Why did the price go up during the sale?

[Karlsburg]

I was watching the price of this game and on the 40% off sale, here in Canada it was roughly ~$17.50 (not including taxes) just what it shows on the wishlist. It was exciting to me because I have approximately 19.80 dollars in my steam wallet so it was something I was considering getting. Then, I come back the next day to notice that now the wishlist price (with the 40% off sale) here in Canada is now $20.99 -- this leads me to believe that the base price was increased during the sale...
it also puts it outside of the range of purchase (especially after tax) so I guess I won't be getting it this time around. Did anyone else notice this?

[Bjørn]

Looks like it was indeed increased a bit on the 4th, according to the price history:

https://steamdb.info/app/1562430/

That graph with price history is below the list of currencies.

[Karlsburg]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Looks like it was indeed increased a bit on the 4th, according to the price history:

https://steamdb.info/app/1562430/

That graph with price history is below the list of currencies.

Thank you for helping me confirm my suspicions. I don't really like when game developers choose to do this, I guess the game is doing/selling well enough even during the sale that they justified milking a little bit more out of this sale run... It could've waited til the sale was over, so strange to change price mid-sale.

[Yggdrasil Burnes]

Originally posted by Karlsburg:

Originally posted by Bjørn:

Looks like it was indeed increased a bit on the 4th, according to the price history:

https://steamdb.info/app/1562430/

That graph with price history is below the list of currencies.

Thank you for helping me confirm my suspicions. I don't really like when game developers choose to do this, I guess the game is doing/selling well enough even during the sale that they justified milking a little bit more out of this sale run... It could've waited til the sale was over, so strange to change price mid-sale.

Um... I... hope this isn't the case. Team 17 are the publishers, they're responsible for pricing, bar certain exceptions. If they game was price increased mid sale without warning, then they might actually be guilty of price gouging, depending on their jurisdiction. Valve is based in California, but I don't know where Team 17 is based in. There's minutia to those laws, but for the most part, raising the prices to offset sale differences is actually a crime here in most of the United States.

[Karlsburg]

Originally posted by Yggdrasil Burnes:

Originally posted by Karlsburg:

Thank you for helping me confirm my suspicions. I don't really like when game developers choose to do this, I guess the game is doing/selling well enough even during the sale that they justified milking a little bit more out of this sale run... It could've waited til the sale was over, so strange to change price mid-sale.

Um... I... hope this isn't the case. Team 17 are the publishers, they're responsible for pricing, bar certain exceptions. If they game was price increased mid sale without warning, then they might actually be guilty of price gouging, depending on their jurisdiction. Valve is based in California, but I don't know where Team 17 is based in. There's minutia to those laws, but for the most part, raising the prices to offset sale differences is actually a crime here in most of the United States.

I do genuinely believe it's true, not only because of the graph but because I was literally watching the price with intention of purchase and then a few days later the price increased thus pushing it out of my steam wallet purchase range... Even if they are being unlawful I doubt anything negative consequence wise will actually happen to them other than my casual disdain of the price increase.

[bsg_joel]

I'm not really sure what happened here.

As others have mentioned, Black Salt Games doesn't control the pricing of the game. Equally, I don't believe T17 has increased the base price of the game - that's just not a thing that happens (very often) and we'd have been notified.

Obviously, something wonky happened, as is apparent from that SteamDB graph. I suspect it may have been due to some combination of sales or bundling discounts, but I'm not sure, sorry!

[Karlsburg]

Originally posted by bsg_joel:

I'm not really sure what happened here.

As others have mentioned, Black Salt Games doesn't control the pricing of the game. Equally, I don't believe T17 has increased the base price of the game - that's just not a thing that happens (very often) and we'd have been notified.

Obviously, something wonky happened, as is apparent from that SteamDB graph. I suspect it may have been due to some combination of sales or bundling discounts, but I'm not sure, sorry!

That's alright! Sometimes technology goes awry, it happens.