It's already been tried by Amazon and still a thing with Airline and Insurance companies. Probably lots of online stores too, they use your custom profile based on browsing history to target you.
Well they know all of that about you too so wouldn't surprise me that's also incorporated.
Literally zero games are worth MSRP price.
You're definitely playing the wrong games then.
I heard it scales better on PS5 Pro using the power of 'AI' enhancements to take full advantage of your credit card at the viewcart checkout.
I was fairly sure when I was younger that discriminatory pricing was illegal here in Australia, but looking at it now, I'm not so sure. Either way, it seems shitty to me to be offering discounts to some people and not others.
Nope
But why can't Playstation have free online anymore? It used to be a thing
They are offering different prices within the same region. If it's highly specific to individuals your neighbour if say is poor might see better offer/discounts than you because they detect you can afford it and likely a gaming addict.
I wish many people know about this, this is not the case with Xbox deals. If you care about deals more than DF micro analyzing then Xbox, GOG, Epic are the best places for budget spending.
Cause people accepted it once and now we have to pay for it. Sony is never letting go of that bag full of free money.
A lot of things I happen to want to play are on sale because I never had the chance to play them, not because I didn't want them at full price
For the unlucky ones the price didn't go down either.
That sounds surviving more than greed to me. Surviving business operate at fear from scarcity and at the opposite side of spectrum, to generate infinite cash without any real harm they pretend it's happening to them.
First thing I thought as well, I'm guessing yes.
The very concept of an MSRP is being eroded by this practice. MSRP doesn't really exist anymore, only in name and on paper. Algorithms charge whatever they know they can get away with, and they also know how to cashmaxx you, they have a long list of manipulation tactics for that.
When you're selling physical goods, you are always in limited supply. Because you're in limited supply, you cannot freely or "randomly" shift prices around just to sell some of this stuff - you'd hurt your bottom line if, for example, you'd sell off half your inventory for a heavy discount when you could've found a "better" buyer instead. With the glorious all-digital future though these limits no longer apply. As long as you're somewhat confident the customer who gave you 60 would have never bought it for 80, you're making loads of money.
No, his head's just not chronically up his ass, a state I think you would struggle to empathize with.
If this means cheaper games by default for people like myself who barely buy anything at all, to lure me in. Then bring it!
I buy the very occasional game brand new, GTAVI will be one of those. But if I'm not getting it at launch then I tend to wait for deep sales so devs are only missing out in the end.If this means cheaper games by default for people like myself who barely buy anything at all, to lure me in. Then bring it!
And if it's just a short experiment to see how much a lower price affects the sales numbers, then it's still good since they're experimenting with lowering prices…
But I guess the problem is that they could also experiment with increasing prices…
And then it's bad bad bad idea! Because the loyal day 1 fans will always be there no matter what. That could show someone with a calculator that it's okay to increase the standard price.
I already have to pay $95 for a AAA 1st party release on PlayStation store. It's been accepted by the market from what I can tell, it's been like that for at least a year. 899SEK. And as a result I no longer buy games on PlayStation, they completely lost me, I've fully accepted to wait for a late Steam sale. So good luck increasing the price!
For full-priced games, this year I've bought Stellar Blade on Steam. That's it.
Depends how it's balanced. If dynamic discounts based on purchase behavior gets you to buy more games then it'll work as intended. And your "Scrooge score" will naturally go down and prices will dynamically increase until you go back to not buy anything again.
By getting a 17% discount?
On PS you can buy discs from anywhere at varying prices unlike PC too. He was only mentioning that GoG or Epic offering a 30% discount compared to steam doesn't seem to help convince people to buy from Steam alternatives. Doesn't really have anything to do with that "walled garden" comparison you made.
