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  • Re: Epic Games Store Mega Sale

    From Mike S.@21:1/5 to spallshurgenson@gmail.com on Sat May 17 14:39:09 2025
    On Sat, 17 May 2025 11:15:07 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    Apparently there's a big sale going on at the Epic Games Store. Now, >personally I don't give a damn --I'm not buying anything from Epic--
    but I usually point out when there are big sales on GOG or Steam, so I
    guess it behooves me to mention it on Epic too.

    So, there. Mentioned.

    Thank you. But I don't care either about Epic's sales. :-P

    Me, the only reason I go to that store is for their free games, and
    even then I just add them to my library and never actually PLAY them.
    ;-)

    I have never installed a single Epic freebie from my library yet.
    Maybe one day.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Sun May 18 09:24:03 2025
    On 18/05/2025 02:13, Justisaur wrote:
    If you're interested in what they are, it's Tankhead, God of War
    Ragnarok (20% each,) and Kingdom Come Deliverance II (10%)

    I never quite understand sales like 10% off as paying say £50 instead of
    £45 really doesn't make any difference does it. Possibly it's just to
    grab your attention?

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  • From Mr Rob@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun May 18 11:02:34 2025
    On Sun, 18 May 2025 09:24:03 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:


    I never quite understand sales like 10% off as paying say £50 instead of
    £45 really doesn't make any difference does it. Possibly it's just to
    grab your attention?

    All of the main outlets seem to do this.

    I recently had an email from Fanatical inviting me to browse their
    current summer sale. Some of the games on 'sale' were 3+ years old and
    the sale amounted to 10% off the release price. It seems bonkers, but
    as all of them do this I assume that they must make at least some
    sales through these promotions.

    Some games in these 'sales' are £45+ which is often double the price
    or even more if you use a different vendor.

    --
    Rob

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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon May 19 11:50:17 2025
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

    Apparently there's a big sale going on at the Epic Games Store. Now, personally I don't give a damn --I'm not buying anything from Epic--
    but I usually point out when there are big sales on GOG or Steam, so I
    guess it behooves me to mention it on Epic too.

    So, there. Mentioned.

    Thanks. With the recent Doom talk I actually bought Doom Eternal for a
    tenner from there.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Tue May 20 12:07:22 2025
    On 18/05/2025 16:16, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    As to the digital sales themselves, it's a LITTLE better today than it
    was five or six years ago, when Valve put their foot down and stopped publishers from blatantly manipulating prices to make their sales look better. (E.g., game normally sells for $50, a week prior to sale jack
    up 'list price' to $70, then during sale give a 25% discount but still
    sell the game for $53 😉

    I don't know what the legal position is on digital goods but here in the
    UK physical goods do come with strings attached (how long available at a certain price and how long after you can then claim it's a sale). Not
    that it stops retailers trying to pull a fast one with my favourite
    example of putting Xmas goods out sometime in July, with inflated
    prices, which means come December time they can be offered for sale.

    What did really dampen it down was the amount of publicity surrounding
    the big chains effectively trying to dupe customers which isn't a good
    look. It also pretty much put a stop to increasing the price for a month
    and the putting them in a 2-for-1 offer with an exaggerated discount.

    The main place I tend to see it now is on lunch time meal deals with the speciality of making a bottle of soft drink very expensive to make the
    whole deal look much better than it is.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Mr Rob on Tue May 20 12:12:49 2025
    On 18/05/2025 11:02, Mr Rob wrote:
    On Sun, 18 May 2025 09:24:03 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:


    I never quite understand sales like 10% off as paying say £50 instead of
    £45 really doesn't make any difference does it. Possibly it's just to
    grab your attention?

    All of the main outlets seem to do this.

    I recently had an email from Fanatical inviting me to browse their
    current summer sale. Some of the games on 'sale' were 3+ years old and
    the sale amounted to 10% off the release price. It seems bonkers, but
    as all of them do this I assume that they must make at least some
    sales through these promotions.

    Some games in these 'sales' are £45+ which is often double the price
    or even more if you use a different vendor.


    Part of me says they know what they are doing but part of me says maybe
    not as this is the games industry. Personally I'd probably pick up some
    of the early Call of Duty games if they got into that £5-£10 range on
    Steam as an impulse buy. What I'm not doing is paying £30+ for games
    that were released ten to fifteen years ago. That's just taking the piss.

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