Games Price Increasing

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Just noticed it today. All the game price for pre order have been increased to 1499, from our usual 999 Rs.

*www.flipkart.com/games/~pre-order/pr?p[]=facets.platform%5B%5D=PC&p[]=sort=popularity&sid=4rr,tg9

Is it only in Flipkart? Or the other retailer yet to update their price tag. WTH is going on?

From now onwards, we also have to wait for steam sales to get the games cheap.

All new EA games start at Rs 1499.....even other publishers are starting to follow this trend .....this was bound to happen eventually...

Anyone notice these titles whose price has been hiked are only E-Xpress titles.?
E-xpress is the distributor btw.

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dan4u said:
All new EA games start at Rs 1499.....even other publishers are starting to follow this trend .....this was bound to happen eventually...

EA games are like that only. They hardly reduce the prices. and go on sale. But why the price increament on pre-order only?

Dolar Rates are high thats why

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why is call of duty priced so high?

Piracy is one BIG thing to be blamed.

J

My watchdogs preorder from last month is still showing Rs.999 even though it has changed to Rs.1499 originally.

Damn this is bad news.

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3499 for a piece of rehashed engine with dog gameplay and fish AI? Darn me.

What if I had pre'd Arkham when it was Rs. 999 yesterday? I almost did it but thought about waiting for some more news about it. Are they gonna take the extra 500 from my wallet now if I had pre'd it?

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ghouse12311 said:
why is call of duty priced so high?

Activision ftw.

Activision games have **** pricing ever since they won the fight against distributors.

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@NVIDIAgeek Dude arkham origins is still Rs.999 at games4u and gamesinc. Might want to orser ASAP before they raise prices too.

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WTH? Wolfenstein: New Order's 2499 for PC! Bethesda's like Activision too? :<

Holy f-uck. This is bad, this is reallll bad.

Extreme Gamer said:
Activision games have **** pricing ever since they won the fight against distributors.

They never got their pricing down, Activision or Bethesda. The biggest culprit here, is EA, it was their doing that must have gave balls to the distributors. Damn.

cyborg47 said:
They never got their pricing down, Activision or Bethesda. The biggest culprit here, is EA, it was their doing that must have gave balls to the distributors. Damn.

Wrong. Have you forgotten the COD drought that we had during the MW2 and Black Ops time? Apparently the distributors refused to charge ~$60 in INR for each copy, and activision didn't allow distribution. The solution was reached a few years later and the distributors agreed to sell at $60.

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What they don't realise that this will lead to more people pirating games -_- And also, our country's economy is going to hell. Rupee is even weaker. Now 1 dollar=Rs.60.xx .

Jripper said:
What they don't realise that this will lead to more people pirating games -_- And also, our country's economy is going to hell. Rupee is even weaker. Now 1 dollar=Rs.60.xx .

dont worry the dollar is going to go near 65 before it starts coming down.

best of luck buying anything imported now.

time for grey market sales is back.

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Hope our economy gets f***ed and we go back to being non-developing third-world country and everyone can shyt on us.

And every game is becoming MP only...

I think it's only flipkart that is doing this

any news on amazon.in selling PC games?

This is not a Flipkart centric issue
nextworld.in: Search

Some more Good News ;-)

TBP Zindabad!

a game costing more than 3K+, hmm lets see it's around 12% of a average person's salary in India and in US($59.99) it's around 1.44% of a average household income.

Indian avg. Rs.25000/ month
US household avg. $50054 / year

I don't know which MBAs EA is paying for market survey, but they are feeding EA incorrect data for sure.

So by this way, that avg. person's gamer son wants buy a game but that's too costly, so he goes to local DVD wala and get the same game at Rs.100.
This is his first impression after a time it will be embeded in his mind that if he can get the game @Rs.100 why should he pay Rs.3000 + . This continues...

Now let's see the original Rs.999 price, it's still a steep price but still people are willing to pay that much. Those who wants to wait for a price cut will buy it at around Rs.799.

CommanderShawnzer said:
TBP Zindabad!

TPB will give the people an ideal to strive towards. EA will raise the prices, it will stumble, it will fall. But in time, EA will join you with the lower prices, we will help them accomplish that pricing!

just when i started buying original games

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^ That is whats sad really. They did this when a healthy chunk of people were actually turning to original games. And now they go and increase prices.

BTW apparently,EA will increase the prices of their games as well. From 1499 to 1799 or 2499. Even 3299 is possible. And they wonder why piracy is so popular :\

EA to increase PC game prices in India | India games industry news | MCV India

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cyborg47 said:
TPB will give the people an ideal to strive towards. EA will raise the prices, it will stumble, it will fall. But in time, EA will join you with the lower prices, we will help them accomplish that pricing!

Holy dung, that was creative!

I think it's time I take a shyt on gaming. Indians make up for like what, .01% of gaming population?

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Got this mail from Flipkart

We would like to inform you that the MRPs of the game has been changed from Rs. 999/- to Rs. 1499/-. However, we won't be charging the additional amount for existing pre-orders booked at Rs. 999/- (as long as the current order is not cancelled).

Please be informed that this change is being done taking into account the rise in Forex rates. In-case if there is a price drop in future we will refund you the balance amount.

Good thing is that I have already Pre ordered - Watch Dogs, Rom Total War 2 , Splinter Cell , AC Black Flag, Batman A:O. All are COD :-D

I allways pre order games using COD, and flipkart allways delay delivery fro pre orders. So I get to know about reviews of the game. If it is good, I took the delivery. But if it is bad, I cancelled it before shipping.

