There is a difference between a 10% discount and nearly 75% discount than some regions were getting. Paradox probably believed the sales would be similar to how the Lunar Sales were in Steam (were the discount was made so the amount of money would be similar for each region, instead of creating loopsided % differences between richer and poorer regions)
It's EGS, they didn't have a search function before launching their store.
The 10€ flat discount is also available for games that are not current purchasable in EGS:
Nope you can use a VPN on a new account and buy from that region. You get locked into it after the first purchase or your payment method gets added.
There's the customer side to consider. And specifically what will happen after the sale is over.
Probably because the sale mentions that the discount is applicable on "every game in the store".
Because then EGS wouldn't be able to advertise how they are offering a discount on every game over $15
I guess games that are in multiple stores just realized that the flat discount applies in all regions, creating % discounts that are too high for other stores they promised "equivalent pricing in the near future" (such as GoG, Steam, GMG) to ever reach soon.
Which kinda makes sense from both perspectives: Steam has said in the past that they'd like developers and publishers to put games on sale for similar prices to other retailers, and I'd imagine Humble, GMG, GOG et al would like to be treated similarly.
That's wild. Yeah, it makes sense to pull outta this sale then. It'll be hard to sell it at full price when people know that it was sold as low as that before.
Funny, for me My Time in Portia is $7.19, but it's base price after regional pricing is $8.99. Meanwhile, on GOG, after regional pricing is $17.83.
But it's not tho
But Epic is still giving then the full purchase after their cut...so they are not getting less than $5 per copy sold...
