Why does Blizzard lie about the price of the game?

[Masku⁶₆⁷]

I just opened Steam, and in the mini window that appears at the start with special offers, their advertisement implies that Diablo 4 + the DLC is priced at €27.49, which caught my attention.

Thinking it’s a good deal for both, I went to the game’s page and discovered that only the base game is priced as mentioned, while if you want to purchase it along with the DLC, you need to spend €41.99.

I felt disappointed and find it unfair to make misleading advertisements like this.

[SaltyWeasel]

Still far less disappointing then the game itself

[Grillo]

that generally isnt a blizzard issue thats related to a steam issue.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Steam does the pricing and links to pricing packages.

Developers just schedule the sales.

[Grillo]

i just looked at the store now and the game is on 40% off. must be a blimp on steams ui.

[Tantalos]

D4 and DLC are currently on "sale" on Steam for 932 (UAH) and 839 respectively. But in the Battle.net launcher, this is currently the base price without discounts. Great job, Blizzards.

[Neithan]

Originally posted by Tantalos:

D4 and DLC are currently on "sale" on Steam for 932 (UAH) and 839 respectively. But in the Battle.net launcher, this is currently the base price without discounts. Great job, Blizzards.

Battlenet just had a sale, what the hell makes you think that Steam and Blizzard have to align their sales? It's actually in their interest to not have sales at the same time, and I dare say, yes also in the interest of me the consumer.

[Masku⁶₆⁷]

Originally posted by Old-Boy BEbop:

that generally isnt a blizzard issue thats related to a steam issue.

On the contrary, it's not Steam's fault but the publisher's or devs, so Blizzard's. Don't defend them if you don't know the facts bro.

[Masku⁶₆⁷]

Originally posted by Old-Boy BEbop:

i just looked at the store now and the game is on 40% off. must be a blimp on steams ui.

How can I send you a screenshot? Because I took one.

[Neithan]

Originally posted by Masku⁶₆⁷:

Originally posted by Old-Boy BEbop:

that generally isnt a blizzard issue thats related to a steam issue.

On the contrary, it's not Steam's fault but the publisher's or devs, so Blizzard's. Don't defend them if you don't know the facts bro.

Again, Steam does manage steam sales, Blizzard has some sort of control when/how high a sale for their product will be, but ultimately, Steam has full control ON STEAM PLATTFORM.

Guess it is clear who doesn't know the facts here...

[😎Astran😾]

I've spent in the game 500+ hours on Steam alone (+100-200 in BNet version), $40 is a steal for a game as fun as D4 What are you waiting for? Christmas?

[Black Hole]

Originally posted by 😎𝔸𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟😾:

I've spent in the game 500+ hours on Steam alone (+100-200 in BNet version), $40 is a steal for a game as fun as D4 :lunar2019piginablanket: What are you waiting for? Christmas?

Would be even cheaper then.

[Grillo]

Originally posted by Masku⁶₆⁷:

Originally posted by Old-Boy BEbop:

that generally isnt a blizzard issue thats related to a steam issue.

On the contrary, it's not Steam's fault but the publisher's or devs, so Blizzard's. Don't defend them if you don't know the facts bro.

incorrect, the blimp you saw is a steam issue not a blizzard issue, blizzard informs steam of their next possible sale with the price and time. it is steam developers who program this into steam. blizzard has zero and i mean zero access to steams platform. steam is a 3rd party selling platform completely controlled by steam devs. and if you took a look see at Bnet you would see the game is on sale there too for the same price.

lets paint a picture, when cyberpunk was an nonfunctional game on release Sony removed it from its playstation store. without the approval of CD Project, why cause the sony playstatiion store is just what steam is another platform of a store. the only thing publishers have control over is the date of release, a percentage the 3rd party store gets from each purchase of the product and when the publisher informs the new dates for sales and dlc dates of release.

just do some research its not hard.

[Lord Dralisz]

this game only worth 5$... 10$ with the dlc

[Drimacus]

Originally posted by Tantalos:

D4 and DLC are currently on "sale" on Steam for 932 (UAH) and 839 respectively. But in the Battle.net launcher, this is currently the base price without discounts. Great job, Blizzards.

what is an uah