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Possible explanation, prices during sale
  • eonden

    Member
    Oct 25, 2017
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    To explain it better:
    There is a % base discount first in some games that takes it from the base price in the different regions:
    Imagine a game that is 60€ in one region and 18 in another, both have a 10% discount, making the game:
    60*0.9=54€
    18*0.9=16.2€

    Then if the game is above the 15€ barrier, it gets a 10€ fixed cut:
    60*0.9-10=44€
    18*0.9-10=6.2€

    The second flat discount makes the first game a total of 27% discount in the normal region but a 75% discount in the poorer region.

    In the case of VtM:Bloodlines 2, it was only the flat 10€, which makes it 50 (down from 60) and 8 (down from 18) repectively (and 17% and 54% discount), making it so that they probably fucked their own sales in their own store as well as any possibility of price parity in other stores (such as GMG and GOG running a 10€ discount).

    But Paradox already knew about this, apparently, and changed their mind at the last moment.
    They probably knew it was a 10€ discount in big regions, not that it would be a 10€ discount OVER ANY PRICE, creating loopsided discount % in some regions, discounts that VtM:Bloodlines 2, their biggest game ever is too young to have yet.

    Edit: I want to say that I already called this move a dick move by PDX, but I can understand why it happened.