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Wasn’t camelcamelcamel bought by amazon a while back?
I think it was fakespot. The fake review spotter.
It feels like the world is ending.
Late stage capitalism is eating our species alive right in front of our eyes.
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.
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
1.99 game, now 8.99 just for you!
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, I get what it is. But I’m wondering who the culprit is that really opened the door for it.
This is why I have my ps2 back under the tv with free mcboot and a hard drive full of game back ups.
Me not buying on PlayStation store is real too.
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.
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.
Glad I jailbroke mine.
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
Wanna know how to foster customer resentment?
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.
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.
