Community Octopath Traveller adds Denuvo; puts absurdly high regional pricing on Steam

[MegaApple]

It just added Denuvo on the Store page.

Most baffling are the absurdly high regional prices. (Click on the heading links for more detailed price breakdown)

Currency	Standard $60 Regional Pricing	OCTOPATH'S Regional Pricing
Russia​	1085 ₽ (~$17)​	4499 ₽ (~$70)​
​ India​	₹ 1299 (~$19)​	₹ 4250 (~$61)​
​ Turkey​	TL 92 (~$15)​	TL 320(~$53)​
Argentina​	ARS$ 649,99 (~$14)​	ARS$ 2389,99 (~$53)​
Mexico​	Mex$ 527.99 (~$28)​	Mex$ 1399 (~$73)​
​ Brazil​	R$ 109,99 (~$27)​	R$ 226,99 (~$56)​
Ukraine​	699₴ (~$27)​	1600₴ (~$61)​
​ Thailand​	฿699.00 (~$22)​	฿1899.00 (~$60)​

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Digital Foundry's analysis :

 

[MegaApple]

 

[Ge0force]

These prices are really insane. Good to see people standing up against this!

 

[Xiaomi]

$1950 NT ($62 US) in Taiwan, when most new games launch for around $1600 ($50 US) and most people take home less than $600 US a month. Video games are expensive here, but Square-Enix and Capcom are particularly dumb about this kind of thing.

 

[MegaApple]

$1950 NT ($62 US) in Taiwan, when most new games launch for around $1600 ($50 US) and most people take home less than $600 US a month. Video games are expensive here, but Square-Enix and Capcom are particularly dumb about this kind of thing.

Going by the Steam's standard regional pricing for $60 price tag, you should be priced NT$ 858

 

[Xiaomi]

Going by the Steam's standard regional pricing for $60 price tag, you should be priced NT$ 858

Yeah, but no one does that, unfortunately. I bought Sekiro for $1590 and that was on the cheap side for a new release. Most are up around $1690 or higher, with Capcom busting in with their cool-guy price of $1960 for RE2 and MHW, Rage 2 going for an aggressive $1799, and now this from Squeenix. It's no wonder console/PC gaming are barely a thing here except among foreigners/immigrants like me.

 

[texhnolyze]

Yeah, but no one does that, unfortunately.

Yeah, this. Especially for big publishers with $40-60 games. Indie games tend to follow the regional pricing guidelines.

 

[MegaApple]

Yeah, but no one does that, unfortunately. I bought Sekiro for $1590 and that was on the cheap side for a new release. Most are up around $1690 or higher, with Capcom busting in with their cool-guy price of $1960 for RE2 and MHW, Rage 2 going for an aggressive $1799, and now this from Squeenix. It's no wonder console/PC gaming are barely a thing here except among foreigners/immigrants like me.

THAT'S WHY THIS SHOULD BE PROTESTED!
For non-US customers, this is as bad as any MTX/Lootboxes or exclusivity deals.

Yeah, this. Especially for big publishers with $40-60 games. Indie games tend to follow the regional pricing guidelines.

Indie games will forever get my support and love because of this.

 

[Xiaomi]

THAT'S WHY THIS SHOULD BE PROTESTED!
For non-US customers, this is as bad as any MTX/Lootboxes or exclusivity deals.

Totally agree. It's mindbending how long they've been getting away with selling products for basically double what they're worth in terms of purchasing power.

 

[KainXVIII]

1085 ₽ (~$17)

Correction - standard price for $60 is usually 1999 ₽ (~$30)

 

[RionaaM]

Terrible pricing, yup. No idea why they are doing this, I don't believe the absurd price will make up for all the lost sales in those regions.

Sadly big publishers are doing this often. Ubi games here in Argentina are very expensive; they went and raised the price of their old games for reasons unknown. The worst of the worst, however, is Konami, with regional prices that match the US price at best. and triple it at worst. I really should go through my wishlist and remove all of their games, because there's no fucking way I'll ever buy them at these exorbitant prices.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I'm just kind of confused how whoever it is at Square making these decisions can possibly look at Octopath and go "Hmmm... yeah, lets launch it at a higher price than we did FFXV with all of its expansions and PC specific additions bundled".

e:
Like.... if they'd put a fucking shit ton of PC specific features into this, like mod and workshop support so you can make your own stories and play as Chrono or some shit, yeah okay. But a late-ass bare bones port? Of a 'mid-tier' title?

 

[lashman]

Correction - standard price for $60 is usually 1999 ₽ (~$30)

well it SHOULD be 1085spacebux .... that's volvo's guideline pricing .... the fact that pretty much all big publishers completely ignore that says a lot about them and how they view poorer countries

Like.... if they'd put a fucking shit ton of PC specific features into this, like mod and workshop support so you can make your own stories and play as Chrono or some shit, yeah okay. But a late-ass bare bones port? Of a 'mid-tier' title?

squeenix gonna squeenix

 

[bbd23]

83 canadian dollars lmao. thank god im not interested in this game. the demo was extremely boring when I played it on the switch

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

RionaaM Triple! WTF!? How the fuck can they think that people in those countries with vastly different cost-of-living can pay TRIPLE American prices? My mind is boggled right now.

