Why is this game never below 50 % on sales?

[☧ Voievod]

Question in title ?

[Urfarah]

I've never seen any From Software game go below 50%. I guess that's just their policy.

[nfnntnntnntfn.srvr]

because the developer of this piece of crap is Activision

[Ld7]

Base price increased here in Brazil

Used to be R$99 on sale, now it is R$137 :(

[Don Lobo]

Originally posted by Urfarah:

I've never seen any From Software game go below 50%. I guess that's just their policy.

That's not true at all, but most of their previous games got heavily discounted only because they didn’t work right. DaS:PtD was a broken mess and DaS2 also had multiple bugs that were never fixed, including the durability bug which halves the durability of everything.

Originally posted by nfntáu:

because the developer of this piece of crap is Activision

Activision didn’t develop or design a single thing in Sekiro. Activision partnered with From Software (who owns the Sekiro IP and developed the entire game on their studios alone), to perform testing on the game and publish it outside of Japan, with a time-limited license, in exchange for a set percentage of revenue as long as the license lasts.

Originally posted by Ld7:

Base price increased here in Brazil

Used to be R$99 on sale, now it is R$137 :(

After Microsoft acquired Activision, they standardized their regional pricing. Whatever they're using to define said pricing is not at all in line with the actual economy of the different countries they've heavily raised the prize for. The most likely scenario, is that is done in a semi-automatic fashion, and no distinct research is done to determine appropriate regional pricing. So, for all the ♥♥♥♥ that people throw at Activision, at the very least they had the regional pricing right.

Originally posted by ☧ Voievod:

Question in title ?

Why should they?

Think of it logically for a second. You have a product that has continued to sell well, even when not discounted. To the point that it has increased its sale numbers by almost an entire extra 1/3th (after Sekiro's release year), reaching 10 million copies sold after 4 years. Why would any sensible company forgo revenue to discount the game any higher? What sense would that business decision make?

You can all act like Activision is doing something wrong, or exceptional, but in reality, this is very much the norm. No company in the world would discount a product they're still selling well, much more than what's already enough for it to continue to sell well. There's no value in it, and no one in their market research team would be able to justify the idea of putting a higher discount, essentially just because.

[hone]

Because people are still buying. However it is not a nice thing to raise praices in some regions and then keep descounts same

[Vent]

Not only it doesn't go below 50%, but it got even more expensive.

fxckin' publisher.

Sep 12, 2023
P1,399.00
50% off

Nov 15, 2023
P1805.00
50% off

[Genesis]

Originally posted by Kohi Prince:

Not only it doesn't go below 50%, but it got even more expensive.

fxckin' publisher.

Sep 12, 2023
P1,399.00
50% off

Nov 15, 2023
P1805.00
50% off

yeah its crazy, but this is activision pricing at best. hell at least AC6 and elden ring was actually reasonable and affordable while Sekiro being almost 60% more expensive than these 2 games.

[LordOfWarcraft]

It's too good a game for them to give any discounts unfortunately for us

[Neatrior]

Capitalism.

[RayoSombrio]

It's crazy a game released 4 years ago is still not getting better discounts. I bought it today, just didn't want to wait more.

[Alastor's Alibi]

They increased regional pricing for a lot of countries recently. So thats extra sucky. You end up making more profit if you make games actually accessible for people in lower income regions.
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