Did Activision Troll Themselves?

[Darth C3P0²]

GG no re
The better edition of the game is cheaper than the game itself now. Whoopy doo and what the forget

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[MicroEDGE]

is this a metaphor?

[randomtroll39]

well i mean who in their right mind would buy ghosts?

[hillkill]

well i mean who in their right mind would buy ghosts?

ghosts was a really decent game i though. hell of a lot more fun than the newer call of duty's imo.

[Darth C3P0²]

ghosts was a really decent game i though. hell of a lot more fun than the newer call of duty's imo.

same here. honestly I only liked it because it was the last call of duty with a taste of modern and not near future.

[randomtroll39]

ghosts was a really decent game i though. hell of a lot more fun than the newer call of duty's imo.

for every call of duty i played with bots to get used to the game then moved to actual multiplayer

in ghosts the game was too bad for me to make that transition

[Shift Kitty]

for every call of duty i played with bots to get used to the game then moved to actual multiplayer

in ghosts the game was too bad for me to make that transition

til someone out there needs bots to know how to pull the trigger around corners

[Texan101]

Ghosts still  $60 4 years later.

[McZealot]

Ghosts still  $60 4 years later.

it wasn't even worth $60 when it came out lol

[beachbum111111]

The base game is like 15 bucks at eb games for xbone and ps4 and that's in maplebucks

[randomtroll39]

til someone out there needs bots to know how to pull the trigger around corners

it lets me see all the killstreaks and test loadouts, you can boil any game down to "click button move here do this"

[Juncoph]

i'm willing to bet they know about this and don't care

my guess? steam has an automated discount applying algorithm, and the likeliness of the algorithm enabling one of these auto-sales for a product is agreed upon with the devs.

however, if steam also has manually set discounts, like this one for example, it's completely possible activision gave steam the green light to set the discount on the digital hardened edition and the other deal just happened by coincidence, which benefits activision because they went out of their way to set the digital deluxe discount, so having nobody get to use the regularly scheduled discount means it'll go longer before the game is discounted again

alternatively, both games could've been discounted by the same auto-algorithm, and it just happened to disc' em both. this is actually a good thing for activision because having different versions of the same game go on sale at the same time in this likelihood-based algorithm means that, from the consumer's perspective, there's only one real choice (the better discount). because of this, salvo-firing discounts is actually a lot better than firing them off independently, because it'd mean at least one version of the game is discounted more often




see this handicapped graph? think of it like this: blue and yellow/red are the two versions of the game we'll call X. we'll call the versions y and z - blue being y, and yellow/red being z.

now, as i mentioned before, people will always just buy the better discount. so if Xy and Xz are on sale at the same time, there's only one economically meaningful sale - whichever's the better deal.
this is where we model Xz as the red dashes. on this graph, there are 6 meaningful sales in the given time period if we account for dual-sales only becoming one meaningful sale. however, if Xy and Xz get sales on different dates (this is where we model Xz as the yellow dashes), then the graph displays 11 sales.

in short, in a really, really convoluted way, this weird ass double-sale is either a harmless mistake or a deliberate move

[Foxscotch]

this weird ass double-sale is either a harmless mistake or a deliberate move

so you mean to tell me, it's either one thing, or it's the only other possible thing? interesting.....

[Juncoph]

so you mean to tell me, it's either one thing, or it's the only other possible thing? interesting.....

...the OP thinks this is a mistake that is bad for activision, considering he titled the thread "did activision troll themselves"

[McJob]

It's a business tactic. The idea is to drive up sales by making people think as though they're getting a better deal. You undervalue your premium product for a limited time and the sales drive up as everybody who was sitting on the fence jumps in to cash in on them thinking they're smart.