Cheapest price avaliable for Xbox One, its $89 @ JB Hi-Fi and $82.99 at amazon ($77.99 for prime members)
For PC its the cheapest price for non amazon prime members, its $79 @ JB Hi-Fi and $70.99 at amazon ($65.99 for prime members)
For PS4 you're best off getting it on amazon as its already $68 for non prime members and $63 for prime members See here
The game launches on the 16th of April 2020 Delayed. September 17
Its been months and they haven't, even emailed them and they said there was nothing they could do but are "working to maintain competitve pricing", they only matched Harvey Norman for the PS4 version.
You think the people who answer emails at Amazon have any influence, or are even in the loop, on pricing months in advance???
Customer support teams are typically like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed shit.
Amazon is a pestilence. I'd rather support local jobs than some overseas oligarch tosser.
they dont support you, though.
They have a store where I can go in and see the product and get customer service….
@onlinepred: Haha. Customer service at Harvey Norman? Do you live near the golden store? All they want to do is sell and upsell stock they don't even have, and won't have for over a month.
@BradH13: I have had nothing but positive things to say about my dealings with HN. Currently working with them to get replacement cussions for my 8 yo couch I bought from them.
and get customer service….
You did read that correctly as 'Harvey Norman' right?
Also, what kind of customer service do you need for purchasing a video game?
@kapone: Just saying that I would rather support a physical store I can walk in, look at and try products, get support with etc over a store like amazon, especially if the price diff is only a few bucks. What products do you draw the line at, I don't know, but since I can buy games from JB/HN etc I would prefer to buy from them, so that in the future I can continue to walk in their stores
@onlinepred: Get your point, and agree with the sentiment. But HN is not a store that would ever get my loyalty.
Harvey Norman is a crook and a tax dodger, who screws over franchisees. Plus HN sales people are highly manipulative and misleading, seems to be a culture across all of their stores (know of many older people who got talked into buying ridiculous stuff they didn't need, like $100 Monster cables. They'll get no loyalty from me.
JB is a store I'm happy to support however. Have never had a bad experience with them.
@kapone: Yea for sure, I mean HN and Amazon are just as bad as eachother, if anything amazon is a whole lot worse, so JB all the way!
@kapone: Wish I could upvote you forever. HN is the worst and Gerry Harvey is absolutely a tax dodger.
Example of shady HN practices: back when online buying wasn't really a thing in Aus (circa 2004 or so), I needed an external HD, so I looked around. Only a few were for sale locally, including one model of a WD at HN. At the time the AUD was worth half the USD making everything really expensive here. I mean, that's fair enough… but HN capitalized on that by marking up anything like that to a ridiculous point. At the time Newegg didn't ship here but it was good at giving me price comparisons on tech stuff. It basically turned out that HN had close to 200% markup compared to the US RRP. What was worth 100 in the US should have been about 200 here, give or take. HN wanted something like 370.
But that's not the worst part— a few years later the AUD got a lot stronger, so our buying power improved. I think it was 70 or 80c to the dollar. So what was worth 100 in the US should have been about 125 or so here. But HN didn't change its prices at all to reflect that. Not even one bit, everything still had 200% markup. They were sitting there eating pure profit of us.
They did this for ages until online shopping started to become so prolific that people didn't have to put up with that bs any more and actually had a choice of stores, etc, and forced them to be competitive. So what did they do? Whinged about the gst on overseas purchases. Whinged about Amazon. Instead of being competitive (like JB Hifi) and offering a better service/product/price he is a man baby that has a big sook. There's literally no excuse. If JB can offer good service, prices, etc, then so can HN, they've been around longer. It seems to me Gerry Harvey just wants his cake and to eat it too. And they don't want competition— when faced with it, they push legislation that punishes their competition and favors them.
Oh and their CS is awful. The only time I bought online they completely forgot about my order, didn't send it for two weeks. When I contacted them, they told me that orders go from different stores and I should ring each store individually to figure out what was where and when it would get to me (yes, they wanted me to ring 4 out of state stores to track down my stuff). Only when I said, no thanks, and requested a refund did they finally get someone to look into it and suddenly everything shipped within 3 days.
