• Epic Mega Sale
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Imagine supporting a man who assaulted someone for simply wanting to be paid for a job to own the people who might have a few problems with Epic.
What was Hades' price before they raised it? It'd only be eligible for the $10 price reduction if it was $15+ before.
It was 19.99, and then 24.99, now back to 19.99
Loads of people who find it a good move.
Any examples? Seems sort of vague tbh.
Hm? It's 17.49 euros, reduced to 7.49 euros here still.
regional pricing. check 'em out here: http://epicdata.info
Ah okay, they restored it, that's why I was confused https://www.supergiantgames.com/blog/hades-pricing-and-the-epic-mega-sale/
Not a large blow, but a nice move from epic
Join us or perish
https://techraptor.net/content/epic-mega-sale-caught-in-chaos-as-games-pulled-prices-change
This the first big sale? Quite a catalyst for fucking shit up
It's disgusting how even in a sale they're seemingly making poor choices that'll negative impact people. Removing games from sale entirely because they don't want to be discounted alsosuggests that gest they put those games on sale without telling the publisher/developers in the first place (otherwise they wouldn't have been sold at a discount and then removed) and it also seems disingenous to say "£10 off everything!" because they removed everything that they didn't want to give £10 off. The Hades thing might nnot be down to Epic, but that's still bad and I thought raising prices before a sale was potentially illegal. It being $14.99...or £15.49 here isn't good, eiher.
Guess Epic is only good at bribes.
Good to see that Epic even manages to anger publishers now, Valve must having a blast just watching it.
Isn't 10€ off kinda lame compared to the usual steam sale? For a 60€ game that's less than 20% off. Anyway, as far as epic store exclusive go, I'll just stick to the 100% off discount. The devs are already paid anyway.
Not that bad for some games that aren't even out, or a good 66% off relatively new ones. Even as someone who won't buy from Epic, it's a good deal in some cases. Which makes all the little disappearances even more amusing when you realise this likely wasn't put past the companies.
I'm sure I'll get boxes but I'm genuinely confused, how is this anti-consumer exactly?
This particular instance probably isn't anti-consumer specifically, but it shows that Epic doesn't know how to run a store. Certain games may be contractually obligated not to sell under a certain price and Epic didn't even consider that developers/publishers maybe don't want that. Also having your stuff sold at a lower price than you intend can change consumer expectations, which can then affect future sales. Selling stuff isn't just "I buy it for X and I sell it for Y"
Epic are forcing their way onto the marketplace through bribery whilst also providing a substandard service. There is absolutely zero benefit to the consumer from this aside from a few games being slightly cheaper in a few regions (but most new games are far too expensive nowadays anyway so whatever) This sale itself isn't inherently anti-consumer, but it does highlight how woefully fucking underprepared Epic are to actually play in the big leagues.
It makes people want to buy multiple games while they're cheap, but because Epic didn't bother programming a shopping cart for their store, each game is a separate purchase and making multiple purchases in a short amount of time triggers their automatic fraud protection, locking you out from making further purchases. That seems pretty anti-consumer to me.
That seems like a pretty isolated incident though.
p sweet deal but still can't compete with the year-long 100% off sale that their only competition has
Sales of Borderlands 3 are suspended as well, and Randy's tweet promoting the sale gone :bigthonk: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/200318/5c9b2a17-a397-4cd0-8ea3-4cdd646115aa/image.png
I wouldn't spread this as fact. I've seen only one imstance of it happening. Who knows what other factors could have been involved?
https://twitter.com/AngriestPat/status/1129785206293049345
Isn't this exactly what Steam does though? Or at least used to do, I remember there being a lot of uproar about Steam's sales when they were first trying them out because they didn't ask developers first (I'm sure they ask now but I haven't looked into it) and they set pricing expectations super low to the point where they have to keep constant sales going just to get anyone to buy games. Games getting pulled is a pretty big fuckup but aside from that I don't see how stores competing to sell me cheaper and cheaper games is hurting me.
Didn't you hear? He's a magician, he can make his game magically disappear from sales
The anti fraud issues are hilarious and indicative of incompetence but it's not anti consumer. The people you should hate the most when it comes to fraud and being mistaken for a fraudster is... The lowlife scum who commit fraud. No company wants to limit a customer out of fear of fraud. The fact that they have to is indicative of how serious the threat is.
Buy a pair of Nikes and then fill up two tanks of gas on the same credit card on the same day and you will instantly lock your card. Why? Because one of the most common fraud scenarios after a card is stolen, at least in the US, is the thief buys himself a pair of new Nikes and then fills up his and his friend's gas tank. The fact that buying five games of varying prices from the EGS is enough to security lock your card, or at least that guy's card, is a gigantic hmmmmm and a half.
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