AOE4 Pricing

[KINGofOsmane]

You guys forgot about the multiplayer access subscription model.

Kinda like Wow?

[Riotcoke]

£49.99 GBP is pretty steep though :/

Remember the days when all $60 games were £40 instead of £50 :(

[princeofcarthage]

£49.99 GBP is pretty steep though :/

Remember the days when all $60 games were £40 instead of £50 :(

Damn Pound depreciated so much

[InsectPoison]

It’s £50/$70 for us here in the UK. I think I’ll just wait until this game goes on sale at Christmas time and buy it then.

[RefluxSemantic]

£49.99 GBP is pretty steep though :/

Remember the days when all $60 games were £40 instead of £50 :(

Thats probably mostly due to the Brexit crashing your currency..

[InsectPoison]

£49.99 GBP is pretty steep though :/

Remember the days when all $60 games were £40 instead of £50 :(

Thats probably mostly due to the Brexit crashing your currency..

£40 is still around $57. It should cost maybe £45 at most, £50 is just excessive

[RefluxSemantic]

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£49.99 GBP is pretty steep though :/

Remember the days when all $60 games were £40 instead of £50 :(

Thats probably mostly due to the Brexit crashing your currency..

£40 is still around $57. It should cost maybe £45 at most, £50 is just excessive

Ive been paying $70 for games for ages. €60 is the standard price point..

[InsectPoison]

I just think paying that much for a video game, especially AoE4 , is just way too much. I think i'll just wait till Christmas

[RefluxSemantic]

Im done being respectful. If you think this price is weird then you have a pea for a brain. Good day.

[ChewSick]

Does anyone know what the difference is between the regular aoe4 and "Deluxe" ?

[aaryngend]

Does anyone know what the difference is between the regular aoe4 and "Deluxe" ?

[RefluxSemantic]

I kinda wish they'd ship some physical content to you. Id love to own that sort of stuff, but if its just digital its probably a pass for me.

[InsectPoison]

Im done being respectful. If you think this price is weird then you have a pea for a brain. Good day.

Where did I say the price was weird? I’m just suggesting that I’ll wait until a sale to get it. I’ll let everyone else game test it first then I’ll see if it’s worth getting anyway

[iNcog]

You guys forgot about the multiplayer access subscription model.

What the fuck?

Really? How much is it a month?

[RefluxSemantic]

You guys forgot about the multiplayer access subscription model.

What the fuck?

Really? How much is it a month?

I think its another of Bram's 'jokes'

[aaryngend]

You guys forgot about the multiplayer access subscription model.

What the fuck?

Really? How much is it a month?

Chill, it's just a joke

[princeofcarthage]

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£49.99 GBP is pretty steep though :/

Remember the days when all $60 games were £40 instead of £50 :(

Thats probably mostly due to the Brexit crashing your currency..

£40 is still around $57. It should cost maybe £45 at most, £50 is just excessive

It mostly depends on taxes in the region, developers usually sell the game to the 3rd parties at fixed rate of ~42$ for a 60$ game. *Based on US pricing. Anything excess or less depends on taxes. And prices in some countries are kept less to promote sales due to local economy.

[bobabu]

You guys are complaining about 60 dollars. We have to pay 83 dollars. That's more than Aoe 3 was on release.

[duckzilla]

You guys are complaining about 60 dollars. We have to pay 83 dollars. That's more than Aoe 3 was on release.

But you can use the nazi gold for it

[Garja]

Are you guys pretending to be elastic to the price if you end up liking the game?

[Cleters]

In which universe paying 60 for a video game you gonna spend hundreds hours on it is too much ? I mean you are dedicated enough to be on a forum about the franchise but don't wanna pay for the game. '^^

We are not talking about a little independant game.

[aaryngend]

You guys are complaining about 60 dollars. We have to pay 83 dollars. That's more than Aoe 3 was on release.

Bad comparison, the swiss franc is a very strong currency.
I expect the game to cost 50€ or 45€ instead of 60€ during its first sale (which might happen during christmas, but I somehow doubt it).
New AAA games mostly take at least 6 months until they go on sale for the first time.

[gibson]

In which universe paying 60 for a video game you gonna spend hundreds hours on it is too much ? I mean you are dedicated enough to be on a forum about the franchise but don't wanna pay for the game. '^^

We are not talking about a little independant game.

60$ for a good AAA title isn't too much, I just don't know if aoe4 will live up to expectations of a AAA title.

[Dolan]

Yea 60 is not much if it's good quality, but knowing Microsoft and how they launch a product, the first version is gonna be some buggy mess and it's gonna take months before they fix and make it usable.
I hope I'm wrong, though. I'd love to get back to AOE, but I'm not setting any hopes high rn.

[Dolphincup]

for 60$ i think people might prefer to buy an AAA game instead of aoe4

from wikipedia: AAA is an informal classification used to categorise games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of game.

AoE4 is definition triple-A. You might not have guessed it, but aoe4's budget is really big. They used animation suits and brought in real medieval combat consultants n shit. That's not average-budget development. It's a $60 game because a ton of money and effort was put into its production, not because they're trying to make a quick buck off of you. Whether or not it's fun and competitive enough to live up to the effort put into it is still undetermined of course.

edit: also want to add that this is Relic making the game, so it'll be held to a much different standard than any of the definitive editions, and any assumption of "buggy on release" is unfounded.