I'm happy to support worthy local businesses like JB etc, but I'd personally rather buy from Amazon than HN.
@kapone: You need them to send the game for starters. And if they don't send it, you need them to respond to the several emails you send. Failing that, you need them to act on the promises they make over online chat. Failing that, they could at least respond to the PayPal dispute you put in.
I'll support anyone but Harvey Norman tbh. I've never dealt with such bad customer support.
It’s free market to compete through price, product and service quality, so businesses can improve and thrive. If a business needs your empathy to survive, I rather it dies sooner.
@AussieGargain Nothing to do with empathy. It's about considering the consumer landscape with a single dominant retailer. What happens when no one's left for Amazon to undercut by a dollar? Where are the sales then?
I'm being selfish by putting the prosperity of my country first and ensuring we have a competitive market from which to choose. By all means take advantage of the overseas retailer driving the market down (I do), but there's no need to so enthusiastically punish Australia in the process.
@[Deactivated]: But HN isn't really competitive most of the time. And they have been consistently awful in pricing, customer service, taxes, and how it treats its franchisees. By all means reward them if they are being competitive, but in my experience, they seldom are, and half the time it isn't even worth it.
Amazon and HN pay a similar percentage of taxes in AU— about 3-6% (Amazon's is lower because apparently they have no profit in AU yet). JB Hifi is the same. They are all kind of the same, really.
There is room for competition, Kogan, etc, JB Hifi, etc, even with Amazon. HN needs to pull its finger out tbh, and get with it.
Besides, HN isn't going anywhere soon. It made 1.3 billion and only paid 64 mil in taxes in 2014. For all its whining, it is actually outselling Amazon AU for the time being.
$5 PC game Amazon bonus ends December, game released April, it wont apply
Does it work like that? Pretty sure if you order before december you'd still get it.
I would have thought that payment had to be before the expiry date, but I could be wrong
welp you're wrong. Pre-ordered FF7R (March release) and got the $5 discount.
PC key is slightly cheaper at cdkeys, for $64.69, though it's the standard edition.
Also minor note for those who want to grow their Steam collection; physical copy includes a GOG key, Steam is the only source for Steam copy.
CD Keys is a grey market site, you're not really supporting the devs by buying from there, its worse then piracy imo.
True, but this is a site about the best deals (and at least cdkey's methods are at least nowhere near as harmful as certain other sites).
And if you're going to support stealing profit from the devs anyway… theres a much better way to do it?
Devs will tell you and have told you that'd rather you pirate a game for $0 than buy from a non-authorised key reseller that they receive $0 from.
If we're talking about "deals", I'd say $0 is better than $64.69 when you factor in the fact no matter which way you go; the artists who made it aren't getting paid from your decision.
Stealing isn't what this site is about though. Everything would be a "deal" if it was.
Would JB match this?
As long as there is a Harvey Norman in the same area code I think.
Seems like JB still has some collectors editions available on PS4 and Xbone however its like $430 + shipping. Such a rip.
Collectors editions have never been worth it to be honest. It doesnt even come with the expansion pass I think
pre-ordering is for morons… why bother.
Pre-ordering is for morons when it is in regard to a game made by a company such as, let's say, EA, Ubisoft or 2K where you know there's a high chance it may be garbage or reskinned content (looking at the Switch port of FIFA 20).
CD Projekt Red has a pretty good track record when it comes to delivering quality. Sure, you could easily get the game cheaper in about 6-12 months after release, but day one with a discount and securing your spot CAN have its benefits.
even though it is CD Project, pre order is still dumb and needs to stop, why pay NOW for something that might not release in a year…just makes no sense
I'm more then happy to buy this when it comes out on GOG and pay bit more for that version
Places like Amazon, you pay on shipping, not sure on HN
They are preordering probably for financial reasons, games not complete yet and probs more staff hours needed
Thanks for the neg despite not understanding the Amazon preorder process such as @Trantor pointed out :)
16th of April? That's ages away.
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I’d wait for the inevitable Amazon price match with the bonus $5 discount on top.