spemanig said:
1) Just as many companies base their prices on how they can make the most money, regardless of market value. It doesn't matter my personal impact on decision making. If a beer drinker saw 3 leters of franzia red going for $20 and he said "hey, that's over priced," he'd be right. Who cares if he only drinks beer?
2) Exact product parellels exist like that everywhere. Every cross gen game is valued the same. Even if they didn't exist everywhere, hypotheticals are not unrealistic. They are hypotheticals. You use them, just like you said, to dictate how real world pricing should be done. That's isn't unrealistic. That's how prices are made in the first place.
3) No I'm not.
4) The point of a season pass is to get DLC for cheaper. Of course it would go down.
5) Never said that was how economics works. WW GCN costs more than TLOU for the PS3.
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1) Market forces would make the companies adjust said pricing. A product being "overpriced" is dictated by the result of its sales. Unless of course it is a commodity wherein it will be highly price elastic.
2) Except that it is not a cross gen game. It is a remaster. Yes, if it WAS made TOGETHER with the PS3 version, then it would be a cross gen game. But it wasn't. Different development costs/marketing/etc go into a remaster vs a cross gen (as versions are already being developed for a cross gen all together while a remaster would need you to reassembe a new development team to upgrade the new product and a new marketing team/budget to sell it). To make a solid case, you need to argue apples to apples.
No, hypotheticals are not how prices are made. Actual consumer/competitor/cost data is used to determine pricing (unless of course you just want to guess at things). But that's not the point, in this case, you're using a promotional product that doesn't exist (season pass) and a main product that no longer exists in the price (TLOU main game) that it was when the product DID exist. Not only that, you're using Amazon pricing and not Sony MSRP.
Completely hypothetical pricing cherry picking.
Answer this: What is TLOU MSRP as it exists for Sony today and if I wanted to get all the DLC RIGHT NOW how much would it cost me new from Sony?
3) Yes you are. And that's how many people here are taking it. Calling something a fool's errand implies that it is something only fools do. Doesn't matter if you directly say it, the implication is there. If you don't mean it that way, perhaps you need to dial down what you say to make it more palatable to the others here?
4) It's a promotional item offered for a limited time offered prior to actual product releases in order to cover some of the development costs. In the industry I work in, that's called Pre-selling. And yes, presold products tend to be cheaper. Once the product is out, prices go up.
5) Actually, you did:
"And, once again, the current market price for TLOU PS3 is $30 new, NOT $60. It doesn't matter if the DLC is included. All of the DLC was valued, by Sony, at $20 one whole year ago. The same way the value of TLOU has gone down by 50%, it's more than safe to assume that the value of the DLC has gone down by 50% as well. 30+10 = 40."
Sounds to me that you think just becuase something was released a year ago, it should naturally go down in price.