Comments on: Valve: Online punters “don’t care” if prices are shifted up and down http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/18/valve-online-punters-dont-care-if-prices-are-shifted-up-and-down/ VG247.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:29:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Freek http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/18/valve-online-punters-dont-care-if-prices-are-shifted-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-126694 Freek Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:51:32 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=67898#comment-126694 He's refering to the special offer weekends where a certain game is suddenly incredibly cheap and then goes back up to normal price. He’s refering to the special offer weekends where a certain game is suddenly incredibly cheap and then goes back up to normal price.

]]> By: Dr.Haggard http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/18/valve-online-punters-dont-care-if-prices-are-shifted-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-126645 Dr.Haggard Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:35:11 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=67898#comment-126645 I think what he meant was that with digital distribution it's OK to raise and lower the price as they see fit, rather than prices always going in one direction. In a 'connected market' they can discount things for short periods and then raise the price again with less resistance, or less fluctuation in demand, than if you do the same thing in standard games retail. Something like that anyway. I think what he meant was that with digital distribution it’s OK to raise and lower the price as they see fit, rather than prices always going in one direction.

In a ‘connected market’ they can discount things for short periods and then raise the price again with less resistance, or less fluctuation in demand, than if you do the same thing in standard games retail.

Something like that anyway.

]]> By: DrDamn http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/18/valve-online-punters-dont-care-if-prices-are-shifted-up-and-down/comment-page-1/#comment-126626 DrDamn Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:11:07 +0000 http://www.vg247.com/?p=67898#comment-126626 So we don't care and at the same time are incredibly sensitive to it? How does that work exactly? So we don’t care and at the same time are incredibly sensitive to it? How does that work exactly?

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