Hey @Brigby what’s honestly more likely to get them to fix the Steam UI: Steam users buying this pack, or Steam users boycotting this pack?
My understanding is they said they don’t want to fix it until steam brings in more money/players, so if I DON’T buy, then it reinforces their notion that Steam is not worth supporting, but if I DO buy, I show them that they can worsen my playing experience and I will still keep paying.
It seems like a good deal, but I’m a little huffy right now.
Logan’s Loonies costs $2 more than Hidden Stash. Canadian, Android. Is this a NAFTA thing? D3go figured the LL would be really popular and decided to jack their users for a couple of extra bucks? That’s pretty crumby. Or has it actually been more money for a while?
During sales the offers are standardized for your region/store. You will temporarily not see the lower personalized offer/AB-testing you have been enjoying.
Welcome to the real world. Next step is realizing other regions pay even more. Up to 20% for the same items.
I raised a ticket as the Logan’s was £2.50 more for the double offer than standard (GBP Android). Not sure what i’ll get if anything, but thought it best to confirm with CS that this isn’t intended.
It’s nothing to do with lower personalised offer/AB testing, it’s selling something at the wrong price. Logan’s has always been £14.99 for me, the amount of the HP on offer may increase and decrease, but the price has never increased, now with this offer it’s gone up, but as soon as I bought the offer, it dropped back to £14.99 with the 30% extra.
That was my point, as well. I get the concept of currency exchange rates. Its the fact that they added a surcharge to the LL offer versus Hidden Stash. But thanks for the attitude Daiches. Liked the inference about being from a privileged life. Maybe you should do a little due diligence before making assumptions?
Probably because every single time before this happened, what I described has been the case? MPQ just has a lot of personalized offers, and they never use it to fix regional/store discrepancies.
14,99 pounds is 17€. À Logan costs 22€ on iOS. That includes an extra 10% Apple tax for Europeans, so normal price would still be 20€ On Android. Guess what? That 16,99 pounds offer IS 20€. YOU ARE BEING PRIVILEGED. Your normal offer you have been getting is cheaper than normal price setting.
It has always be £14.99 on my accounts too before the sale.
So not sure it has anything to do with A/B tests. But even so the AB testing shouldnt come into it. All it does is open them to complaints to fair trade and trading standards and stuff.
I know they changed the guidelines early last year in the U.K from a 28 day policy to a more clear wording strategy when running a price comparison. Which the extra percentage free is. They are get a percentage free. Extra charges lower that petcentage. And it doesn’t state the base price has increased nor if the percentage extra is inline with the baseline increase or not .
So it reads like your getting an extra amount for the price that has been established as standard. Increasing the standard lowers the free percentage creating an misleading and false advertisement.
Not an expert, but pretty sure they could get a hefty fine for that sort of thing. Unless the percentage free takes account for the change. But even so it should be clearer.
I still don’t understand your point. I shouldn’t feed the troll but just this one last time.
My original post clearly said “Canadian, Android”. Not sure why you’re converting pounds to Euro’s unless as by way of extapolating to the rest of the world?
My original post didn’t complain about the price, either - they can charge whatever they want. I did complain that they appear to have jacked up the price on the ‘big sale’ item - if you compare to the corresponding Iso-8 item which has always been priced identically in the past. If the price goes back to the lower price after the sale, then similar to what Blergh said, that would probably contravene Canadian law. Not that I’m going to sue…
The way they’ve presented it is pretty damning actually. Banner at the top with ‘3770 FREE !’ on it. Before and after screenshots with a long list of past purchased receipts from Google, mobile provider or PayPal will establish the usual price… more like 3400 free due to the price hike.
Just kind of makes me question how far am I willing to go for that extra heroic token? I need more Moonstone.
There have been issues with the one time LL offer on Amazon per this post on D3’s support page (edit: which should have been fixed already). I wouldn’t be surprised if there are other issues as well. I would definitely send in a ticket to investigate if it is acting as intended.
Responding to two people at once with the same issue. I used the 14,99 pounds going to 16,99 pounds example (Canada is Canadian dollars). I even explained Apple has a 10% tax in Europe since a year. Before that Android pricing was same. Logan 20€ on each format. Conversion shows you are getting a cheaper deal than normal. Many UK people can chime in to correspond that as well.
My point is they DIDN’T jack up your price. You are seeing the normal price for your region, because the offer is a blanket offer for the community as a one time deal. When purchasing that, it goes back to your personalized pricing.
The absolutely disgusting pricing policy is one of my sticking points for MPQ. Because I believe D3 should not unfairly influence the worth of ingame items relative to location or platform. Especially not when they have the tools available to offer personalized offers.
There was even a cheat on Android to force a lower price setting way back. Just had to install uninstall reinstall to get a “new player deal”. They luckily fixed that. But it gave serious HP advantage to a lot of players first.
