Comments on: The Problem with Grey Market Games

By: Loque

Loque — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:32:40 +0000

The only possible solution to insanely high prices is buying indie games.

There are excellent titles on Steam and they usually cost 5-20 dollars. And can offer a great gaming experience, far superior than any other “blockbuster” game. Minecraft started the trend but you can find great 2d-3d titles (hint: Bastion) for very low prices.

Support independent developers, skip the “big guys”. Big companies spend a lot of money in advertising and hype, plus they have the power to actually buy the reviews.

Indie titles are the opposite: they get popular only because when they are good products.

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By: Too expensive

Too expensive — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:26:33 +0000

70 dollars for a game. How many copies they’ve sold? Call of duty: Modern warfare (call of duty 4) by 2009 had sold 13 million copies. Those grey market copies are low in numbers.
Well, 70 dollars in USA, in Europe 70 euros (96 usd). So, supposing a medium price of 80 dollars, it makes for a total of 13,000,000 x 80 = 1040,000,000 USD. I think that pays and exceeds the develop and marketing costs.

In my opinion, they should sell games cheaper or stop banning those grey market games and stop attacking second hand buys.

By: Video Game’s Legal Challenges: 2010 and Beyond

Video Game’s Legal Challenges: 2010 and Beyond — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:31:46 +0000

[...] The online trade of grey market games is also increasing at a staggering rate. While many of these transactions are carried out successfully, others have caused serious headaches for gamers and developers. For a better understanding of the grey market game trade, read this prior Laws of Play post. [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:00:09 +0000

So, firstly, $200 on advertising on a $50 budget? wow…I am sure films can be similar but that is rather insane 4:1 division there. No wonder it sold well!

Okay, anyway, to the matter at hand – the final paragraph is right in my opinion. Valve, if they do not want this to continue, should stop the supply at the source. What they are currently doing is pretty much profiting wholesale from the banning of the grey market games without making any attempt to stop future ones (I am sure if they were doing I’d have seen it in the gaming press. It’s the kind of PR they like to do…). Surely when they sell licences to these distributors there are similar “EULA’s” (otherwise known as contracts) forbidding such action.

Interestingly it’d be nice to have more in-depth analysis of EULA’s, although I’m in the UK so likely it’d only cover the USA nature of it, oh well every country is different and EULA’s have had parts struck down or simply not take effect in certain countries due to different laws. The practice of preaching it is a licence works only if that differs much from a physical object, in some countries it doesn’t as much as the USA it seems…(so there are still consumer rights attached, return policies to adhere too, and so forth. I need to check the UK, but that I think takes it as “you can’t return opened software” however legal that is, hmmmm).

I’ll have to comment more, great work on the blog, I like to keep up on random bits of legal news, especially as a amateur historian.

By: BuckF1tches

BuckF1tches — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:18:37 +0000

I can’t disagree with you on anything… ever