Nah I've seen RDR2 for as low as 35 euro many many times in stores
What exactly do you want changed? You want games to go up in price as they add patches/updates or you want them to go forward in time and bring you the fully patch version day 1 and never change the price, a la Nintendo style? If only consumer electronics kept their price, I would love to buy a PS1 for $299 today.
I just don't agree with you that's it's a problem. Most products fall in price, you can buy the newest phone for crazy money or wait a year or two and get it for much less with the newest software updates and bug fixes. If you're not willing to buy a game at release because it might get some updates and a lower price after some months maybe you were not really interested in it all that much to begin with.
I think the "solution" is to just have a generally complete and stable game. Being able to address bugs not caught before release and adding additional content are the benefits of the connected age, rather than leaving a game potentially broken. Also only leaving a full blown sequel on the table rather than additional content.
Big publishers seems to be doing fine, I buy a lot of my Nintendo games second hand because I can't stand their price policies, but I think Nintendo will be just fine without getting as much money from me as they might have. Games don't just go on sales because publishers are bored it's often either because it sold terrible and they are trying to desperately get some money back or because a game sales numbers might be slowing down and want to get the more price sensitive consumers on board, just like many other markets.
Last gen people were talking about how used games were destroying the industry (well most publishers I guess) but that didn't happen, just like the used car market didn't destroy the car market. At least now publishers are getting ~$20 from you instead of $0 like they might have last gen when the used market was bigger and online sales weren't as good or often.
That's not what the topic is about. The topic is about season passes and DLC not going on sale while the Gold Editions go on sale repeatedly. It sounds like the base game and Gold Edition are on sale on Live, but not the Season Pass. On PSN, the Gold Edition has been on sale twice as often as the Season Pass, and at greater discounts. The point is, it would be nice for early adopters who paid full price to have a chance at a Season Pass discount whenever the Gold Edition goes on sale.
Why do you limit this question to Ubisoft games? I'd triple think about ANY game.
So far that was my only experience of that kind. I mostly buy Nintendo games day one because I know they don't easily drop in price. The last time I bought a game of publisher other than Nintendo day one was Skyrim in 2011. The thing is, I knew when I bought it that it d get an offer in a few months, I was just disappointed today to find out that even though the expensive versions got massive drops like 40 instead of 100$, the season pass got nothing at all.
I just dont really see it as a problem for anyone, even them, unless their product is seen as lacking content or buggy, negatively affect their sales overall due to poor reception.
Welcome to being an early adopter for literally anything...
