UBI passes Epi filter debacle cost onto customers?

[Vevster]

Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

UBI should be lowerring their profit margin on the product to cover the cost associated with the extra months of work that was enforced on 1C.

Everything has cause and affect, theres no avoiding it.

At the end of the day, someone is paying for UBI's mistake, and it is YOU!.

So knock me as much as you like, blame it on my internet costs if you must take that shortsighted view, but realise this, i know the value of money. And so do UBI.

You don't know the value of money at all.

If Ubi charged the real cost of the game to you, you would pay far more.

Most games in 2011 are not profitable for editors, about 15%-20% of them are. That is including console games.
The ones that are profitable cover the costs of those who aren't. Or not. So sometimes editors make losses (complete P&L)

If an editor charged a price based on number of units sold, you would end up paying soem games several hundred euros or pounds.

[Komrad]

Originally Posted by Vevster

You don't know the value of money at all.

If Ubi charged the real cost of the game to you, you would pay far more.

Most games in 2011 are not profitable for editors, about 15%-20% of them are. That is including console games.
The ones that are profitable cover the costs of those who aren't. Or not. So sometimes editors make losses (complete P&L)

If an editor charged a price based on number of units sold, you would end up paying soem games several hundred euros or pounds.

If UBI started charging that much they would be out of business, so you see the OP does know the value of money and so does UBI for that matter.


Bryan.

[Vevster]

Originally Posted by Komrad

If UBI started charging that much they would be out of business, so you see the OP does know the value of money and so does UBI for that matter.


Bryan.

Sure, they'd go out of business. Price of games is a market price, not built from cost + margin

No, he doesn't know the value, because he says Ubi should lower their margin in the current situation.

Thus, following this 'stupid) logic, they should increase it in other situations, to cover their own costs (for instance when they publish their own games).


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[MD_Wild_Weasel]

Originally Posted by Vevster

You don't know the value of money at all.

If Ubi charged the real cost of the game to you, you would pay far more.

Most games in 2011 are not profitable for editors, about 15%-20% of them are. That is including console games.
The ones that are profitable cover the costs of those who aren't. Or not. So sometimes editors make losses (complete P&L)

If an editor charged a price based on number of units sold, you would end up paying soem games several hundred euros or pounds.

so how come you can buy this game from russia as a download at a fraction of the cost? 365rubles about 14dollars/pounds

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

btw, just to let you know, i have gladly paid 50pounds for the collectors edition, no doubt this will increase thrice fold with the eventual release of add-on packs ,as i did with forgotton battles/1946 etc purely because i think the game is worth it.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by MD_Wild_Weasel

btw, just to let you know, i have gladly paid 50pounds for the collectors edition, no doubt this will increase thrice fold with the eventual release of add-on packs ,as i did with forgotton battles/1946 etc purely because i think the game is worth it.

Different market, different purchasing power, different MSRP.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by MD_Wild_Weasel

so how come you can buy this game from russia as a download at a fraction of the cost? 365rubles about 14dollars/pounds

Paying 50 euros for CoD if u live in Russia would be the same as u paying some where around 200 euros where u live now.

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

Originally Posted by Baron

Paying 50 euros for CoD if u live in Russia would be the same as u paying some where around 200 euros where u live now.

thats beside the point.

[Vevster]

Originally Posted by MD_Wild_Weasel

thats beside the point.

No, it perfectly answers your question.

The price of games is not a price calculated from expenses incurred.
It's a market price. "Acceptable by the customer" price, if you wish.

All games are far from having the same development & other direct (marketing for instance) costs. But in the same country, they have similar price. Only the retailers make it vary much by adjusting their own margin.

[Wurschtie]

This is normal. It's about the average income in a country. prices are adapted to that. But it's kind of ok. Customers pay less, companies earn less, but the people paid by the companies earn less to. It's about scale. Don't compare apples with oranges disguised as bananas.