Posted March 06, 2016

There's this rpg sale over on mac/wingamestore.com and it's rather underwhelming, but what really got me was that they sell "Iesabel" for $3.75 at 75% off which struck me as rather expensive. Well they have set the base price at $15 whereas Steam and most other shops sell it at a base price of only $4.99!
So is it normal for a store to arbitrarily set the base price at three times the usual, presumably just so they can put a "75% off"-label on it and sell it for slightly less then the others, or did they just not get the memo of a presumed base price decrease sometime ago?
So what do you think? Is it evil or stupid or normal (and I'm just naive)?
a) they forgot about WinGameStore (though a bit unlikely if you take the discount into account)
b) it takes time to renegotiate the contract to change the game's price