A dissection of what went wrong forImmortals Of Aveumhas been taking place for the past week or so as it emerged that the big budget offering fromEAcost $125 million to make. Launching when everyone was busy playingBaldur’s Gate 3, Immortals Of Aveum didn’t come close to achieving the numbers EA hoped it would, with some that worked on it losing their jobs. With very little hope of a revival for the game, some have spotted Immortals Of Aveum, which still isn’t even six months old, for as little as £1.
Reported byVGC, the image of the cut-price copies of Immortals Of Aveum was shared on Reddit by LastStandMedia. The game is apparently available for just £1 (roughly $1.25) at various Asda stores in the UK, likely in an attempt to clear through any stock it might have left. It isn’t available for that little on Asda’s website, so if you want to add a high-quality 2023 title to your collection, you’ll need to head in-store and hope it’s not sold out.
Immortals Of Aveum’s price dropping to a single pound might not surprise some of you. Especially if you noticed the game had been reduced to £5 during the holiday season. Remarkable to think that even after reducing what was a £70 release just a few months before still isn’t sold out after cutting that price by more than 90 percent. If it still doesn’t sell for £1, the remainder of Asda’s copies may well be introduced to a landfill site soon.
For £1, I’d almost recommend giving any game a try. No, Immortals Of Aveum wasn’t the mind-blowing single-player experience EA hoped it would be, but even if you play it for a few hours and decide it’s not for you, it’s worth a lot more than £1. The drastic price reduction may well be an indicator of more than just Immortals Of Aveum’s failings, though. It’s also another sign superstores are moving away from selling physical media entirely.
Asda’s want to rid itself of physical copies of Immortals Of Aveum is the latest example of games being reduced, seemingly in an attempt to remove physical games from stores. Last month an internal Walmart memo revealedstaff were instructed to remove physical copies of Starfield, customers not even given a chance to buy them for less. Certain Walmart locations also hadcopies of Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown available for just $10only two weeks after its release.
