it's more than 'a bit gutting' when a corporation you've supported for decades (& which, in all that time, never pulled any crap like this) does this. it's more like a slap in the face, & so my response is just to pass on ps plus till this time next year, when maybe i get lucky. all of which ends up benefiting who, exactly?...
You and the corpo in the end if it pans out. Those lucky ones in the trial define the price elasticity curve and if a lot of people buy at the lower price (making a low gradient price elasticity curve) then it's encouraging to "pick B" and make that the regular price for everybody while increasing the corpos overall revenue/profit too. Win win. Your own reaction to the trial notwithstanding ofcourse. if everybody got upset and simply quit because some users were picked randomly in a trial then I guess we're all doubly screwed because that would not have the effect it was intended to have.
i'm sorry, but this's some serious 'consumers as lab rats' rationalizing. 'all you gotta do is be patient & wait for your windfall!'. & where my own response = 'rats not behaving the way we anticipated.' if nothing else, you've managed to make me smile... 'remain calm. this all makes perfect sense. seriously.'... smh...
What's there to be sorry about? I mean yeah, we're all lab rats in that sense if you mean that they do trials and demo programs on consumers to see how the market reacts and what they should do. No doubt about that.
You gotta be patient and maybe you'll be lucky, right now the AI model for the PS store is trained by Sony using the data set from Concord sales, when Marathon comes around I'm 99.999999999% positive the data set interpretations will go something like "oh sh*t, we're really f*cked!" at Sony HQ.
well, rats will be rats, & predators will be predators. &, as a fellow 'rat', i'll simply be leaving the sony ps plus cage for a year. enjoy the show, & take care...
For gaming, it seems most of the time corps win as gamers always fold.
The worst thing this generation, in my opinion, was that on the PS5, existing PS4 controllers couldn't be used for PS5 games, but as soon as the same games appear on PC, you can use any controller you want.
can't disagree. this'll be the second time in the last few years i've deprived sony of my ps plus essential annual sub fee. while i'm sure they're still reeling from the blow, they've yet to contact me, just like they didn't last time, either. but, hell, if they can tough it out, well, so can i. plus, i need the dough more than them, eh?...
Me sticking with Honest Gabe and Steam and looking at the console warriors
Why? did the prices go up?
www.polygon.com
Oh I wished Xbox would die it's becoming true
Retreat to a shrunken market and milk the most loyal of userbases. The real test will come soon with PS+ price hikes. CFO Lin Tao already said it to investors.
Some people are reporting price increase before/after they sign into the PSN account.
wtf.
I was going to say.
If it is illegal, Sony should've had lawyers telling them that. Maybe it's a Grey area of the law that hasn't been tested yet.
Thank God for the EU. Their laws are sometimes the only ones keeping these greedy ass abusive companies in line. Because in the US, it's basically a fucking free for all.
As of now dynamic pricing is legal in the EU, it's widely used by airlines, hotel bookings etc. As long as the segmentation criteria itself is legal, it can be used.
I got Unity for £3.74 so I am not sure how they decide who pays what. Possibly linked to PS+.
