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EA/Rockefellers indoctrinating youths to alien cults (demo pricing errors on Xbox)

TrueGrime

TrueGrime

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Messofanego said:
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Occam

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The reason for this pricing error
experiment
happening on Xbox is obvious: During the past two generations, Xbox owners demonstrated that they enjoy paying for things that should be free (paywall for online gaming and free online apps).
 
TrueGrime

TrueGrime

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Occam said:
The reason for this pricing error
experiment
happening on Xbox is obvious: During the past two generations, Xbox owners demonstrated that they enjoy paying for things that should be free (paywall for online gaming and free online apps).
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Because all Xbox owners bought Xbox's for those apps behind paywalls and enjoyed it! Not a single xbox owner was against this! You're totally right.

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GavinGT

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Occam said:
The reason for this pricing error
experiment
happening on Xbox is obvious: During the past two generations, Xbox owners demonstrated that they enjoy paying for things that should be free (paywall for online gaming and free online apps).
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Oh stop.
 
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REMEMBER CITADEL

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TrueGrime said:
Because all Xbox owners bought Xbox's for those apps behind paywalls and enjoyed it! Not a single xbox owner was against this! You're totally right.

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It's not like Sony is above pricing experiments, what with the initial plan to make the full-priced Driveclub upgrade tied to PlayStation Plus subscription, but please let's not make this into a platform fight. If paid demos take hold on one service, they will indubitably arrive to all platforms eventually, and that would be bad for everyone.
 
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Occam

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TrueGrime said:
Because all Xbox owners bought Xbox's for those apps behind paywalls and enjoyed it! Not a single xbox owner was against this! You're totally right.
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Did the money of those Xbox owners who were against it but paid nonetheless smell differently?
 
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Occam

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Well, as has been suggested earlier, if there is enough backlash this will be revealed to be a pricing error.
 
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LukasTaves

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I searched the store on my Pc and the demo showed as paid. After logging in said I already purchased it.

I'm not buying this is a price error, why would they be meddling with the price of a demo months after release?
 
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Occam

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RdN said:
Dude, stop. You are embarrassing yourself.
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I don't wish to derail this any further, but how so? You vote with your wallet, and that is all that counts for corporations.
(I also thought this was a rather clever allusion to the famous quote by Vespasian.)
 
TrueGrime

TrueGrime

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REMEMBER CITADEL said:
It's not like Sony is above pricing experiments, what with the initial plan to make the full-priced Driveclub upgrade tied to PlayStation Plus subscription, but please let's not make this into a platform fight. If paid demos take hold on one service, they will indubitably arrive to all platforms eventually, and that would be bad for everyone.
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Oh I understand this but his comments and my reply had nothing to do with a platform war.
 
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GavinGT

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Occam said:
I don't wish to derail this any further, but how so? You vote with your wallet, and that is all that counts for corporations.
(I also thought this was a rather clever allusion to the famous quote by Vespasian.)
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So why did Microsoft make apps free to use and Sony started charging for online play if "enjoying" paying for things is a unique trait of Xbox owners?
 
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Frologic

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The only demo I feel like I should have paid $5 for was Crackdown. They pretty much gave us 1/3 of the game.
I wouldn't actually pay $5 still but damn that was a generous demo
 
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Twinduct

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So this is the dawn of 'exclusively free demos' on platform x in the next PR spin for suits on a stage?

Next step is IAP in demos right?

(Hope its just a pricing error, although with EA you can never really be too sure)
 
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n0tail

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EA Sports UFC demo on PS4 was free. I think this must be some error. At least I hope. Because of not, this is sad.
 
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UrbanRats

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A demo takes extra development time (& costs) to create, it's only fair to pay a little fee for it!

We've just been lucky all this time.
 
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LukasTaves

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Occam said:
The reason for this pricing error
experiment
happening on Xbox is obvious: During the past two generations, Xbox owners demonstrated that they enjoy paying for things that should be free (paywall for online gaming and free online apps).
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Yeah, god forbid consumers paying for a quality service that for many years no one could hope to match.
 
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Mr Croft

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Seriously they are trying to charge for demos! What is going on this Gen :(
if people start to pay for demos I fear what the results will be....

I have the demo for Xbox one but when I got it, it was free I'm curious on why it costs money now. Especially after that funny Joe Rogan bill Goldberg voice over bug video to make the game look a little less appealing
 
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Occam

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GavinGT said:
So why did Microsoft make apps free to use and Sony started charging for online play if "enjoying" paying for things is a unique trait of Xbox owners?
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I didn't say "unique trait". Just tendencies. At a time when there was a choice, some consumers paid more than others. Sony simply saw how well this kind of "incentive" to increase the number of subscribers works and also paywalled online gaming. The important difference being that in addition to just online gaming they always added actual value by also giving their customers access to a number of full games for the duration of the subscruiption.
 
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valkyre

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Miles Quaritch said:
I blame GT fans for buying Prologue.
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I blame COD fans for buying each and every year game expansions/map packs for full price...

The list goes on...

Oh and on topic, wtf is this BS from EA? That's disgusting...Ι only hope that this is a mistake and nothing more.
 
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GavinGT

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Occam said:
I didn't say "unique trait". Just tendencies. At a time when there was a choice, some consumers paid more than others. Sony simply saw how well this kind of "incentive" to increase the number of subscribers works and also paywalled online gaming. The important difference being that they always added actual value by also giving their customers access to a number of full games in addition to online gaming for the duration of the subscruiption.
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Maybe they bought the cheaper console, or the one with the games they wanted, or the one their friends had.
 
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