This is why I have my ps2 back under the tv with free mcboot and a hard drive full of game back ups.
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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.
This is a machine that eats humans and shits gold. The more it eats, the more it shits. People are dying of hunger and freezing yet there’s plenty of food and warmth, only because the machine needs to keep running.
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.
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)_/¯
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.