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TAG: Episode 05

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With the Steam Lunar Sale 2018 well underway, now is as good a time as any to look at why PC game prices have, for the most part, skyrocketed in India. Previously, new games on PC would cost anywhere between Rs. 499 to Rs. 999, but nowadays, most PC games cost Rs. 2,499 upwards. In this episode of Talk About Games (TAG) – Gadget 360’s weekly gaming show, we discuss why PC games are a whole lot more expensive than they should be.   We talk about the holdouts over the years such as Activision, EA, and Bethesda, all of whom have either never dropped the price of their PC games or hiked them to levels close to what console gamers have to pay. Furthermore, we examine the role of Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) in all of this as well. The last entry in the series, GTA IV cost Rs. 499 at launch and only got cheaper. GTA V however, cost five times as much. Given the pop...

TAG: Episode 05

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With the Steam Lunar Sale 2018 well underway, now is as good a time as any to look at why PC game prices have, for the most part, skyrocketed in India. Previously, new games on PC would cost anywhere between Rs. 499 to Rs. 999, but nowadays, most PC games cost Rs. 2,499 upwards. In this episode of Talk About Games (TAG) – Gadget 360’s weekly gaming show, we discuss why PC games are a whole lot more expensive than they should be.   We talk about the holdouts over the years such as Activision, EA, and Bethesda, all of whom have either never dropped the price of their PC games or hiked them to levels close to what console gamers have to pay. Furthermore, we examine the role of Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) in all of this as well. The last entry in the series, GTA IV cost Rs. 499 at launch and only got cheaper. GTA V however, cost five times as much. Given the pop...