The latest entry into the rebooted Tomb Raider franchise, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, had recently gone on sale for 34% off its original $60 price, a move that sent buyers into a fury as they rushed to type up bloodthirsty Steam reviews.
Initially launching on PC and consoles on September 14th, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider was subjected to a 34% discount on Steam, bringing its $60 price tag down to $39.59, while the most expensive Croft Edition bundle saw a whopping 47% discount lowering its original $109 cost down to $58.79:
This triggered an immediate reaction from those who had already bought the title, who began giving the game a thumbs down whilst writing negative Steam reviews (included are reviews that also criticize the game itself):
Since the game apparently bombed hard enough to drop into obscurity without a massive sale to buoy it up and the effect of this sale seems to have been to incite even more criticism, it seems Square Enix cannot catch a break even when cutting prices…
Pre-ordering retards getting burned? That’s positive news
Gameplay was fine, very much the same as the previous games though (to be expected). However, the story was absolutely retarded. Someone at a board meeting must have said “Hey, let’s just abort this arc we developed during the last 5 years.” Final battle was a repeat of the last two games. They must have fired all creative people. My game also crashed at the halfway mark and thank god cloudsaves are dumb as f♥♥k and the game uploaded corrupted saves (yes, ALL saves corrupted, even manual one, how is that even possible?) instead of downloading working ones. Got a savegame from someone else to complete it. I’m not angry because of the reduced price but this sets a precedent and I won’t buy SE games at launch ever again.
And to top it off, game dropped right after the much better Spiderman game. Management at Square-Enix is the epitome of incapability.
You must be new to Squeenix. Welcome, have a seat over there. It’s right out the door with the sign that say Exit.
of course it would be, they have a lot of projects they had to deal with at that time hence those said problems you talked about. (FF,KH, FFVII Remake and DQ)
If they can’t manage themselves, it’s our job to be understanding and forgive them?Dude, just f♥♥k you. You’re why this industry is going down the drain.
You’d think by now people would realize that paying money upfront for a product they have no actual proper info about, short of fancypants pre-rendered trailers..is fucking STUPID.
STOP. PREORDERING. GAMES. You fucking mongs.
Everyone, We have an announcement to make
STOP PREORDERING!
Idiots like these protesting sales ruin it for the rest of us who don’t care enough to pay full price for a game not worth full price to begin with. Don’t get me wrong I think we can all agree that the Tomb Raider reboots are worth something, just that they’re not worth $50/60.
There was literally zero reason to pre-order this (or any) game, so every one of them are in effect declaring “I’m mad at you because I’m a fucking retard.”
Think your missing the point… Game went on sale with DLC ONLY after a month of releasing… yea I would want my money back also…. can’t think of a game on the top I my head that’s half off after a month of releasing
Most of the full priced games drop a sale with at least 30% in the first 2 months since several years. It became common practice, like it became common practice to sell already finished content seperately as DLC later on and package the whole thing into a Season Pass, just to make the full price full game an even fuller priced full game.
It’s normal for pretty much every game out there(Besides Nintendo ones lol) to plummet in price after a few months. Some games have a burst of sales and then drop off a cliff. For companies like Square Enix that overprint their games, that doesn’t work out well. They have to discount to clear away stock for “new” games. It’s the circle of life for games.
Which is strange for digital released games. They can just fire up the license code generator and produce an extra million keys in seconds. Only takes one copy on their server to send to everyone.
Probably why so many people are against the higher and higher prices of games.. it’s easier than ever to distribute.