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Dishonored for $45
wraith808:
Green man gaming has a coupon on the home page of the site that applies to Dishonored, bringing the price down to $45. If the reviews are any indication, it's not likely to be that price anytime soon otherwise.
Sale lasts until 10/12/12
mouser:
Has someone made a site yet that predicts prices of games over time? So that for a new game we could see a prediction of how the price will change over the next year? Might help in making decisions..
wraith808:
Has someone made a site yet that predicts prices of games over time? So that for a new game we could see a prediction of how the price will change over the next year? Might help in making decisions..
-mouser (October 09, 2012, 10:20 PM)
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I don't think such a thing is reliably possible - especially with the business model that steam is using (and others appear to be following). I saw syndicate for $10 over on Gamersgate. That's a function of the reviews, I think. But in addition to that, there's the publisher, the developer, and the buy rate. All of those factor into it.
mouser:
It doesnt have to be very accurate to be useful. in fact i'll be you could probably produce a useful and reasonably accurate approximation function using only:
* the company
* the initial price
* the initial review scores
It would actually be a fun statistics project for anyone in school looking for an independent study assignment.
You'd just have to scrape the data for a bunch of games, to get the company name, initial price, initial review scores, release date, and find a source that has historical game price data. And then see what kinds of functions you could fit to the data.
The hard part would probably be collecting the historical/training data.
TaoPhoenix:
That resale case lurking in the Supreme Court might bear on this too. The price of a game used to also factor that used copies were beginning to show up.
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