Sleeping Dogs: When will your price return to normalcy?

Yeah, games of big companies will never be 91% xd

Well it was 7 or 8 on GreenManGaming with cash back option

DXHR has gone below that already, so I imagine within a year so will this, considering it's Squeenix

Look at GTA they are cheap now :)

but, is a key, a gift is more valuable (and reliable in case of trade)

I completely agree with you. It really irritates me when people consider the lowest price the game was on sale for as it's actual value. It's value is whatever the price is right now.

Sleeping Dogs was published by Square Enix, I believe.

I paid 6 Dotas 2, I remember it very good, :D and was after price dropped muahaha, poor guy who traded with me, but trade rules are strong ;)

It is certainly some bullshit. And it certainly wouldn't be valued at $5 if no one traded it near that value. It gets ruined for everyone else because other people decide to sell themselves short and it fucks the market value for all. I mean, it's even worse for the Sleeping Dogs situation. It wasn't a pricing error for a day or more. It lasted 30 minutes. That's a pretty small window for a pricing error and for a discount that you won't see for a long, long time from Steam. Guess what, buyers? You missed the small window. Now the price is $17 on Steam. Of course I don't want a $4.99 game for my Sleeping Dogs.

I'll still never understand why communities allow this sort of behavior. If something was on sale and you bought an extra copy, fantastic, you scored a deal. Now, someone missed that deal and they want that game, but not for full price. Who knows when the next sale will be and the person wants that game sooner rather than later. Then, everyone tries to say the game is worth no more than its value during the sale. Now, why is that? Why is my product worth less because I scored a deal and you didn't? Powers of the market, supply and demand, blah blah. NO. The sellers make it this way. If people didn't sell their shit for such low values, this wouldn't happen. If you acquire a $20 Steam MSRP game and get it for $4.99, I get it, you're not gonna sell it for $20. But... how about $10? Or $15? Or hey, even $17? What, someone doesn't wanna save $3 to get it now? Okay, then you can wait until it goes on sale for -75% again and stop hassling my ass about it. Many of these games are worth plenty, but traders fuck it up for everyone and then make it so all these buyers expect it and refuse to settle for anything else. Trading is really good for certain reasons. You want a game now, but want it cheaper than its current value (e.g. missed a sale), you have something to trade that you acquired through other means but no longer want that item and want a new game instead (e.g. swapping games you got for free, from a friend, keys, in-game items like TF2 and DOTA 2). Now, why should the seller be at such a disadvantage? They're the ones with the product. Especially on sites such as SteamTrades where you post what you have and what you want and people post their offers. They are the ones posting their offers and you're sitting back, accepting or denying. Then people get pissed off when you don't want to break even on your trade or hell, sometimes even when you deny a trade that would give you a loss. It's your damn product, you'll do as you please with it.

TL;DR Sellers sell their product (games) for drastically reduced values and thus fuck the market value for those games and buyers expect nothing else.

wasn't the Two Worlds: VE price error also corrected after 1 or 2 hours?

The only people that lost money on this [if they even did] would be steam since they pay for the keys the devs get that money and then steam resells them but seeing how well it sold during that time they probably have nothing to worry about.

Lol, sorryyyyy. But you know very well that I'm not cheap :P (also bought the base game at close to full price).

Developers will get the pacted price. Steam is the one to eat the loss.

Anyways, I got my copy for like 16$ a couple of months ago at amazon. And I would gladly pay that amount of money for the game again. That does not mean that I did not got a couple of those when the price came out, plain impulsiveness I guess.

Not as many as Corinne did though.

To be fair I probably would have bought this game when it was released at the retail price if I didn't see the "Lol we are the best devs, here comes 30+ DLCS's".

I jumped on the error, but I still might have convinced myself to get it at 66% off...I just cant stand the way DLC is nowadays. Makes me not want to buy games, its the same reason I never bought Saints Row 3 and jumped on it when it went super cheap last summer sale. Also I know most of the DLC is useless, its just a moral thing almost...can't explain it correctly.

It's too soon. When the cheap copies become more scarce, price will go back to normal.