Comment on Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically?

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You charge the highest price you can for the people who don’t want to wait, then drop the price once you’ve run out of those customers. The temporary price of a sale creates a sense of urgency that it won’t be this cheap again for a while, and positive word of mouth from the sale customers drives more sales for a little while once it returns to full price.

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Price tier strategy. Get impatient people to pay $70 because they need to play ASAP. And then sales to get people who won’t pay $70. Pricing low permanently misses out on getting as much money from people who are willing to pay more throughout the year.

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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Then… Why not just price it correctly to begin with?

  I can’t speak for the people pricing these things, but suspect the answer has to do with whales, perceived value, shareholders, regional economics, and various other things.

  I agree that lots of games are overpriced, though.

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