Nice,making wild assumptions. Could it not be that the skewed pricing and profit gouging from EA has annoyed consumers? Even those that work?
If anything the people who do work are the ones who notice/care about the pricing its the jobless and those whos parents buy their games for them that dont care about pricing,afterall they didnt work for that money.
so you think that because someone works its ok for EA to price gouge more money out of them by charging above retail price for the standard edition of the game,And those who complain about the gouging must be jobless layabouts? Are you an EA employee by any chance? What a silly attitude to have imo.
Price gouging? Please, sprinkles it’s just a useless pre-order bonus. Don’t want to pay fine, but complains about not wanting to pay or how you should be given it for freesies, Yeah that bird won’t fly. It’s just pretty damn funny seeing Blockheads lose their composure because per-ordering the next game gives people guns in this one.
I agree,i will give my money to a publisher who doesn’t charge above the RRP for the standard edition of their games,which is everyone except EA.
EA seem to think they are somewhat special and in a different leauge to all other devs/publishers and that their games are so good they can charge above retail price for the standard edition,well sorry EA you are not special and no your games do not justify an above RRP price.
Look if they were giving out things that changed the balance of the game i’d agree 100% they shouldnt do it. But these guns are trinkets, they may as well have given out free mousepads.
Sprinkles/blockhead/given the game for free? Yet more insults and wild assumptions from an apparently immature person.
Explain to me why EA is the only publisher in the uk thats currently asking for above the RRP price on the PlayStation store,or even better explain to me why EA deserve to charge above the RRP price when other publishers do not?
instead of 54.99 RRP for the standard edition they want 59.99 for it. EA clearly think they deserve special treatment and consumers that buy digital who already pay a premium,much more than those who buy discs even though discs cost more to produce will need to pay even more for the privilege to play EA games.
It doesn’t make sense,i see no RRP increase on the disc version,EA makes more profit on a digital sale from the psn than it does on a disc sale to a retailer yet they go and up the price on their games of the digital version,it makes no sense unless you factor in pure greed then it makes perfect sense.
That’s not an RRP, the RRP is set by the publisher, in this case EA, they are releasing it at 59.99.
You are the one saying they are charging more than the RRP, so you need to show me the RRP, because nowhere does it say RRP, right now is just you pulling figures out of your hat and saying “this is the RRP”
I think you don’t understand what RRP’s are. What other publishers charge for their games are irrelevant.
Not all games are made equal. I’ve had literally many hundreds of hours of fun from BF1 and expect it’ll be the same with this one. Yet I’ve had maybe 20 hours from some others in my library that cost the same. I’ve easily gotten much more value from BF1 than the others. A game is worth what people are prepared to pay for it.
If you don’t think it’s good value, don’t buy it. But Dice/EA/ whomever aren’t doing anything wrong by choosing how much they want to sell their game for. Personally I think it’s worth the extra, especially given their intention to release free content for everyone after release too.
So your stating EA has now officialy upped the RRP price of all thier games they just didnt tell anyone? And that this price increase only applies to certain platforms/nations and digital media?
Its Funny how that price increase isnt reflected in the disc based retail price,amazon uk still shows the RRP at 54.99 for the standard edition of the disc.
You know why EA hasnt upped the 54.99 RRP at retail for disc sales? Its Because retailers would complain about a price increase and possibly refuse to stock the game untill new deals were worked out.
so instead EA has targeted the consumer who purchases digital from psn and who already pays a premium over physical media,obviously these people are easy targets so this increase in RRP is only aimed at them.
Its greed and anyone with any sense of logic can see this,and yes i will vote with my wallet. Ill save my cash for publishers/developers who arent constantly trying to push the limits on what they can get away with,using nickel and dime tactics with targeted price increases for only certain consumers and with greedy lootbox (sorry “battlepack”) style anti consumer business tactics.
Its not just EA, plenty of preorders are more expensive on the PS4 uk store then on amazon uk.
COD4 is 49.99 on amazon and 59.99 on PS4 store
Vampyr is 40.99 on amazon and 49.99 on the PS4 store
The Crew 2 is 48.99 on amazon and 54.99 on the PS4 store
Jurassic World is 44.99 on amazon and 49.99 on PS4
That was just the first page i looked at.
Not sure why a digital download is more expensive then a disk though.
Those differences are because retailers selling discs will usually sell the game under the RRP price in order to attract customers away from the competition and due to whatever undisclosed deal the retailer has with the publisher they will still make a profit on the game.
On the psn store there is no competition so games will generally be sold at the RRP price set by the publisher.
By increasing the RRP price on digital only media sold through PlayStation they can avoid upsetting retailers and instead will happily increase the price for those already paying a premium price for digital media.
As for the why they charge more for digital over physical media? Because 1 they dont want to upset retailers and 2 greed.
If EA had upped the RRP price of digital and physical media,i would grumble a little,accept it and move on as an increase across the board is fair. But by increasing the RRP price only on digital media and only on certain platforms and certain regions this increase makes it more personal and makes me feel that im being targeted/punished because i prefer to purchase digitaly even though EA already gets a bigger cut of my digital purchase than from those purchasing discs. It reeks of greed targeted at a specific consumer/audience.
cod4 59.99… you seem to have gleefully ignored that in your EA bashing.
all I can see is you declaring ea are greedy. Lord forbid a company with shareholders wants to make profit. but hey, you keep on with your ea hate train, the rest of us will see each other on the battlefield.
If a measly $5 is such a big thing for you maybe get the game physically OR don’t bother with PlayStation.
The only two issues in this thread are both tied to PlayStation (preorders require immediate full payment and * about prices)
Nah it’s all EA secretly pushing to get more money out of you; which I find weird because BFV will require one purchase nothing additional to pay AND you have complete freedom to NOT purchase an EA product ever again.
