I live in Germany, so tell me why a 25$ pair of Levi's in the US cost like 100 Euros here.
That is all consumer marketing and if the consumer does not like the price it is their choice.
Profiteering is a whole different thing and is not applicable here, look up the definition.
I am in no way defending the price, I actually wish it was lower but it is not.
@Asmodeus566StGB 291 Wucher
In English:
Whosoever exploits the predicament, lack of experience, lack of judgment or substantial weakness of will of another by allowing material benefits to be promised or granted to himself or a third person
Trying to tell me that it isn’t lack of judgement to spend that much for worthless pixels that an employee worked on once a couple of hours ?
I could give you very detailed discriptions of when Wucher can grip but they are all in German and not suitable for this forum I assume but her a short one in German.
Objektiv erfordert § 138 Abs. 2 BGB zunächst ein auffälliges Missverhältnis zwischen Leistung und Gegenleistung.
What you need to keep in mind and why your example doesn’t grip is because you get atleast materials in return that you can resell even, and they are produced 1by1. While something like a skin gets created once by a dev and sold to everyone, 1 time work that gets sold extremely overpriced without further effort by the seller…
On top of that the item becomes worthless the moment you buy it because you are not allowed to resell it… to sum it up you buy an item extremely overpriced with barely any effort to create that has 0 market value the moment you buy it and you think people that do such a deal don’t lack judgement ?
Now comes even the worst part you don’t even buy the item, it isn’t even yours, you buy the right to have it on your account…because as you for sure know the account is “property“ of ea and not you…
It’s sad that governments let this stuff fly without intervening, but the day will come where these disgusting practices with lootboxes etc will come to an end
Oh nein nicht die Strafgesetzbuch!! und auch die Bundesgesetzbuch!!
If that really worked then one could say goodbye to many things, like almost all of the streaming platforms, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Netflix etc. This would include gaming like X-box, PSN, Steam, etc. If you lose access to the account you lose the items/games you purchased according to you in Germany.
I still think the items in the event should be cheaper, however I do still think it is the consumers choice to purchase or not.
It is not only the cosmetics that cost to make but the whole LTM goes into that as well, along with the cost of maintaining the game etc etc.
@Asmodeus566Please mate, stop
The argument that it isn’t even urs makes it just worse value that doesn’t mean that’s the main reason, the actual value is low even if it was yours.
Bringing up the streaming services kinda shows how much you can get out of low investment…just compare the massive amount of entertainment you get out of a sub there.
Yes apex is a lot of entertainment aswell but you can legit compare the battlepass to the streaming sub.
But again it’s not about the fact that it’s not yours but that item is not worth more than 10€ each lol if even…the price is the problem not that it isn’t urs… investment vs gain, nothing else
snf since you made the comparison with Netflix imagine:
they release a show in 2 versions one normal one and one with enhanced entertainment, if you wanna watch the enhanced version you have to pay 360€. Imagine the boycott over this and the outrage this would end up on every media Plattform to expose their greed…yet here we are you trying to excuse them by talking about their cost…don’t understand why gamers are so submissive to such a madness
I’m just saying according to German law this is actually atleast in the gteyzone of how much they can overprice their stuff, sure our current government doesn’t do something about it but the day will come where they forbid this madness.
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