EA Publisher sale

"surraaaaaa;c-16337145" wrote:
Why arent any stuff packs on sale??? I bought almost all of them at full price but now im sick of them, and just waiting for sales but they're never on sale...

Because they're at such a low price to begin with that EA feels they don't make any money on them when they do put them on sale and they know players are going to be more willing to do a quick grab-and-go with an already lower priced stuff pack when they need a quick boost to their games so there's no need for them to be put on sale as often (or at all).

Even more importantly a Stuff Pack is not likely to be something that's going to entice in new players who have never played the game before to pick up the base game and start playing the way an EP or GP on sale might.

That said they generally do go on sale about once or twice a year you just have to be patient and watchful. My guess for a most likely time would be during the big Origin Summer Sale.

Also I don't think that people really understand how sales work. When something is put on sale more likely then not they're not trying to sell that item. Well I mean they are but that's not really the end game. The end game is to pull people into your store so that they'll buy other (hopefully full priced) items while they're there. This harder to do on online stores when people don't have the "well I came all this way I might as well get something else while I'm here" mentality that they do in brick-and-mortar stores thus online stores have bigger sales more often because in their mind if you come there to buy a sale item often enough you may be more likely to buy that other bigger ticket item that you think about every time you visit the page.

"3KNPen;c-16337178" wrote:

"surraaaaaa;c-16337145" wrote:
Why arent any stuff packs on sale??? I bought almost all of them at full price but now im sick of them, and just waiting for sales but they're never on sale...

Because they're at such a low price to begin with that EA feels they don't make any money on them when they do put them on sale and they know players are going to be more willing to do a quick grab-and-go with an already lower priced stuff pack when they need a quick boost to their games so there's no need for them to be put on sale as often (or at all).

Even more importantly a Stuff Pack is not likely to be something that's going to entice in new players who have never played the game before to pick up the base game and start playing the way an EP or GP on sale might.

That said they generally do go on sale about once or twice a year you just have to be patient and watchful. My guess for a most likely time would be during the big Origin Summer Sale.

Also I don't think that people really understand how sales work. When something is put on sale more likely then not they're not trying to sell that item. Well I mean they are but that's not really the end game. The end game is to pull people into your store so that they'll buy other (hopefully full priced) items while they're there. This harder to do on online stores when people don't have the "well I came all this way I might as well get something else while I'm here" mentality that they do in brick-and-mortar stores thus online stores have bigger sales more often because in their mind if you come there to buy a sale item often enough you may be more likely to buy that other bigger ticket item that you think about every time you visit the page.

Definitely agree with this. I visited the Origin store to check out game prices for giveaways and was immediately drwan to a game called Fe. Still deciding whether or not to get it.

"surraaaaaa;c-16337145" wrote:
Why arent any stuff packs on sale??? I bought almost all of them at full price but now im sick of them, and just waiting for sales but they're never on sale...

Sales are targeted mostly at people who don’t have much money to give them an opportunity to finally buy that game or pack that they have wanted so long but never really had enough money for. But SPs are already so cheap that everybody should be able to afford them. So EA has no good reason to put them on sale before TS4’s era is about to end anyway. A better way for EA will be to put the SPs into bundles where they are offered cheaply if you also buy the other things in the bundle.

But if you have enough patience then you can just wait a few years and hope that EA then will release “the Sims 4 full collection” for free just like EA did with TS2 even though EA hasn’t even done it with TS3 yet ;)

"3KNPen;c-16337178" wrote:
Also I don't think that people really understand how sales work. When something is put on sale more likely then not they're not trying to sell that item. Well I mean they are but that's not really the end game. The end game is to pull people into your store so that they'll buy other (hopefully full priced) items while they're there. This harder to do on online stores when people don't have the "well I came all this way I might as well get something else while I'm here" mentality that they do in brick-and-mortar stores thus online stores have bigger sales more often because in their mind if you come there to buy a sale item often enough you may be more likely to buy that other bigger ticket item that you think about every time you visit the page.

I agree that this is part of the story too - but only a part of it. When I play online games I get ingame offers all the time. But they don’t need to do anything to pull me into the store because I am already in the store when I have opened the game. Nevertheless they give me limited time offers all the time and those offers are usually only available for about 3 days. Many of the offers will be repeated later - but not all of them. So for me to see limited time offers are mainly about encouraging people to finally make that purchase that they maybe have considered for a long time but postponed anyway.

In places like Origin the changing offers are of course also about making curious enough to visit the store more offen such that they will be tempted to buy more.

Now just to have patience since I bought Cats & Dogs at release price Not going to do that again - wait a week .... right
I will wait for Laundry and the New Gp to go sale