Iced Arcade
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Gross Canadian price. 34% off (already platinum'd)
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PSN dynamic pricing in full effect during Spring Sale
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Gross Canadian price. 34% off (already platinum'd)
Pasta la Vista
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Guess I'll just buy games off PSN when they are on sale for like under $20 from now on. Fuck em, every decision they made this gen is pushing me away and I've got like over 500 digital purchases going back to PS3 and even psp.
skit_data
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Some anecdotal evidence but, if anything, I've noticed the prices being quite a bit lower than expected during sales. Just yesterday I saw Doom TDA was on sale and it was cheap af so I bought it without a second thought.
Edit: For context I buy games often, bought DMC5:SE, SMTV Vengeance just in the last week or two.
Edit: For context I buy games often, bought DMC5:SE, SMTV Vengeance just in the last week or two.
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LyricalShrike
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Price discovery for profit maximization.
Portugeezer
Member
Cheap ass gamer living up to his name, must get the super dynamic pricing for a sale.
Sunbiter
Member
Ireland. My prices on Doom and Mafia are the same but I do not have any discount on Outlaws Gold edition,.just on the standard edition.
Cakeboxer
Member
Most likely: Encourage those who buy little to purchase, and spit in the face of big spenders. That's similar to how it works at most companies; New customers are gold, existing customers are trash.
midnightAI
Member
So discounts shouldn't be offered?
People loyal to a service shouldn't get discounts? Guess id better phone up my internet service provider and tell them to increase my monthly pricing as I got a discount for being with them for so long, same with my mobile provider. Guess I should stop all my supermarket loyalty cards also.
I could turn that around on you, imagine being salty because someone got a discount and you didn't. Go ahead, complain then, no one gets discounts.
(If prices go up after logging in as some suggest then obviously I wouldn't defend that and I am talking purely from a discount point of view which I believe this is what it's supposed to be, that has happened before though and it was a bug they fixed)
Edit: and seems I was wrong? The discounts are for people who don't buy much? I mean if that's the case then yeh, get pissed at them, I get why they would do this to encourage purchases but they should be rewarding loyalty.
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Hyper_hyper
Banned
It ISN'T illegal.
Pretty standard ecommerce practices.
All e-commerce sellers are doing it, doesn't mean, it isn't bullshit.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Who would have thought that the leader in selling consoles always ends up turning into the worst until they get bitch slapped back to lower sales etc, then they become the good guy again.
This is really sickening stuff, and I gotta think that governments are not going to accept this. Especially when there is 0 competition for PSN on playstation.
I hope this forces Sony to provide digital keys to retailers. I'll be buying 100% second hand disk games until this improves.
This is really sickening stuff, and I gotta think that governments are not going to accept this. Especially when there is 0 competition for PSN on playstation.
I hope this forces Sony to provide digital keys to retailers. I'll be buying 100% second hand disk games until this improves.
Viruz
Member
EU France
Star wars outlaws gold edition €119,99 -0%
The 70% discount is on the standard edition. I never bought any special edition of a game, always standard. What do you see?
Star wars outlaws standard edition €23,99 -70%
Doom Dark Ages premium €36 -67%
Mafia old country - €40 -20%
Action Jackson
Member
That's not price discovery, that's price obfuscation.
CentralScrutinizer
Member
You seriously think a corporation that's all about making money would implement a system like this to HELP people as opposed to try to use it to harvest more money off people the algorithm seems unworthy of the same discount?
This isn't good guy Sony here. People need to stop trying to make it act like this is an altruistic feature. It isn't.
TheAnt
Member
Of course it isn't, and I don't think that's what the guy you're quoting was advocating for. He was saying that there's no need to create a fuss, that companies have been targeting people with "personalised" coupons for a while now.
I think that clothing shop apps like BestSecret, Zalando and others do something similar.
CentralScrutinizer
Member
But there is a need to make a fuss because the switch can be flipped from "targeted coupons" to "discount restrictions" at any moment.
asdasdasdbb
Member
Possibly because you can still get the 'standard' pricing if you are logged out when you add to cart.
