Why we pay top $ for games.

[Strife]

Delivery

Just a question on importing, I have bought a game from shopto.net and its taking awhile to receive the game, the tracking number on the Royal mail just says "handed over to South African postal service." Does anyone know what happens fro there, is the game deliveryed directly to your door step or do you have to fetch it from the post office or what?

 

[Dan]

Yip...Ive said that from the start!!
Its because of people like you and me, we are willing to pay the insane prices!! Untill that chaanges, prices will stay high and piracy will grow even more!!

I may be stating the obvious here, but if you want things to change, why not just stop paying release-day prices?

Also, no one's putting a gun to your head. And we are talking about video games here, not crack.

 

[The Joker]

I may be stating the obvious here, but if you want things to change, why not just stop paying release-day prices?

Also, no one's putting a gun to your head. And we are talking about video games here, not crack.

Dude..Have you ever met serious gamers???
Games are their drugs

 

[Stefan9]

Just a question on importing, I have bought a game from shopto.net and its taking awhile to receive the game, the tracking number on the Royal mail just says "handed over to South African postal service." Does anyone know what happens fro there, is the game deliveryed directly to your door step or do you have to fetch it from the post office or what?

Do you have a tracking number?? Try and see if you can track it on this site:http://www.parceltrack.co.za/new/

This may help you. Its from prophecy forum

You can track the package until it leaves the UK using the Royal Mail tracking number provided by ShopTo via the Royal Mail website. Once it arrives in SA you can call the SAPO (0860111502) and get a local tracking number by telling them your international one. You can then track it locally via the SAPO website.

 

[Dan]

Dude..Have you ever met serious gamers???

Mate, I was rocking games on my Atari and C64 (on cassettes to boot) when most kids were still playing in the sandbox, so yeah, I think I know serious gamers

Seriously though, if we simply stopped forking out release-day prices there's not much gaming companies could do other than drop them quicker.

 

[AcidRaZor]

Mate, I was rocking games on my Atari and C64 (on cassettes to boot) when most kids were still playing in the sandbox, so yeah, I think I know serious gamers

Seriously though, if we simply stopped forking out release-day prices there's not much gaming companies could do other than drop them quicker.

Sorry but that argument is the same one IQ-challenged people use to bring down the petrol price. "If everyone just don't buy petrol for 1 day they'll have to bring down the price"

 

[Dan]

Not true. The petrol price happens on a far greater scale and reaches a far greater market, plus there are a lot of people that rely on petrol to maintain business operations (and the oil companies know it). The major petroleum companies also make far too much profit to be hurt by one measly day of no sales. Also, there are no independent retailers of petrol whereas a lot of game retailers set their own prices.

So, if BT Games decides to charge R800 for Killzone 2 on release day and no one buys a copy for two weeks, I guarantee you that it won't stay at R800 for long.

 

[The Joker]

Mate, I was rocking games on my Atari and C64 (on cassettes to boot) when most kids were still playing in the sandbox, so yeah, I think I know serious gamers

Seriously though, if we simply stopped forking out release-day prices there's not much gaming companies could do other than drop them quicker.

Yeah, but that's what ive been saying mate.
Gaming companies would have no choice but to drop the prices if we as consumers stop buying the games at these mad prices.

 

[lilDeath]

Sorry but that argument is the same one IQ-challenged people use to bring down the petrol price. "If everyone just don't buy petrol for 1 day they'll have to bring down the price"

Comparison failure.