{"id":57068,"date":"2013-08-07T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=57068"},"modified":"2013-08-07T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T09:35:10","slug":"were-not-trying-to-rip-gamers-off-megarom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/57068-were-not-trying-to-rip-gamers-off-megarom","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re not trying to rip gamers off: Megarom manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megarom\u2019s PR and Promotions Manager Devon Stanton has taken to YouTube to discuss the issue of game prices and the gaming community\u2019s response to SA distributors.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a personal capacity, Stanton elaborates on the perception that the community sees Megarom as a contributor to the high cost of games in SA, and says that the community often doesn\u2019t understand the business aspects of game distribution in SA.<\/p>\n<p>Other industry matters are also discussed, saying that Megarom is in constant discussions with publishers to get game prices down, even incurring a loss due to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are games that we\u2019ve made a loss on, as we\u2019ve brought [the price] down as much as we could and couldn\u2019t sell through the numbers we needed to break even.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video and let us know what you think of local game pricing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/erASS19Dnv0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56977-sa-pre-order-exclusives-add-retailer-differentiation.html\">SA pre-order exclusives add retailer \u201cdifferentiation\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56595-game-pre-orders-in-south-africa-concerns.html\">Game pre-orders in South Africa concerns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56786-sas-rooks-keep-on-steam-greenlight-hard-lessons-learned.html\">SA\u2019s Rooks Keep Steam Greenlight, hard lessons learned<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56991-bt-games-launches-digital-download-store.html\">BT Games launches digital download store<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56863-no-cost-is-too-high-for-sa-gamers.html\">\u201cNo cost is too high\u201d for SA gamers<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56598-sa-game-system-crash-combines-magic-cyberpunk-elements.html\">SA game System Crash combines\u00a0Magic, cyberpunk elements<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation-4-news\/56676-ps4-pre-order-at-cna-online-r500-secures-your-console.html\">PS4 pre-order at CNA Online: R500 secures your console<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megarom manager speaks in a personal capacity about SA game pricing and the misunderstanding of the community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":54963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,2219,2752,5793,5794,183],"class_list":["post-57068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-megarom","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-sa-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57070,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57068\/revisions\/57070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}