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Arcades could have learned this lesson before they died by FABIO 02/19/2009, 10:48am PST
Fussbett wrote:

Illustrating his point, Newell showed the results of a Left 4 Dead promotion Valve ran last weekend, which cut the price of the game in half to $25. The discount (and promise of new content for the game) rocketed sales of the game on Steam by 3,000 percent.


You're an arcade owner. You glance around and see every $1 machine lying completely vacant. Do you increase it to $2 a credit and DOUBLE your profit?

I can't help but wondering if arcades would still be alive today if everything was a quarter.


"We sold more in revenue this last weekend than we did when we launched the product," says Newell. "We were driving a huge uptick in revenue and attracting new customers." And while people believe that we're "screwing" retail, Newell showed that brick-and-mortar sales were unaffected by the online discount. [Look at those suckers, happily living without the internet. They love paying maximum price. --Fussbett]


I checked out a Circuit City the other day for the going out of business sale. Even with every game 40% off, they were just barely (sometimes not at all) on par with Steam prices.
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Valve: Are Games Too Expensive? by Fussbett 02/19/2009, 8:23am PST NEW
    Arcades could have learned this lesson before they died by FABIO 02/19/2009, 10:48am PST NEW
        arcades have a lot of overhead besides who wants to leave home to stand in a bui by Weyoun Voidbringer 02/19/2009, 11:24am PST NEW
            Re: arcades have a lot of overhead besides who wants to leave home to stand in a by E. L. Koba 02/19/2009, 11:26am PST NEW
                What else do you need some broad to answer the phones? It's all about the leads. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 02/19/2009, 11:29am PST NEW
                    many important life lessons to be learned from this image NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 02/19/2009, 11:54am PST NEW
            Economics by FABIO 02/19/2009, 12:09pm PST NEW
                Re: Economics by Weyoun Voidbringer 02/19/2009, 12:20pm PST NEW
        Anecdotal evidence by Last 09/07/2010, 12:11pm PDT NEW
    Now for gamespot and kotaku to start dying. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 02/19/2009, 11:02am PST NEW
    Gamespot pulled Dawn of War 2 off their shelves because of Relic going with Stea by Fortinbras 02/19/2009, 2:45pm PST NEW
        Hey! NT by GameSTOP 02/19/2009, 3:03pm PST NEW
            I mix them up anyway. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 02/19/2009, 3:19pm PST NEW
        game SPIT (so I went to gamestop and asked them if they had dow2 guess what they by Weyoun Voidbringer 02/20/2009, 1:20am PST NEW
    Valve: Revolutionary Road is an Important Movie by Jerry Whorebach 02/19/2009, 3:40pm PST NEW
        Wait, that's a different guy. Never mind! NT by Jerry Whorebach 02/19/2009, 3:42pm PST NEW
        Just saw this by Vested Id 09/07/2010, 11:03am PDT NEW
    The sales lasted two weeks, right? That's still a marketing event or w/e. by jeep 09/08/2010, 9:48am PDT NEW
 
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