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Re: Origin Sale; EA Calls Service

Jun 18, 2012, 18:11

Beamer

^Drag0n^ wrote on Jun 18, 2012, 17:54:
Personally, I love how these bozos say that the Steam Sale "is damaging IP," then proceed to deep discount no more than 2 weeks later.

Proof once again that the only truth in marketing are the lies.

If anyone wonders why I care about getting it right, it's because no one listens to anyone whose facts are wrong (like some guy making valid complaints about the government then throwing in that Obama is a Muslim - be wrong about something and get written off entirely...), and anyone saying EA is hypocritical here has their facts wrong:

1) Head of Origin USA says he believes discounts of 75% or greater damages IP (a bad way of phrasing but a good point - can any of us say we don't expect to pay less for games due to Steam Sales? I sure do. I absolutely wait for a 75% off sale for most of my purchases. That doesn't mean I think that the damage isn't made up in other ways)
2) Head of Origin EMEA clearly does not agree and goes with deep discounts. It's an entirely different territory run by entirely different people responsible for their own pricing
3) Origin USA discounts to 40%, which is a shoddy sale and obviously not a deep discount
4) ???
5) Everyone calls them hypocrites

I can see why people think it's hypocritical, but the people responsible for those deep discounts in Europe are not the same people, and do not report to the same people, that said that deep discounts are bad. It's like how some soda companies in Europe say high fructose corn syrup is bad but the US divisions say it's fine. Different people are running them and have different opinions - as small as the world is these days we're not yet at the point of making every division be 100% homogenized.
And 40% isn't hypocritical because it's a measly sale that no one should care about. Would 50% have been so hard? There's a much larger psychological bump there...




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