On sale? This is a joke...

LewanaM00n

Why are stuff packs never on sale? Right now base game is 75% off / at 12.49$ while some expansion packs are 60% off / at 15.99$
But they still expect us to pay 10$ for a stuff pack?
I'm really disappointed. I've been waiting to buy a couple stuff packs for a while but they always stay at full price.

SimsLovinLycan

On the bright side, thanks for the heads-up that the sale was on! Just finally snagged "Get Together" for $17 (you know, because sales tax)! Today's play session is going to be super fun now...

Stuff Packs usually don't go on sale because EA feels they're cheap enough, though. For me, however, that just makes me put the Stuff Packs at the bottom of my priority list. I'm like, "Well, better get the things that I can get for around $15-$20 and have way more content first, then worry about the $10 bonus content later." My momma taught me how to be smart with my money...and countless stories of consoles being jacked-up on launch day taught me never to pre-order or buy consoles at launch.

Simburian

Don't they sometimes get bundled in with stuff packs or expansions?

Goth583

They do have sales on SPs, but its very limited. They go for $4.99 when on sale. The last time this happened was during Halloween for Spooky Stuff. The SP sales are very sporadic unlike the base and expansion sales. Guess they feel like the markup isn't as high on the SPs so selling them at a discount isn't as appealing.

matthewrodney

Honestly the game is overpriced for the number of things they release now and expect us to buy. When it was just a few expansions every few months, it was one thing. But now it's the base game, EPs, SPs, GPs. It's absurd.

gummybear0724

Actually where I live, Base game is $10. Obviously this differs. So I have to pay just as much for luxury party as the whole Base game?

DominicLaurence

They are not very smart. People live for sales, a simple 30% off would have lots buying the heck out of the SPs and they'd profit oceans.

Movotti

Here in Oz, stuff packs are always $14.99, which is about $5 more than they are worth. I've never seen them go on sale.

I'd probably get a couple of them at a time, if they were 30% off.

Lucid_bleh

Well this is how marketing works , the main goal in sales is to promote buying , so I hate to break it to you but sales make you want to buy more expansions and buying more expansions makes you see all the other expansions available , so in conclusion you end up scrolling down all the available content the stores have to offer to you and the best possible result for the company is you buying the pacs that are not on sale ; I don't know how much you know about marketing tricks but it's the same thing like ; when the stores display their contents that they have on sale at the entrance and goodie snacks near the cash register so that .

Lucid_bleh

And yes I just compared a convenience store to gaming store ... don't ask it's 6am here and I'm reading a marketing report while scrolling the forums

Kuroi

You could buy the bundles when they are on sale. For example I just bought Bundle 3 for half the price. This way I got the included SPs for half the price as well.

Firande

Kuroi wrote: »

You could buy the bundles when they are on sale. For example I just bought Bundle 3 for half the price. This way I got the included SPs for half the price as well.

I wish Origin sold the Game Pack bundles... I have all EPs but I'd love to buy one of those bundles with one GP and two SPs on sale sometime.

icmnfrsh

The last time all SPs went on sale was months ago when most of them were 20% off, with Fitness (being the latest) at 10%.

And yeah, for most of the SPs I own, I either bought them with a bundle or on sale. The only ones I paid full price for are Backyard and Kids Room. The stuff packs are nice, but they're not exactly things I need to have this instant.

Vraie

I am wondering why the sale didn't show up on Origin but did when I loaded the game. I was waiting till the next sale to get GTW because although I know it has some issues, I have become more and more curious about it. Now I have a vampire on the detective path investigating crimes that coincidentally happen at Vlad's manor and where the witnesses are almost entirely ghosts. I kid you not. I am in some weird episode of some US Sci Fi Drama series O.o.

Yay for the sale

LewanaM00n

DominicLaurence wrote: »

They are not very smart. People live for sales, a simple 30% off would have lots buying the heck out of the SPs and they'd profit oceans.

Yeah a lot of people buying it on sale is better than no people buying it at full price but they don't seem to think like that.

Kuroi

lottevdbrug wrote: »

I wish Origin sold the Game Pack bundles... I have all EPs but I'd love to buy one of those bundles with one GP and two SPs on sale sometime.

In my country they do. But at the moment they have a discount of only 15 %. That's why I got mine from Amazon's Black Friday Week Sale for only half the price.

DeservedCriticism

From a sales perspective, their goal is to basically get pricetags low enough to coax out a sale. For EPs, a sale is sometimes neccesary since their standard price is $40. For SPs, this is not the case. People will readily purchase them arguing "it's just $10," and that exact mindset is also probably why Sims 4 absolutely spams them: a lot of people buy them, few take a step back to realize "I just spent $120 on stuff packs."

EA is basically betting that eventually they'll have sold $40 EPs to everyone willing to pay that price, and then they slash the price in half to make a sale to those that are willing to buy with just a little extra temptation thrown in. This is smart because otherwise they were gonna make $0 from such customers, whereas with the sale they still make some profit.

With Stuff packs though, they don't think extra temptation is neccesary since most people argue "it's just $10." And that's how Stuff packs are deceivingly the most expensive part of this game and probably their main money-maker. I mean currently, the EPs together are $160 (but often go on sale for as low as $80), the GPs total up to $100, and the Stuff packs total up to $120. This is the main focus of Sims 4 and their main money maker.

Evilyn_1007

The last time I saw a SP sale was at target when they had them all for $6.99, so it does happen just very rarely. With the exception of the Toddler pack which I bought with a birthday gift card I've gotten all my SP through a sale or a discounted bundle.

paradiseplanet

I have only two SPs currently because I know how tempting they can be and being a broke millennial that I am, to not get sucked into buying them all at full price. I only got Spooky from the October sale and paid Vintage Glamour full price.

Ashkir

There's a small chance that a new sale will be on Black Friday or Cyber Monday! I'm hoping! If they did the 75% off one again they did once, I would buy everything! & Gift some of them

ChampandGirlie

Yeah, I figured that the reasoning was that SPs are already priced quite low. They probably also have tighter margins between production and the sale price. There probably will be a few sales involving them coming up.

I've tended to buy them on sale or when I opted to pick up an SP over going to a movie or similar.