Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not “surge”, it’s not “dynamic”, it’s not “personalized” pricing… It’s price gouging. Look forward to paying more for games during peak times and months. It’s never enough for these greedy giant corporations.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I might be part of the problem. I bought a PS5 years ago, thinking GTA6 was close to being released.

    Turns out no.

    But what I’ve discovered is that with how the gaming industry has gone, I don’t see any need to buy games anymore.

    I’m sick of games being an online focused experience, which requires subscription costs.

    I’m sick of every game needing a multiple deluxe collectors editions that are the only way to play the full game, but cost $200 each and come with cheap plastic junk “collectables” to justify the cost.

    “But you won’t get the super rare coin and lapel pin if you don’t get the collectors edition!”

    “Thats fine. Just sell me the full game at $60.”

    “The full game requires the collectors edition. But it comes with this lapen pin and rare coin!”

    “How many copies of the collectors edition are there?”

    “About 2 million.”

    “So, not exactly rare, is it?”

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• Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then I will continue my 20 year Sony boycott.

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  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What was it that initially sent you down that path?

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Steam and PC gaming if anything. That and changing life priorities in my 30s and 40s. GoG and epic too. Between them I have almost 1000 games I didn’t pay for. Combined with hundreds on steam from humble etc. I probably spend more time trying to decide what to play than playing it.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not the person you asked, but for me:

      • The music CD rootkit
      • removing OtherOS from the PlayStation 3
      • trying to push various proprietary formats like MemoryStick and MiniDisc
      • DRM in ATRAC3
      • etc.

      Take your pick!

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t buy anything from Sony, got it

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• almost1337@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It seems as though many people aren’t reading the article, Sony was testing lower prices for the test groups, not higher. That sounds like the opposite of price gouging to me.

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  • Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s just a test. Doesn’t mean they won’t use it the other way.

    Probably just seeing how much people notice and why.

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    • almost1337@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or maybe they’re testing how many more sales they make when discounting more.

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• marius@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder why steam is so successful

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  • B312@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Doesn’t valve also do this for different regions?

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  • OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s almost as though Valve provides a valuable service and respects their customers. Rare traits in the corporate world. Answering to a board of directors is a hell of a lot easier than answering to shareholders.

    Enshitification hasn’t struck there…yet.

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• MushuChupacabra@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The dynamic pricing will not affect my static boycott.

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• xtools@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the PS4 can be jailbroken with a €4 disc from aliexpress nowadays, and it has a great catalog of games. slap a 1tb external hdd on it, download games from archive.org, presto

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Intriguing…

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    • xtools@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      this will do the trick, scroll down to the product recommendations and you might find an even cheaper listing

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  • forestbeasts@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait, you can get jailbreak discs from aliexpress? That might be worth looking into…

    (although, how do we know if it’s got malware on it?)

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    • xtools@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      you can also burn it yourself if you have a bluray burner, the software the aliexpress discs use is freely available

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m sure not being able to trust the price does wonders to sales.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Being transparent about stable prices without shady experiments is the first step of trust. Years ago Steam got rid of dynamic prices during sales, where prices during sales for games would change. While not exactly the same thing as Sony does, its still good we got stable and reliable prices.

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• NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This should have been an obvious outcome when digital games weren’t priced any less than their physical release.

  It’s not about saving the environment with less plastic. It’s not about saving money for the customer. It’s not about making it more convenient for the customer or the developer.

  It was always about more greed. More money in their pockets and more ways to fuck you over as a customer.

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• scttgard@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anyone dealing with Sony in anyway absolutely deserves everthing they get. Fuck Sony ten ways to forever.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anyone stupid enough to be paying more than $0 deserves to get rooked.

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