There are plenty of deals. Here are just some examples:
Battlefield 1: $4.99 AUD
Splasher: $3.49 AUD
Lego Marvel Super Heroes: $5.99 AUD
The Lego Movie Video Game: $5.99 AUD
Lego Batman (DC): $5.99 AUD
Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes: $5.74 AUD
Mass Effect 2 DLC Bundle: $13.99 AUD
Mass Effect 3 DLC Bundle: $15.99 AUD
Dead Space: $2.49 AUD
Dead Space 2: $4.99 AUD
Need for Speed: Rivals: $4.99 AUD
Need for Speed: Most Wanted: $4.99 AUD
Need for Speed Shift: $2.49 AUD
Enjoy!
I've been waiting for YEARS for a good deal on the Mass Effect 3 DLC. For the longest time you had to buy Bioware Points (which never went on sale) and then exchange them for the DLC, then they started calling them Origin Points, now you can just buy the DLC directly but it's still so overpriced. $16 of DLC when the base game dropped to $5 like five years ago.
well said.
they release games and dlcs cost more than the actual game. beyond ridiculous.
beyond ridiculous.
It's EA what did you expect?
While you are right, unfortunately it seems EA is not budging on the ME DLCs. This, after all these years, is a pretty good price for the DLC.
Whether it will go cheaper in the future: your guess is as good as mine.
My guess is it will be a couple more years until it goes cheaper based on EA's previous price policy regarding this DLC.
Piracy is sometimes a valid form of protest.
Not purchasing is sometimes a valid form of protest.
Fixed that for you.
Well that is a discount on the DLC. They rarely discount the DLC, and have in the past obfuscated the price by charging Bioware points instead of dollars (a very anti consumer policy they most likely learned from Microsoft).
Just be aware that the entire ME trilogy has been available for $5 before to put their strategy into perspective. It's no different to the printers and toners model. Sell you the game cheap, make a killing on the DLC.
People, either you want to buy the DLCs, in which case $16 is a relatively okay price compared to usual, or you don't and you're just complaining for the sake of complaining.
The Bioware Points are defunct and irrelevant, complaining about them contributes precisely nothing to the conversation. The fact that the base game has been $5 is also irrelevant, DLC is always worse value compared to the base game, everyone knows this. A complete collection of all the games and DLCs would be fantastic, but guess what, there isn't one - and if there were, you'd probably be complaining about the price anyway.
So either buy the DLC or don't, just stop bitching for the sake of it. The 8 year old talking points are getting seriously old at this stage.
It's a discussion on anti consumer marketing practices that loses EA sales. I can tell you they've lost one sale in my mate whom I linked this deal last night.
He isn't interested despite being a huge Mass Effect fan years ago, as he will probably never get around to replaying them. Had EA offered the DLC without having to deal with BioWare points to begin with, he would have bought them back then.
I remember having the discussion with him ages ago where we calculated it was well over $100 to buy enough points to cover all the DLC, but there would always be extra points left over. EA thinks the leftover points encourages consumers to buy more points to maximise value, whereas from the consumers respective they only see perceived waste.
It's not only obfuscating the price, as lostn mentioned above, but also the product. The DLCs were never included in sales because they weren't available in any store for a long time. BioWare's site was the only place to redeem points, not to mention the points only ever went on sale legit once. There was another instance when they were accidentally discounted as part of a sitewide sale that was fixed very quickly. Then there's the hoops you had to jump through.
Either way EA could have made some more money from my mate but these 8 year old talking points are exactly why they never will.
Problem is for every person like your mate there are 10 who go for it and buy regardless so it's well worth it for them.
Oh for sure, that's not a problem.
The problem is with timing and accessibility. My point is had EA made the DLCs accessible earlier they would have had a wider audience, made more cash, and potentially used the revenue generated towards the development of ME Andromeda or Anthem. That last ones a bit of a stretch I know.
Nah, there's plenty of evidence that heavily discounting a complete version of an old game makes more money than keeping the price high (including by deceitful tricks like keeping the DLC separate while calling it the "Deluxe Edition").
Economists have known this since the first big steam sales, where GOTY editions of games that hit $5 or $10 often made more money on that first day than they had for their entire life up to that point (not more sales, more money, even with the lower unit price).
It's pretty obvious that the number of people who would buy a Mass Effect 3 complete edition for $5 would be tens of times higher than those who'd buy it for $23.50 (current sale price with all DLC).
Pretty much every AAA classic best-game-of-it's-year, that's anywhere near this old, hits $10 or less during regular sales. Most of them hit $5 or less.
(And let's not even get into how some of the Mass Effect DLC is broken in the Origin version, but works fine in versions obtained on the seven seas. I can tell you from experience that EA won't fix it just because you paid for it..)
Hey guys, no discussions on forums please!
Calling these tired old circlejerks "discussion" is a bit rich. If people are boycotting EA over some dumb years-old payment schemes, that's their prerogative. But the incessant whingeing and bitching is getting old, move on ffs.
I'm not complaining about the payment scheme, but I disagree with your view on this.
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LOL at the mass effect DLC bundles. Come on EA, those games are a decade old. Do you really think your failure to offer a complete version of the game all these years later is making you more than it's costing you?