38 Studios’ financial apocalypse has been well-documented. Ultimately, no amount of auctioning and memorabilia sales could redeem all-star pitcher Curt Schilling’s game development legacy. Still, you have to wonder who’s behind the pricing of the downloadable version being offered on Xbox Live Games on Demand in Australia. Maybe 38 Studios’ only release is a collector’s item now?
Kingdoms Of Amalur Listed For $109.95 On Xbox Live In Australia
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55 responses to “Kingdoms Of Amalur Listed For $109.95 On Xbox Live In Australia”
But this game was sub-par… and they want premium prices…
(I only played the demo, maybe the released game was waaaay better…)
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It wasn’t, if anything, the demo was better because it cut off before you realized it how bad it is. This game was just boring through and through.
It felt like an MMO except you are the only one playing.
I don’t know what Zap is talking about, especially since there are still demos for games, and Kingdom of Amalur isn’t old enough to get “these days” comparative treatment.
Unreasonable price.
The only way they can even try to justify that price is if all the DLC is included. Even then it’d still be unreasonable.
Looks like an ok game though. I’ll watch it over Christmas on steam to see if the sales cheapen it. If not, meh. I’ve other games to play.
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Which are also cursed.
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the toppings contain potassium benzoate.
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that’s bad.
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I was a huge fan of Morrowind, & when I heard that it had some of the MW team working on it, with the Spawn writer doing the story, I was sold. got it launch day on steam for about $60.
I really liked it & I wanna go back & do another playthrough.
just…. $110 is a bit much…
Edit: spelling
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My copy is currently in my car, I had loaned it to someone and only recently got it back
I still have that last DLC to finish
Then I would deffo play through again
110 is a bit much, but if I knew any of the glorious people who worked on that game were getting that money I would pay it in a heartbeat
edit* my copy was for Xbox 🙂
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Man… don’t leave stuff like that in your car. Especially with the weather turning warm. It’s going to be 40C here in Adelaide today… I remember years back we had a really hot day like this. A girl I work with went out to her car at the end of the day and found all her CDs had melted in their cases! Not like completely melted down to shapless blobs, but certainly warped out of shape so that they’d never play again.
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Damn
Good point
Better get that out tonight then
Also, what will I do with the CD’s in my car?
They live there
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Then they will die there.
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Damn
Actually
Bout time I switched up what’s in my car
And most of the time I just bluetooth the music from my phone
Love my new car 🙂
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You guys are obviously not from around here! That’s a regular first release full price for games in Aus. Some companies have been a bit better setting new prices at AUD$80, which I’m almost happy to pay. Guild Wars 2 was a most notable exception, USD$59.95 world wide!
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I’m pretty sure that’s the highest downloadable price for an old release though. I’d be very surprised(and feel sorry for them) if anyone paid that price for it, even though I loved the game. There’s reasonable prices…and then there’s Microsoft.
P.S. I may or may not have only replied to you because of your name. 😛
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To answer your question Evan, the publisher set that price, because there’s a digital price rorting scam in Australia.
Prototype 1 (ON DISCOUNT) for $49 ok the ps3 store. Seriously. Someone’s gotta start calling them out
And when not a single person buys it, they go “oh well I guess that means nobody likes RPGs LOL TIME FOR MORE MEDAL OF DUTY HONOUR WAR”
what a joke… but not uncommon for us aussies sadly 🙁
great game though… shame the studio is gone 🙁
Games on Demand for AUS would be such a great choice… If only it was actually good value….
IMHO EBGames or someone like that should manage the online store, at least then we would have sales and suiteable pricing… iMHO
It isn’t exactly news that Games on Demand is nowhere near competitively priced for Australia, although this is particularly egregious. That the US GoD store is IP locked hurts as well. Microsoft have two problems here, downloadable full titles are massively overpriced in Australia, and they don’t reduce in price as the retail versions do. I want to be able to buy digital exclusively on console, but that won’t be happening until they get competitive in pricing.
shit even skyrim is still $109.00 on xbox live, seriously how the hell do they stay in business?!!
The solution? Buy a Microsoft points/PSN dollars card from the states. Buy on US Live/PSN from 60% less.
But what about supporting australian Industry and companies like EB You say? They take advantage of their customers they deserve it.
I would throw loads of money at the online store on XBL if the prices weren’t a joke. So instead I keep buying used games from eBay when I want a filler game.
Wow I bought this game the other week for $29 at JB HI FI. $109 is an absolute joke of a price to pay considering the time it’s been out and 38 doesn’t even exist any more.
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