon, now 50?for a game.

Will vote for this with my wallet, no money from me...

Isn't Pete "Horse Armor" Hines the marketing guy?

It's only 拢37 on Amazon, get it there?

I don't think the 'marketing guy' is responsible for the prices all around the world...

same problem here, 59,99 Euros (steam) = 66,95 $. It apears often that marketing just replaces the $ sign with the 鈧?sign instead of actualy calculating true price.

Not sure who is, but it's getting ridiculous, they know how popular their games are on steam plus the workshop and easy access to community related stuff on steam is a bonus. So they abuse it, I suspect they want to push their own shop and put a paywall on competition to pull in people under their own roof.

I'm done with pre-ordering anyway. When pre-ordering first appeared it was beneficial in some way, pre-orders then were cheaper than release prices. Now it's just a pure money grab.

EDIT

The only game I payed for before it got released in last 2 years was Pillars of Eternity...

The retailer. In the case of Steam, that would be Valve.

Bethesda (the publisher) will have a price they set which the retailer hands over to them on the basis of number of copies stocked (physical) or sold (digital). That may vary from retailer to retailer, depending on negotiations (i.e. "we can sell vast numbers of copies for you, give us a discount") or it may be fixed across the board.

But, as far as I'm aware, the retailer can then set pretty much whatever mark-up they want. There may be issues such as putting on mark-ups to cover sales taxes in different regions.

Prices on Steam are almost always the highest around (and the least fair for particular regions), and they get away with it because people are prepared to pay for the convenience of getting a pre-load and day one patch rather than wait for a physical copy, install and patch.

The game is $80 USD here in Australia which with the current conversions is $105 AUD... I mean I think I'm happy to pay more coz of whatever taxes or fees here but it's ridiculous when the "more" is in USD so then we also get hit by the conversion... It's actually stopping me from buying new games because just about all of them launch at over $110 AUD here...

Well, seeing their gameplay mechanics, maybe the just don't have people who can do math?

What's the usual price in UK/Europe for similar AAA games? Assuming there is a standard price, of course.

Interesting. There's no discount on US Amazon. Wonder if that's another common difference between the US & UK markets...

Fallout 4 is right now in Brazil one of the most expensive games in the Steam catalog (249 reais). Its 2x the price Skyrim on its release day. It's 2x the price of any AAA game in Steam (GTAV, COD, Witcher 3, and Battlefield 4, Hardline and Battlefront on Origin).

I tried contacting Bethesda Store Support, Bethesda's Customer Support and they just gave me and automatic answer. Someone in Bethesda thought Ken Kutaragi's "people will work more and hard to buy 600$ PS3" was a good idea.

That would be Valve's fault, not Bethesda.

Unless it's the same price on the Bethesda store page, anyway.

Well, at least on Brazil other digital stores like nuuvem also priced the game on 249 reais. I doubt its a mistake from Valve or Nuuvem.

How much of that is taxes tacked onto the sale price? I imagine most countries still treat things like this as an imported good and that would raise the price.

Try to contact Valve/Steam...

Given the rate of exchange, the Amazon UK price is almost exactly $60, the same price as on the Bethesda store and Amazon US - for the physical copy.

For the Amazon UK downloadable copy (which is just a Steam key), it's the same price as on Steam - 拢50 (rounding up), or $79.

Buying new AAA games direct from Valve rarely makes financial sense - unless one considers the rapid launch-day access worth the mark-up.

So ordinary price for a PC game is somewhere between 39,99 鈧?for non AAA titles, and 49,99 鈧?to 59,99 鈧?for popular AAA titles.

For PS3/PS4 or Xbox360/Xbox One that price is always 10 euro's more expensive then for a PC game, so: 49,99 鈧?for normal and 59,99 鈧?to 69,99 鈧?for a AAA title

And yes, they continue to use the cheap trick of rounding down one cent to make it look cheaper at a glance.

PS; Fallout 4 pc game price is 59,99 鈧?on steam and manny retailers use the same price, but you sometimes can find cheaper at webshops and such. That means a PS4/Xbox One copy is 69,99 鈧?/p>

UK retailers are often much more willing to have price wars than US ones. I only paid 拢27 to preorder Skyrim.

I got it for 37拢 on Greenman gaming as well, don't know if their code still works though.

*grumble* Does seem like a hike -..- or maybe I'm just used to buying on sales and behind times.

Check the conversion rate. 60 鈧?= $66. The price on Steam is still higher than the Bethesda store price of $60. Valve are just taking the Bethesda price, and sticking a 鈧?symbol on it instead of doing a conversion. If local stores are doing the same, they are also charging over the going rate. A store charging 55 鈧?is charging an equitable price.

I'm not sure that 拢50+ will be the final RRP but if it is I find it reassuringly expensive. I'm prepared to pay over 拢100 for an XB1 special edition that isn't focused on that pip boy/phone mount.

I can understand a physical copy of the game costing more in another country because of shipping and taxes associated with exporting/importing products, but for a download? How does a digital copy cost the same as a physical disc?

The basic theory, as I understand it, is..... not wanting to piss off the brick-n-mortar retailers (and not yet being at the point of going digital-only), they price digital at the same level so as not to undercut them.

(There's likely more factors. Like the cost of running the download servers. And the part where they wish prices could be higher to start with, due to inflation, but "OMG GAEMS TU EXPNSVE!" internet mouth-frothing.... so, even if digital could be cheaper due to no manufacturing/shipping costs, they'll keep the price the same in order to get a couple extra profit points.)

Except, in many countries (eg, the UK), the download copy is a lot more expensive - more than 1.5 times as [edit] oops, I meant 30% more [/edit] expensive.

And it isn't some increase that even makes sense. Valve just change the $ sign for a 拢 or 鈧?sign, so long as the exchange rate favours them. Which they are perfectly entitled to do - but it does very much seem as if they're taking advantage of anyone who doesn't shop around and doesn't check exchange rates.