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paradiseplanet
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There's an EA Publisher sale going on right now on Origin, which includes the Sims 4 base game, expansion packs, and bundles for sale. The sale ends March 6th, 10AM PT.
It seems game packs are not on sale this time, and of course once again no stuff pack sales... *sigh*
It seems game packs are not on sale this time, and of course once again no stuff pack sales... *sigh*
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I personally think when a product is constantly on sale for a reduced price it lowers its value.
True. I could decide to wait for an EP or GP to drop in price if I think it's not worth it, and it would go on sale within a few months.
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This is literally the case for every game on Origin.
Steam also has sales constantly and rotate between titles.
You can't use the old retail days and sales and compare it to digital sales.
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I play a MMO game where sales are repeated on a regular base each month. First their is a sale where we get 3 times as much game cash as normal for 3 days. When this sale ends then a couple of days later the main thing we can buy for our game cash goes on sale for 3 days such that we get twice as much as normal. Then a couple of weeks without those sales and then the whole thing just starts over.
So what is the purpose of such repeating sales? Of course it (at least in my opinion) only can be to encourage players to hurry to buy before the sales are over. The sales are mainly just a way to make us gamers buy things faster than we maybe would have done otherwise
It is no surprise for me that it mostly is expensive things like the EPs and the bundles that goes on sale because the reason why EA doesn’t make so many EPs anymore clearly is that cheaper packs sell better. Again the reason likely is that a lot of young simmers don’t have much money and therefore can’t afford the more expensive things. So they usually only buy SPs and other things that they better can afford.
EA hesitates to lower the prices for the basegame and old EPs on a permanent basis and I am quite sure that there are 2 good reasons for this:
1. If the basegame and the first EPs always are cheap then EA fears that new simmers will think that the game is bad and not worth playing anyway.
2. EA fears that the new packs will sell badly if simmers always instead can buy old packs for much lower prices.
But just wait until TS5 is released because then EA will likely offer “TS4 the complete collection” for almost nothing
I saw the base game for $9.99 on Origin last week, I think that's pretty much what they are doing at this point. Everyone should just wait for a sale before buying anymore EPs, GPs, or SPs.
The packs are different because they of course instead are targeted at simmers who already have the basegame. Here EA wants even old packs to still have their full price such that simmers don’t buy the old packs instead of the new ones. But especially the most expensive packs can also be used to tempt simmers who couldn’t afford them by giving them short periods where they can be bought cheaply. But preferably only at times where EA has released new expensive packs recently. So I am quite sure that this is EA’s strategy
Because they're at such a low price to begin with that EA feels they don't make any money on them when they do put them on sale and they know players are going to be more willing to do a quick grab-and-go with an already lower priced stuff pack when they need a quick boost to their games so there's no need for them to be put on sale as often (or at all).
Even more importantly a Stuff Pack is not likely to be something that's going to entice in new players who have never played the game before to pick up the base game and start playing the way an EP or GP on sale might.
That said they generally do go on sale about once or twice a year you just have to be patient and watchful. My guess for a most likely time would be during the big Origin Summer Sale.
Also I don't think that people really understand how sales work. When something is put on sale more likely then not they're not trying to sell that item. Well I mean they are but that's not really the end game. The end game is to pull people into your store so that they'll buy other (hopefully full priced) items while they're there. This harder to do on online stores when people don't have the "well I came all this way I might as well get something else while I'm here" mentality that they do in brick-and-mortar stores thus online stores have bigger sales more often because in their mind if you come there to buy a sale item often enough you may be more likely to buy that other bigger ticket item that you think about every time you visit the page.
Definitely agree with this. I visited the Origin store to check out game prices for giveaways and was immediately drwan to a game called Fe. Still deciding whether or not to get it.
Maybe not at this time, but I have purchased many stuff packs that I own for $5 or less. You jusst have to be patient.
But if you have enough patience then you can just wait a few years and hope that EA then will release “the Sims 4 full collection” for free just like EA did with TS2 even though EA hasn’t even done it with TS3 yet
In places like Origin the changing offers are of course also about making curious enough to visit the store more offen such that they will be tempted to buy more.
I will wait for Laundry and the New Gp to go sale