Ultimate Bundle Pricing

[ahoneybadger3]

Hello,

Wondering if anyone else is having this issue.

Based in the UK and I have all but the two latest DLC's. Winds of change and King of Kings.

The Ultimate Bundle states on the page that the total cost would be £17.72.

However when you add it to the cart and go through to payment it's wanting to take £42.81 for just those 2 DLC's, which oddly would be more than even buying them separately at full price.

[grotaclas]

There is an issue with the ultimate bundle for some people. The following comment has some more info: https://steamcommunity.com/app/236850/discussions/0/604144276523198686/#c596265621109387330

In your case the former starter edition costs £41.99 which amounts to £25.19 when applying the 40% discount of the bundle. That's more or less the difference between the amount which you should be paying and the amount which the cart is charging you(the difference is probably some kind of rounding).

I notified the developers about this, but it sounded like they think it could be a steam bug. My recommendation would be to wait for the next sale. If the discounts are the same as during the last sale then the bundle will cost you only about £7, despite this error(without the error it would be £1 cheaper).

[ahoneybadger3]

Aye will do cheers, time to find something else to enjoy for a while.

[Carstein83]

Same bug here, the ultimate bundle is advertised with a price of 173 €, but costs 203 € instead. I already own the base game and some older DLC, but the ownership of the base game is somehow not noted at the later pricefinding.

[J4MESOX4D]

I was going to buy the Ultimate Bundle which I can explicitly get 40% off the expansions I don't own. However on the price itself, the 40% is crossed out and it is only offering 25%. This issue usually affects publishers that are bloated with DLC and get themselves tied up in price structure knots.

They will blame Steam but it's entirely down to them to manage their SteamWorks account and from what I understand, this is not a new issue. At the end of the day, it amounts to false advertising.

[Carstein83]

The answers I got:

Paradox Support: Steam is responsible
Steam: The base game involved in the Ultimate Bundle is slightly different from the base game involved in the bundle I already own - that´s why I have to pay twice. The lady from steam didn´t answer, why they advertise and sell with two different prices (which could be problematic from a legal standpoint).

[Sebanterkrator]

This is STILL a problem and frankly, just another reason to dislike PDX. I doubt this is a mistake, it's likely another way for PDX to screw that few extra £ out of people. Because otherwise they'd have fixed it. Or steam would have fixed it. Instead they're playing pass the buck.

[ahoneybadger3]

Yeah I've put the game down for a long while. Not going to bother paying more than the advertised price because it's just so wrong to do.

At best it's misleading.

[Sebanterkrator]

It's a p**s take to be honest.

The response from Steam was "buy it for the wrong price and we'll refund you".

[Carstein83]

Originally posted by Sebanterkrator:

The response from Steam was "buy it for the wrong price and we'll refund you".

That´s interesting, since they didn´t want to give me a refund three weeks earlier.