Top Team Sports Games on Steam Are Overpriced, Rarely On-Sale

I have been following the top team sports games on Steam and I have noticed how all of them are grossly overpriced, especially the EA Sports games. They are rarely on-sale while many other popular games under the other categories like Action and Role-Playing including War of Rights ($29.99 and now $14.99 through October 6) and Deadliest Catch: The Game ($19.99 and now on-sale for only $1.99 through October 3, but the developers irresponsibly abandoned the game without making it moddable) are reasonably priced and occasionally on-sale. 

The Madden football game for PC (currently only the ‘22 and ‘23 editions are available while the more popular ‘19 edition was inexcusably pulled from Steam by EA Sports) is grossly overpriced at $60 each. The ‘23 game has an embarrassing “mostly negative reviews” by gamers on Steam. It is lacking next-gen features (it uses the older one that is ten-years-old!) that the game has on consoles like PS5 or X-Box series X/S and it is lacking an important feature called “FieldSense” which is included in the game for the latter and former consoles but excluded from the PC version but the PC version is still being offered at a price that is arguably a ripoff. 

As PC Gamer says, 

“The version of Madden NFL 23 you can pre-purchase on Steam is not the same Madden 23 you can get for the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. It's equivalent to the version being released for the last-gen PS4 and Xbox One consoles, which are nearly 10 years old. That means the PC version won't include Madden 23's headline feature, a ‘physics-informed’ animation system called ‘FieldSense.’” (“The PC version of Madden 23 doesn't include its biggest new feature,” By Tyler Wilde. https://www.pcgamer.com/madden-nfl-23-pc-version-fieldsense-last-gen/)

Meanwhile, Early Access football games like Sunday Rivals and Football Simulator are becoming vastly popular with mostly positive reviews compared to Madden. They are offered at the reasonable price of $19.99 each (Football Simulator is currently on sale for only $17.99 through October 3rd). The developers of these Early Access games are consistently updating their games with patches and new features.

The other team sports games on Steam that are never or rarely on sale include Super Mega Baseball 3, FIFA 22 and FIFA 23, NBA 2K21,NBA 2K22, NBA 2K23, and Full Ace Tennis Simulator.