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[Kogia_breviceps]

I'd not planned to buy Mass Effect 2, but then I saw that it was on the store , read all the rave reviews and so thought I'd give it a try.

I was about to add it to my cart when I realised the price, £47.99!! It's nearly a year old and on Amazon I can buy the disc for £17.32, the PSN is an extreme rip-off.

Just to be clear PSN CHARGE £30.67 more than a full disc purchace, where you get the box and booklet as well.

There's a ton of great new games being released over the next few months and even the one I've pre-ordered from Amaazon I only paid £39.99 and that's with extra bits.

Come on, it did you no favours, I now won't bother buying the game.

[GraphiteGB]

You have a choice.

DONT BUY, YOUR NOT FORCED TOO.

EA controll store Price not SONY, so wrong forum anyway.

but EA is not allowed to out price the retail stores ever, they ALLWAYs have to be higher than retail or retail stores would not sell there product ever,  This includes shops that won't discount to clear. (instead they return the product back to EA for refund.)

Hence Amazon.co.uk don't have any and you have to deal with clearence items from Amazon market sellers.

But the way.

The manual for ME2 in my Box is the health and safety and cerburus code only. No gameplay info.

The manual is built in the game BD, so you can't learn to play the game, outside the game use..

[Kogia_breviceps]

Thanks for the pointless cliche and over-used 'your (you may mean you're) not forced to buy', I am quite aware of that and I said so in my post, I won't be.

Why every time someone makes a perfectly valid complaint about something, some crazed person always responds with this, as if it automatically negates any worth in pointing out the fault or problem.

Thanks for the info that EA controls the price, I will have a search and see if there is any place I can have a grumble at them.

As for the retail price, you're slightly misleading, there is no law that states EA is not allowed to outprice a store, that is just an agreement between them and stores, but I understand what you are saying. However I didn't say I object to the PSN price being more (although I do wish it weren't), but there's a quite a big difference between being more expesnive and being £30 more expensive.

[GraphiteGB]

U ant woth runing te gramer and spell# 4.. U knew what it ment so It no mater ony way. te game is on sail for more then thirty five nicker in stores still so your . was even < relevent than te over 3 thousand topics on store prices, Decode that then.. If your so smart.

[trubadman]

I'm fed up of these threads, i guess all these prices highlight that when games go digital totally and discs are no longer sold we are at the mercy of the developers with regards to price, as there will only be one place where you can purchase the games.

[Kogia_breviceps]

trubadman , sadly I am forced to agree, I much prefer digital distribution, but once you remove retail competition, it appears to leave us (the customers) once again open to chronic over-inflated price fixing. Logically you would think it cheaper than a carbon copy, but companies don't work that way and it does seem that going fully digitial will not be a benefit to our pockets.

The huge rise of online retail competetion has forced prices down (of everything, not just games) quite considerably in Europe and North America. I've recently moved back to Hong Kong from the UK and internet shopping has not exploded in any way close to the way it has in the West. That has meant it's no longer cheaper for almost anything here, in fact I find most of the time now I still buy from UK or US online stores and get it shipped over. When you compare EU & US internet prices with Hong Kong store prices, it removes Hong Kong as the cheap shopping mecca it once was famous for.

I guess it shows how spoilt we've got in Europe and NA with such intense competition for our fake money.

[QuietlyWrong]

Time will tell. I sit here with a zen-like calm and allow all these (many, many) threads about on-store prices wash over me as the gentle tide washes over the pebbles on the beach and makes them all the smoother.

And all those (many, many) threads demanding the return of games from the past...

When the first digitised downloadable music hit the internet, it was expensive and riddled with crippling DRM and not always of the best quality. The consumers went about their business continuing to buy the physical discs until this all changed.

I'd like to see the same happen to games. But there needs to be competition. The next wave of competition between the home consoles may come down to pricing strategies on the respective stores. We must vote with our wallets.

[InfiniteStates]

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Kogia_breviceps wrote:

Come on, it did you no favours, I now won't bother buying the game.

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You should get it from Amazon - it's a great game. There's definitely your money's worth at £40, nevermind anything cheaper. But don't come on here and rant about store prices expecting sensible replies - this is not an original topic by any stretch of the imagination.

[British_KILLA--]

but why are the psn games so expensive as theres no box, manuel or disc

sony are just greedy gits

if this is the future then i would leave along with millions of other people

[CrustyJockStrap]

don't you mean a game that is nearly 2 years old PC/360 version!

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British_KILLA-- wrote:

but why are the psn games so expensive as theres no box, manuel or disc

sony are just greedy gits

if this is the future then i would leave along with millions of other people

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 Sony do not set the price of 3rd party software it is down to the games publisher!

But saying that they do charge the publisher so much per GB of download which could explain part of the resion they are so expensive.

Buy also they are not to be sold cheaper than shops otherwise shops could refuse to stock the game.