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arijitsinha said:
Got this mail from Flipkart

Good thing is that I have already Pre ordered - Watch Dogs, Rom Total War 2 , Splinter Cell , AC Black Flag, Batman A:O. All are COD

I allways pre order games using COD, and flipkart allways delay delivery fro pre orders. So I get to know about reviews of the game. If it is good, I took the delivery. But if it is bad, I cancelled it before shipping.

Thats a great idea... Wish I had thought about CoD and preordered as well, I'm most likely to buy AC, SC and Watch Dogs unless they get terrible reviews...

I'll wait for price drop or better deals around new year. With a newborn son, I'm unlikely to get enough time to finish off my current backlog of Crysis 3, AC3, Tomb Raider, Alan Wake (both of them), NFS Most Wanted(new one- got bored of it in 2 races, might never play), The Walking Dead and Dear Ester... I dont understand why am I thinking of buying more games? Not to mention 2 cricket games that are probably releasing in next few months...

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arijitsinha said:
Got this mail from Flipkart

Good thing is that I have already Pre ordered - Watch Dogs, Rom Total War 2 , Splinter Cell , AC Black Flag, Batman A:O. All are COD

I allways pre order games using COD, and flipkart allways delay delivery fro pre orders. So I get to know about reviews of the game. If it is good, I took the delivery. But if it is bad, I cancelled it before shipping.

Should have done that, these prices are stupid. Will have to wait for a Steam sale and wait for the price to drop to $5 before I think of buying one.

mikael_schiffer said:
just when i started buying original games

Welcome to the club.

Anyway will go out from this club and buy from steam sales or when prices goes down.

not every game is there in steam

avinandan012 said:
not every game is there in steam

But every game is there on TBP, though I prefer not to use it as I have started to play original games. Anyway I have a long TPL so if they bring the prices down by the year then its OK or I am going the wrong way.

R

Bad news for legit players.

More Bad News

Battlefield 4, that was rumoured to be priced at Rs. 3,299 will now cost Rs. 3,499 across the PS3 and PC. FIFA 14 will set you back by Rs. 2,499 on PC and Rs. 3,499 on the PS3, while Need for Speed: Rivals, like Battlefield 4 costs an absurd Rs. 3,499 on both PS3 and PC.

TBP i'm coming! :grin:

Its like some of those old bollywood movies, the protagonist becomes a thief in bad circumstances...guess that will be pirate story, lol!

rajnusker said:
Bad news for legit players.

True..I just started buying games, thank to the kickas$ pricing, it goes on a reversal...middle finger to all the legit buyers

I preordered BF4 when they still dint put that insane price tag. I am royally screwed .. damn

digit1191 said:
I preordered BF4 when they still dint put that insane price tag. I am royally screwed .. damn

ask for your 500 bucks back

digit1191 said:
I preordered BF4 when they still dint put that insane price tag. I am royally screwed .. damn

On game4u? They gave a confirmation on the fb page that people who pre ordered the game before the price update, get the game with old pricing, not the new one. So don't worry

CommanderShawnzer said:
ask for your 500 bucks back

500?! Isn't it like 2000 bucks?

1499rs to 3499rs.

cyborg47 said:
On game4u? They gave a confirmation on the fb page that people who pre ordered the game before the price update, get the game with old pricing, not the new one. So don't worry

500?! Isn't it like 2000 bucks?

1499rs to 3499rs.

digit1191 said:
500 for pre order. 1k i will have to pay when i go to get the game. Or more if the price is higher. It is a pretty famous retail shop.

Got it?

oh okay!

That's one ugly scheme though, can't believe people fell for that

@cyborg47 : I preordered at a local retail shop. Not game4u

digit1191 said:
@cyborg47 : I preordered at a local retail shop. Not game4u

Then kick his as$ and get the money back..or just grab some game and run away

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This is just so much fail :\ The base version of BF4 costs 3.5k?? Then how much for the premium edition? 5k?6k? :\ Not to mention paid DLCs -_- Damn you EA.

And fifa 14 is priced 2499 but it doesn't even have the new ignite engine. Time to boycott EA.

So sad. Anyway even if we boycott it's not gonna make much of a diff. ppl in other countries will still buy...

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Holy shiznits!

Battlefield 4 -: Flipkart.com

Also no China Rising DLC?! F*** it, I think I'm done with BF.

If this continues for all games, I might go back to using Linux versions

We Indians are going to be looted. Btw ghost from tdf made a petition sign it

Here
www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/ea-i...ducts-in-india-bf4-nfs-rivals-and-fifa#invite

theserpent said:
We Indians are going to be looted. Btw ghost from tdf made a petition sign it

No use they won't listen.

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585 votes

nice effort... Hope it continues to grow...

I think the main reason why the prices are increasing in India are because people from other countries are trying and getting games from Indian servers and thus EA is not getting what they want so they are simply going to maintain a global price for everywhere.

I think it will boost up piracy ...

Its quite obvious.

gameranand said:
I think the main reason why the prices are increasing in India are because people from other countries are trying and getting games from Indian servers and thus EA is not getting what they want so they are simply going to maintain a global price for everywhere.

The main PR reason, yes. But the actual reason, nope. It's just business jack!

cyborg47 said:
The main PR reason, yes. But the actual reason, nope. It's just business jack!

Yeah well EA is known as Evil company.

Everyone here should read this thread [if not already read

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IndianVideoGamer » #EAPCIndia – Indian PC gamers, speak your mind! | IVG is your source for video game news, reviews and previews with an unique Indian perspective
^ Explains what gameranand said,
EA was forced to increase price or do region locking! It chose to increase price because when Nintendo did region locking people started raging!