This is why I have my ps2 back under the tv with free mcboot and a hard drive full of game back ups.
Just wanted to pop in and say it doesn’t matter for shit how dynamic their pricing is because it’s either less than 10bux or I ain’t buying it
I mean it won’t work this way I’m sure, but if they were smart, their algorithm would figure out that you never pay more than $10 for a game and offer it to you for that.
1.99 game, now 8.99 just for you!
Gotta love everything being “stock-market-ized”. Where did it start at the consumer level? I wanna say solidly with entertainment industry. The one that simultaneously sells tickets to events and also operates the resale business. Sell a shitload of tickets to scalpers, then people have to pay extra to buy the “market” price for the ticket. Uber and Lyft certainly had to contribute with their “surge” pricing methods. PC parts were a big one with the shortages of everything from GPUs to HDDs over the last decade plus, but those didn’t affect the general public.
What it’s all about is “market segregation”
The purpose being to chop up your product differently to get different groups of consumers to pay more based on what they can afford, or the urgency of the purchase.
This is something that business has known about forever, with things like dividing travel tickets up into first class, business, economy, early-bird tickets etc.
What tech has done is enable not only segregating by service and time, but to segregate down to the individual person and find the maximum you’re willing to pay.
And they can look at every factor. In a rush, pay more. Used the service twice last week? You must be in the habit now, so pay more. Using an iPhone not Android? You must be better off, pay more.
It’s hell, and it should be illegal.
Yeah, I get what it is. But I’m wondering who the culprit is that really opened the door for it to be used against the average consumer.
It’s also known as Price Discrimination, and depending on the details and jurisdiction sometimes it IS illegal.
Laws need to be updated to keep up with tech, and ENFORCED.
It feels like the world is ending.
A lot of people and corporations just trying to milk everything they can on the inevitable way down if things continue as they are.
Late stage capitalism is eating our species alive right in front of our eyes.
If they framed it like your account is being offered a special lower price, it would probably be better received, but not being transparent about it is BS. Pricing anything higher would be idiotic as you can see the base price when logged out.
For now you have access to the ability to connect to the internet for multiple places and not have businesses immediately know exactly who you are. That is gradually going to be eliminated until you can be assured that every interaction you have on every website and every service will know exactly who you are at all times.
Then it becomes a lot harder to investigate this kind of stuff for yourself.
Oh yeah, if it comes down to showing different prices based on location, not account, we’d need a website that keeps track or something.
Shoutout to sites like isthereanydeal, camelcamelcamel, pcpartpicker, and dekudeals. At least they let you know when you’re being scammed.
Wasn’t camelcamelcamel bought by amazon a while back?
I think it was fakespot. The fake review spotter.
Dynamic pricing is pretty rude! The product hasn’t changed, so why should it cost different prices for different people? It’s just sneaky and dishonest.
Same way water is different prices depending on if it’s from a gas station or the airport.
Cause those who own the means to sell you the water want to exploit you for all your worth.
Dishonest Pricing
Dirty Pricing
Disgraceful Pricing
Deceptive Pricing
Despicable Pricing
Dastardly Pricing
Because they want to get every single nickel and dime they can out of each and every one of us.
This doesn’t feel like dynamic pricing to me. Dynamic pricing to me sounds like real-time algorithm based price adjustments.
This to me feels most like generic A/B testing where they’re trying to identify optimal sales prices for future titles by offering different deals to different people. It could also be the result of some kind of classification of accounts that results in some kind of stratified pricing, like is done for regional pricing, but using account statistics rather than geolocation.
Why should some people have a better deal for the same product is because some people have better buying power, and they’re used to subsidize lower prices for those who don’t, so more people can experience it. It kind of follows the same reason for the existence of marginal tax brackets.
Oh my sweet summer child.
and they’re used to subsidize lower prices
Nothing is subsidized here (in the sense that Sony could not offer those lower prices to other people if some didn’t pay more ). If that were true, Sony would still make more money if they just didn’t make these lower priced sales. No corporation will do that, unless they are amazon and want to buy market share.
This means, Sony could offer the lower price to everyone and still make a profit. They are just trying to squeeze everybody for the highest amount they can get away with.
Sony is of course trying to maximize profit levels, that’s why I said this is probably just A/B testing. I did have another thought that could also make some sense so I shared that, because it wouldn’t surprise me if Sony used demographic information to offer different sales to further maximize profits. Still not seeing any evidence that this is Dynamic Pricing like the article stated.
Wanna know how to foster customer resentment?
reputation isn’t valuable to companies any more. If their customers resent them but still begrudgingly give them money, they don’t care. People don’t vote with their wallets. Maybe you will, maybe I will, but we’re in a relatively small minority. If they lose a few % of their customers but can extract 20% more from the remaining 95% then it’s a good strategy to them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So Steam doesn’t have sales and huge discounts on older games? Now we call this dynamic pricing?
Morons prepay and overpay for new games on all formats.
Next article: PS5 controller microplastics…000…
Steam games are either on sale, or they aren’t.
But on the PlayStation Store, I can see a game is on sale and text my buddy who lives down the street about it, but when he opens the store it’s not on sale for him, only me.
You could have just said you don’t know what dynamic pricing means.
Here’s the low down: Dynamic pricing is when a company charges different prices for different people at the same time, potentially based on the individuals spending history. So customer A who rarely buys full priced games might be offered a discount, while consumer B who regularly buys full priced games is charged full price.
Me not buying on PlayStation store is real too.
Jokes on them because if the shit ain’t on sale enough to be the price I want to pay I still won’t be buying it. So they can dynamic price me all they want, I’ll only be buying it when they give me an adequate enough discount.
And I’ll complain about it to them if I learn they’re trying to fuck me.
I buy my games used at the store ! Sometimes that’s even better value than Steam sales !
Which is exactly why they want to get rid of physical sales completely
Glad I jailbroke mine.
