Civ Rev, BioShock join Xbox Games on Demand (check your region)

At these prices I'll continue buying my games on disc. Not to mention helping out my local games retailer. :-)

Wish Civ Rev would have appeared during the games on demand launch, when I had roughly 12000 points. Unfortunately, all my extra spending money's going to borderlands now :\

All games on Games on Demand are £19.99 in the UK

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=19.99%20GBP%20IN%20USD

Not that much difference though, the extra £1.89 we pay probably covers some of the VAT (15%).

I'm disappointed with GoD prices in UK. Mass Effect, for example, cost same from high street as it does to download - and you save the 6Gb+ Hdd space.

.....or buy it second hand for around a tenner

£19.99 may seem high, but that's the lowest price they offer for games on the service. That's what VAT does to pricing.

Wow. What gives? Digital downloads are always cheaper with any other retail software/books. Why is Games on Demand as high, or higher, than retail boxed versions? Buying retail not only comes with a box AND a book, but also has the added benefit of being a trade-in later. If GoD wants to compete, they need to drop that price and make it worthwhile. It seems that they would stand to make more money by having a price lower than GameStop because it would begin to dry up GameStop's used inventory thus making more sales in the long run for the developers. As it stands now, person "A" buys a game at retail. After a month or so, takes it back to Gamestop as a trade. Then person "B" comes along and picks up the used copy. The game developer only made a profit on it once, but now two people have had the game. If GoD were competitive in price and were able to get new releases into the GoD rotation, developers would get a larger piece of the pie. Right now, they are just losers with a losing GoD offering. In this instance, GameStop rules.

Bioshock
29.99 - Xbox Games on Demand
19.99 - NEW - Gamestop
17.99 - USED - Gamestop

Civ Rev
29.99 - Xbox Games on Demand
29.99 - NEW - Gamestop
26.99 - USED - Gamestop

Too bad for MS I already have Civ Rev and hated Bioshock (so I traded it in at EB Games).
On a side note I think games on demand is a bad idea and discourage it to everyone who loves gaming.

I can only hope their little experiment on pricing will fail and that the prices will come down to be a least competitive with retail pricing.

If I ever see EDF 2017 on games on demand for the US I will buy :)

Reading the inevitable 40+ comments on Major's blog dissing Games on Demand's awful pricing always makes my day.

guys you have to remember, they have higher pricing because in reality MS doesnt want to piss of its retail partners, for about a billion reasons, and if they undercut them on pricing well ya i cud see EB, gamestop and about every other retailer bitching a fit, so i doubt we'll see GoD beating retail/used pricing.

And price wise it still isnt bad considering your locale, i'm in the caribbean and use the NA marketplace, but prices for games down here are easily 70-80$... hell bioshock down here still sells for 69.99 believe it or not... so ya DD does have its uses to some of us.

Bioshock = $15 on Amazon

Civ Rev = $19.99 on Amazon

Good lord. I saw Civ:Rev at K-Mart for 9.99. THIRTY BUCKS? Outrageous.

lol i brought the collectors edition of bioshock (which included the tin edition, big daddy figure, dvd) NEW For £19.99 from gamestation in telford!!