Is this good or bad?

[Ed Kolis]

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=646582

$9.99??? They slashed the price by HALF??? Is this good or bad???

[Captain Kwok]

It's not unusual that games that are 6 years old end up at 10$. From my own experience, I've only seen the game being sold at Staples in Toronto. It's 20$ there and I figure the store by my place has sold about half their copies (~10) in the last couple months. Anyway, it's probably not flying off the shelves anywere (and frankly why would it?) but I think it's doing fine giving age etc.

[Dizzy]

Damn... I may do that just to have the disk... 10 bucks is great. I got mine from a DL that apparently wont let me install it anywhere else... If it gets messed up I think Im SOL.

[Baron Munchausen]

But this hasn't been in stores nearly as long as 6 years. I wonder if Aaron knows about this? Any 'cut' he gets from retail sales will also be slashed dramatically.

[Suicide Junkie]

Dizzy said:
Damn... I may do that just to have the disk... 10 bucks is great. I got mine from a DL that apparently wont let me install it anywhere else... If it gets messed up I think Im SOL.

My condolences. Strat First's whole system is so much worse than shrapnel its just not funny.

[Caduceus]

Probably with the release of SE:V, they want to clear the shelves...

[Tim Brooks]

If the game is at retail this will happen with SEV also. You have to remember, the retail stores have limited shelf space. There are new releases continually coming out. Retailers will drop pricing quickly on titles that don't move off the shelves fast so that they can give that space to a title that may move quickly. Average lifespans of most titles before the price is dropped is 6 weeks. If SEV goes longer that that, they have a winner. But 6 months is about all you can hope for...

[Ed Kolis]

I know... I just rarely see games get marked down to $10 unless they REALLY, REALLY suck... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Is that so? Was my $10 investment in MOO:II a bad decision?

[Fyron]

Suck, or just really old? You can buy Starcraft for $10. You can buy those Diablo games. You can buy some old Ceasar games for $10. I sometimes see Baldur's Gate I/II for $10.

[Ed Kolis]

Oh, wow... I thought that the good old games only made it down to $15 or $20, and only the crappy ones (MOO3, Generic Derivative FPS #63,872, etc.) made it any lower http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Fyron]

Maybe the CA retail market is different from the Ohio one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[TurinTurambar]

I bought Starcraft last year for $10 in the bagain bin at Office Depot. I was ecstatic!

TT

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, games such as Moo3 can go all the way down to negative five bucks after rebate.

[Atrocities]

I would vote very very bad. Even though the game is six years old, it was only very recently released into stores. To go from 20 to 10 bucks is a no confedence vote. As too moo3, I was once told that i would have to pay someone to take that game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Fyron]

$20 to $10 is the only way it could go... there is always a price reduction at about this time in shelf life, and $15 is just too abnormal of a pricing point. Seriously, this is being blown out of proportion.

[Atrocities]

I agree, it is the only way it could have gone, just as was predicted by our friends running Shrapnel some time ago in a blog and subsuquent posts about retail sales of games.

[Azselendor]

I did web design work for a reverse logisitics company a while back, I was surprised at what happens to merchandise in stores.

For example, Returned merchandise in major stores like KMart, WalMart, etc rarely got back to the shelf, instead it gets palletized, wrapped, and sold of at below cost (typically 10-30%) to smaller companies that resell to outlet stores, flea market vendors, etc. Same applies to slow-selling merchandise and overstocks, expired foods, damaged merchandise and more.

The really interesting part is that companies that liquidate their old inventories this way don't try to recoop their lost investments, only the frieght cost it seems. The rest they write off at tax time.

[Atrocities]

Do you still do web design work? Are you any good?

[Azselendor]

I certainly do and am.

[Atrocities]

Cool. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I sent you a PM.