NIS America price changes

So they are basically raising most of their prices back to what they were in June of last year for NA on Steam.

Titles that go back to June 2020 prices

• Birthday the Beginnings
• The Caligula Effect: Overdose
• ClaDun x2
• Cladun Returns: This Is Sengoku!
• Criminal Girls: Invite Only
• htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary
• Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk
• The Longest Five Minutes
• A Rose in the Twilight
• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Titles that go back to July 2017 prices

• Disgaea PC
• Phantom Brave PC

Titles that has a new price not previously used

PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness

No price change

• Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

are they not just ending there sale period ?

That's messed up. I already own what I wanted from that list, but still.

"Phantom Brave: 5$ -> 20$". Sheesh, will that game come with a free gold nugget or something?

I guess this is one way to make me (force me to) finally get Disgaea...

Well, no Ys VIII for me. Good luck on them selling a 2016 PS Vita game in 2021 for $60 bucks. And I also wonder to what extent this will affect regional prices.

Not surprised seeing how they jacked up the price of TOCS 4 useless dlcs then put a falcom bundle with 3 games for 211€ (and that is with a discount of 52%!!!).
Imagine paying 442€ for 3 games....This company is so scummy. Why Falcom teamed with them is beyond me (greed probably).

im getting 45 CV back \o/

They probably decided that it's not worth it to sell games at lowered price year round when they can just put a deeper discount during sale each year and sell it at full price outside of sale period.

I'd go mad as a consumer, but then again, there's this thing called "inflation". If I was a business owner I'd do the same thing.

One publisher more that don't want that i buy their games.

Whats NIS?

Meh. Most of the games impacted are pretty old and niche, so probably don't sell a ton of copies to begin with. I'm wondering if these titles are all about to be released on a platform that they currently don't sell through, so they want to be able to sell them at "full" price there. Steam's price parity requirement would force them to raise those prices everywhere. Just a wild guess....

I do have a couple of these on my wishlist, though. Might pick them up now while they are on sale (which could also be what they are hoping for with the timing of this announcement. Hmm....)

Do you have a source with the original ? I want to share it but I don't want to share this one with the photoshop on the bottom.

Sadly.
+1 another stupid greedy japanese publisher
(Others: Square Enix, Spike Chunsoft, Sega)

I wanted to buy all Legend of Heroes and last Ys games with better discounts, but it was expensive for me. So, I'll guess I'll never buy them.

Just buy them now? I bought Psychopass around this discount price Mar 2020. Let's not forget some of these get bundled, like Yomawari I think, Japanese games tend to be long so $5 is quite fair if you're into these games.

that's messed up
i just regret i havent had YS 8

Are you positive its only these games?, there are more games from them I want to buy but I wish I didnt had to right now.

I feel these worth the half of the current regional price.
I'm gonna bid the half of the current price. It is take it or leave it.

The prices for Phantom Brave and Disgaea are absolutely insane. They're doubled and quadrupled! Such a shame, I was about to buy Ys: Memories of Celceta first (it's cheaper), but I think I will now have to fork over some more to buy Ys VIII, because that one will have a 50% price increase. Absolutely bonkers. How do they think this will drive sales in the long run?!

Ouch on Ys. I wanted to grab it eventually (I know I won't get to it now) and by the time that comes the same sale percentage is going to be a higher price. Oh well :/

Grabbing a few of the cheaper things I was holding off on, thinking they'd be the same next sale. I guess at least there was a warning.

Well, to be honest the base prices - especially for outdated games - means nothing. They can make later bigger discounts, resulting with the final prices being similar or exactly the same (but with better PR - hey, 80% down sounds always better than only 60% right?)

as someone who's a fan of Japanese games, I've been used to waiting for the price of those game to go down over years Q^Q
but this is the first time I experience something opposite, it kinda makes me feel i'm punished for waiting to buy games TvT
oh well, like other said, hopefully the discount would be better after they adjust the price and it turns out that the resulting price will be better for us.
anyway here's a song to make up for the ramblings :)))

Glad I snagged a bunch of Disgaea games on sale from Fanatical and will grab the ones I want from the Steam sale.
To be honest I think price hiking really old games is grimey.

Weird that the prices only increased there, and even beeing more cheap in Europe...

so they've changed the price only on those particular games or mentioned titles . . .