i post a vote in Chinese website. 656 players vote.
1，expensive but I will buy. 46%
2, expensive and I won’t buy now. 42%
3，not expensive I buy it directly. 6%
4, not expensive but I’m not interested. 1%
5,I’ve quit this game, I don’t care. 5%
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Where I live it costs about as much as eating out somewhere cheap.
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Ye to be fair it’s like eating at Mc Donalds once.
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Not the same story here.
Nowadays the “fans” here have been so well-tamed that they care more about the money and well-being of millionaires and billionaires than their own.
Euros take the VAT into account automatically with their price so it’s identical in price to the USD, but paying for the game with Yuan makes it almost exactly 25% less in cost (10 USD for reference) Sultan’s Ascend is more expensive than that, being about $12.25 converted to USD (18% difference).
It’s interesting to see people say 10 dollars is too expensive for DLC.
What is the preferred cost for people who feel it is too expensive?
I understand that not everyone can afford every new DLC, and that’s completely okay, that’s a different discussion. What I don’t get is how people consider a 10-15 dollars DLC expensive in gaming terms when there are games selling single cosmetic skins for hundreds of dollars.
At least with a DLC, you’re getting actual content—new gameplay, maps, missions, or mechanics—whereas those overpriced skins are purely cosmetic and add nothing beyond visuals. It’s strange how pricing perspectives can be so inconsistent.
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Huh? Based on what? This seems like quite the jump in logic.
Price is acceptable if there was 2 new civs but with 2 variants it should be lower but they did %15 discount too.So its barely ok.I hope next dlc will be same price with more content.By the way it was cheaper for me since im at the middle east region.I paid $6.37.So its more acceptable for me.
I’m seeing a lot of video’s on this DLC and it’s looking like they’ve done a great job on it.
I’m looking forward to it.
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As far as I understand, it’s cheap by US standards, the base economy from which the price of Steam games is derived; as well as in Europe with the euro equivalence.
But in Peru, and Hispanoamerica in general, let’s say video games are a luxury, or at least something that one “saves allowances” for in the case of teenagers, and in the case of working adults, if they’re cheap, they’ll accept it, but they have to save up to buy the more expensive ones or wait for discounts.
For example, $80 games, those games that would cost $500 with all their DLC, like, say, Civilization 6, or Mortal Kombat and all its skins, no one here is going to pay for them, not even crazy.
Here (Perú), the monthly salary of the low and low-middle class is approximately $150-200, and $300 for the middle class.
Normally, and it’s best to clarify this, people download pirated games, and only buy digital if:
- The multiplayer service looks tempting and fun.
- Someone wants to support the company for so many hours of gameplay.
- There’s a phenomenal discount, they won’t buy the game.
In the case of AoE IV, because most of the funny part of the game is the Multiplayer, and cosmetic gifts for your avatar in events for completionist, buying it is really necessary. Also if one know enought of the story of the franchise, has to know that buying the official one make the developers, and producers, get enought founds for a future DLC.
Now, there are several things to consider:
- This DLC has the same number of maps as the Sultans Ascend DLC, which is a plus.
- The historical battles are apparently different from the base campaign, and on top of that, there are four of them, which are said to be well done, although we’ll find out when they come out.
- Two civs, wich is good addition.
Also, as Sultans Ascens rightly knows, with the Steam discount, it’s very likely that I’ll also receive “discounts” in the future, in another of those RTS festivals or Steam sales. I believe there are 4 for each weather season of the year, so there are many opportunities.
So if I didn’t buy it right now, I’ll buy it later.
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I wouldve bought ot still at $25.
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