 

[RionaaM]

RionaaM Triple! WTF!? How the fuck can they think that people in those countries with vastly different cost-of-living can pay TRIPLE American prices? My mind is boggled right now.

No freaking idea, haha. It's crazy, either they have no idea how regional pricing works or they believe we eat shit.

 

[Naoshibu]

What did they smoke?
Steam sale list here we go i guess.

 

[Rosenkrantz]

Someone at SE was definitely drunk on counterfeit vodka while adding these prices. Either that or SE is ridiculously incompetent at everything pc related.

 

[Guilty of Being]

I shall not touch until I know I will play it as soon as I download it.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

The price is ridiculous. There is no way it will sell well in those countries.

I was interesting in Octopath but I'll pass.

Edit: its even pricier than Rage 2 and Bethesda loves fucking up Brazilian regional prices.

 

[teezzy]

Octopath has been on my radar forever, and having a PC port is a dream. Hell is gonna have to freeze over before I drop more than $30 USD on this though. Its as though SE doesnt want the game to sell.

 

[Rosenkrantz]

Honestly, I thought the price was a mistake, but it has been a day and SE haven't fixed it yet. Almost like they're sabotaging their own product.

 

[lashman]

Honestly, I thought the price was a mistake, but it has been a day and SE haven't fixed it yet. Almost like they're sabotaging their own product.

squeenix gonna squeenix ... they're really good at doing that

 

[tet666]

Yeah i'm out not going to support any more anti consumer bs from SE.

 

[Dandy]

This was a game I was super excited for when it was first revealed, but it seems to get nothing but criticism. The pricing is just one more reason to avoid it.

 

[ISee]

Wow, that's insane pricing. Are they afraid of VPN buyers?

 

[beep boop]

This was a game I was super excited for when it was first revealed, but it seems to get nothing but criticism. The pricing is just one more reason to avoid it.

Counter to what pre-release messaging would have you believe, I think that if you don't go in expecting a oldschool JRPG you'll probably have a better time. It just doesn't have the same scope or narrative cohesiveness of games like Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, or Dragon Quest. I was convinced it was gonna be one of those, so I was really disappointed when I found out that was not entirely the case. I ended up selling the game halfway into your crew's second chapters. The best part of Octopath is its battle system imo. If you like the aesthetic, that's a nice plus too. The writing didn't really do it for me either, but that's probably also a very subjective.

 

[MegaApple]

Ubi games here in Argentina are very expensive; they went and raised the price of their old games for reasons unknown.

They did that for us in 2017, raised prices for ALL their games from 100%-150%. They lowered it down a bit, but it's still expensive than the previous prices.

Correction - standard price for $60 is usually 1999 ₽ (~$30)

What I mean by standard regional pricing is that Steam has put prices equivalent to it's USD counterpart for all supported currencies based on the purchasing power of the currency, taxes etc.
They've assigned 1085 ₽ to Russia.
See prices for Bloodlines 2 : Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 · AppID: 532790
But most big publisher almost never adhere to this and manually put prices. Hence 1999 ₽ in most big name games.

Edit: its even pricier than Rage 2 and Bethesda loves fucking up Brazilian regional prices.

Damn!! This is nuts!
A quick reminder, Octopath is one the top ten of Steam's wishlist, but is nowhere near the top selling mark. That's what happen when you piss off your non-US customers.
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[uraizen]

Hope the title has room for an edit when we find out everything that's wrong with the port.

 

[MegaApple]

Hope the title has room for an edit when we find out everything that's wrong with the port.

It sure has. I'll keep it updated.

 

[MegaApple]

I've added Digital Foundry's analysis.
TL;DR effects are much better on PC thanks to added power, and 60 FPS. No issues that DF found.

 

[KainXVIII]

No issues that DF found.

Even with pricing? /s
And reviewbombing begins

 

[beep boop]

Even with pricing? /s
And reviewbombing begins

Is regional pricing off topic? Seems pretty on topic for people in said regions. Wonder how it turns out.

I've added Digital Foundry's analysis.
TL;DR effects are much better on PC thanks to added power, and 60 FPS. No issues that DF found.

Any mention of the blurry sprite scaling? Can't watch atm D:

 

[Rosenkrantz]

Even with pricing? /s
And reviewbombing begins

Ah, good old no Russian, no buy. Bitching about the amount of dialogue in a decidedly old-school JRPG is pretty dumb though.

 

[beep boop]

Ah, good old no Russian, no buy. Bitching about the amount of dialogue in a decidedly old-school JRPG is pretty dumb though.

To be fair, there's A LOT of "exposition time" in this game even by JRPG standards. But I can't see how they'd come to realize that with 0.1 hrs of play time

 

[Rosenkrantz]

To be fair, there's A LOT of "exposition moments" in this game even by JRPG standards. But I can't see how they'd come to realize that with 0.1 hrs of play time.

Well, perhaps it was too much for them even in 0.1 hrs they played, maybe they stuck at the menu and noped out of it after seeing so many unrecognizable words.