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[AlanC9]

I understand your point and you are right in your own way. The price difference between Digital Deluxe and GOTY is 10 Euros. DLCs which Digital Deluxe does not include cost 55 euros. The difference here is abysmal. So of course paying 40 Euros for GOTY is a better choice than buying DLCs separately. Honestly the pricing is way off. This is simple math. For people who have Digital Deluxe, the DLCs should cost 10 Euros. Simple as that.
 
You can argue that paying 40 Euros instead of 55 Euros is a discount. From my point of view paying 40 Euros for DLCs which worth 10 Euros on paper is a rip off.

How are you getting to the "should" there? Maybe it's the DD that's overpriced.

I don't buy that there's a necessary relationship there in the first place. But even if there is, I don't see a method for determining which price is correct.

[GithCheater]

DAI PS4 is on sale for $7.99.

 

https://store.playst...AINQUISITION000

 

One DLC, when it is occasionally on sale costs $9.99.

 

How can a 200 hour game cost less than than one 10 hour DLC?

 

This is yet another example of how EA/Bioware does not value existing customers, but instead only looks for new customers.

[bzombo]

Today I wanted to check out and buy DLCs for Dragon Age: Inquisition on Origin. They were very expensive but fine, that is not my point at all. By the way, I have Digital Deluxe Edition.

 

All DLCs cost 55 Euros in total. Then I noticed that now there is a GOTY Edition of the game. It includes everything and its price is 40 euros?! I cannot see any logic in this pricing method. I thought maybe there was some kind of mistake and contacted live support. They said marketing department makes those decisions and adviced me to buy GOTY Edition because it is cheaper. A big company like EA is telling me to have two different editions of the same game on my account because of they could not price the DLCs better.

 

I bought Digital Deluxe Edition after a few months the game was released. I like Bioware games, I played all of them. But do I have to wait until they release GOTY Edition to not to be cheated? How hard it is to do a logical pricing that can both satisfy old and new players?

 

Nonsense, I tell you.

This is nothing new. The game is over a year and a half old. After that kind of time a game of the year edition is often made that includes everything. This is not exclusive to EA/Bioware. There are criticisms to be made, but this is just fishing for something to get mad about. We all know going in that there will likely be a new edition that encompasses everything at some point and it will be cheaper as well.

[bzombo]

Yeah, it's pretty stupid. They should have let players get a GOTY upgrade for a fair price.

It's not fair to be able to get a goty edition for less than the cost of the DLC?

[GithCheater]

It's not fair to be able to get a goty edition for less than the cost of 2 DLC and one item pack!!!!!!!

Fixed it ....

[SmilesJA]

I personally felt it was ridiculous that they priced the GOTY the way they did absolutely terrible.

[bzombo]

Was it really a shock that the GOTY edition was less than all that DLC?

[dragonsteak]

GOTY edition is always meant to be cheaper. It's bundle pack for a successful game that has been running a year or even more.

 

But yeah they should have had a season pass - or a full DLC pack upgrade, which is kinda a rare practice.

[PapaCharlie9]

It's common practice and completely profit-oriented. Why should this be a surprise?

Divide the world into people who don't have the game at all yet and those that have part of the game, like all but one DLC. You can bet they have purchase metrics to know exactly what percentage of the installed base that "all but one" segment is. Leave PS3/X360 to the side, that's a special case. I'm only talking about people who can buy the whole experience.

As the newcomer in a very competitive market, what's going to attract you to try out DAI? A low-priced all-in-one-package. That's GOTY.

As the current customer who has everything but one DLC, you have an attractive single price-point. Plus, you avoid the inconvenience of having to reinstall the whole game to get GOTY (assuming that is necessary, not sure how GOTY is packaged).

Anyone in between, like missing 2 DLC, will run the numbers and come up with the best option. I'd wager that this segment is tiny relative to the others. It's either everything, nothing, or missing one.

If I'm wrong and a big segment are people who have the main game but none of the DLC and have been holding out for a DLC sale, GOTY is a fine choice for them. You're only screwed if you bought one DLC at full price and then waited until GOTY came out. I'm still wagering that segment is tiny, relatively speaking.

Is there a chance EA miscalculated? You bet. But then, as others have mentioned, they can hold a DLC sale. No need to start at the lower price, put it at the higher price first and see how it goes.