Community MetaSteam | April 2021 - So NieR Yet So FAR
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I'm saying they'll match the price, my instinct is to believe that the one on steam is the one they intended to have. That said holy shit the difference with HZD is huge (the converted price for the cheapest region for HZD is 11€ the cheapest for Days gone is nearly triple)
There are times when EGS price is lower and they never fixed it. Notable examples are Fallen Order and Control which were never fixed until they reduced the base price on Steam a year later so that they reached price parity.
My region, Indonesia. Sadly there's no way to compare the prices on EGS like Steamdb besides using VPN. But what i know is that wh[UWSL]en there were news about price getting fixed, it was mostly about China and SA countries like Argentina because they tend to get the lowest price. There are more EGS users in Era and they can give the testimony about how the prices were never fixed for them.[/UWSL]
So it's more that Sony forgot to actually check the regional pricing on EGS in detail.
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correct ... because they set the pricing themselves on steam ... but they can't do that on egs, so they had to let that one intern that works on the store do it ... so they probably just gave them the base price in USD, and epic just copies steam's default regional pricing (like they always do)
could be , but we have no idea how regional pricing backend looks at egs (if there os any)
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Fuck EA and their regional pricing policy.
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say goodbye to Codemasters' regional pricing (which aligned with volvo's recommendations) ... and welcome EA's standard regional pricing ...
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At this point, you can switch EA with any other big publishers just fine.
In fact, for a $60 game that's still on the cheaper side ($50 here). Most AAA games are straight $60 conversion nowadays.
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and some smaller ones too ... see: spike chunsoft with their 900% hike in Argentina (and all the other countries) like a month ago
Double the price for no reason. Classy, EA.
Also, Days Gone is double the price of Horizon back when it was released. Why?
Cause Sony know people will preorder the game even with full price
I suspect that Hand of Fate 2 could appear in a Humble Choice in the foreseeable future.
The worst thing about this situation is that we can only vent on boards like this and nothing will change. There's nothing we could do and we have no allies. In fact, lately games are still doing so well on PC without regional pricing. [UWSL]Also, the majority of people who read our ramblings wouldn't be able to relate to our situation as they live in a country where you make at least $50k+ a year and/or can work in a McD or as a cashier for a few hours to buy a new game. $60, or even $70, is nothing for them, so it might even be annoying to see us complaining about regional pricing every day. [/UWSL]
[UWSL]It's like screaming into the void.[/UWSL]
[UWSL]It's like screaming into the void.[/UWSL]
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yeah ... it's disappointing ... and infuriating
And all is due to no good reason. F1 2021 would have been the same game without EA. They just got rid of the price because they can.
This. Sony announcing a BB port at Playstation even is like the Pope announcing that they are going atheist at mass. It's the right thing to do but it's still going to piss off that particular crowd.
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And then in a few years we'll get post mortems about how people in our regions are all filthy pirates who've been stealing everything they make. I can already see the busy fingers at work writing them.
I think the only real change that can come from this is more transparency about how regional pricing affects the revenue of games.
Maybe Valve could release some anonymised data on this, showing how titles with and without good regional pricing compare. If you can show to companies thatt they are loosing money on this, maybe they'll start to treat it as a way to make their game more accessible to markets all over the world. There are also tools to region block cheaper keys for resellers as well, if that's the worry.
Didn't see it posted, Omerta for 1€/$:
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Thanks for that, btw what would be the better game, Omerta or Empire of Sin?Didn't see it posted, Omerta for 1€/$:
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For a game (Days Gone) that seems to be one of the least wanted PS4 exclusives it's the 3rd global best seller.
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I wish more games use DLSS. No matter how many times I use it, still amazes me!
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I'll play Days Gone eventually, for like €20 or less. I'd like to get a new GPU before that too so, maybe in the next decade.
They announced both version on launch day, I don't know if they're available, tho.
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Sigh, youtube started asking id or cc info to verify my age to view age rated videos (like game trailers). I've got this account since 2006, chances are I'm an adult.
And it doesn't ask me on my phone only on desktop. I've bought stuff on Google Play before even so I did input cc info at some point even if without saving it
And it doesn't ask me on my phone only on desktop. I've bought stuff on Google Play before even so I did input cc info at some point even if without saving it
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Yeah, I have had this for 4 months and refused every time.Sigh, youtube started asking id or cc info to verify my age to view age rated videos (like game trailers). I've got this account since 2006, chances are I'm an adult.
And it doesn't ask me on my phone only on desktop. I've bought stuff on Google Play before even so I did input cc info at some point even if without saving it
nsfwyoutube will bypass it.
faxcinating idea ... play as a civilians during a sieg
I just search for the trailer on youtube and chances are another source has it without the age gate, lol. Even equally official like Konami Japan in this case.
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I have over 60 hours in this game. My career player is currently ranked #1
Alextended I just use nsfwyoutube (with a shit-ton of adblocking etc) or search youtube for another channel that just reuploads the trailer without an age rating.
Bit late, but I actually did eventually have a workaround to this I did for a couple VR games that had bad updates I had to prevent / remove. It worked with both of them (Beat Saber and Until You Fall) but not sure if different games handle their update tracking differently in Steam.
AFAIK, Steam does not let you outright disable updates or prevent them. The moment any of us with a good Automata install launch the game after patch, we're fucked.
So i mean... cool, i can turn off auto-updates. I'll also just never be able to play it again exactly how i have it.
You need to make a full copy of the game folder - literally copy+paste it. I did it in the same directory for ease but you could do it elsewhere. Rename it to something so you know it's the unupdated version, and chill on it for a while. When the update hits, let Steam update your "real" Nier folder, and then rename that one, and paste the unupdated folder in and name it the "real" folder name (I don't own Nier so I don't know what it is). Steam thinks the game is updated, and doesn't seem to check periodically if it is or not (which isn't surprising, that would be a lot of overhead for people with hundreds of games installed). So when you launch it from Steam it just looks for the exe in the folder with the right name and you should be good to go (until another update).
Downloading old versions from Steam does work, but you need a third party tool to enable it, and I still had to do that folder-rename workaround to launch it from Steam (which, since it was a VR game, I think I had to).
Devs have the option to easily have old versions (even if they only did major updates) available as other branches, but essentially none do. Steam retains those anyway, I'm not even sure if you can clear them out.
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