Arctic Blast
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ORIGINAL: papajack They are cheap but once the company go bust , you lose the ability to reinstall the games and they are as good as gone Nope, because now there is GOG and you can get games of companies that have been long gone for nearly 20 years now. Like Master of Magic, Master of Orion 2, Betrayal at Krondor and many more and they are getting more old games all the time now. Their games range from $2.99 to $9.99 also and many great games that will work on Vista and Win7 machines now. And none of them are new games by a long shot, meaning they hardly apply in a discussion of new game pricing. Every one of them was a new game at one time bz. I'm not talking about every newly released game being $8, man some people need to start thinking outside the lines. quote:
You're not gonna find new games for $8. Sorry. Also Nefarious you are wrong here as well since shortly after Victoria origional was released it fell to .99 and just recently HOI III fell way below $8 shortly after release. So, yes I can get New games for $8 or less occassionally as well. Mount & Blade origionally also came out at $7.50 on Steam shortly after its release. Oh an another one I just recalled Combat Mission:Shock Force fell to $4.00 shortly after its initial release because it was so bug ridden like the rest I listed above except for M&B. Most of the prices you're listing were temporary sales, NOT permanent price drops. Those happen regularly, then the price goes back to what it was before. As for the actual price drops you listed...CMSF and Victoria...did those drops happen within a couple weeks of release? No. They happened over time, so it's not comparable to the situation with a game only a few weeks old like Hannibal. Now, I DO think Matrix and others need to start looking at the prices of more of their back catalog, particularly games that have been out for years, but that's a different situation from a game that hasn't been out for a month.
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