TheAnt
Member
Aren't they the same thing, depending on how you look at them? Base price can be seen as "discount restricted for you for whatever reason, e.g. you're already spending enough and we don't need to incentivise you", and the discounted price can be seen as a "targeted coupon because you're not spending enough, and we want to reel you in".
trikster40
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Weird. Mine doesn't show $26.99 or $39.99.
It shows Purchased cuz it was day 1. If yours still shows a price, you're doing it wrong.
It shows Purchased cuz it was day 1. If yours still shows a price, you're doing it wrong.
Kerotan
Member
I think that was the march sale that just ended. Spring sale just begun.
EACEOoftheyear
Neo Member
Welcome to the digital future! 
Radical_3d
Member
Star wars outlaws gold edition €119,99 -0%
Sony you…
EU Spain.
Outlaws Definitive: 139,99€
Outlaws Gold: 119,99€
Outlaws Deluxe: 99,99€
Outlaws Peasant Edition: 23,99€ (-70%)
I'm not very interested in the DLCs but I feel robbed
MisterXDTV
Member
They have to make up that lost PC revenue somehow.
DAT 1% revenue sure is something....
LOL
MayaXG
Member
Wait. I thought we hated strong competition on here. This is life when Sony has the console market all to itself.
vodka-bull
Member
Guess some people have the benefit o getting some games cheaper in the US, but it seems like Astro Bot is 50€ al over Europe, no matter where or who you are.
Steve Holt
Member
So some users get cheaper discounts than others? How does that get worked out - are they the whales?
Bojji
Gold Member
I got cheaper astro offer, ~38€
Dunamic pricing go both ways, sometimes you get cheaper (than default) and sometimes higher prices.
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Radical_3d
Member
Probably to incentivise sales since you are not the target. Astro Bot is a joyful game and I imagine you smiling like this:
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
As someone who has bought a shit load of games ovvff psn this REALLY pisses me off.
The industry titans have lost their f'ing minds this generation.
poodaddy
Gold Member
I legit don't understand it. Like, how could it have gotten this bad? Sony were fucking rad just one generation ago, how the hell does anyone drop the ball this hard?
semiconscious
Gold Member
for me, this was the console gen where the gradual death of creativity at sony, something which'd begun last gen, finally peaked...
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It would be so interesting to see how these decisions are made.
Do they favor giving long time customers higher prices because they know those customers have been trained to stay in the ecosystem, or do they give long time customers lower prices because they know those customers have been trained to stay in the ecosystem
Bojji
Gold Member
It would be so interesting to see how these decisions are made.
Do they favor giving long time customers higher prices because they know those customers have been trained to stay in the ecosystem, or do they give long time customers lower prices because they know those customers have been trained to stay in the ecosystem
Real life footage from Sony HQ
Cakeboxer
Member
I'd put my money on the former, because that's how most companies operate. Even when I look at new customer deals my phone provider for example really goes all out. But when I call and ask if i as a loyal longterm customer could get a little treat too, they basically tell me to go fuck myself.It would be so interesting to see how these decisions are made.
Do they favor giving long time customers higher prices because they know those customers have been trained to stay in the ecosystem, or do they give long time customers lower prices because they know those customers have been trained to stay in the ecosystem
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
It's mind boggling. It all started with that fuck face Jim Ryan. Between Sony and Microsoft console gaming has pretty much been irreparably damaged and the consequences of their greed and incompetance will be felt for years.
These companies have no care whatsoever for even trying to garner the smallest goodwill from their customers its just a focus on what can we get from them now without the thought of "giving back" in any way.
Ughh its pathetic.
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
Exactly ...when did this shift towards businesses customer bases occur? For gaming it has been during this gen I believe. The economy sucks so all they think of is how to nickel and dime us to death. Remeber Sony and Nintendo used to at least have their loyalty points system. Microsoft used to be 100x more generous with theirs.
Trab-Pu-Kcip
Member
Italy
Star Wars Outlaws Gold €119.99
Doom Dark Ages Premium €36.29
Mafia 39.99
Fess
Member
EU Sweden
Star Wars Outlaws Gold 1,319 SEK -0%
Doom Dark Ages Premium 425.37 SEK -67%
Mafia Old Country 439.20 SEK -20%
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