Are you seeing the same message when you visit Nuuvem?
yeah, but these prices are uninteresting. nuuvem was so great, because we got brazilian prices. 60$ for civ 6 and 40$ for hoi 4 doesn't sound so great. ;)
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I haven't looked at the pricing yet but yeah, that was definitely the appeal of it. It seemed like everything became PayPal locked anyway so I guess it was inevitable. RIP killer Nuuvem deals.
edit: there doesn't appear to be anything on sale right now
edit 2: well there are a few sales running, just not for this region. they were visible via VPN
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Well, selling ROW keys at Brazilian prices wouldn't be such a good deal to the publishers, wouldn't it?
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i am not even sure about that. it's not like we would suddenly spent 2x the money on games, if all ways of getting cheap games suddenly disappeared. most people have a monthly budget for games, more or less. so if we have a group of people who always buy cheap games (nuuvem, g2a, kinguin), and then they can't do that anymore - they will just buy half the amount of games. they will not spend more. for the publisher that means no real difference in revenue. just less games sold.
of course that is a very simple way of seeing it. but i think there's also some truth in it. my point is - preventing people to buy at nuuvem will not necessarily result in increased revenue for the publishers.
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I definitely think there is a good amount of truth there. Games getting offered in bundles is similar in a way too. Yeah, you get less revenue per unit sold than a traditional store sale, but you are probably also selling copies to people who wouldn't have bought it otherwise.
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The publishers' problem is exactly what you describe: groups could just buy up keys at their cheap prices at Nuuvem and sell it on the grey/black market, using the basic principle of more people knowing about G2A thanks to its overly aggressive and sometimes borderline illegal marketing strategy, than Nuuvem. While it is a rule of thumb that most sales of a game are generated in the first 1-2 weeks upon release, so the income relies on those who pre-purchase or buy at full price, the long tail of sales can never be underestimated when it comes to decide which product was successful (and needs to be repeated or continued) and which were not. (For example, I wouldn't be surprised if Gearbox was still living on mostly Borderlands 2 money, not Battleborn sales.)
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well, that was not what i described. i talked about buying games there for personal use, not for reselling purposes. but you have a point, i admit. it still sucks for us as customers. ;)
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I know what you meant to say, but your point of view as a customer is actually pretty irrelevant for the publisher. At that level, which is pretty much manufacturing in classic industry, the company doesn't care at all about what the consumer may think down the line, they see the wholesaler and maybe the store level in the chain when planning.
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While publishers as a whole will not get more money, one publisher will get more money than others, since you'll buy his game.for more money.
I guess publishers prefer to risk you paying them $60 or $0, instead of sure $30.
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it's not that simple.
They want as many people as possible to pay $60. And if someone is willing to pay more, they want that too (e.g. Deluxe edition, DLC).
Of the ones who won't pay $60, they want them to pay as much as possible. The problem is that if they make the game available for, say, $40, then a lot of the people who would pay $60 will pay $40 instead. Hence why region locks are a thing. It prevents people willing to pay more from paying less.
They then use sales to pick up the rest.
First X weeks it'll be full price. once sales start dropping off, they'll give a 10% discount, or a 20% sale here and there. When that's no longer enough, they might do a permanent price drop, or they might do a deeper discount. But the discount shouldn't be for too long, because there are still people willing to pay full price who haven't done it yet.
Eventually, sales become very low, so they'll throw the game into T3 of a humble bundle, or some other heavy discount, to pick up the customers who may only be willing to pay $10. But at that stage, there are still enough sales at full price that they only do it as a one-off.
At some point sales at full price become almost non-existent, so they drop the price. But, because a $40 game at 75% off sells more than the same game at $10, they'll leave the high sticker price, even if discounts are available just about every week.
Eventually even that is not enough, and the price gets dropped to bare minimum or becomes permanently discounted.
OR, they decide that "a new generation" should experience the game, and they invest in a remaster. This is a calculated risk, because the remaster needs to sell enough at a high enough price point to justify the cost of the remaster. But when the remaster is released, it basically starts the process all over again (though, probably at an accelerated pace)
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Yeah, I get that message as well, but these are the same prices as Steam now. ;_;
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how do they dare to use row prices for countries not in SA?
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I wasn't complaining and that's totally understandable. This was just an informative post to see if other people are seeing the same thing. I would certainly shop there if there were some good deals, like with any other reputable store.
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my comment wasn't for you, don't worry. it's fine that they finally added row games to their store.
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И без това беше трън в гъза да купуваш от там. Веднъж се мъчих супер много с VPN и все пак не успях да купя от там.....
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Гадно беше, да. Max Payne 3 така и не успях да си го взема, а пробвах поне два пъти. От там имам само Dishonored и Armello, обаче в сравнение с цените им на другите места, бяха почти без пари.
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Did they raise the price in R$ too? Or just made so that people outside or that region could still buy games from them by using steam prices?
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Shows prices in USD, but still won't let me buy anything "This item is unavailable in your country"
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Nuuvem is Dead now, nothing will be cheap now when they calculating all games with dollar....
normal prices...
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Hahaha now I'm happy to be living in South America >:D
Cheap games!, come to me!!!
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It's actually been that way for awhile now, with a regional warning on every product page. And yes, a lot of the time it is simply not true.
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Alien: Isolation - Season Pass is $5 (83% off) for shoppers in the United States
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Just saw this message when I browsed the Nuuvem store:
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