I should be able to use dynamic offers. Ok, today I'm offering 20% less.
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I've always said digital games should be discounted. I saved you the manufacturing, shipping, middle man, and warehousing costs. But I got zero discount, and the digital game can just be taken from you
Don't we already have a similar thing with regional pricing?
Video games (and pretty much everything else) are sold for less in countries where the local currency is "weaker", to maximize the profits in each market. Selling Slay the Spire for ₱779.00 Philippine Peso means they get this brand new game for half the price Europeans pay for it, only difference to most other goods is that it literally is the same product.
This is justified by claiming gaming is for everyone, it would be unfair to price out entire regions simply because the average worker earns less US $ over there.
Does this not apply within countries, too? Wouldn't it be fairer if they sold games for less in Kansas compared to New York? I get that we do not trust game publishers with this new tool, and fear they just want to get the most money out of us, but then we also need to make the same fuss about how they use the old tool to do the same thing. I for one am closer to the Japanese median income, can I pay their prices then?
Anyone dealing with Sony in anyway absolutely deserves everthing they get. Fuck Sony ten ways to forever.
Dynamic pricing for video games isn't new. Games will charge more or less based on your location.
It's funny how companies brazenly do this, yet there are still swaths of moron saying it's necessary to keep the lights on.
No, dipshits. It's necessary to maximize profit off of your stupid-asses.
So what you're saying is never use the Playstation store for any reason whatsoever.
I went there yesterday. The enshittificatiin is out of control. Instead of being able to sift through games, it's all a bunch of predatory loot box-ish bullshit. Looks like it's PC master race from here on out.
No matter how dynamic a pricing model, five-finger discount always makes it free.