fluffydelusions
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EA is going to say it's an error but they are really testing the waters to see if they can get away with it lol
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EA/Rockefellers indoctrinating youths to alien cults (demo pricing errors on Xbox)
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so complicated that Fifa and UFC got the exact same price for their demos..?
Yes, there could be a perfectly reasonable explanation for how the prices got set that way. Something besides "We're gonna start charging people for demos now!". I don't know, but I think it's awfully presumptuous that some of you pretend to know that it must have been on purpose.
AtomnayaKlubnika
Member
Demos never were and never will be free. It cost to the editor to put it out there.
Interesting fact: there was a study (or a press article) that showed that publishing a demo wasn't healthy for the commercial success of a game. I am looking for the source.
Interesting fact: there was a study (or a press article) that showed that publishing a demo wasn't healthy for the commercial success of a game. I am looking for the source.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=xbox+live+demos+hurt+sales
Not that I think that's what this is about, though.
I´m not saying it´s on purpose.. I just find it to be a strange "glitch"..
are there any other demos for EA games on Xbox One..? NBA Live 2014. Madden PvZ garden Warfare or something like that..? if so are they still free?
AtomnayaKlubnika
Member
I think it definitely doesn't help when your game is average or bad.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
If it's an error then you would expect a certain degree of randomness to be involved OR the pricing is from something else related to the game but got associated with the demo by accident.
If there isn't anything else for $4.99 then we can only assume it's a random figure that's been accidentally associated with the product, but what are the chances a random figure would be $4.99? If it had been $3.72 or $2.93 then perhaps there's a case for the 'random accident' idea.
It's too specific. It was a test.
Ground Zeroes had more gameplay than most AAA games thesedays.
You're making a boatload of assumptions here regarding a system about which you know nothing.
PuppetSlave
Member
Even if this is an "error", would not surprise me to find out it was an intended one. To see how much outrage happens.
Robottiimu2000
Member
"We want to embrace this new audience"
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Well, they can just relabel it as "early access" and have people eagerly spend the dough.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
So where does the specific price of $4.99 come from? You can either just turn away from a conundrum like this or you can engage in speculation. I choose to engage with the problem. I do realise it's much easier to turn away and simply say 'no idea' but I have never been like that and never will be like that.
The price had to have been generated some way and unless EA specifically explain how the price of $4.99 was accidentally generated, I will always favour the 'test' theory as the most likely answer.
This is a pricing error, obviously.
Still, it's hilarious to see the sheer amount of people completely willing to accept that EA is behind this (me included). EA have a terrifying public image problem. Once people are unwilling to give you the benefit of the doubt you are in deep shit.
Still, it's hilarious to see the sheer amount of people completely willing to accept that EA is behind this (me included). EA have a terrifying public image problem. Once people are unwilling to give you the benefit of the doubt you are in deep shit.
Methamatics101
Member
''Pricing error''.
Novel Mike
Member
I really doubt many people would actually be surprised that EA started doing this. I'm sure its an error but please lets not give them ideas (and for the love of god don't purchase it!).
That said... If it ends up being real, totally going to make a video about it XD
That said... If it ends up being real, totally going to make a video about it XD
Think what you want. I'm just drawing from my experience as a programmer, both of back-end systems and user interfaces. Things get complicated. Furthermore, you can never underestimate a person's ability to misinterpret the designer's intent and use the system incorrectly.
But I'm not going to engage your line of questioning and try to guess at what happened. There's no point when it could be literally anything.
What? No. Only 1 map. Lol
it was just a Price Error here. Hope no one actually paid for This. Lol
Why do you blame EA? Isn't it MGS that pioneered this type of thing?
Team Fortress 2 has gotten 2-3 games worth of content for free in the last 7 years, and after the game went free 2 play you didn't have to pay a penny if you didn't want to. I would hardly call that terrible.
AlphaTwo00
Member
take the iOS apple submission store, pricing is just a checkbox menu, and the $0.99 option is just below the free option. Checking the $0.99 automatically applies it to all the countries you sell your app in in that regions adjusted price.
All it could be is just someone who accidentally clicked the price instead of free when updating the system.
Some of you are really going into the deep end in this conspiracy.
Melchiah
Member
Wut?! It was free for me on the PS4.
Malio
Member
Yep, was gonna post exactly this. Why isn't it a $49.99 pricing error? Or $59.99 pricing error? And both on Sports games that suckers buy every year? C'mon.
friskykillface
Banned
It begins....... 
Welp it was fun while it lasted
Well if they take all weekend to change the price then it'll be more suspicious
Welp it was fun while it lasted
Well if they take all weekend to change the price then it'll be more suspicious
Perhaps because they realise that the PS4 full game is going to sell around twice as much as the Xbox One game. I guess they're trying to claw as much back from the Demo in attempt to mitigate losses on the Xbox One SKU.
If Microsoft don't do something to stop the Xbox One flopping you may see the Xbox One losing third party support soon.
Yeah, I'm definitely getting too old for this.
/dead
DJKippling
Banned
lolol. Amazing.
Can you blame them though? It could very well be a pricing error, but with EA you never know. Most wouldn't put it pass them to pull off shit like this.
pickle tooth
Banned
Is it worth the 5$ thinking about trying out this game.
I'm guessing that when (re-)publishing a piece of software on the Xbox One marketplace the price automatically gets adjusted for all available regions. Maybe there's like a safeguard that will default to the equivalent of $5 if you don't specify the price and just hit "publish" assuming it will go up as "for free". Just guessing blindly here.
The only malicious scheming I can imagine to have happened is that EA knew about this error right away and waited until people noticed and complained, noting down the exact time and volume of complaints for future reference.
The only malicious scheming I can imagine to have happened is that EA knew about this error right away and waited until people noticed and complained, noting down the exact time and volume of complaints for future reference.
mangochutney
Member
Funny thing is I never buy FIFA any more, I just download the demo and play that when I want a quick game of football.
Maybe that's the reason, too many freeloaders.
Maybe that's the reason, too many freeloaders.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
See?
We don't vote EA as the worst company of the year and this happens. Is all your fault.
We don't vote EA as the worst company of the year and this happens. Is all your fault.
Mohonky
Member
Sony always did that 'Prologue' shit for the GT games.
Either release a free demo or the full game as far as I am concerned, none of this half assed bit more than a demo no where near a full game stuff.
cookie-monster
Member
wouldn't surprise me if they sugar coat it with $4.99 off the online purchase price of the game
Or they'll see their eventual purchase numbers decline by 25% and blame it on mobile instead.
Rule number one of running a corporation into the ground: Nothing that ever goes wrong is because of anything you did. After all, you didn't get to be a billion dollar corporation by making mistakes!
pickle tooth
Banned
It's free on my xbox.
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