Boy is this a take and a half. So instead of asking a price they think is fair, they should ask more, and arbitrarily reduce that on occasion to manipulate you into buying the product through FOMO, and that’s consumer friendly?
It is more anti-customer to hold your price at a certain level and offer discounts so you both:
get to charge above what most people think is a fair price to suckers who don’t pay attention to sales
sell to people who think a lower amount is all the game is worth
sell to people who others are not likely to even buy the game because they see a “great deal” and don’t want to miss out.
Your position seems to be based on two things:
“Everyone” else does it this way, so any developer who doesn’t must be an asshole, so you won’t buy the game
Old games need to be available for a lower price
1 is obviously wrong. It doesn’t matter what other studios do except that their marketing as so cooked your brain you can’t see any alternative.
Is reasonable but you know, I’d sure prefer that old games just reduced their price, you know, like they used to instead of perpetual sales you have to watch out for.
Factorio is 5 and a half years old and costs £30. In that time it has had a number of major updates, and players typically play it for hundreds or thousands of hours, and it is rated extremely highly. Evaluate it on that basis rather than on some utterly irrational standard that has literally nothing to do with what you actually pay or how much fun you actually might have.
You haven’t even bothered to write any text to try and defend this absurd, idiotic idea that the two choices available are “sales” or “full price forever”.
Your “point” is not fucking true. Games can (and routinely used to) permanently discount their RRP as they got older.
They only stopped doing that because temporary discounts make more money. It works so well that they’ve conned you into believing that doing so is the only possibility, and pro-consumer.
Your excuses for not reading do explain why you’re like this.
I paid for the game years ago and have since got hundreds of hours of enjoyment out of it. I don’t remember what I paid, or care, because I know I got a good deal given how fun it is.
I’m obsessed with the fact that you think what matters is the discount, not the price. Here, this is you:
Sucker. Let me guess, you’ve been manipulated so thoroughly you think Temu’s gamified shopping is pro-consumer too? And fast-food places “discounting” your £30 burger meal down to £15 with a complex system of vouchers? That’s good too, is it?
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Boy is this a take and a half. So instead of asking a price they think is fair, they should ask more, and arbitrarily reduce that on occasion to manipulate you into buying the product through FOMO, and that’s consumer friendly?
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It is more anti-customer to hold your price at a certain level and offer discounts so you both:
Your position seems to be based on two things:
1 is obviously wrong. It doesn’t matter what other studios do except that their marketing as so cooked your brain you can’t see any alternative.
Factorio is 5 and a half years old and costs £30. In that time it has had a number of major updates, and players typically play it for hundreds or thousands of hours, and it is rated extremely highly. Evaluate it on that basis rather than on some utterly irrational standard that has literally nothing to do with what you actually pay or how much fun you actually might have.
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You haven’t even bothered to write any text to try and defend this absurd, idiotic idea that the two choices available are “sales” or “full price forever”.
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Your “point” is not fucking true. Games can (and routinely used to) permanently discount their RRP as they got older.
They only stopped doing that because temporary discounts make more money. It works so well that they’ve conned you into believing that doing so is the only possibility, and pro-consumer.
Your excuses for not reading do explain why you’re like this.
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I paid for the game years ago and have since got hundreds of hours of enjoyment out of it. I don’t remember what I paid, or care, because I know I got a good deal given how fun it is.
I’m obsessed with the fact that you think what matters is the discount, not the price. Here, this is you:
Sucker. Let me guess, you’ve been manipulated so thoroughly you think Temu’s gamified shopping is pro-consumer too? And fast-food places “discounting” your £30 burger meal down to £15 with a complex system of vouchers? That’s good too, is it?
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