Brink retail price is falling down quite quickly.

(Braqoon) #1

Hi all,

In UK retailers dropping price on Brink quite heavy, not after a month since release. Usually that means that game don’t sell well and retailers want to get rid off the stock.

I feel kind of sad as x360 copy owner I don’t get full teams when i play (late evening), and now it looks like game is dying.

I just wonder is Bethesda has any saying in this ? Do they want to meet sales target ? With CoD or Bad Company , prices stay high for a good while and IMO this also shows potential customers that game has a lot’s of vaule.

PS. Will pay real money for Brink on Linux.:penguin:

(Joe999) #2

the price falling down is the same for portal 2 (you get portal 2 for 20 euro now). or any other game. so what’s your point? early adopters pay the highest, then the price goes down very quickly. who cares?

(Crytiqal) #3

CoD4 still sells for 40 bucks

(DarkangelUK) #4

That’s cos Activision are greedy bastards (though I did pick-up MW2 a week after release for £15 in some bizarre deal tesco-online were doing).

(Ero-Sennin) #5

i thought pricing falling down meant there was a lot of sales… Getting rid of Brink’s xbox copy is understandable, it is a bad game for online console gaming. On PC it is around 44.99 - 49.99 $. And no price drop (unfortunately)… Where did you get that information? Internet links pleaz.

(Floris) #6

Economics 101: Demand drives the price, so more demand = higher prices, lower demand = lower prices

I wouldn’t be worried though, because a lower price will mean more people will go out and buy the game.

(Kurushi) #7

It happens to all games these days, even AAA titles. Customers are a fickle bunch, publishers do what they can.

It’s not normally down to quality of the title, more if the publisher can afford to keep a game at the original price or if sales are low. Blizzard and activision are different, they know Starcraft 2 and CoD games will always sell whatever the price. Pretty much everyone else would rather have volume rather than a slow burn at full price

(zenstar) #8

[QUOTE=Florisjuh;332156]Economics 101: Demand drives the price, so more demand = higher prices, lower demand = lower prices

I wouldn’t be worried though, because a lower price will mean more people will go out and buy the game.[/QUOTE]

Demand and supply drive prices. If you’re able to sell more with a slightly lower price then you can make more profit as long as you have the supply to sustain it. Economics are not so cut and dry that you can simply say “more demand = higher price”. There’s a lot more behind it than that.

For example: High demand but higher overstock could lead to lower prices just to shift the stock out of the warehouse.

EDIT: not to mention that low demand does not neccisarily mean low price. Very few people want specialised GFX rendering machines (like the old crays) but they were expensive due to low volume made and specialty niche market.

(Ero-Sennin) #9

[QUOTE=Florisjuh;332156]Economics 101: Demand drives the price, so more demand = higher prices, lower demand = lower prices

I wouldn’t be worried though, because a lower price will mean more people will go out and buy the game.[/QUOTE]

i did not failed my World economics classes, i know how demand/offers works. BUT, some compagnies lower their prices when they made a certain numbers of sales. Sony did that often with their best-sellers on PSX. I wondered if it was the case with Brink. I dont worry either, lower prices means more players maybe.

(Joe999) #10

blu-ray of star trek was at 25 euro for a year whereas most of the other blockbuster movies fell from 25 euro to 10 euro within months! again: i don’t see the point.

in the games industry you try to sell as many games as you can during the launch period. after that it’s game over.

(xTriXxy) #11

priority is to maximize profit.

(wolfnemesis75) #12

I may upgrade to the Limited Edition soon… :wink:

(maeschba) #13

Brink PC for £ 14.99 GAME.co.uk

(Kurushi) #14

[QUOTE=Joe999;332166]blu-ray of star trek was at 25 euro for a year whereas most of the other blockbuster movies fell from 25 euro to 10 euro within months! again: i don’t see the point.

in the games industry you try to sell as many games as you can during the launch period. after that it’s game over.[/QUOTE]

It’s far from game over if you don’t sell at the start of a games’ life. People are used to price drops these days. You get the people that pay full price because they’re looking foward to the game, you get the people that are interested but don’t want to pay full price and you get the people that dont know what the game is but will pick it up cos it’s cheap, then there’s all the other bits inbetween

(Shadowcat) #15

[QUOTE=Florisjuh;332156]Economics 101: Demand drives the price, so more demand = higher prices, lower demand = lower prices

I wouldn’t be worried though, because a lower price will mean more people will go out and buy the game.[/QUOTE]

This is only true if the market decides the prices. In this case, the video game companies decide the prices. It is entirely possible that Activision would make more net profit on CoD4 by lowering the prices to increase sales, and if it were up to the actual store fronts they would likely do it. “Supply and Demand” is balanced by “Cost and Demand”, and the free market system is the best way to find the equilibrium. Activision setting an arbitrary price and refusing to lower it is not free market.

(Braqoon) #16

[QUOTE=Florisjuh;332156]Economics 101: Demand drives the price, so more demand = higher prices, lower demand = lower prices

I wouldn’t be worried though, because a lower price will mean more people will go out and buy the game.[/QUOTE]

Well i hope you right.

(legend123) #17

I think Brink needs to lower its price at least in half.
Update “more important things” FAST and readvertise to get more people buying it and get the numbers back up…

nah thats probably wishful thinking. so sad a game with much potential is almost down the drain.
2300 player peak yesterday (oh boy thats bad).

(Silver.7) #18

What ! I paid £30 with steam pre-order !
There’s a lesson there for me !

(zenstar) #19

I wonder what all those people who said “This game is only worth 1/2 the price” a couple of weeks ago are doing now? This is why I wish 1/2 the population of gamers would stop being early adopters.
If you wait you’ll get the game cheaper and in a more stable condition as a couple of patches would have come out.
Those of us who are willing to go through the trials of early adoption and are willing to risk high prices for a game will continue to preorder / purchase early and pave the way for you by weeding out bugs and providing feedback to the devs.
Sigh… I can dream I suppose.

(Shadowcat) #20

[QUOTE=zenstar;332341]I wonder what all those people who said “This game is only worth 1/2 the price” a couple of weeks ago are doing now? This is why I wish 1/2 the population of gamers would stop being early adopters.
If you wait you’ll get the game cheaper and in a more stable condition as a couple of patches would have come out.
Those of us who are willing to go through the trials of early adoption and are willing to risk high prices for a game will continue to preorder / purchase early and pave the way for you by weeding out bugs and providing feedback to the devs.
Sigh… I can dream I suppose.[/QUOTE]

Even had i known, i like my spec ops pack, and i am willing to support a game that attempts to be different. Even if the game weren’t fun, i wouldn’t be bitter about giving them my money, at the very least they are going in the right direction.