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Originally Posted by mikephoen
The box is huge store, but the products they sell are also quite bulky. Say they sell 5 copies of Settlers of Catan every week. That's 260 a year. Since mid 2013 that's 650 copies. Try to do the math of how much space 650 copies of Settler of Catan takes up. It would fill an average house top to bottom.
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The part about 650 copies taking up an entire house seemed super wrong to me, and since you said we should try to do the math, I did.
Settlers of Catan on Amazon.com
Product Dimensions: 3.1 x 11.6 x 9.4 inches
So how much space does 650 copies take up?
If we laid out 24 copies on the floor 1 layer thick in a 6 box by 4 box rectangle, it would take up an area measuring approximately 3' 10 1/2" by 4' 8 1/2".
650 divided by the 24 copies on the floor means we'd have to stack the games 27 high (for 648 copies). That means the total height of the stack would reach... just under 7'.
So 650 copies would take up a coat closet in an average house, by my reckoning.
Anyways, on topic, what really bugs me is how the price of purely intangible goods has gone up. Look at the pricing on games. Fallout 4 is still $80 on Steam. I understand a company trying to maintain profit margins on a physical product with a certain cost of manufacturing, but for things like this I think they're pricing themselves out of the market. Each extra copy of a game that someone downloads from them costs as close to 0 to distribute as to be almost completely negligible.
Maybe if we were used to paying 80 bucks for a brand new game like the poor Aussies we'd accept it now, but 60 bucks has been pretty standard in Canada for a long time now. I've certainly balked at buying ANY new games lately. Instead I'll wait until the same thing goes on a deep discount.
It's a lose/lose. The seller gets a lot less money than if they had priced it reasonably in the first place, and I have to wait to play.
I could be totally wrong and maybe just as many people buy games on release at the higher price point because they just can't wait, but I'm certainly not one of them.