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Originally Posted by The Wolf
And you can prepurchase FM 14 on Steam right now.
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Greenman Gaming has it a bit cheaper IIRC (Although that may be a case of how they convert european currencies, since the forum posts watching for prices were quoting in Pounds Sterling, and I knew Steam doesn't do currency conversion well at all) , and you may be actually supporting SI a bit more that way, I heard Steam takes a fairly decent chunk of the price for themselves compared to other retailers. But hey, you can't argue with the kind of market exposure Steam gives you. Plus the whole steamworks API doing wonders for MP gaming. (How many of the early 2000s shooters for instance that are on steamworks would still be running if they used proprietary hosting? Not many, that's for damn sure.)
Thats the advantage of digital goods I guess. There's no "cost" per unit the way there is with boxed copies of games, so selling 30 for $10 is just as good as selling 5 for $60. Where with a boxed copy the transport and stocking costs would destroy that strategy. The servers hosting it cost the same to maintain no matter how many units are moved. Dont have to load another 30 copies onto the server from the warehouse :P
Wow I got off track there, oh well..